Action-Platformer Battle 1993

Who developed Hard Corps and Bloodlines? Any of the staff working on current titles? Both games were inexplicably huge departures from the rest of their respective series.

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Originally Posted by Taito

Who developed Hard Corps and Bloodlines? Any of the staff working on current titles? Both games were inexplicably huge departures from the rest of their respective series.

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I don't know if this is true, but both games came out right around the time Treasure come on the scene. I always figured that they were both products started by the brains behind Treasure, finished up by monkeys, and shoved out the door.

To this day, I laugh at the sound effect of the doors opening in the Nazi factory level.

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Interesting:
http://contra.classicgaming.gamespy..../hardcorps.htm

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Originally Posted by JefmcC

I don't know if this is true, but both games came out right around the time Treasure come on the scene. I always figured that they were both products started by the brains behind Treasure, finished up by monkeys, and shoved out the door.

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what you're figuring is exactly what i remembered reading some time ago.

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Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne

what you're figuring is exactly what i remembered reading some time ago.

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We might be wrong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Co._Ltd

But it still seems logical, and who knows what to beleive.

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Originally Posted by JefmcC

and who knows what to beleive.

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Me.

http://sfkosmo.classicgaming.gamespy.../contrahc.html

As much as I like the Castlevania I went the way of Shinobi 3.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Great art design? The game looked abominable.

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The game spanned the entire globe (rare for a series that usually is set in one castle/location) and had tons of cool artistic touches. How does it look worse than Rondo?

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I hate that it got renamed Shinobi III by the way because it's not the third Shinobi, it's like the fifth. They just wanted to retcon Revenge as a proper Shinobi sequel, which it isn't. Arcade Shadow Dancer is.

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So it goes Shinobi (pt1), Revenge (pt2), Shadow Dancer (pt.3), then Shinobi III(pt.4) right?

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Originally Posted by Jetman

So it goes Shinobi (pt1), Revenge (pt2), Shadow Dancer (pt.3), then Shinobi III(pt.4) right?

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That order is correct if you're thinking of the Genesis Shadow Dancer. The arcade Shadow Dancer is different, and came out before Revenge, I'm pretty sure. Plus there's Alex Kidd in Shinobi World, The Cyber Shinobi, and the Game Gear games but I don't consider those part of the main series.

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Originally Posted by JefmcC

I don't know if this is true, but both games came out right around the time Treasure come on the scene.[/url]

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Treasure formed in late 1992. Both of those games were made well after they left.

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Originally Posted by Jetman

So it goes Shinobi (pt1), Revenge (pt2), Shadow Dancer (pt.3), then Shinobi III(pt.4) right?

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No. The main series is just Shinobi and then arcade Shadow Dancer. Revenge and Shinobi III are the "Super Shinobi" series, and not part of the main series.