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Griptonite pitched Shinobi revival to SEGA, used Assassin's Creed demo to sell it

by rawmeatcowboy
18 July 2011
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- Griptonite pitched the idea for a Shinobi revival to Sega

“There’s a group of guys there who were very excited about Shinobi as a franchise. They had worked on Assassin’s Creed [Bloodlines] for PSP and Web of Shadows, which had a great combat system, and things like that, and we started to talk about bringing back Shinobi but in a classical sense. If we were to put together a spiritual successor to the old classic Shinobi games, what would that be like? They put together this nice sort of pitch video of Assassin’s Creed, but with a ninja. So, using some of the build for Assassin’s Creed, but dropping a ninja in there and sort of the platforming and action sequences of that. We saw that and, it’s like, that’s great because it’s modernizing the gameplay to today’s expectations, but also still capturing the essence of what was magical and classical about the old Shinobi games.” - Shinobi producer, Sega’s Stephen Frost

Pretty interesting to see how the game came about. I’m surprised that such an odd path was taken to get the greenlight. Whatever works works, I guess!

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