>>11966046
It's a slow burn heavily based on memorization with very little RNG. Like some of the Castlevania games or the Rolling Thunder series. Personally I love this kind of stuff, it feels very satisfying when you get good and pull things out in a very robotic play style.

>>715750093
Revenge of Shinobi's copyright issues are so bad that when M2 was doing the virtual console release, they changed the face on the title screen to one of their devs because it was ANOTHER infringement that had gone ignored until then.
https://tcrf.net/The_Revenge_of_Shinobi_(Genesis)#Revisional_Differences