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>PSP Shadow Assassins
This is a port of Tenchu 4: Ninja Party Babiez that was originally on the Wii. It's so goddamn terrible it killed the series. I bet Miyazaki took one look at it and decided to make Sekiro instead of a Tenchu sequel. I will never stop resenting it.
Tenchu 2 was really innovative and ambitious but it falls flat often and has the most bugged grappling hook of the whole series along with horrible bossfights. The melodramatic ninja soap opera aspect is fun though.
T3 is really "polished" by Tenchu standards and the plot is completely retarded but also fun. It's a good game but completely lacks the tone from the first game. The follow up Fatal Shadows is really good and also bullshit. It has a weird little girl power narrative that isn't very good but it's still fun to see Ayame again.
Tenchu Z is actually very good if you don't care about story or repetition and just want to romp around on big sprawling open maps with the best controls and features of the whole series with your own custom ninja. It emulates decently now.
Honorable mention to Shinobido which is a Tenchu-like by Acquire during the period Fromsoft still had the Tenchu license. It's quite good but not very serious and focuses more on a weird system simulation with faction management than Tenchu's linear progression. Also distantly related to Acquire's Way of the Samurai series.
T1 is just totally unmatched in terms of atmosphere. Sadly the rest of the series is very silly albeit much more playable.
