{"id":45288,"date":"2018-09-05T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/taitos_ninja_warriors_revival_on_switch_gets_the_most_literal_title_ever"},"modified":"2018-09-05T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T14:30:00","slug":"taitos-ninja-warriors-revival-on-switch-gets-the-most-literal-title-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/taitos-ninja-warriors-revival-on-switch-gets-the-most-literal-title-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Taito&#8217;s Ninja Warriors Revival On Switch Gets The Most Literal Title Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/57697f06e3967\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/57697f06e3967\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/09\/taitos_ninja_warriors_revival_on_switch_gets_the_most_literal_title_ever\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Not so long ago, we revealed that Taito is in the process of reviving some of its key franchises, starting with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/darius_cozmic_collection\">Darius<\/a><\/strong>. The publisher is also developing a new <strong>Ninja Warriors<\/strong> entry &#8211; with the help of Natsume Atari &#8211; which is due to launch on Switch next year.<\/p>\n<p>Amusingly, the game&#8217;s title is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/ninja_warriors_once_again\">Ninja Warriors Once Again<\/a><\/strong>, which follows on from the Super Famicom entry, which was called <strong>Ninja Warriors Again<\/strong>. Expect any future games in the franchise to follow this convention.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d imagine a name-change may happen before this gets released in the west (the SNES version was called <strong>&#8216;The Ninja Warriors&#8217;<\/strong>), but in the meantime, take a look at the short trailer above and let us know what you think. The visuals are clearly based on those of the SNES version but benefit from a wider view, larger sprites and smoother animation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Not so long ago, we revealed that Taito is in the process of reviving some of its key franchises, starting with Darius. The publisher is also developing a new Ninja Warriors entry &#8211; with the help of Natsume Atari &#8211; which is due to launch on Switch next year. Amusingly, the game&#8217;s title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}