{"id":92852,"date":"2019-05-01T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/yuzo_koshiro_is_keen_to_make_another_shinobi_game"},"modified":"2019-05-01T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:30:00","slug":"yuzo-koshiro-is-keen-to-make-another-shinobi-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/01\/yuzo-koshiro-is-keen-to-make-another-shinobi-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuzo Koshiro Is Keen To Make Another Shinobi Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/afef279195e20\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/afef279195e20\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Shinobi\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/afef279195e20\/shinobi.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/afef279195e20\/shinobi.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Shinobi\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>When you think of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/vcarcade\/shinobi\">Shinobi<\/a><\/strong> series, it&#8217;s hard not to think also of the legendary composer Yuzo Koshiro \u2013 despite the fact that his music is only featured in a handful of the Shinobi games.<\/p>\n<p>Koshiro&#8217;s soundtrack to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/megadrive\/revenge_of_shinobi\">Revenge of Shinobi \/ Super Shinobi<\/a><\/strong> remains one of the best on the Genesis \/ Mega Drive, which is made all the more remarkable when you consider that it was a very early release, and that Koshiro was still finding his feet on the Yamaha YM2612 hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Koshiro has continued to produce amazing music for a wide range of games \u2013 including <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/actraiser\">ActRaiser<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/megadrive\/streets_of_rage\">Streets of Rage<\/a><\/strong> and, more recently, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/etrian_odyssey\">Etrian Odyssey<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 but he&#8217;s also been involved in developing games via his company Ancient. Since its inception in 1990, Ancient has contributed titles such as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mastersystem\/sonic_the_hedgehog\">Sonic<\/a><\/strong> on the Master System and Game Gear, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/megadrive\/beyond_oasis\">Story of Thor \/ Beyond Oasis<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Protect Me Knight<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds-eshop\/gotta_protectors\">Gotta Protectors<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Koshiro has recently been showing off his copy of Revenge of Shinobi, which is actually signed by the famous Japanese actor Shinichi &#8220;Sonny&#8221; Chiba.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My MD is now up and running! It&#8217;s hard to see but Mr. Shinichi Chiba autograph is on the case front cover. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J1ZRVkLYln\">pic.twitter.com\/J1ZRVkLYln<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \u53e4\u4ee3\u7950\u4e09 (@yuzokoshiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yuzokoshiro\/status\/1123197082838261762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The story goes that Sega used Chiba&#8217;s likeness for Joe Musashi&#8217;s face on the title screen and cover, and later releases of the game altered this face to avoid legal action. <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yuzokoshiro\/status\/1123504276725047297\">Koshiro states<\/a> that Chiba signed the copy because &#8220;he is very kind and has a sense of humour&#8221;, but what&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> interesting is a follow-up tweet about the chances of Ancient working on a new Shinobi game in the future:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That&#8217;s the point. I wish we had more power&#8230;<\/span>\u2014 \u53e4\u4ee3\u7950\u4e09 (@yuzokoshiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yuzokoshiro\/status\/1123259927013646337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s often the case that idle messages posted on Twitter are taken as being more serious than they actually are, and we&#8217;re not for one second assuming Koshiro&#8217;s tweet means he&#8217;s knocking on Sega&#8217;s door 24 hours a day demanding the chance to revive Shinobi, <em>but just think about it<\/em>. The series has been dormant since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/shinobi\">brilliant 3DS reboot<\/a> from 2011 (and the 3D Classics version of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds-eshop\/3d_shinobi_iii_return_of_the_ninja_master\">Shinobi III<\/a><\/strong> a few years later), yet it still has a fair amount of fame with veteran players. If Sega <em>was<\/em> to decide to bring Musashi out of retirement, we can&#8217;t think of anyone better to guide that revival than Koshiro himself.<\/p>\n<p>And given Sega&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/sega_will_reduce_number_of_new_digital_releases_after_facing_usd17_million_loss\">recent announcement<\/a> that it will focus on &#8216;existing IPs&#8217; after posting a $17 million loss, what better franchise to lead with? We can dream, can we not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you think of the Shinobi series, it&#8217;s hard not to think also of the legendary composer Yuzo Koshiro \u2013 despite the fact that his music is only featured in a handful of the Shinobi games. Koshiro&#8217;s soundtrack to Revenge of Shinobi \/ Super Shinobi remains one of the best on the Genesis \/ Mega [&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-92852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92852","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=92852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}