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FiveOVER said:
badgenome said:
FiveOVER said:

What happened to it was Acquire sold the rights to Tenchu to From Software and then kept making Tenchu games, only they call it Shinobido now.


So that's what happened. No wonder they look so similar.


Theres more to this story that answers your question.

From software gave the tenchu series to 2KLLC (valhalla knights 3), they made tenchu 3, deadly shadows, silent assassins and Z. Fans kept clamoring that the first two were simply better and sales werent great. Personally i enjoyed the games, especially Z that really needed a sequal, but there was no denying that story was not on tenchu 2 level... and level variety and level editor.

Anyways, From software went back to Aquire and signed them for 2 games, tenchu 4 and 5. Well... what happened then was Aquire screwed them over. They have their Shinobido series and instead of making a tenchu game out of tenchu 4, they changed it to a corridor stealth game. Not only that but they retconned everything from tenchu 3 onwards as if saying they dont recognise what was done with the series.

The game bombed, From software was obviously pissed and i believe they are now making time for the contract of tenchu 5 to expire.

So yeah... if you want tenchu... Shinobido. Though the last game also didnt sell awesome, so i dunno how likely another sequal is.