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**'''Hibana:''' Atsuko Tanaka
 
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**'''Onibi:''' [[Wataru Takagi]]
 
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**'''Hisui:''' Chiwa Saito
 
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**'''Kazaguruma/Narration:''' Unsho Ishizuka
 
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**'''Countdown Announce:''' Mami Kosuge
 
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**'''Kurohagane/Narration:''' C.Robertson
 
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*'''Director:''' [[Masahide Kobayashi]]
 
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*'''Main/Character:''' [[Kazutaka Karashima]]
 
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*'''Maps:''' [[Kaichi Satoh]], [[Takanobu Yoshino]], [[Takumi Kataoka]], [[Jin Kobayashi]], [[Masayuki Inoue (designer)|Masayuki Inoue]], [[Shinichirou Inoue]]
 
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*'''Character (Player):''' [[Yoshiji Kosaka]]
 
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*'''Character (Enemy/Boss):''' [[Yuichi Ogawa]], [[Hiroyuki Eguchi]], [[Akira Suzumura]], [[Ryouichi Sakamaki]], [[Yoshiji Kosaka]], [[Motohiko Hayashi]], [[Mitsugu Hara]], [[Takeshi Suzuki]], [[Kenji Osawa]]
 
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*'''Enemy Design:''' [[Nobuto Iwao]], [[Makiko Ishizuka]], [[Takashi Iida]], [[Daisuke Kobayashi]]
 
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*'''Character Model/Lead Modeler:''' [[Makiko Ishizuka]]
 
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*'''Enemy Model:''' [[Shizuyo Kanda]], [[Takashi Iida]], [[Tetsuya Oguri]], [[Hajime Goto]], [[Kiyonori Osawa]], [[Kazuyuki Watanabe]], [[Daisuke Kobayashi]]
 
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*'''Character Animation/Lead Animator:''' [[Hisashi Tohyama]]
 
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*'''Enemy Animation:''' [[Makoto Shimizu]], [[Takuya Toyota]], [[Sachiko Kanemitsu]], [[Tomoko Kanesaku]], [[Yoshiaki Ide]]
 
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*'''Visual Effects/Lead Effects Artist:''' [[Yasushi Homma]]
 
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*'''Visual Effects:''' [[Sayaca Takahashi]], [[Miki Nakahara]], [[Arugo Shinohara]], [[Yuko Takahashi]], [[Tetsuya Oguri]]
 
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*'''Lead Cutscene Artist:''' [[Takashi Iida]]
 
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*'''Main Visuals/2D System Design:''' Asako Yamazaki
 
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**'''Chief Manager:''' Hiromiti Suzuki
 
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**'''Hibana:''' Miwa Hashiguchi
 
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**'''Jimushi/Kurohagane:''' Kazutoshi Yokoyama
 
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**'''Onibi:''' Hikaru Takahashi
 
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**'''Hisui:''' Hitomi Hiraki
 
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**'''Kazaguruma/Narration:''' Arata Okumiyama
 
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**'''Safety:''' Manabu Kato
 
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*'''Sega Motion Capture Studio:''' [[Hans van Veenendaal]], [[Takeo Iwata]], [[Hiroshi Tanaka]]
 
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*'''Visual Science Laboratory, Inc. Motion Capture Studio dynamo:''' Nobuyoshi Ono, Hiroshi Hirokawa, Hiroko Masuda
 
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**'''BGM:''' [[Fumie Kumatani]], [[Tomonori Sawada]], [[Keiichi Sugiyama]], [[Yutaka Minobe]]
 
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**'''Sound Director:''' [[Masaru Setsumaru]]
 
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*'''English Voice Over Recordings by:''' [[Webtone Productions]]
 
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*'''Research:''' [[Tsuyoshi Sawada]], [[Noriko Hashimoto]], Yoriaki Toraiwa
 
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*'''Director of PD:''' [[Osamu Shibamiya]]
 
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*'''Localization Producer:''' [[Klayton Vorlick]]
 
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*'''Lead Tester:''' [[Demetrius Griffin]]
 
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*'''Sega WOW:''' [[Atsushi Seimiya]], [[Tomoyuki Ito]], [[Akira Nishino]], [[Tohru Yosida]], [[Yoshiaki Endo]], [[Toru Shimizu]], [[Takao Hirabayashi]], [[Satoshi Arai]]
 
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*'''Producer:''' [[Ryutaro Nonaka]]
 
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*'''Senior Media Specialist:''' [[Teri Higgins]]
 
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*'''Special Thanks:''' [[Shinobu Toyoda]], [[Arianne McCarthy]], [[Lori Von Rueden]], [[Shinobu Shindo]], [[Yoshihiro Sakuta]], [[Hisakazu Nakagawa]], [[Satoru Ishigami]], [[Tetsuya Honda]], [[Access Communications]], [[SEGA WOW]] - Kunoichi team
 
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Nightshade
System(s): PlayStation 2
Publisher: Sega
Developer:
Supporting companies:
Genre: Action

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sony PlayStation 2
JP 		¥6,980 (7,329)6,980 (7,329)[3] SLPM-65447
CERO: 15
Sony PlayStation 2
US 		$49.9549.95[2] SLUS-20810
ESRB: Mature 17+
Sony PlayStation 2
EU
(Promo)
PEGI: 12+
Sony PlayStation 2
DE 		SLES-52238
INL-P52238-GE
USK: 16
Sony PlayStation 2
ES 		SLES-52238
INL-P52238-SP
PEGI: 12+
Sony PlayStation 2
FR 		SLES-52238
INL-P52238-FR
PEGI: 12+
Sony PlayStation 2
UK 		SLES-52238
INL-P52238-UK
PEGI: 12+
Sony PlayStation 2
IT 		SLES-52238
INL-P52238-IT
PEGI: 12+
Sony PlayStation 2
KR 		SLKA-25135
KMRB: 18

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Nightshade, known as Kunoichi (Kunoichi -忍-) in Japan is a PlayStation 2 game developed by WOW Entertainment and published by Sega. It is an entry in the Shinobi series of games, and is a direct sequel to Shinobi. Unlike other games in the series, the player controls a female ninja named Hibana.

Versions

Localised names

Also known as
Language Localised Name English Translation
English Nightshade Nightshade
Japanese Kunoichi -忍- Kunoichi: Shinobi

Production credits

Main article: Nightshade/Production credits.

Magazine articles

Main article: Nightshade/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
{{{{{icon}}}|L}} Division by zero.
Based on
0 review
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
Edge (UK) PAL
60
[5]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
55
[6]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
83
[7]
GMR (US) NTSC-U
70
[8]
Hyper (AU) PAL
65
[9]
PlayStation 2 Official Magazine - UK (UK) PAL
60
[10]
Play Games (DE) PAL
71
[11]
Play (US) NTSC-U
58
[12]
Surge (US) NTSC-U
60
[13]
Sony PlayStation 2
 65
Based on
9 reviews

Nightshade

PlayStation 2, US
Nightshade PS2 US Box.jpg
Cover
Nightshade PS2 US Manual.pdf
Manual
PlayStation 2, JP
Nightshade PS2 JP Box.jpg
Cover
Nightshade PS2 JP disc.jpg
Disc
PlayStation 2, EU (Promo)
Nightshade PS2 EU promo front.jpg
Cover
PlayStation 2, UK
Nightshade PS2 EU Box.jpg
Cover
Nightshade PS2 EU Disc.jpg
Disc
PlayStation 2, FR
Nightshade PS2 FR cover.jpg
Cover
Nightshade PS2 EU Disc.jpg
Disc
PlayStation 2, DE
Nightshade PS2 DE cover.jpg
Cover
Nightshade PS2 EU Disc.jpg
Disc
PlayStation 2, ES
Nightshade PS2 ES cover.jpg
Cover
Nightshade PS2 EU Disc.jpg
Disc
PlayStation 2, IT
Nightshade PS2 IT cover.jpg
Cover
Nightshade PS2 EU Disc.jpg
Disc
PlayStation 2, KR
Kunoichi PS2 KR Box.jpg
Cover

Technical information

Main article: Nightshade/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sony PlayStation 2
 ?
CRC32 e0c4b394
MD5 7eddfafb87854f4cdf4eb7966028f066
SHA-1 88b253912cba901ebf6e3f1db9bccc220ff8ecb0
3,841,753,088 DVD-ROM (EU) SLES-52238 (V1.01)
Sony PlayStation 2
✔
CRC32 59f41eb8
MD5 930dd47a41a6d97880689324df5bbf17
SHA-1 855c957ef3deec395f8a388d054e9222d0463575
3,839,197,184 DVD-ROM (JP) SLPM-65447 (V1.00)
Sony PlayStation 2
 ?
CRC32 38db56db
MD5 05e5c0cb1c220755b698fd3c8fa46c44
SHA-1 3611c836e58d10766bfa9bc5f89171002f1e8562
3,843,686,400 DVD-ROM (KR) SLKA-25135 (V1.00)
Sony PlayStation 2
 ?
CRC32 164fab00
MD5 c6159439183cc96b92de14bfb328a08d
SHA-1 c5ba6b349c6403d60bbeddabe4e100a5d844611d
3,844,898,816 DVD-ROM (US) SLUS-20810 (V1.00)

External links

  • Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): PlayStation 2
  • Nightshade on PlayStation.com: JP, US, KR

References

  1. ↑ http://www.sega.com/games/allgames.php (Wayback Machine: 2005-08-26 19:18)
  2. ↑ Press release: 2004-02-10: SEGA UNLEASHES 'NIGHTSHADE' ON PLAYSTATION 2
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.jp.playstation.com/software/title/slpm65447.html (Wayback Machine: 2007-04-27 17:19)
  4. ↑ http://www.playstation.co.kr/game/385 (archive.today)
  5. ↑ Edge, "March 2004" (UK; 2004-02-19), page 103
  6. ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "April 2004" (US; 2004-03-02), page 121
  7. ↑ GamePro, "April 2004" (US; 2004-03-02), page 75
  8. ↑ GMR, "April 2004" (US; 2004-xx-xx), page 88
  9. ↑ Hyper, "April 2004" (AU; 2004-03-03), page 58
  10. ↑ PlayStation 2 Official Magazine - UK, "March 2004" (UK; 2004-02-19), page 80
  11. ↑ Play Games, "02/2004: März-April" (DE; 2004-03-03), page 56
  12. ↑ Play, "March 2004" (US; 2004-xx-xx), page 61
  13. ↑ Surge, "Spring 2004" (US; 2004-04-13), page 120


Nightshade

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Main page | Comparisons | Credits | Magazine articles | Reception


Books: Kunoichi Koushiki Guide Book (2003) | Kunoichi Perfect Guide (2004)
Music: Kunoichi Original Soundtrack (2014)
Sony PlayStation 2
Demos: Kunoichi Taikenban (2003)

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Games in the Shinobi series
Arcade
 Shinobi (1987) | Shadow Dancer (1989)
Sega Master System
 Shinobi (1988) | The Cyber Shinobi (1990) | Shadow Dancer (1991)
Amiga
Atari ST
Amstrad CPC
Commodore 64
ZX Spectrum
IBM PC compatibles
MSX
 Shinobi (1989)
Sega Mega Drive
 The Revenge of Shinobi (1989) | Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi (1990) | Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master (1993)
Sega Game Gear
 The GG Shinobi (1991) | The GG Shinobi II: The Silent Fury (1992)
Sega Saturn
 Shinobi Legions (1995)
Game Boy Advance
 The Revenge of Shinobi (2002)
Sony PlayStation 2
 Shinobi (2002) | Nightshade (2003)
Nintendo 3DS
 Shinobi 3D (2011) | 3D Shinobi III (2013)
Nintendo Switch
 Sega Ages Shinobi (2019)
Shinobi related media
Music
 The Super Shinobi & Works (1989) | Shinobi Original Soundtrack (2002) | Legend of Joe Musashi: Shinobi Music Collection (2009) | Shinobi 3D Original Soundtrack (2012) | Kunoichi Original Soundtrack (2014) | Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master (2015) | The Revenge of Shinobi (2016) | Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi (2022)
Book
 Shinobi: The Fear Pavilion (1994) | Shin Shinobi Den Hisshou Kouryaku Hou (1995) | Prima's Official Strategy Guide: Shinobi (2002) | Shinobi: The Rise of Hotsuma (2002) | Shinobi: The Complete Guide (2002) | Shinobi the Wide Ilustration Archive (2003) | Kunoichi Koushiki Guide Book (2003) | Kunoichi Perfect Guide (2004)
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