Ninjahtic Mind Tricks

Ninjahtic Mind Tricks is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. It's essentially a sequel to Ninjahtic, which is apt because it pretty much seems like a copy + paste + reskin of that game. There's an urban theme instead of the traditional jungle/cave imagery from the last game, but a pixel blob is a pixel blob. There are some changes, but not much. The theme is still very much parkour platforming with some hack and slash. The game was received even worse than the original, and it has all the same defects. One important note is that even though this is an amateur project, it does seem to be sincerely and genuinely made. I couldn't find any flipped assets, plagiarism or any other kind of insincere actions from the developer, but unfortunately genuine intentions alone are not enough to produce a brilliant PC gaming experience. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is…

I saw [b]Ninjahtic MInd Tricks[/b] has gotten achievements since the last time I played it a long time ago. Wanted to run through the first level real quick to get one just for fun. Little did I know that "real quick" isn't how this game rolls. Patient gamers who're looking for a game that's about avoiding sets of spikes over and over again (by which I don't mean that you'll be dying that much, I mean that there is a LOT of spikes) will enjoy this game, but I don't have that kind of patience nowaydays. The controls are fairly standard, but are slightly unresponsive and can't be rebound. The levels are longer than they need to be, enemies are not particularly deadly (at least early on, I don't recall what comes in later levels), but the combat feels rather slow and for a "ninja" game, [b]Ninjahtic MT[/b] doesn't feel very dynamic and lacks a certain "fluidity" that I would expect.

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I just can't imagine spending time playing this. it's hard to tell foreground and background elements apart, the controls are stiff, collision detection is not great, etc etc

Trying to master mind tricks turned into a lesson in patience and laughter. The game feels like my eyes are deceived and refusing to cooperate. Maybe I should just play hide and seek with my shadow!

I like all three of the Ninjahtic games. Ninjahtic Mind Tricks has some nice movement mechanics and interesting platforming layouts. Combat has some variety as well: you can knock enemies into spikes or off of platforms to instakill, you can throw them up in the air and then smack them, you can instakill certain enemies from behind, etc.