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Final Ninja Zero is Nitrome's prequel to its Final Ninja series, set about forty years before the original and following a younger ninja, Takeshi, on his first infiltration jobs. Rather than fighting your way through high-tech facilities, the point is to get past the guards without them ever knowing you were there.

Most of a level is about reading sightlines and using your rope hook to move where guards can't follow — swinging up to a ledge, over a gap, or into a shadowed corner to break line of sight. A handful of sections drop the platforming and hand you control of a small mine instead, which you have to steer carefully into a generator to open the way forward. Across 24 levels the facilities get denser and the guard patterns less forgiving.

Controls

A/D or the Left/Right arrow keys move, W or Up jumps, S or Down crouches into stealth. Hold the left mouse button — or hold your finger on touch — to fire the rope hook and swing.

Tips

• Stealth first. Getting spotted triggers an alarm and pulls in more guards than you can fight off, so sneaking past is almost always faster than a confrontation.
• Use the hook to reach ledges guards can't patrol, not just to cross gaps — height is cover as much as it's a shortcut.
• In the mine sections, look at the full path before you start moving. There's usually one route to the generator and not much room to correct a wrong turn.

It suits anyone who liked the original Final Ninja's mix of platforming and rope-swinging and wants to see where the story started — there's no timer pushing you through a level before you're ready.