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Where it can get tricky is in spots where you’ll need to use it to get to an enemy and then time your follow up jump correctly to traverse a gap. It’s this mix of quick chaining action and an odd platforming challenge or two that will keep you on your feet… well, or off of them if you want to 3-star the level. Each of the 6 areas has 4 stages, with the last always being a boss fight. In general the bosses aren’t too difficult to defeat but they’re at least a nice variation to break up the action and perhaps make you play the game in a more traditional fashion. Due to the quick pace of the action it can start to get a bit jumpy in places, with the screen trying to keep up with all of the numbers going up while you fly through groups of enemies, but fortunately this doesn’t impede gameplay. Flying through all of the game’s stages and finishing things up won’t necessarily take terribly long but aside from the emphasis really being on building your combo and score the other great news is that each of the game’s 4 characters are quite different in how they play. With everything being so combo-heavy the variances aren’t major but there are very much characters who are easier to chain with than others and the nuance in each actually makes playing through the game for each pretty satisfying. For the price there’s much more to Ninja Striker than you’d assume and I can’t say I’ve played anything quite like it on Switch. If you’re looking for a nice palette cleanser or quick hit to play on the go for the price it is absolutely a steal.
Justin Nation, Score:Good [7.5]