Shinobi: Art of Vengeance

Test Notes:

The marketed DLC is a download voucher so the game is a Yes* by default.

There have been reports of a game breaking bug. Once the player receives the ninja hook in the "Neo City" level, some players exited the game and/or stage. Upon doing this, the grappling hook to access the finale and boss of the stage disappeared and did not return.
THIS BUG WILL RESULT IN NEEDING TO COMPLETELY RESTART THE GAME.
The tester did not experience this bug despite trying to trigger it. The following methods were tested:
• Immediately leaving the area upon receiving the ninja hook.
• Using other ninja hooks in Neo City before that particular one.
• Loading into a different level and going back to Neo City
• Exiting to the title screen and going back in.
• Completely restarting the game.

- Runs at 60 FPS.
- Minor stutters when using save statues.
- Minor frame drops while destroying the statues in the Mandara boss fight.
- Minor frame drops after committing an execution in multiple enemies and collecting dropped coins, health, etc.
- One instance of minor frame drops while traversing on shipping containers in the Fish Market level.
- Character sprites & foreground objects are noticeably lower resolution than the animated scenery and environments. When the game is in motion, everything looks much better.
- Experienced a stutter after going into the 3rd section of level 1.
- The sound of respawning at statues was greatly increased and loud in "The Assault" stage.
- The in-game save file time count is not accurate (lists more time than what was actually played).
- The attack telegraphs for the final boss can be hard to see (faint red lines).

Content Completed:

Main campaign completed on Apprentice difficulty.
66% overall completion rate.

Additional Notes:

Build Version: 1.0
Front Card Code: LA-H-BCU8A-USA
Back Card Code: BCU8A10A00056E
Number of Players: 1
Audio Language Supported: English & Japanese
Menu/Subtitle Language Supported: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
Accessibility Options:
• Multiple difficulty options are available: Novice, Apprentice & Shinobi (Easy, Medium, & Standard difficulties).
• Game difficulty can be heavily customized.
• Cutscenes can be skipped.
Quality/Performance Option: N/A