Ninjala

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  • Summary: An online action battle game featuring ninja and gum! Assume the role of a modern-day ninja and take part in the Ninjala tournament!

    ■ Ninja-Gum Use Ninja-Gum to blow bubbles that can be tossed at your foes, craft all sorts of weapons, and dash across stages. The appearance and    An online action battle game featuring ninja and gum! Assume the role of a modern-day ninja and take part in the Ninjala tournament!

    ■ Ninja-Gum

    Use Ninja-Gum to blow bubbles that can be tossed at your foes, craft all sorts of weapons, and dash across stages.

    The appearance and variety of your weapon will vary depending on the type of Ninja-Gum you use.

    ■ Competitive Player

    Take part in Battle Royale-style matches of up to 8 players and vie for supremacy with ninja around the world. The player who earns the most points over the course of the match will be declared the winner. Score points by defeating your opponents, obtaining items, destroying drones positioned across the stage, and more. Earn extra points by taking down your opponents with an IPPON—impressive finishing techniques.

    ■ Cooperative Play

    Join up with friends and take part in a 4-on-4 team battle. Cooperate with your teammates and earn more points than the opposing team to be declared the winner.

    ■ Avatar

    A colorful variety of costumes and accessories from an array of unique fashion brands are available. Choose from a wide variety of avatar items which can be combined as you see fit. You can stick to one brand for a consistent look, or mix and match to create a style all your own!
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 21
  3. Negative: 1 out of 21
  1. Hardcore Gamer
    Jun 29, 2020
    80
    Ninjala is a well-crafted game and another fine example of free-to-play done right. You can make steady progress in the online game without spending real-world money and the only part of the game behind a paywall is the single player campaign — which is currently in its first phase. GungHo has done a great job early on at making a fun experience for players of all skill levels and still providing enough depth to sink your teeth into things when you want to. Ninjala isn’t just a great free-to-play game, it’s a great game period and one well-worth checking out on Switch.
  2. CGMagazine
    Jul 2, 2020
    80
    It’s a little early to say if Ninjala will stand up with the likes of Fortnite or Splatoon, but it’s a creative, fun, and charming game that we should be keeping an eye on.
  3. Twinfinite
    Jul 7, 2020
    80
    Ninjala is a surprisingly entertaining free-to-play game that doesn’t require players to pull out their wallets to have a little fun. The microtransactions are all cosmetic, free content is on its way to add even more depth, and the visual style just oozes with charm.
  4. Noisy Pixel
    Jun 29, 2020
    75
    Ninjala has a ton of potential to become the next big multiplayer experience. While its single-player experience leaves a little to be desired, playing online with others is a ton of fun. There’s a nice balance found in the game’s premium items, but much of what it does right can be found in the free offerings. Hopefully, continued support by the developer will iron out any rough patches to make this a longlasting online experience for Switch owners.
  5. Nintendo Life
    Jun 30, 2020
    70
    Ninjala is a good-looking and impressively tactical free-to-play arena fighter. It's currently lacking in modes and maps, there are problems with how the lacklustre opening tutorial goes about onboarding new players and the rock-paper-scissors aspect of proceedings is sure to be controversial but, overall, the game is off to a pretty strong start. We can't wait to see where GungHo takes its cast of pint-sized bubblegum protagonists in the coming months.
  6. Vgames
    Jul 3, 2020
    65
    While very far from perfect, Ninjala has a good foundation to build on, and create a truly great online experience.
  7. 4P.de
    Jul 3, 2020
    47
    Respectable free-to-play online brawler aiming for a younger audience – unfortunately the story mode is a costly premium commodity, while the basic map content is shallow.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 43 out of 98
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 98
  3. Negative: 31 out of 98
  1. Nova_Cis22
    Jun 25, 2020
    10
    Es entretenido, me gustaría verlo en todas las consolas con crossplay, le tengo fe al juego
  2. TsubakiHaru
    Jun 27, 2020
    10
    This game really suits the Nintendo Switch system. The graphics and game performance is great and I love that they maintain the performance atThis game really suits the Nintendo Switch system. The graphics and game performance is great and I love that they maintain the performance at 60 fps. At first everything is confusing, random things happen but once you'll get used to it, it's actually fun and engaging. I suggest to just prevent your character from dying and run once your HP runs out. The game has team battle and battle royale which makes for variety and the game is best played with voice chat together with friends. The aesthetics and skins are also great but of course you need to pay for those but that is for cosmetics purposes only. Overall the game is great for me and I glad we had this kind of game for free (not the story but story price is cheap)… Expand
  4. coolgamerlul420
    Jul 27, 2023
    9
    great combat good cartoony Arti style and it is for everey one and the online is free the only problem is that there is a lot of broken combosgreat combat good cartoony Arti style and it is for everey one and the online is free the only problem is that there is a lot of broken combos and they are easy… Expand
  5. AngiSGC
    Jul 4, 2020
    7
    The game-play is very unbalanced, sometimes you destroy everything in your path for the whole round, sometimes you can't get a single kill,The game-play is very unbalanced, sometimes you destroy everything in your path for the whole round, sometimes you can't get a single kill, and whenever you die, it never feels like your fault.
    The game feels like a coin toss, but turned into an entire game.
    There's only 2 maps (for now, anyway), so variety in almost null.
    But on the other hand, movement is very smooth and getting kills is pretty satisfying, even if you're just mashing buttons.
    The game has great potential, and I think they just need to iron out these issues.
    I do think you should still play the game for yourself, if you haven't already, it's free, and you can form your own opinion of it.    … Expand
  6. Gamatkd
    Jul 9, 2020
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Is a game that has interesting art and graphics, but I believe is a meh game that had potential, but right now is a game that is very repetitive with a fighting mechanic that depends on randomness and luck, something that makes it very annoying. Had potential, but it failed.… Expand
  7. Freecartitos
    Jun 26, 2020
    3
    The game had a nice concept with unique ideas but in the end they didnt work out.
    The gameplay is mostly luck based since the parry is like    The game had a nice concept with unique ideas but in the end they didnt work out.
    The gameplay is mostly luck based since the parry is like playing rock paper scissors and there is no guard button and sometimes they can hit you without knowing and cant do a parry.
    And dont even bother using your money on the game the jala con be used in a gumball machine which is purely lick based and the color variants can only be used certain times and some weapons are broken like the hammer breaks your weapon.
    And the servers sucks there are tons of errors that they do not explain what they are.    … Expand
  8. 2015exe
    Dec 2, 2020
    0
    The was already full of problems to begin with, now I can't even block with certain weapons anymore! GARBAGE!!! WHY ADD SOMETHING JUST TO TAKEThe was already full of problems to begin with, now I can't even block with certain weapons anymore! GARBAGE!!! WHY ADD SOMETHING JUST TO TAKE AWAY IT'S ABILITY TO BLOCK!?!?!?!?!? THERE'S NO POINT IN THAT!!!!!! THIS GAME IS CONSTANTLY SINKING TO THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATORS I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!!!!!!… Expand

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