Inindo: Way of the Ninja

After a long hiatus, we spontaneously return! In this new episode, we blab about one Koei's oddball early-90s releases, "Inindo: Way of the Ninja."
"Inindo: Defeat Nobunaga" made its debut on the PC-8801 platform on July 19, 1991, amid Japan's booming gaming scene. Inindo combines historical narratives with mythological yokai and a dash of grand strategy, making it a unique and uneven experience. It offers a unique glimpse into feudal Japan, where this time you play as an Iga ninja whose goal is to assassinate the notorious Oda Nobunaga.
Inindo was produced by Kou Shibusawa, a few years before Koei's transition into a publicly-traded company. The unique soundtrack composed by Fiori Wakakuwa of "hyym," is a mixed-bag, but it succeeds in setting the game's feudal Japanese tone.
It's a broken game yet we still love it.

[@dearcrowns]

I've been on and off interested in checking out Koei strategy games and actually stumbled your Nobunaga's Ambition pod a year or two ago but couldn't listen to it since the audio was gone. It seems like keeping tabs on that RSS feed just in case because "well I haven't seen anyone else talk about these games" paid off lol
This was a good pod!

[@tigerwolfcast]

That's so cool to hear, thanks for sticking around! It's a niche topic, always so happy when people discover Koei's back catalog. Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the comment!