my thoughts about the new Shinobi keep swinging wildly everywhere. i think the worst thing i can say about it is that the search action stuff feels very tacked on and arbitrary - like clearly a tactic to make you replay stages and extend the length of the game beyond what is probably reasonable (go find the one bauble now that you have the thing to find it, etc.)
i think you could beat the game and not pay any attention to most of that, but a lot of stages are just these big open frameworks and it’s all very floaty. lots of “go hit the switch here, now run here, now hit that switch, now go hit THAT switch” over and over and over again.
there’s a really solid 2D platformer action game somewhere inside of all this Modern Quality of Life mess