I'm declaring 2025 the year of the ninja: we're being spoiled with one glorious assassination game after another

In spite of a very long history, nobody's ever really gotten tired of pretending to be a ninja. From the distant past of Capcom's sidescrolling Strider and The Ninja Warriors' widescreen robo-ninja violence through the still-missed sneakiness of PlayStation classic Tenchu to the lyrical excesses of Metal Gear Rising, no one's immune to the allure of playing as some sort of kick-flipping, bird-avoiding, mech-slicing hero.

Ninjas are cool. This is a fact, as unshakeable as the sun rising in the east and Donatello being the best turtle.