This project was orginally going to be both Ryu Hayabusa and Irene Lew super deformed as they appear in the sound test screen of Ninja Gaiden 2: The Dark Sword of Chaos. What changed is that I suddenly decided that I would participate in the 'Favorite Class' Sprite Stitch challenge after all. While 'Ninja' is not my favorite job class typically when playing games such as RPGs, that usually goes to knights or warriors, whomever can wield the strongest weapons and best armor, ninja are still cool and are among my favorites when it comes to platformers, Ninja Gaiden for example and since this is a somewhat common class in RPGs, why not, I'm going to stitch me one for 'ninja class'.
So, taking SD Ryu Hayabusa, throwing Irene aside for now, slapped him into a black space, now what? I wanted to label him somehow, like what you might see in a status screen with his image, so looked through some game title screens for what I had in idea of doing. Ah, found something that may work, part of the title from Ninja Cop Saizou, using the kanji "ninja" from this. Okay, this looks fine. How 'bout a translation under that. Took the "Ninja" out of the famicom game Ninja Ryukenden, okay better. What now? Ryu looks startled, I want something kinda comical, a reason for this reaction. I was thinking maybe somebody threw a shuriken at him and his reflexes weren't good enough to avoid it. Or he threw one of his windmill throwing stars and missed catching it when it came back to him, ouch! Found one on the title screen of the NES game Ninja Crusaders, that should work.
Ryu needs to go back to ninja school.
