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Rarely does a game have the ability to render its player speechless. There does, however, come those few moments in everyone's  lifetime when an interactive experience proves so deep or immersive as to actually render the player incapable of cognitive thought for a few fleeting moments. Having just struggled (and dear God, do we mean struggled) through a mere ten minutes of Janey Thompson's Marathon, this... running sim left us speechless.

Curse of the Red Ninja is a simple game about one ninja's quest to prove his mastery of the art of ninjitsu by killing his master Lawrence. A simply premise yes? (though how many ninjas do you hear of called Lawrence – perhaps Laurence Fishbourne in The Matrix). But what lies beneath is a point and click adventure game that's brutally difficult but comically quirky.