"Create, customize, and battle your friends with an elite and hilarious ninja clan!."
— Info from their Facebook Page
Ninja Warz is a Facebook Fighting Game developed by Broken Bulb Game Studios and released in 2009. There, players own Ninja mooks and fight other players using their clan. The game involves Inevitable Tournament, Shops (Relic, Weapon, Ninja), a Hospital, and a Dojo. Also, a few number of mini-games.
At the beginning of the game, you start off by picking your clan. You can choose the Fire, Lotus, or Shadow Clan. Each have their own "advantages", but equipment will ultimately determine the characteristics of your clan.
There was also a sequel, Ninja Warz 2, released in 2015.
These games provides examples of:
- Awesome, but Impractical: Plus this. Some of the weapons in the game include a wreath, a lunchbox, nunchaku with a scythe on the end, and bladed tonfa.
- Weapons made of ice.
- Big Ball of Violence: This is how you fight.
- Bilingual Bonus: This game has a suprisingly large amount of Shown Their Work.
- For example, there is a to-do scroll with "things to do" in hiragana. (Note: the "to do" is in informal form.)
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: A minor version of this. For those who are linguisticaly smart, that you sign mentioned above...it now just says "Tasks".
- There's a series of fans that have the Kanji for Fire, Earth, and Water. On the Emerald Scimitar the Kanji for soil/earth is at the base of the blade.
- There's a boss whose name is Tondeiru Josei, "Tondeiru" is the present form of "tobu" meaning to jump, referencing what she does before battle. Her sister Heikinteki Josei share the last name "Josei" which means "female".
- Gratuitous Japanese: Tondeiru Josei's sword is called "Daikatana" which is an alternate reading of 太and刀, typically read "Tachi"
- For example, there is a to-do scroll with "things to do" in hiragana. (Note: the "to do" is in informal form.)
- Blatant Lies: Crowning Moment of Jerkassery, there is now a sign on your little island that says "Free Karma". Then it links you to their buy "karma window".
- They changed it to "Get Karma."
- It's free, you just have to pay for it first.
- Breath Weapon: Genbu shoots energy beams from his mouth.
- Bribing Your Way to Victory: Karma costs money.
- Chainsaw Good: A Chainsaw used to be a weapon. It has since been discontinued.
- Colour Coded Elements: Every magic spell has background indicating the "element." Light Blue is Wind, Blue is Water, Purple is green, Yellow is Lightning, Red-orangeish is Fire, and Earth and Wood are green.
- Do-Anything Robot: Genbu comes back with Frickin' Laser Beams, missles, and gattling gun.
- Double Weapon: The Dragon Tongue for instance.
- Dual Wielding: Some weapons come in pairs, such as the Chaos Blades.
- Edible Bludgeon: There are many food weapons such as Leeks, Fried Shrimp, and Pocky.
- Evolving Weapon: Every clan has one.
- Extra-ore-dinary: The spell "Kunai Storm" could be considered this, but the background indicates Shadow element
- Feudal Overlord: Your benevolent Daimyo is clan leader and manager accoutant. He gives you gold and karma every 4 hours. Gives gold to opponents when they beat you; he awards it when you win (including tournaments). He is also a big statue.
- Flaming Sword: There's a small series of Fire-based like weapons, but there is a sword that appears to be made of magma.
- Floating Continent: More like a village.
- The Four Gods: Interestingly, only Genbu makes an appearance.
- Gold Makes Everything Shiny: Your Daimyo is a Golden Statue, he sparkles when you are eligible for a karma/gold bonus
- Hidden Weapons: Averted, everyone can see your weapons. And you're ninjas.
- Highly-Visible Ninja: The Fire Clan wears red.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: In a Mini-Game you take down invading hot air balloons with shuriken
- Improbable Weapon User: Too many to name. For instance, you could fight with a cowboy moustache for a while.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Averted
- Kukris Are Kool: They are and you can used them.
- Kyu and Dan Ranks: Used in conjunction with levels. You gain a belt rank for every so many levels.
- Rank Inflation: Thank God this is averted. The highest belt rank you can obtain is roughly a 4th or 5th degree black belt.
- Karma Meter: Karma in this game is similar to Gaia Cash in Gaia Online.
- Lethal Joke Item: For a while one of the best items in the game was a string of Christmas lights.
- Mana Meter: Subverted. There is magic, but you buy it with Tokens or Karma.
- Mêlée à Trois: The three main clans are The Fire Clan, The Lotus Clan and The Shadow Clan.
- Named Weapons: Every weapon is named, even if it's just "Splintery Hammer"
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: You fight Zombie Ninjas.
- Petal Power: Many relics have a flower in their name, and on the actual relic.
- Player Versus Player: Aside from bosses this the only method of battle.
- Shout-Out: Oh God, where to begin...
- In Relics, Thunder Cat, Cobra Kai, and Fawkes Mask, the Ninja Zombies are referred to as the horde.
- In Weapons, Master Sword, Tyrael's Wrath, Zombie Skin Tega, Samehada, and Hollow Sword.
- In Awards, "Why So Blue?", Enter the Konami Code to unlock a relic and award, "Fatality!", "Oompa Loompa Doompadee Doo", and Dirty Dozen.
- Sinister Scythe: One creepily named, Harvester.
- Stock Weapon Names: A huge number of names were used from that stock. Most notably is their version of Kusanagi.
- Take Over the World: Word of God says this what you are trying to do.
- Super-Deformed: Every Ninja in-game and the Josei sisters. Most notably is Genbu as he appears on Heikinteki's lunchbox as moe as can be.
- Unbreakable Weapons: Every weapon cannot break.
- Weaponized Animal: A Relic called "Ferret's Tooth"
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: Ninja Warz.