Simply tilt and turn your Nintendo 3DS to solve challenging puzzles, outwit devious enemies, and escape intricate traps. If you have to tumble till you're dizzy, or survive raging waters just to rescue the princess, then you will. Cubic Ninja is a puzzle-based platforming game, in which the player manipulates CC, a ninja cube, through various levels, whilst avoiding enemies and traps contained within. The game gets its title from its unique look and the 3-D cubes that make up the game's world and characters. Kyle Orland has been the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012, writing primarily about the business, tech, and culture behind video games.

Plenty of people are talking about, and seeking out, the title today, though, after a hacking group announced it's the key to the first exploit allowing 3DS hardware to run unsigned, homebrew code. Unleash Your Creativity - Create your own pulse-quickening levels and display them as a QR Code that can be shared with players all over the world. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Console hacking fans may remember that the Wii had a similar homebrew hack that required a copy of launch title The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Despite its poor reception, Cubic Ninja received renewed notoriety in November 2014, after it was revealed that an exploit in the game's level editor would allow the 3DS to execute homebrew code. While Ninjhax was originally to be released on August 30, 2014, Rabet held off its release due to the unveiling of the New Nintendo 3DS, believing that any release before then would give Nintendo time to address the exploit on the new revision.

Even if other exploits are eventually found and developed for the 3DS, at least Cubic Ninja has already been rescued from a lifetime of ignominy to become a footnote in the history of the 3DS. The game was released to mixed reviews; although praised for its unique gameplay concept, critics panned aspects of the game's control scheme, along with its "frustrating" wired level designs and relatively short length. In 2014, smea discovered a way to run Homebrew Launcher on any existing 3DS model using Cubic Ninja. Juego malillo, pero que gracias a la función que tiene en las 3DS para cargar software casero, cargar juegos de otras regiones, etc. This new revision became the second homebrew exploit that did not require the use of the 3DS system's web browser, the first being the savegame exploit found in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D nicknamed "OoT3Dhax".Just be aware that it will only work with certain firmware versions, so check the Ninjhax site to make sure your 3DS is on the right version. Revolutionary gameplay - Who needs buttons - Tilt and turn your Nintendo 3DS to guide Cubic Ninja through more than 100 challenging levels or simply use the Circle Pad. Challenge Your Friends- Race through a level as quickly as you can, share a ghosted replay of your best run, and dare your friends to beat it. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. However, the overall visual appearance was praised for "[feeling] like a great deal of care and attention was put into making the game look as slick as possible.

The exploit, known as Ninjhax, requires users to place a boot file on the device's SD card, and then use the level sharing feature of Cubic Ninja to scan a malformed QR code. Despite all the bad points, the general feel of the game is nice, the concept has a fairly new twist, and there's a few things that will make you smile in this game. Master Ninjutsu skills - Outwit cunning traps and rescue your fellow Ninjas by earning and unleashing mysterious Ninjutsu skills. Unless you're a die-hard 3DS collector, you probably haven't heard of Ubisoft's obscure 2011 platform release Cubic Ninja. Reminds me of how Lumines became unaffordable when it was discovered it could be used to create a browser exploit in the original iteration of the PSP.The layering on the screen and the motion controls have obviously tried to be incorporated to the 3DS' Style, but unfortunately the motion control's become increasingly difficult to use and make the game extremely difficult, and also make viewing the 3D Slightly annoying, as although I can see it, many other's would not as being 13 I would have far better eyesight than somebody of 40 years of age. Also, there are no lives, you die you start again making boss fights even worse especially with all the above incorporated as well. If you happen to pick up a copy of this, set yourself the challenge of playing it for 15 minutes when you first get it. It's a fun little game, but whilst the game has obviously been attempted to be designed for the 3DS, unfortunately it simply dosen't work. The focus on gyroscope controls limits the game's level design and makes it awkward and boring for players who use the Circle Pad.