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Revenge is better. Plus I'm one to start chronologically myself

Revenge is a much better game.

Shinobi 3 has some really cool moments, but overall it's nowhere near as good as Revenge...

Also play the Mega CD version with Spiderman intact... because it's amazing.

I would actually start with the arcade original first if you can as it is seen as an evolution to the action genre and is still considered a good game to this day. Rolling Thunder plays very similar to it as well and think the start of tit for tat that Sega and Namco used to do. If you can't then Shadow Dancer on the Mega Drive plays similar enough to get a feel. Shadow Dancer is actually the arcade sequel to the original and the MD game is different.

As for between Revenge and Shinobi 3? Revenge is more clunkier and stiffer to control (good luck getting the double jump to consistently work) but it has that atmosphere, music and of course those bosses such as Batman, Spider-Man, Godzilla and the Terminator. Well if you have the first version (REV 00) of the game otherwise you just have the Terminator or maybe Spider-Man depending on version.

Shinobi 3 is much better to control, has decent music, good graphics and has variety but for some reason doesn't grab me as much. Still a good game minds you. I don't think that I've played much of it to be honest...

Mania's level design clearly wasn't designed with Ray in mind and I think it's a testament to the versatility of the designers that he's still this fun to play regardless.

So it's not just me, then. I think it's some form of malware attack, as whenever it tries to direct itself to that Myspace page Norton blocks it and a virus theat notification pops up.

I am absolutely 99.9% certain that DLC wouldn't be off-limits to those without an online subscription.

I would think so too, but this happened recently https://www.nintendoenthusiast.com/2018/09/28/lego-worlds-dlc-locked/

I was inititally going to reply to this saying "I feel it would be news-worthy if DLC was locked behind online membership" but uhh, yeah, there it is.  Definitely a concern.

I guess it depends how it is distributed. A lot of stuff is just in the e shop which anyone can purchase, but in any form of market you'll always have those who try to make their deals more complicated.

I just downloaded the Octo Expansion for Splatoon 2 without being subscribed (I'll do it when Smash releases). So don't worry  

Possibly?

My biggest problem is the way the eye just kinda snaps into the edge of the muzzle, rather than smoothly rotating into the sides.

But really, the way Sonic looks is the least of his problems when it comes to Smash.

@Vertical Snoop [D.K.] yes, absolutely this