Bloodless Carnage: Aside from the High-Pressure Blood released from dead Mountain Nagas, Shadow of the Warrior is bloodless.

Blade Spam: One of the Warrior's attacks involves striking the opponent multiple times with their weapon.

Blade on a Stick: Both Sinjid and his enemies can use spears and glaives.

He creates and sells weapons, and can help you upgrade yours, providing you have a valuable mineral handy, such as gold.

Big Creepy-Crawlies: The Purple Critter, the Metal Tailed Moth, the Spirit Bug, and the Poison Wasp.

Big Good: The Emperor serves as the leader of the Imperial Army in Sinjid.

Big Bad: Lord Baka in Shadow of the Warrior, the Shogun in the first half of Sinjid, and Kazuro in the second half.

The Old King is well aware of this due to past experience, and warns Sinjid not to underestimate him because of his quiet nature.

Beware the Quiet Ones: Kazuro is a quiet man who leads a solitary lifestyle, but he's also a murderer and a master manipulator, and set off the events of Sinjid by killing the titular character's master.

They're very strong, can lower your defense whenever they strike you, can make the effect to stack with every hit, and can enter a state of Rage which boosts their damage potential even further.

It enables him to hold many things, from food and empowering potions to whole weapons and armors. Bag of Holding: Sinjid carries one in the second and third games.

Like the first game, it is turn-based, and it introduces new mechanics such as a class system, the ability to use items in battle, a hunger system, and a physical/special split.

However, he had never killed another man in battle before, and so Fujin sends him to the Shadow Temple and orders him to kill all the warriors in the Human Portal so he can fulfill his task. An evil warlord named Lord Baka has ordered an attack on Sinjid's village, and so Sinjid is taken in by a heroic ninja named Fujin and is taught the ways of the ninja by him so he can combat the warlord's Fallen Army.

The second game, Sinjid: Shadow of the Warrior, was published circa 2004. There is little plot beyond battling monsters in a portal. You can go to a shop to buy stat increases for your character, learn new skills from a man in a green cloak, and go to your old master get advice, change your weapons and armor, and use cheat codes. The higher difficulty you choose, the more monsters you get to fight. The point of the game is to defeat all the monsters you can. The first game, Sinjid: Battle Arena, was released circa 2003.

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