First off for you people is Tenchu Z. A lot of reviews state that this is the first ninja game for 360. Not a great achievement since 360 doesn't have many games so far {will be discussed later}. Tenchu Z has a way of being monotonous, with it's map lay outs and killing methods. There are 6 different type of missions that they lay out within the game play. Retrieve documents/plans & assassination are the most common ones. There is also a few get to a check point, find the informant, and follow some guy. The best one has to be where you must kill everyone in the area. Your ninja can be dressed anyway making it unique. Skills are simply put as combos. There is also secret arts which lets you cling to walls, vanish, or make rice for health. The kinda helpful things are physical advancements. Such as sight, hearing, and smell. on that note enemies can sense you in all those three ways. Onto the last part, items. Some are a waist others give you health. I personally have not found all items so I can not give you a synopsis on it. The ones that I mainly use are Vial {100 health points restored}, pinwheel {thrown onto anything and sticks to it, detonated remotely [R3]}, and Blowgun {1 shot kill, [have to be accurate]}.