First game I've ever played. My grandfather loved this game, always played it and handed me the controller to see if I could beat a level he was having a hard time with. Fell in love instantly. My grandfather and this game is the reason why I'm a gamer. 😊

this OST has NO BUSINESS being this good. it's overkill

1998 was a legendary year

1998 baby, hell of a year!

Remake this game please we need a new Tenchu!!! PLEASE!!

Tenchu: a golden egg laid during the golden era of games, a game that hatched into unadulterated nostalgia with music that is integral to a magical web spun by the digital spider to ensnare our fascination.

Nostalgia floods my consciousness, I could cry because I loved this game when I was 13. The music is incredibly beautiful.

This is such a unique sounding song. Even all these years later there's still little like it among video game osts.

~22 years later and I can still hum this theme from memory. Such an incredible game from an amazing era of gaming + gaming soundtracks!

17 dislikers couldn't beat onikage :P

This theme makes me travel to 1998, this was the first game along with the RE2 i've played on the first PlayStation, so many nostalgic memories.

> E3 2017 > Sony conference is going > Please welcome Mr. Hidetaka Miyazaki, president of From Software to the stage > Herro everywan, after DS3 we started to think about what to do next > We went through our IPs and new ideas, one name cried for a Reboot :) > This song starts to play, remade ofc > Name appears on the screen, TENCHU If only..

that moment when you found out that the language is not actually japanese..Noriyuki Asakura you are amazing..

Best soundtrack of the franchise, they dropped the ball hard with the future titles.

Uff, this bring back Childhood memories.

OK I found the lyrics... Thanks for the internet. It is Hausa language and translates into something like this: To go through the street This prayer Share day War was started We have nothing but soul Please wait for us to look for you... To go through the street Dark rain (water) Fragmentation To cover our shade We do not come back and shout Just past the tears Burning light The light and the sky hang on us... To go through the street

This theme never gets old.

James Bond movie style opening + Ninjas = GOLD!! :)

I really really really enjoyed this game like crazy The memories The 90s was the perfect decade for video games

Playstation one forever!!

The music in this game is epic and brings back so many fond memories.

I'm just now hearing the last little 50 seconds of this. Man that was beautiful.

1998 was a great year for video games IMO.

Makes Me wish I had a PS one again

2019 and 0:41 still give me chills

these games had such an unique and awesome soundtrack

2:02 WHOA I do NOT remember this part being here before! What a nice rediscovery of this song...

1:22 Hinako: What do you think it would happen after you choose the path of the samurai? Do you really think that someone would have show mercy? 1:41 Adnan: once you took the way of the sword, mercy will never be at your side but as I already told you *drops the sword* 1:54 I hate the smell of blood.

of its type this was the best game

That bass makes you travel in time.

i remenber when my dad use to play this old memories smh

The first blood game I ever played also first Japanese themed game I ever played

Still listening in 2019 :)

Came here to reminisce the feeling I felt putting this game in at 11 years old . 22 years go by fast

the music in both 1 and 2 are outstanding!

God I miss this game. I had 1,2 and z

waiting for ps4 Tenchu !

Goosebumps everytime.

This brings back nostalgic we need that game back in ps5

This brings me a some good old memories, I use to love this game I played this with my dad and my cousins. We were playing this on the ps2 good old times.

This is just perfection... So hard to top as opening theme for a video game. It just brought back so many memories from 98... Playing this game and hearing this song in my 14 inch tv... Sounds crazy I know

delicious memories

Still listening to this in 2024, Nin-Ja means " Enduring Person", We all endure, yet this Song affirms My resolve to see it through to the end.

Shit like Dynasty warriors gets 8 parts, where this doesn't

I love the dark and mystical themes in this game and its music. They hint at an all but forgotten past in Japan before the culture most gamers and anime fans are used to, before the Heian period and before predominantly Chinese influence even... It seems as Indian as it does Chinese. Real or not it's spooky. Anyway, most people forget Japan had a culture that long predates anything we think of relating to the Chinese Kingdoms. Incidentally human settlements in Japan go back 30,000 years That's by no means unique or the higher range but it's up there...

Even more beautiful than I remember it. 1 & 3 (wrath of heaven) were golden!

This takes me back...

Best game ever i was played !!

Incredible soundtrack. Great musical scores in the entertainment medium has become a lost art..

El unico juego al que he jugado tanto que tenia todas las misiones en master ninja, me encantaba la musica, el ambiente, los escenarios tan misteriosos... Despues me ocurrio lo mismo con los siguientes juegos, sobretodo la segunda parte, la cual tambien tenia escenarios creados por mi hechos durante horas al milimetro y al detalle... Jamas sacaran juegos con la magia que tenian los de antes... Cuando escucho esta banda sonora se me erizan los vellos del cuerpo, la puse, pongo y la pondre durante mucho tiempo mas para irme a dormir... Magia pura ♥️🎧

One of the best soundtracks!

Just saw the gameplay footage of Ghost of Tsushima and that makes me really want a new Tenchu game.

The song of a beautiful forgotten series this and tekken 3 have to be my favorite ps1 games

One of the BEST games ever made. Awesome story, awesome insight to feudal Japan, A very cool look into the life of being a Shinobi. I miss these games so damn much... The sound tracks were AWESOME. If it wasn't for Tenchu, I probably wouldn't have gotten into Naruto hahaha

Nostalgia,my primary school day i play it

Tenchu: The grandmaster of all assassin themed video games. Yeah, that's right! Assassin's Creed was just its measly disciple who happened to pick up quick!

God I love and miss these games.

I ended up here by accident holy moly.

It's so nostalgia

the 90s are unmatched

This music reminds me of a simpler time of my life.

It wasn't until I actually understood Japanese that I realized this isn't sung in Japanese. It apparently was sung in Hausa (African language). Still kicks so much ass, though.

Se é louco.....arrepiante demais. Ahhhj minha infância.....muito obrigado. Eu tive uma ótima!!! E isso faz parte dela

I loved the game as a kid, adore the music as an adult.

This song is actually performed in the west african language of Hausa, not Japanese, at the request of the composers wife. Fun fact.

If someone here enjoys Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice too make yourself a favor. If you finished the game at least one you'll have a classic-ninja-like skin, put that one, turn the game music to 0 and play this full soundtrack. Congratulations you unlocked the secret Tenchu reboot, what Sekiro was originally planned to be.

The best ninja game ever

I love this game. Spent so much time as a teen smashing through each section of the game, trying to see who would get grand master first out of me and my friends! Defintely grew up with this game 🔥😂

You know the fucking vibes!!!!!! I miss all this so much 😢 90”s baby my whole childhood was great 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

This game needs a continuation in 2021. Please!

God damn this brings back the memories... "WHAT?! HEY!! YOU!!!!" Tenchu was such a sick game.

Shadows Die Twice.

i play this while playing nioh 2... good times.

Memories....they need to make another Tenchu.... Badly.

God DAMN this music is good.

The nostalgia is even better reading all this mutual stoke for the game. You guys are awesome.

Have to come here to relax from time to time .

Ahh, the memories... I miss this game so much.

This is the song that plays when I leave my home at night.

I have good memories of my grandmother playing this game when I was just a kid. I miss that time...

I can imagine joe musushi, ryu hayabusa and rikumaru eating lunch with this music

Fuck I miss the 90s.

such a great tune, playing this game when i was like 10.. im now 26 and still loving it

True Shinobi music for a true shinobi game.

Here, after playing Ghost of tsushima, but tenchu is a Master piece

One of the best videogame themes of all time. Such great music.

One of the best intro sequences of a video game ever. Epic at 0:42 and 1:02.

rikimaru and ayame are the godfathers of stealth games thanks god i still have this game but seriously activision needs to bring this game back and make a remake of the game yeah!!

Thanks for this one, it really brings back the good old days

Azuma shinobi at last I can listen to this theme that brings back arcade paradise

I think sadly unless someone kickstarts a remake or gets enough petition votes for a new tenchu series it will never happen.

Thanks for uploading this music. I love Tenchu games! I pretend the "bad guys" are cops on every game!

I've been looking for this for such a long time!! Thank you!

Best game and soundtrack before anything else came out later on

Best opening music EVER! You're not a true tenchu fan if you don't listen to this

You know when you try and think of why you do the things you do. This game is the reason, no matter what RPG I play, I always play a Rogue/stealth character.

Why old games are better even if graphics was bad.

tenchu is the father of the assasins games

Man hearing these songs again makes me want to start playing them again. Glad I still have all of old game collection. My original PS1 still works too. lol Broke it out to play Blood Omen:Legacy of Kain the other day. nostalgia.

I miss this game