| Tenchu | |
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure, stealth |
| Developer(s) | Acquire, K2 LLC, FromSoftware |
| Publisher(s) | Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Activision, FromSoftware, Sega, Nintendo, Microsoft Game Studios, Ubisoft |
| Creator(s) | Takuma Endo |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation PlayStation 2 Xbox PlayStation Portable Nintendo DS Xbox 360 Wii |
| First release | Tenchu: Stealth Assassins February 26, 1998 |
| Latest release | Tenchu: Shadow Assassins February 2009 |
Tenchu[a] is an action-adventure stealth video game series, originally developed by Japanese developer Acquire, where the player assumes the role of a ninja in 16th-century Japan. The title in Japanese literally translates in English as "Divine Retribution", with 天 (ten) meaning heaven and 誅 (chū) meaning death penalty (another translation of this phrase, Wrath of Heaven, is the title of the first PlayStation 2 entry in the series).
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