How Mark Cale hasn't been able to bring those back in some form after all these years is beyond me tbh.
Xbla emulated versions aside.
Thing is, you could remake using the same iso view at a fraction of the cost of a full AAA game and I think they would make enough to kickstart a revival. I wish I could buy the IP off him.
Yeah, The Last Ninja Trilogy Enhanced, with redrawn 2D sprites and backgrounds, same game underneath.
I've done it myself on my own crappy Java game, just redrawn on an iPad in Procreate.
15 year old original, just up and running on a Pi here, 640x480 res
Updated to 1080p, redrawn on iPad
I just put the old sprites at a layer at the bottom and started drawing the new ones at a layer on top. With the backgrounds I took a screendump and drew a 2D picture on top, I let the old blocky map stay invisible to form the rooms and just updated movable sprites.
Mark could easily get a team to do this but 1000 times better, like how Dragon's Trap was remastered.
It's such a shame that such a classic IP is just sitting there untouched.
He actually said that they planned to do remasters of LN1-3 at an interview instead of LN4, but that must've been 5 years ago, or more.