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Pressuring the development team to get Kasumi Ninja out in a “timely fashion” (holiday season 1994), Kasumi’s story mode was dropped in favor of the fighting concept sans storyline.

A fourth palette-swap ninja, garbed in blue, was seen in previews but apparently never made it to the final game. Habaki was garbed in black, but this was changed to represent Lord Gyaku. For example, Alaric’s default outfit had red trim, as opposed to blue. Many of the backgrounds and character designs went through several revisions. Players would have to navigate the labyrinth to find their opponents, and characters would be unlocked for play only as they were defeated by Senzo and Habaki. This method of gameplay would have required the player to invest more time in order to complete the story mode. Beating the game with each character would produce a specific key which, when combined, would unlock the gates to the final confrontation with Lord Gyaku. In this preview, Kasumi Ninja had a very heavy story element to it. Kasumi Ninja was previewed approximately 8 months before its original release by a virtual game magazine distributed via CD. The game went through several changes before it was released to the public. A sequel, Kasumi Ninja II, was in development for the Atari Jaguar CD but it was cancelled.As we can read on Wikipedia, Kasumi Ninja is a 1994 one-on-one fighting game developed by Hand Made Software and published by Atari Corporation for the Atari Jaguar. By April 1, 1995, the game has sold more than 24,000 copies though it is unknown how many were sold in total during its lifetime and has since been called by some as one of the worst games of all time. While it received praise for its visuals, critics panned the controls, sound and slow gameplay, with many reviewers calling it a Mortal Kombat rip-off.

Kasumi Ninja received mixed to negative reception when it was released. It was also one of the first games to feature a parental lockout system, allowing censorship and limiting the violence displayed during gameplay.

Being one of the first titles announced for the Jaguar before it was launched to the public in November 1993, Kasumi Ninja was created by the same company who previously developed Dracula the Undead for the Atari Lynx in 1991 and had a troubled development process, undergoing through various changes before release. When the elder ninja Gyaku kills two of his fellow elders through black magic and becomes possessed by a powerful demon after breaking the gate to the underworld, it is up to the player in taking the role from any of the playable characters in order to defeat other opponents before Lord Gyaku destroys the Earth.