Was in the level where Rin delivers the message for Ayame I think its called "task without reward" and I suddenly felt I'd been there before. If I was right there would be a bridge up ahead over a valley with a river and there it was. It is the same place as the 'crossing the enemy checkpoint' level in Tenchu 1, well half of it anyway, Ayame plays the other half and meets her halfway.

Also the level "I am Rin of the Beniya" and Ayame's follow up stage that starts with the bear fight in the cave is the same as level 3 of Tenchu 1, "Rescue the captive ninja"

This message was edited by Kytis Kat Tennec on Sep 06 2006.

Now that you mention it, they did feel familiar. I wouldn't be surprised if the environments were recycled because it's the same engine after all.
The first game got away with a lot of things because it was an early playstation game, but to have the same issues and glitches in later versions is inexcusable, don't you think?

It could be possible that they were recycled... but i doubt it. It is likely that stages are set in the same place. Those are good examples of cross reference, that you mentioned.

"Cross the checkpoint" from Tenchu1, was a border between Gohda territory and another land... and the caves/forest, was where Ayama was captured by Gu. It also mentions 'the bear' somewhere else in Fatal shadows. Something about it recognising the scent of Ayama and wanting revenge for killing it's parent or something? Can anyone remember this?