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The water segments were all bad.
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Ninja Gaiden released 20 years ago - Team Ninja Celebrates
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hybrid_birth
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Still haven't beaten one of their games.
Got pretty far with ninja gaiden back in the day. But it was too hard. Shame cause I loved it.
Got pretty far with ninja gaiden back in the day. But it was too hard. Shame cause I loved it.
NeverYouMind
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I agree that in Black and Sigma they leave a lot to be desired, but in Ninja Gaiden 2 running on water in the village and fighting the ghost dragon in the ruins was awesome.
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Red Crayon Aristocrat
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Ninja Gaiden Black is one of the best games of all time.
What more could you really ask for? Fantastic action, great graphics, hot babes, a compelling enough story.
The high difficulty level can get frustrating at times but it's still legit one of the greatest I've played.
What more could you really ask for? Fantastic action, great graphics, hot babes, a compelling enough story.
The high difficulty level can get frustrating at times but it's still legit one of the greatest I've played.
Buggy Loop
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I recalled it was not my favourite part but eh, replaying it and it’s really not bad. Adds a dash of adventure. The maze is a bit too long, but coming back to the water filled crypt is also pretty neat map wise.
Senua
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Buggy Loop
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I still can't believe how good it was for 2004
Why did not a single indie dev even try their go at this? I know action games are not the easiest genre but not a single indie dev? Or I missed some under the radar gems?
Reizo Ryuu
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Animations and combat systems on that level are extremely difficult and expensive, don't forget that ngb is running on DOA's fighting game logic, which is a genre generally too intensive for indie devs to tackle.
NG Sigma 2, while a pretty good action hack and slash, is a piece of shit compared to Xbox360 Ninja Gaiden 2. That my friend, is a God damn masterpiece. Even more so, played on a recent Xbox console with better IQ and framerate.
Red Crayon Aristocrat
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I disagree, the story gets the job done in giving you motivation, you see this beautiful young woman get murdered, you want to kick the ass of the people responsible.
And the setting of Vigoor was really creative and unique, even if it made no sense why middle eastern style building, an Egyptian tomb, a Cambodian temple and a Mayan pyramid were all somehow in the same place, but that's 8/16 bit style "rule of cool" in the best of ways.
CamHostage
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So, of course, yes. (And I don't know how whoever proofread/translated what I assume was originally Japanese text did not know to make the distinction of writing "our Ninja Gaiden series", not "the Ninja Gaiden series", or something like that.) There's a lot of headscratching omissions in this short notice.
That said, it's clearly a "Gambare!" rallying cry for the current Team Ninja as much as it is a celebration of the "second" NG Trilogy/Saga. I like the NES games better than the Xbox games, but I'm not offended that they're celebrating their heritage.
As far as I know, nobody from the Arcade's Strong Team or any of the Tecmo NES NG crew are around at Tecmo anymore (none even seem to have been involved with this Trilogy) and Itagaki is also long gone, plus Team Ninja has had turnover as it is (and hasn't made a new NG since 2012, disregarding Yaiba.) So making it about this team and these games is at least celebrating something about the series in an otherwise dark time. And this Team Ninja would likely be the only ones who could do it again someday (even though they keep busying themselves with other things,) so IMO it's good for them to get some goodwill going for the Team Ninja take on the franchise.
Team Ninja even remembering that it used to make Ninja Gaiden games is a good thing, whatever wonky wording they use to do it.
CamHostage
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...However, if this slight of crediting actually got "Strong Team" members to come out at long last and identify themselves by name as the creators of Ninja Gaiden Arcade, that would be amazing!
We have a pretty good idea of who the NES game creators were despite codenames in the final credits, but NG Arcade credits are cryptic (even the bits which are in Japanese aren't names) and incomplete. (Rus Mclaughlin says it was Shuichi Sakurazaki who made the Arcade game, MobyGames lists a different "Sakurazaki" as the codename for famed designer Hideo Yoshizawa for at least the NES games. As verified in a 1UP interview, they are not the same person. )
www.mobygames.com
We have a pretty good idea of who the NES game creators were despite codenames in the final credits, but NG Arcade credits are cryptic (even the bits which are in Japanese aren't names) and incomplete. (Rus Mclaughlin says it was Shuichi Sakurazaki who made the Arcade game, MobyGames lists a different "Sakurazaki" as the codename for famed designer Hideo Yoshizawa for at least the NES games. As verified in a 1UP interview, they are not the same person. )
Ninja Gaiden credits (NES, 1988) - MobyGames
The official game credits for Ninja Gaiden released on NES in 1988. The credits include 18 people.
www.mobygames.com
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