So as it's pretty well known, I have no love for Team Ninja. Between illustrating every terrible part of Japanese culture to demeaning women to making an entire nation look bad, they're not just a bad developer in my eyes, but an offensive one. But they're known for three things: glorified child pornography Dead or Alive, sexism and character destruction Metroid Other M, and the oddball out, Ninja Gaiden. A lot of people have put this on a Devil May Cry level of hardcore action games. I never touched them and their utterly confusing naming scheme (so there's the original Ninja Gaidens... then new Ninja Gaiden, then Ninja Gaiden Black, and Ninja Gaiden Sigma... fuck it just use numbers) but I figured that since it isn't as utterly offensive as the rest of Team Ninja's defecations, I'd give it a shot. Plus, it was free on Playstation Plus. How bad could it be?
It's pretty bad. I see literally no appeal in this game. The controls are horrible. The camera is atrocious. The action is boring. The difficulty is fake. Like compared to Devil May Cry, which has a ton of combos, tight controls, great aesthetics, and fucking Dante (the old games, mind you, not the obnoxiously lowercased Devil may Cry). This has Ryu, a... sorry I fell asleep. A ninja. Woohoo. Well not really a ninja I guess because ninjas are stereotypically stealthy and all he fucking does is run into bad guys. But he has a sword and throwing stars and is in some confusing pseudomodern setting but still insists on using bows and ninja stars so I guess he's a fucking ninja. Anyway the game consists of boring looking enemies attacking you with horrible controls and a horrible camera.
Overall this game is pretty terrible. Thank god it was free. Perhaps other Ninja Gaidens are better but this surely isn't.
It's pretty bad. I see literally no appeal in this game. The controls are horrible. The camera is atrocious. The action is boring. The difficulty is fake. Like compared to Devil May Cry, which has a ton of combos, tight controls, great aesthetics, and fucking Dante (the old games, mind you, not the obnoxiously lowercased Devil may Cry). This has Ryu, a... sorry I fell asleep. A ninja. Woohoo. Well not really a ninja I guess because ninjas are stereotypically stealthy and all he fucking does is run into bad guys. But he has a sword and throwing stars and is in some confusing pseudomodern setting but still insists on using bows and ninja stars so I guess he's a fucking ninja. Anyway the game consists of boring looking enemies attacking you with horrible controls and a horrible camera.
Overall this game is pretty terrible. Thank god it was free. Perhaps other Ninja Gaidens are better but this surely isn't.
