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The bosses are constantly moving (as bosses tend to do) but the camera focuses only on you, if you try to swerve the camera to find the boss, it leaves you off screen and you STILL get your butt kicked. The camera is sooooooooo lame.
I bought it because I was getting it on a deal but it really wasn't worth it. This game is a dissapointment.
However where this game really bites is the camera angles, OMG. The graphics are sub-par for a next gen game.
The story is OK because I can understand the old NES effect they were shooting for. During the regular game it's not so bad, but the boss fights make you want to break this disk.
You dropped the ball Team Ninja.
These include a staff, nunchucks, and a pair of katanas that can be weilded at the same time. It's either full speed ahead or straight up and down. Some people liked this because they say it helps you understand the story better and see what she was doing while Ryu was off doing his thing. This spawning thing just feels cheap.Another one of Ninja Gaiden's claim to infamy is it's camera.
I can't really say much without spoiling it, but things make less and less sense as you go along. While he is gone, the village is attacked by a samurai made of purple fire named Doku. And I am not a reviewer that is upset with the game's difficulty. Let me start by saying that I have not played Ninja Gaiden or NG Black.
It is just not a good system.Ryu can also learn several magic attacks, called Ninpo. He can't just jump forward a moderate or small amount. You then take some time to recover and then head off for revenge.Like I said, it starts off simply enough and seems like a good story for a ninja/fantasy genre game. On the one hand, the in-game graphics look very good. You can make the spell stronger by rapidly shaking the controller up or down (assuming you have a SIXAXIS or Dualshock 3 controller), but this is just annoying and doesn't really add to the game.As far as the missions go, they are pretty good. Even better, you can fire these weapons while in mid air. This is either laziness or a bad idea of how to cut the production costs.
Problem is, it is fond of loading right when you are attacking or being attacked by enemies. One instance was when I beat a mini boss in an underground Egyptian looking temple and a piece of wall popped up allowing me to repel jump my way up to the top and continue the game. On occasion you will scratch your head for a bit wondering what to do next because some of the puzzles are bizzare, but you don't wonder for long because the levels are fairly linear. Then, it cuts back to Ryu in the cave. It ends there and then you go to a Rachel mission. They are nothing amazing either, but not bad.
The song that played when that happened sounded like something you would hear at a rave. Ryu rushes back to the village, fights his way to the shrine, only to find that Doku has killed the shrine maiden of the Dark Dragon Blade (who is your childhood friend) and taken the sword. You are Ryu, son of the head of a secret ninja village in modern day Japan. If you love learning lots of combos in a game, that is good, because there are a TON in this game. This means that unlike in most games where a horde of enemies don't work together, the enemies in this game one enemy will use it's move for breaking your block, while another enemy will prepare it's attack and time it so that it lands right in the small amount of time in between your block getting broken and getting back into blocking stance.If you just can't seem to do well with the game's default difficulty, there is an easier one. You can control it with the right stick, but there are areas where it moves to pre-programed positions to supposedly help you with a platforming challenge or see your enemies better in combat. You never see a close-up of Ryu's chest as it starts moving again or him picking himself up off the floor. I personally don't think these missions helped me understand anything any better.
Just put in however many you want and leave it at that. The good news is, if you like what's there, you can unlock a couple more difficulty settings and Mission Mode, which will give the game longer legs. Leveling up a weapon will increase it's attack power and give you access to more combos. It is held by the leader of the clan, but Ryu has been entrusted with it by his father, who has gone off into the wilderness to train. I am not joking. You will have a bunch of questions by the end of the game and not a single one of them will be answered. And finally, and most importantly, the enemies know how to attack as a group.
All it did was disrupt the flow of the game. You can level up a weapon by paying the owner of the weapon shop in the game. Simply put, The camera is like HAL from 2001: A Space Odessey. Without explanation, one would guess that the falcon thing was totally random.Also, an ally betrays you. Gameplay - This is a single player only experience.
It turns out he is something called a Fiend, and comes from a place called the Vigoor Empire. So the time you have to spend re-positioning the camera is valuable time lost to take out some enemies before they can mount a good offensive against you.And finally, this game has some of the most annoying loading points in the history of gaming. She was in the previous games but not playable. Music - The music is good for the most part.
There were just too many places where either the laziness or the inexperience of the game makers really took alot of the enjoyment out of the game. If you quickly tap the circle button, he will quickly "blind fire" a shot of your equiped projectile at the nearest enemy. If you select yes, you will go into the significantly easier, but still kinda hard, Ninja Dog mode.In addition to the Dragon Sword, Ryu will also be able to find several other weapons during the game. So if you are surrounded and the enemies or really close, these can help you make some breathing room. The dialogue and bad acting of this character screams "I am going to betray you." The only two actors (the english ones that is) who stand out as being good are Doku and Ayane, a female ninja from another village with a pretty obvious crush on Ryu and helps him throughout his quest. When this happened to me I had to take a moment and think to myself, ".wait.what am I supposed to be doing again." Breaking up the flow like that is just not a good thing.3). I don't think I need to explain why this is a bad thing.4). You have to manually move it back behind Ryu.
After you complete a runthrough of the game, you can choose to upload your score to an online leaderboard so you can see how you did in comparison to others.As mentioned earlier, the enemy AI is really good. However, it goes downhill from there. Then I saved up the money to get an HD set and the cutscenes are all grainy. However, the game does keep track of a score. But you never would guess it because it ends with the falcon eye close-up. They are not the best I have ever seen on the PS3, but they are really nice. I am reviewing this game with only a small amount of knowledge of those two games and emphasizing what it's like as a PS3 game, not as an enhanced version of an old game.
This also makes combat annoying. At long ranges you need to aim, and the aiming system is not well designed. Every weapon has pages of combos you can use.Several weapons that Ryu will obtain are projectiles. Graphics - The visuals of this game are a mixed bag. Also, when Ryu goes through a door, the camera likes to go to the other side of the door and show Ryu walking through it, and then just stay there. Each weapon has it's strengths and weakenesses and they all have levels.
He can either inch his way towards an enemy or run at it full blast, but nothing in between. There were numerous times where I saw blood stains floating in mid air because half of it landed on an open door-frame while the other half was just floating there.On the other hand, the pre-rendered cutscenes look horrible in HD. This means that the developers did not re-do the video files from the first two games so that they would like right in HD resolutions. AND, his solution to the whole Dark Dragon Blade problem at the end of the game makes you scream, "Now why didn't his ancestors just do that in the first place."If you don't care about a bad story, then don't worry. Also, there are points in the game where what happens isn't even clear, much less why it happens.
It's one thing to make a game with amazing enemy AI, but when a large part of the difficulty comes from bad controls, that is frustrating and just cheap.The game is also fond of locking you in a room and having enemies constantly spawning for a certain number of waves. You can turn the score screen off if you don't care. You fight him, but Doku is victorious and takes the sword back to his emperor. It is a sentient being, and it hates you. There are ALOT of times where you will die, not because the enemy was better than you, but because you told the game to do one thing and it did something different.
Every enemy in the game no matter how weak it is has an attack that is either unblockable or will break your block, and if you use a certain attack too many times in a row the enemies will "learn" this and start dodging it 100% of the time until you try something else. If you have half a working brain, you will know who this person is by the end of the first chapter. And it's a high quality one.-Yes, I have my PS3 set to output in HD and at the correct resolution for my TV.-No, my TV is not defective or damaged.5). If you die three times the game over screen will ask you if you want to abandon the way of the ninja. Her voice is pretty high pitched so that might annoy some, but in the acting department she is quite good. But there is the occasional song that sounds completely out of place.
This game is made by a team who's claim to fame is a fighting game called Dead or Alive, and when controlling Ryu, it shows. She is a good fighter and her missions are short. Ryu has a katana called the Dragon Sword. This is because Ryu can only jump really far forward or straight up and down. The dialogue is cheesy and some characters are poorly acted. On the downside, blind firing the weapon is only accurate at short ranges.
But these are the exact opposite of helpful. Also, you never learn why the betrayer betrays you, and Ryu seems fine with never knowing. The reason why brings me to another point. I did my research, knew it's reputation and purchased it because I wanted a challenge.The reason why this game gets such a low score from me is because I feel that it's just an average overall game to start with, but is brought down a bit by features that were either bad decisions or just pure laziness.1). For those of you who want a good story to pull you into the game, get ready for disappointment.2). The majority of the time when you walk through a door, there are alot of enemies that are waiting for you on the other side.
It remains sealed in a shrine at the village to ensure it does not fall into evil hands.One day, Ryu heads goes to a ninja village led by his uncle to do some training of his own.even though he has been entrusted with protecting his own village while his dad is gone.genius. By trying to shoe-horn Rachel missions into it, it breaks things up badly. These are elemental attacks that attack enemies in a small area surrounding you. Also, making him move to the left or right while running is as difficult as steering a cruise ship.This annoying movement is really bad when platforming. If you just hold circle without moving the stick, you will just stand there forever in third person.
For example, when you fight Doku, I just thought that he hurts you really bad and a falcon lands on a tree branch and the camera zooms in on it's eye while you lay face first on the ground. You can choose to install a HUGE amount of game data onto your hard drive, which will make the load times significantly quicker, but you will still have them. Your village guards the Dark Dragon Blade, an evil sword crafted by the Dragon Clan's enemies long ago. I have never liked it when games do this. And getting hit by an enemy while aiming takes you out of first person mode, making you start again. This is because Ryu has choppy movement just like in a side-scrolling fighting game like Mortal Kombat. I can't even count the number of times I overshot or undershot the same platform over and over again.
Story - The story starts off ok. Pre-rendered cutscenes should not look worse than the in-game graphics, and yet they do.And as a pre-emptive strike against any possible fanboy attacks who just want to discredit me for saying something bad about their favorite game:-Yes, the PS3 is connected to my TV with an HDMI cable. I had a standard definition television when I first got the game and the cutscenes looked good. Controls - Controlling Ryu is frustrating. For example, one mission Ryu goes down into a cave under a church, he ends up reviving the fossil of a dead dragon. He kills the fossil, which goes crashing through the ground below, revealing a new path for Ryu to explore.
I did some looking around online, and apparently, he killed you, but this falcon that lands on a tree branch brings you back from the dead to seek revenge Brandon Lee style. The majority of songs fit the mood of where they are used well. You have to hold down circle, and then move the left analog stick to go into first person mode. If you just keep going forward you will find out what you need to do eventually.They decided to let you play a few missions as a character named Rachel, a fiend hunter. A small gripe is that blood and gut splatters are flat decals that are incapable of changing shape to fit the surfaces they land on. It was just so completely out of place.Overall, I felt this game could have been better.
However, it just doesn't offer anything beyond action. There is however, little "greatness" about it. This game is pretty fun. If you like a strictly action packed beat 'em up, this is totally your game, if you like depth and strategy, maybe not so much. It is VERY hard, which is nice since most games today seem designed to be beaten. It is very fast paced, making you run, jump, flip, and cut your way out of danger. It is fun, and has great visuals, it just doesn't exactly have much more to offer. I would have enjoyed it if the enemies didnt automatically know where you are, you cannot sneak at all, and in fact YOU are more often than not ambushed from opponents falling from the sky or teleporting out of the ground.
Why bring a game back if not you're not gonna make it a real competitor to current games. Let me say some good thing about this game, theres always good and bad things to say about almost everything. It's actually the exact same xbox game with MINOR improvements. It doesn't feel like a next gen game, grapfics aren't that great, sounds isn't so good and the camera really sucks. I bought this game after reading nice reviews. Unless you have a lot of games and can't find anything to spend your money on, dont buy this game. To have some chance, you have to actually learn the combos, and this combos are many, and different with each weapon, but even if you learn and master the combos, theyre not easy to execute because of a really bad camera. naah, it's not.
if you buy this game, you'll probably think it isn't so hard. You have to keep moving and jumping and fighting (with the cameras, not just the enemies). I have several games, and NGS is the one I play the least. It has a wide range of weapons, the long combos look great when performed the right way, and you fell a great relieve when you finish a level after trying for many times. The game is hard, simply because you can't stay in one spot without getting killed in a second. Sounds fun. Wait till you get to level 6 or 7. Besides, the lack of online features, multiplayer, trophies, or add on content, make replayability factor equal to zero.
You have to begin the game in Normal, and then if you get stuck, you say you want to give up. The lighting effects are top notch. I want to feel that sword strike, but it just sounds terrible. I hate the camera though.
no help.- No way to get back to the main menu once you start playing. 50% of the time something is blocking your view and you end up get slashed up.- Weapons: immense selection of weapons, from swords to throwing stars to huge battle axes to bow and arrow, this game has it all.- Quick load timesTHE BAD:- Difficulty level is too high. There is no selectable difficulty level in the Options menu. THE GOOD:- Graphics: One of the best looking games on PS3. Talk about a stupid oversite.- Cheesy voice overs everywhere. I think they pulled a few too many sound effects from the Sega Genesis bin.
Everything is muffled. And I have Dolby Digital.
Translated dialogue didn't translate so well.- Cheap looking menu structure. Overall scenery is great and the blood/gore looks good too.- Controls: basic controls are easy to learn, as are the many combination moves.
You have to quit the game. and they bump the difficulty down to Easy and call you a Ninja Dog.
Thanks.- Sound quality is very poor. I can't believe this.
Again Genesis bin on this.- Camera views are very poor (see above).
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