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Xbox ninja puzzle game3/31/2023 ![]() There are a few situations and enemies where you have to use the bow, but all the other ranged weapons are secondary. A spear gun for some reason is classified as a melee weapon, but it really is a gun to catch (read: kill) fish under water. Then there’s ranged weapons like shurikens, a bow with several kinds of arrows, and explosive kunais. The only weapons that stand out on their own are the Unlaboured Flawlessness, which deals more damage the less health Ryu has left, and the Kotetsu, some kind of ghost Katana that turns into double wielded swords for some moves and draws from Ryu’s health unless he keeps constantly killing things, like in the PlayStation 2 Shinobi game. Ryu’s Dragon Sword literally gets replaced by the True Dragon Sword or another, secret weapon. So you have Nunchucks, which are followed by the bladed Vigorian Flail, as well as the War Hammer, which is useless after you get the Dabilahro, a giant two-handed sword. There’s a total of about eight hand-to-hand weapons, though a lot of them are rendered obsolete as soon as you receive the next better weapon from the same class. From the beginning, you have an adequate set of moves and combos at your disposal, which grows bigger and bigger through the game as you get new weapons and upgrade old ones. To seek revenge, and to retrieve the dangerous blade, Ryu follows Doku into the fictional empire of Vigoor, killing pretty much everything that stands in his way.Īfter starting the game, climbing up the ninja fortress and fighting your first few enemies, you’ll notice that the controls are tight and very responsive, giving you perfect control over Ryu most of the time. ![]() The Dark Dragon Blade, an evil sword they’ve protected for centuries, gets stolen by the evil fiend Doku (yes, this time it’s not ‘demon’, although the Japanese original provides no particular reason to translate it this way). With the clan’s two most skilled warriors away, the Hayabusa ninja village is attacked, and most of its inhabitants slaughtered. Ryu is sent to a friendly Ninja fortress for training, while his father is out somewhere in the mountains to perfect his skills. ![]() The storyline doesn’t follow anything from the NES games, but rather reinvents the whole universe to start anew, as is common with the revival of classical game franchises nowadays. From the first trailer, the new Ninja Gaiden showed off greatly staged fighting action with awesome cut scenes (a few of which for some reason never made it into the final game), looking like the definite future of action games. It seems only logical that Team Ninja, of Dead or Alive fame, would take over the development, for the obvious reason. After more than ten years of creative idleness on the franchise, Tecmo finally announced to revive Ninja Gaiden at E3 2002.
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