Have had this sitting in my Xbox library. One of these days, my Series S will be dusted off and I'll play this. Shame it won't ever get a PC port.
Ninja Gaiden Black rocks. A brutal, relentless onslaught that's a hell to get through, but equally awesome to master. Can I complain when you can do the freakin' Izuna Drop on a son of a gun that failed to block your first swing? No, no I can't! It's one of those games where you feel absolutely cool after learning the pattern to something. Be it a boss or common fodder, you can't help but feel like the ultimate badass getting to slice them to pieces.
Now, Gaiden Black is far from a perfect game. Its camera must've been drinking buddies with Sonic Adventure, as it's easily the most frustrating 3D action game camera I've had to deal with. Wasn't great having a pillar hug the camera during the final boss, nor having it work against me and getting me dunked during a boss fight a few chapters prior.
Camera woes aside, some of the bosses were pretty awful. Did I have to fight those worms as many times as I needed to? Once would've been enough, but they had to pad things out. In a game with some great, challenging bosses, I didn't expect all of them to hit the mark, but there are certainly some real stinkers to behold.
Chapters I can't complain about too much. Some have trial and error, but The Caverns was probably a contender for the worst one. Character action games with an underwater section featuring inverted controls and a slow firing harpoon gun? How horrifying! Itagaki must've overheard something from Capcom's development team to get that bright idea implemented into his action game 3 years after the fact.
I'm eager to play hard and onward on my own time, but for the moment, I gotta wrap up the side content in Arkham Knight and get back to fully committing to Dark Souls 3. Ninja Gaiden Black kicks ass, I can't wait to play the sequel!
Oh hi, OG Xbox prototype! Love it when devs hide these things in there as easter eggs, like how Gran Bruce in Viewtiful Joe spits a GameCube at you or there's R.O.B.s in the final episode.
Decided to fire up Xemu for the idk how many-th time to play a game I recall messing around a bit with when I had Game Pass 2 years back. Albeit it was the Sigma version, Ninja Gaiden Black turned out to run real well and I'm having a blast playing through a game I had only played the first handful of chapters into. Clunkiness with the bow and the atrocious camera that makes the Sonic Adventure games blush with how broken they are... Goddamn, NG Black is loads of fun. It's a bit more of a defensive affair than me going all out like I do most character action titles, but I absolutely love it to bits and cannot wait to dig in more.