Play: Ninja Gaiden II Review 9.5/10

vitz3 - 544 days 1 hour ago

No. I hope this is the last game Itagaki makes. His perverted ass should be in the unemployment line up.

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GUNS N SWORDS - 544 days 1 hour ago

you should ask your doctor.........he'll probably say, "what's a matter sone don't you get the usual symptoms when you see large knockers.........sh!t I do"

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Mc Fadge - 544 days ago

But sexually harassing them is another matter entirely

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Legend - 543 days 17 hours ago

You do know he was found innocent in a court of law, don't you?

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Legend - 543 days 15 hours ago

I guess I should have provided a link for you idiots. Nice to see ostriches have learned both English and how to type.

Here: http://www.1up.com/do/newsS...

And Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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1stKnighT - 544 days ago

"For NG 3 I'd like to see slowed down because the eye/mind doesn't have time to comprehend the action at this speed"

You noob! ;)

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green - 544 days ago

Sorry but any slower and it's no longer Ninja Gaiden.

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Closing - 544 days ago

Sorry, but any slower, and it'd be like the last one, but I'm talking about an even slower more realistic looking NG than that, but still having Ryu take on incredible odds. I've been playing NG since the NES days, and it's changed drastically so they can do what they want with the series at this point as long as it still has Ryu, and it's an action game it will be a NG game.

It's like the bs cgi action in movies these days where it's just shaky cam jumbled flashing images, and you can't really make out what's going on. If you remembered the good old days with the special effects work where it actual looked real, and you could see everything that was happening than you'd know how much this hollywood trickery bs they've got going on these days is such a rip.

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DARK WITNESS - 544 days ago

it hurts me to say this, heart breaking, i am a big NG fan but i have to say i agree with you.

i was least impressed with the visuals, the character models are good, but the environments oh my !

please someone take the time to look round the NY stage at the beginning. look at the cars on the street, look at the lighting and buildings.

maybe i am the only one, but i just think they look horrible ! Before you slam me, go back and play it again and look carefully then give your honest opinion.

I still love the combat and action, i didn't like the story as much as the first one.

I will always hold NG above DMC in terms of gameplay.

but i really did expect more from it.

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1stKnighT - 544 days ago

"please someone take the time to look round the NY stage at the beginning. look at the cars on the street, look at the lighting and buildings."

Who really cares on how the cars look? It's Ninja Gaiden. And from reading most of the reviews and playing the game. The gameplay is second to none. And that's what Ninja Gaiden is known for.

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Closing - 544 days ago

It definitely could have used more time, but it some of the visuals were extremely striking especially the first level. It's certainly the best looking one yet, and all the environments are much cooler than the last one. I thought the blood was the funniest part since it doesn't attach to the environment it just stuck in mid air sometimes. Some of the bosses are a bit silly too like that corny looking metal flouting train like thing that's just poorly designed, and not even fun to fight. Then the cutscene it explodes, but doesn't even make a real explosion sound. It sounds more like a small bottle rocket going off. Just little things like that seem to add up in this game to where you can tell it was rushed, but still a quality title with still the best combat system in the genre.

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DARK WITNESS - 543 days 23 hours ago

@ 1stKnighT

Yes its NG 2 ! Its NG 2 on the 360 ! it should look like a 360 game. The very fact that its NG2 means it should be setting a standard in every department.

Yes the gameplay is great. but there are lots of other games that have great gameplay AND great visuals !

i expected and wanted NG2 to look head and shoulders above its rivals ! sadly it didn't. i have played it and finished it on 2 of the difficulty settings.

Just because i am a NG fan, or indeed a 360 fan, does not mean i won't call out a game when it should have delivered more.

I won't lie to myself and pretend that all that matters is gameplay when it suits me just so i can block out the fact that the game looks like crap !

if the game looked great, then everyone would be praising its visuals and saying how it destroys the competition ( and it should have ) but then when its not looking great we play the " oh looks don't matter card... "

NG black on the old xbox had the gameplay And it looked way, way ahead of its time. it was by far one of the best looking xbox games ! i expected NG 2 to set the same standard all round !

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DARK WITNESS - 544 days ago

my brother has ! well, i think he has. if you want to check send a friend request to DARK PROJECT 1X and view his achievments.

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DARK WITNESS - 543 days 23 hours ago

once again, i was kind of thinking the same thing.

correct me if am wrong on this; but wasn't NG2 only revealed at the beginning of this year. And i remember an interview in which Itagaki said the game was about 60% complete. so, if thats true then it means they finished 40% of the game in about 5 months. it came out first week June, but keep in mind they normally give a game a week or two when it goes gold. so it must have been finished in may.

now, i am no dev, but looking the normal time it takes to make a game, i would say i think it was rushed.

looking at what happened straight after, i can't help but feel maybe that had something to do with it.

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Closing - 543 days 23 hours ago

Funny someone trying to tell me what NG stands for then goes, and complains about the story. NG has never had a deep or quality story for that matter. It's about darn time though. Hopefully for the next one.

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green - 543 days 23 hours ago

Well don't know what your getting at but if it's about my previous comment then i stand by it.I feel the speed for NG2 was perfect for a next gen adaptation of the series and please don't call NG Sigma because that was basically a port of a last gen game NG Black.The speed and the combat truly set this game apart from previous version and also other games in the genre.I doubt the combat would have felt so special without that pace.

Yes we know that NG story is always bad but even if every other aspect of the game was great i still won't give the a game a 9.5 if the story sucks.9.5 is almost perfection and a game without a reasonably good story to me does not warrant anything more than a 8.8 - 9.0.

Anyway thats just my opinion.

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Closing - 543 days 22 hours ago

Dude if the camera can't even keep up with the gameplay then something needs to be done. It's just not cool if you can't see it. It's really as simple as that.

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green - 543 days 22 hours ago

The camera is not a big problem for me as much as the other problems are.Actually i can even go to say i only had a problem with the camera twice while having a boss fight.Maybe i am very quick at hitting the right trigger to reset camera and also my thumb is constantly adjusting the cam with the second analog.

For me the camera problem comes from the rushed production not the pace of the game.Giving extra dev time the cam could have been sorted.But it seems unlikely any extra dev time could have happened considering the problems itagaki is having with tecmo.I feel at a point he did not care and released it in order to get out of tecmo ASAP.

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green - 543 days 21 hours ago

If they made the camera focus on the bosses instead of every other but the boss during boss battles it would have been easier.Boss battles can be a pain during boss fights due to the camera.

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