Those complaining (already) about the lack of new releases on the Xbox 360's Originals service can shut their traps now - three new games, including Ninja Gaiden Black are arriving next week.
Along with Tecmo's ninja slasher, Criterion's excellent FPS Black and Sid Meier's Pirates! will be arriving on Xbox Live next Monday, February 11. Presumably they'll be for the usual price of 1200 Microsoft points (£10.20), which isn't bad considering Bejeweled is going for 800 points (£6.50).
Decades later and this action classic is still hard as nails.
Um… what!? They don’t play the same, like at all. If we’re only talking about difficulty then Ninja Gaiden is on a whole other level.
Especially the first game. Even the game on Nintendo in 1988 was hard from what my older brother said 😂
@Sonic your brother is correct. Despite so many tries I never beat the 1988 version on the original hardware. I only beat it many years later via emulation with save states. There was a late game jump in a mine with multiple flying bats that would make me fall to my death every time. Since it was “Nintendo” hard and game over meant back to level one, it made it that single jump exceptionally stressful.
I picked up NG for OG Xbox in 2004. It was a very difficult game (which made it really fun for me), but I was able to beat it in a relatively short period of time.
To this day I don’t think I could beat the NES version without save states no matter how hard I tried.
I think they just meant in terms of being known for their extreme difficulty compared to their peers. "Oh, you wanna be tested? Go play Ninja Gaiden Black/Dark Souls!"
They meant by being unforgiving and hard as nails, not mechanics or genre. When a game tester said to Itagaki that his game was too difficult, he simply decided to make it even more difficult.
The bad camera controls that increased difficulty were not a problem, but a feature when it came to NG. Lol!
I think Demon's Souls was the original "Dark Souls" or Kings Field even. Ninja Gaiden is a totally different style of game. And if we're being honest here, it borrowed heavily from Onimusha and Devil May Cry at the time.
I had a ton of fun with Onimusha, but if we are discussing difficulty only, Onimusha was a breeze when compared to NG.
Difficulty of is part of the games but that doesn’t make it like Souls games. Gameplay is much different so no
Actually… the OG is King's Field. The Souls games aren't about the difficulty and From has pretty much been working on the formula since 1994
It's killing time all night long. Slay and beat through this list featuring hack and slash games on the original Xbox.
Let the best ninja games creep into your game library and live out your childhood dream of chucking throwing stars.
Ninja Gaiden for Xbox was an absolute masterpiece. What happened to that franchise?
loved shinobi 3 to death but ninja gaiden black/sigma and ninja gaiden 2 destroy every other ninja games hands down
Damn, and here I recently purchased Ninja Gaiden Sigma =P Black was a good game... short but fun.
I will probably purchase NGB and Pirates!, I LOVE Pirates it's a fantastic remake
sweet havent played ng or black due to me not having an xbox, ill be getting both.
they should really do Metal Wolf Chaos!!! Since it was never released in the US.
Pity i dont have the 120 gig hard drive:(