It's killing time all night long. Slay and beat through this list featuring hack and slash games on the original Xbox.
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
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
The Xbox-exclusive brawlers carry a lot of the Dark Souls series' DNA.
What about King's Field? It is literally the godfather of the Souls series.
I love these games and wish they would remaster them. This era was my fave era of From Software. They were far more diverse.
Hope they make it Xbox Exclusive
Demon/Souls Blood borne PS exclusive
Otogi Xbox
If Microsoft is able to build a team to work with From software like Sony did with Sony Japan then that could happen.
However there isn't a big push for Japanese games on xbox from their fans, anecdotally they seem abrasive towards them.
