Gamer Limit writes: "Ninja Gaiden is a really good game; it has amazing boss fights and thrilling action which leaves you challenged at every point through-out. But guess what? This review is for Ninja Blade. Ninja Blade isn't a terrible game, but along those same lines it can't be said that it's anything more than a "good" game. If you are to take only one thing from this review, know that you'll find a decent game, but nothing more.
Ninja Blade tries really hard to be a great game, or more accurately, it tries really hard to be like Ninja Gaiden. So much so, that even the games main character, Ken Ogawa, is suspiciously similar to Ninja Gaiden's protagonist. It's not that homages and clones are inherently bad but there are plenty of games in existence which attempt to clone other games and pull it off very nicely, sometimes even improving on the original formula. Ninja Blade attempts this strategy but is plagued with a common theme of mediocrity."
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Ninja Blade is From Software’s best ninja game of all time, including Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. At least it’s the best version of a specific type of ninja game.
Well aren't you cool? Taking a game that was pretty much universally acclaimed and then saying that one that received mediocre to bad reviews across the board is better... There's always one "hipster" out there with a contrarian opinion.
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I don’t remember much of it but wasn’t it a QTE heavy game like Asura’s Wrath and GOW3?
It was like the Xbox Ninja Gaiden with an insane amount of QTEs. Not bad but not innovative.
FromSoftware is a game developer that has found popularity in the gaming industry thanks to their widely popular and best-selling series, Dark Souls. They may have gained notoriety from this series, but they have been around since 1986 with their first video game published in 1994 and have produced many popular games. Here are 5 games they have made that are not Dark Souls.
The Adventures of Cookie and Cream (Or Kuri Kuri Mix as is known in PAL territories) is actually a pretty good game, and gets damn hard in the latter stages.
I'd love to see FromSoft make King's Field 5, or maybe another Armoured Core. I love the Souls games, but I don't want to see it milked for all its worth.
Didn't they also make the 3D Dot Game Heroes (or something like that).
I actually enjoyed that a lot on PS3
They actually only handled publishing in Japan. It was developed by Silicon Studio.
I wanted to keep the entries to their own respective genres. Chromehounds and Armored Core are both mecha. I almost included it though.
...I'm saying I knew FromSoft had a hand in all of these games. I would know, I own/ed most of them.
Armored Core series producer left From Software.
My guess is the company shifted all focus to Souls series... :(
RIP Armored Core....
I would love to see them come out with a new IP in the mecha genre. Armored Core was cool, but I think they have expanded their skills to make a more unique game.
I could never get into the Ninja Gaiden series.
Was Gamepro the only review that gave it a perfect score?
Ninjas Galore. A score of 7 seems like a worthy rent.
I avoided this game because of its obvious influences (it looks like a rip off), but after this review I am willing to give the game a rental.