Ninja Gaiden Black Video Review
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- čas přidán 3. 11. 2022
- Gaming Pastime reviews Ninja Gaiden Black for Xbox.
Developed by Team Ninja and published by Tecmo, Ninja Gaiden was released for Xbox in March, 2004. Downloadable content was made available and was included in a reworked version titled Ninja Gaiden Black. Ninja Gaiden is an action game with style, substance and attitude and the combat remains as some of the best the genre has to offer.
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A quote from the director sums it all up.
"Enemies in Ninja Gaiden aren't there to die, they are there to kill you."
Legendary game, this is what games should strive to be
Modern games are better rated if they have pretencious campaigns instead of actual peak gameplay.
By clicking the right thumbstick, it'll change between first-person and third-person rotation. Makes platforming a lot easier.
Glad this game is still being talked about I really hope it never dies
If you own an xbox - you can buy this digitally for $10 (on xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series's consoles) - it is totally worth it!
wanted the disc bad, next best thing was digital purchase.
The greatest hack and slash game ever made. 2 and 3 just don't have the same charm.
There never was a 3rd game.
@@EddyTheDevil1 idk razors edge was aight
NG2 is still awesome but yeah i like NG Black much more and consider it to be the best NG-game to play .
2 was good, not as good as Black, but still solid. 3... Daaaaaaamn.
@@Jeffmetal42 razor's edge was okay
Ninja Gaiden Black is straight up one of the greatest games of all time.
One of the best Hack and Slashes ever made. Remarkably ball busting, but rarely unfair... on repeat playthroughs where you should understand the cues for when a ninja will throw exploding kunais and how to guard them. Aside from that, it's really well designed. I bought the game on Xbox One in High School and I love it. The only problems I have are
1. Some of the bosses are annoying due to having to fight common enemies along side them, especially on higher difficulties.
2. Lack of lock-on which, spoiler for every other game, never gets introduced for some baffling reason.
3. The clone fights that are exclusive to higher difficulties. I normally love rival fights in these kinds of games, but they really only work when there's some sort of gimmick in the gameplay that you exploit to fight them, which Ninja Gaiden doesn't have anything along those lines. For Devil May Cry, you can do a little taunt which will boost your style and refill a bit of your devil trigger gauge, and Vergil is only vulnerable when he does his taunts so it's a beautifully hectic case of waiting for him to taunt. Bayonetta has Witch Time which itself makes every fight unique. Ninja Gaiden only has standard mechanics that work phenomenally well, but are a pain in the ass to go against with a very smart AI. Still one of my favorite games of all time though. Strongly recommend it.
Lock on never got introduced cuz it wouldn't work with how ninja gaiden is designed.
@@2emo2function I agree. Not being lock on is not a valid criticize for NGB
clones were easy to deal if you spammed combos that stunned them, the easiest weapon to deal with them was your katana, once you knew how they worked you could fight them with all weapons
@@ajr5678 This, Dark Souls III, and the original MediEvil are my favorites.
Still one of my fav games ever
One of my favorites of all time
Ninja Gaiden was the game where I learned to get over myself for the love of the combat mechanics, and also where I discovered speedrunning (this and chaos theory)
Btw, finishing an enemy with a full charge attack doubles the yellow essence rewards as they look larger. So the enemies shown in 7:37 can be a great way to farm all those yellow essence and easily max the wooden sword
Actually a full UT is worth 7x the essence and an ET is worth 3x. Trying to kill enemies during the course of the game with UT's means you don't have to farm essence later on.
@@xBIGALSKIx UT?
@@GalaxiaShadow UT is an Ultimate Technique or as you wrote, full charge attack and worth 5K in points. An ET is an Essence Technique and worth 2K in points.
@@xBIGALSKIx Oh that
@@GalaxiaShadow I gonna play this on Xbox One and Dark Souls III on my PS4. The acclaimed Dark Souls series is about a bad-ass medieval hero in bad-ass knight armor who kills hordes of enemies like the skeleton enemies and bosses like the dragon boss.
Nice review. I'd add that learning to counter-attack the enemies will help quite a bit and you can rotate the camera in NGB so you don't have to rely on the trigger to re-center. Once you get the hang of it, it's not that bad. That's a big upgrade from NG04. I've been playing this game since 2005 and it's just awesome. I highly recommend it to all. Learn more than just wall attacks, flying swallows, and farming for essence as there's so much more to the game. I also recommend playing with the kill counter on as you'll always know when you killed someone and how many enemies to go in a Fiend Challenge. Mission Mode can be tough and challenging but very rewarding once everything has been beaten on Master Ninja. Have fun playing!!
Love the intro, Hayabusa almost looks like a real person.
The only reason my reflexes are as good as they are is prolly because of the OG release before they added easy mode in the later versions.
OMG! YESSSSSSS!!!! This is my fave NG and I wish they would of made the second and third in this way. I do absolutely agree with the bow and it’s one of the few things that IMO Sigma got right
As you say...Best Action Game ever made.Period
Best Combat mechanic.
Simple but Setisfying.
My Eternal love for this Game
One of the most polished video games I’ve ever played even to this day. Goated video game
This timing is wild, I just bought the Ninja Gaiden collection on the PS Store recently, and it’s still really fun!!! favorite weapon has to be Dragon’s Claw & Tiger’s Fang 🐉🔥
clicking in the right stick switches between 1st and 3rd person camera control.
also kinda fun but you can use shurikens to attack cancel, and freeform custom combos this way
Best action game ever!
This review was a beautiful nostalgia trip for me. Bought it on launch for my og xbox. I find the game was difficult for the first 2 levels, especially that horseback mid-boss on level 2. But once you can upgrade your moves, it progressively gets easier. The dragon sword's air dash-strike is one of those moves that really improve your game. It gives you the ability to perform quick strikes while staying mobile, and more likely to dodge incoming hits from surrounding enemies. After I had unlocked that move, my confidence grew and so did my skills. I felt like I was dying a lot less. And yes those ghost fish are assholes. I rolled my eyes immediately when I saw them in this video!
A ninja gaiden black 2022 modern day review?!!!! Nice!!! Why I hadn't thought of that lol?
Ooh, yes. Finally on to the Ninja Gaiden games. Do the Earth Defense Force series soon!
Really fun game. I first started with the second one not knowing what it was. I was 10 at the time. I came back and played it and man is the game hella chaotic on any difficulty past mentor. But man was it fun, and so were the weapons we were given to play around with.
Indeed, this game does hold up well visually. I need to play this again!
Tairon was basically a character in the first game, the others fell at this hurdle
Great video. Beautiful game.
About those ghost fish, don't use the flail or lunar on them. The most effective weapon is the dragon sword. Jump back and forth and do jump attacks repeatedly until they're all gone. You may get hit once or twice, but it will save you elixirs.
Damn, this looks fun. And this comes from someone, who usually hates these types of games.
You can switch between weapons and items seamlessly in the master collection, and maybe sigma as well. The camera was also refined
The Euro version of the 04 Game and Sigma 1 are Cut!
Black is the only Euro version thats Uncut.
Sigma was the only ones I played, i do like later ones when you get coop missions and different characters
Devil May Cry........ but because DMC is my all time favorite game it made me love how difficult Ninja Gaiden is
This, Bayonetta 2, and Sekiro are up there for me as greatest action games of all time
Awesome game and review i had a lot of fun with it💟🐱
Love this game.
About those little hellicopters you have to use the WINDMILL SHURIKEN on them while the ghost fishes are easily defeated using the vigoorian flail but start attacking by jumping because they can't bite you in mid air and do the on landing technique after the jump but only press the waek attack button repeatedly. About the annoying cameras team ninja somewhat did that on purpose. You can press the camera button to re-focus the camera in the middle but the most important thing I have noticed after years of playing the game and what the player really needs to learn is to "listen" to sounds and voices etc enemies creates and "learn" to "react" to them even if they're "off cam" or you can't see them. The problematic camera also seems to add some more challenge and some kind of visual intensity to the game as it automatically zooms in and out while focusing on ryu performing an UT or a Ninpo.
Attack patterns? Flying Swallow doesn't care and beheads you anyways!!
Maybe on the lower levels but it'll get you punished on higher levels. That's what makes this game so great.
@@xBIGALSKIx cat fiends say hello lol, let's not mention the double connects 😐
When it was released it was ahead of it's time! Complex beautiful difficult asf! But at the same time it set many standards in what a hack and slash game should be! On Xbox showed what the machine could do! The second one came somehow... unpolished due to internal conflicts! If a NG2 BLACK was published things would be very different.... anyway great design great games!!!
Oh....there was a NG3?????
Timeless classic. Wish there was an emulator for iPhone
This is peak gaming!!! I love this game so much. And lets appreciate that there are NO glitches in this game.
iam 33yrs old and i remember finishing this game in its hardest difficulty years ago. Watching this video made me remind the stress this game gave me.
Use your windmill shuriken against the laser drones. If not use your amor Piercing arrows.
Use your flail nunchucks and spin it for the fish . Also use the ninponthat surrounds you.
You enter first person mode and look the direction you want to jump.
But the camera isn't that much of an issue just control it with the right stick.......😅
Would love a remake
God tier masterpiece
Ma nizzle!! Im glad
The game was only challenging till you learn the mechanics. In which once I did, all I had to do was run up walls and slash down 90% of the time to kill things.
Best hack and slash ever made and it's not close. The worst enemy in the game is the camera you're not wrong there but for all the problems the camera and movement gave me it never stopped me.
After playing the game over the past year through every difficulty and all the missions it's something you get used to and learn to predict enemy movement and attack patterns. I know it was probably not the intention of the bad camera but still.
Also did you know you can Wind Sprint off ANY enemy in the game? Makes the Vigoorian Solider guys a breeze as I noticed in the footage they were messing you up bad. You have to jump off their heads to make the process go smoothly but most people don't even consider it. It's a very OP move when you get down to it.
The thing that pisses me off is that when you find a dragon sword replica for your sword collection, it never has the place in the hilt for the eye of the dragon. A paisley stone with a light in it. What is so hard about that?
Hope you cover the Sigma remasters and share differences
Dumb Xbox fanboys hate the Sigma versions because it’s not on their Junky console and on the superior PlayStation 3.
@@chofun7244 lol what's with hating. Both sigma and black are good
@@2emo2function mostly just elitism. People usually hate on sigma because there essentially just different games all together. Sigma 1 is considered a remake by the devs and keeps mostly everything intact but Sigma 2 is where the argument comes in because theres always someone bitching at the changes in that game because “Its not as hard as vanilla 2”. It was somewhat similar with the dmc collection but much worse in terms of how fans reacted. I just blame team Ninja because they could never figure out how the games should be. The main reason though is the fact that it was HEAVILY censored. You may think it was because of sony but to my surprise they had nothing to do with it. Its just the fact that Laws in eastern countries are strict with blood and gore in media. Then theres 3…Pick razors edge Vanilla 3 isnt worth it razor edge at least makes it decently fun.
@@shinigami9851 I mean the ps3 also just couldn't handle the gore
@@2emo2function that to. Yeeeaaahhh…I blame that more on sony than anyone else cause of the fact it was a major BITCH to develop for.
Great Video bro couldn't agree more tbh. But I will say Eternal Legend is Hella Hard Asf. I just don't understand why the Bosses in DOA Series are not in Ninja Gaiden when they all look they came from that to begin with.
Still a Solid ass game until ya play games like Metal Gear Rising Revengence Devil May Cry Darksiders God Of War Ghosts of Tsushima Baenetta probably spelled that wrong but meh. Etc.
My goat game of all time.
The best hack and slash game ever made. It's heavy, dynamic, and an excellent combat system! One word: The best.👍💪
this is the only action game to do difficulty correctly.
Some tips for very annoying enemies: You can completely negate the ghost fish and make them a yellow essence farming tool by pressing jump with directional then X (with dragon sword). Ryu will do a jumping spinning whirlwind slash. Do this backwards and forwards to farm yellow essence. You can move mobile around the map with this move as well especially for ghost fish areas.
Also press jump on the spot and use windmill shuriken for those flying laser drones, they'll keep coming you just have to keep jumping windmill shuriken when they're in the projectile range.
nope, nunchakus and the nunchakus with blades(forgot the name btw) were the best weapon agaisnt them, you just did the combo where you just stood in place and whirlwind them around you while the combo lasted, that way they would never damage you and worked everytime
@@ajr5678 you never get hit the trick I suggested and you can quickly move around the map with it as well. Where as with the vigoorian flail, you are basically stuck in the same spot when performing the combo. There is a way you can move around but it's not as quick as the directional jumping X of the dragon sword which is like I said is not only invincible but you also can get to where you want to be much quicker.
@@chaw3214 9:30 The scorpion-like enemies looks like the titular enemy from Atari's arcade game Centipede.
The most difficult aspect of the game is the awfull camera.
Playing through the Sigma version on hard recently I came away hating the bosses. It's almost impossible to get a feel for when the boss is vulnerable because they can block or dodge your attacks whenever they feel like it. Bosses even cancel the start up of their attacks in order to dodge sometimes or worst of all, blocking while doing nothing and punishing Ryu for daring to strike them. Between the camera, two additional goons and RNG boss invulnerability I really felt the second half of the game kind of fell apart. The combat is good and up there with the best of the genre but the bosses are among the worst I feel.
Just wiff punish em,every boss in ninja gaiden becomes a joke when you learn what attack leaves a boss vulnerable
@@2emo2function They dodge canceling the recovery frames or block.
@@lipailong2 they don't unless you're playing 04 they have punish windows. Usually after the end of a lunge or 4 hit combo
@@2emo2function They don't do the thing I saw them do on multiple occasions? I even looked up the attacks that are supposedly punishable and the bosses still rng'd their way out of it.
@@lipailong2 idk are you attacking them fast enough?I just wait for a boss to do attack and spam one move.
NGB is the best action game ever. I'm working getting the platinum for Sigma 1.
I like it better than Dark souls or general souls like games. You don't roll around in cycles half the time.
Ryu did not die and did not come back to life for revenge. The cutscene made it look like he died but hadn't die. He was just badly hurt
You know you can counter enemy attacks
Best in series
Twas an age before dark souls
good review. i perfer 2 way more than black
Still getting filtered by the camera in NG in 2020+ change lol
Fun fact: the camera complaints you are parroting pertain to original NG04 only. The camera was fixed in Black and improved in Sigma (just a simple control layout improvement). The camera in NGB can be fully manually controllable, which i can tell by your complaints and footage you didn't even know was a feature. How can a camera you can manually control be bad? You are the one pointing it. It's not perfect, it has some problems namely in the Alma and Spirit Doku fight but there isn't a single game in this genre with perfect camera and NG has THE best camera system in this entire genre from this version of NG1 onward.
The best ninja gaiden and the best combat among all such games
Both enemy types you hated are easily beaten with the right tool and will never hit you. :) experiment!
Ninja Gaiden is basically a fighting game disguised as an action game
I don't know about these beat em up games. The fights drag on and on and on... Just die already! If I wanted precise fighting mechanics I would probably go with dead or alive or any fighting game for that matter. I lose patience with these kinds of games. With Gaiden or DMC I mean.
Hey man when you're doing reviews and really want to talk about the story content with spoilers you should have a labeled spoiler section at the end, I stopped watching as soon as you said there's spoilers in the video. If you want comment on the story you should call it "My thoughts on..." instead of "review" so potential buyers don't click away instantly.
I think me and most other people watch reviews to see how the game is before we buy/play it. I get the game is old and many played it already, but still I'd like to know what your thoughts are without ruining the story.
God of war ain't got shit on this game,,
This whole review and not a single izuna drop? 0 out of 10, worst review ever lol
Talk about 2 broken controllers from this game.
This game should have been amazing. Instead of challenging too often it just feels annoying. Like spammy gun enemies. Boooooo!!!!!
Those guys are p easy
That’s the whole point of the Ninja Gaiden franchise since 1988, nothing is ever easy.
NG04 com os Hurricane Packs é um pouco melhor
NG04 > Sigma > Black
Sigma melhor que Black??
@@theblobconsumes4859 eles são o mesmo jogo
I prefer NGB > NG04 with the Hurricane Packs > NGS
@@arquivo1617 Sim, mas ainda sim, é incomum ver alguém que prefere a versão Sigma.
Don’t buy the ninja garden collection on steam it’s horrible
Ninja Garden. That sounds intriguing nonetheless.
Xbox 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮
I'm in the credits of this game😄. Such a classic. I need to play through this again at 60fps. If you haven't played it please do, you wont regret it.
Man said fuck them ghostfish
Not entirely. You can grind the hell out of them for currency and even healing orbs if you know how to deal with them .
When the ghostfish part comes i can farm so much for healing items and upgrades till im unstoppable .
The only action game better than NINJA GAIDEN BLACK, is NINJA GAIDEN II.