Ninja Gaiden 2 Black Review

There is not enough stylish action games in the world, such as Ninja Gaiden. Nothing attracts me as much as great: I enjoy the fighters in a penalty in games that give me tools for moving and fighting in a way that is usually reserved for flashy cutscenes and I demand that I employ or die them. Intensive enemy meetings and rhythmic time mixed with experiments in the style of Ton Hawk simply hit this sweet point-I do not think that any game combines both in its most extreme forms than Ninja Gaiden 2.

The Ninja Gaiden Games Team Ninja trilogy is a frustrating undertaking. Not because of the overwhelming difficulties, but because each game has many versions and all are not created. For 16 years, the “Perfect” version of the Ninja 260 Xbox 360 Gaiden 2 version remained elusive. The first remaster, Sigma 2, changed the situation, reducing the overwhelming number of enemy, limiting the bloody and adding modern playable characters, bosses and missions. Part of his essence was lost.

Basically, the community constantly prefers a cruel original version despite some tragic defects, so when the Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection version was based on Sigma, it was a disappointment (I never bought it for this reason). That is why the announcement of Ninja Gaiden 2 Black was so thrilling: Ninja Gaiden Black from 2005 is a “director’s cut” and the undisputed best version of All-Timer. The implication was clearly This is the one you were waiting for.

In fact, the black inscription is somewhat misleading; This remake lands somewhere in the middle of the original Ninja Gaiden 2 and Sigma. But I forgot about all this when I started playing black. I was delighted again, as I returned to the Xbox 360, creating this modern version, though not quite finalNow the perfect way to experience an amazing action game.

Nature principles

Ninja Gaiden from 2004 required a more defensive approach to the fight than contemporary, like Devil May Cry. The arrest of carefully drive strikes and flashy wall gears between precise blocking was criminal, but thrilling exercise in a finger student. Then Ninja Gaiden 2 threw it out of the window and put a brick on the accelerator. Excess is the name of the game: enemies shoot blood fountains, as if they tried to outdo The climax of SanjuroA constant crime is the key to survival and everything is faster. If Ninja Gaiden 1 is a long -lasting symphony, then Ninja Gaiden 2 is a dead Kennedys one -minute punk, Nazi punks.

The front and agent in Ninja Gaiden 2 Black after subduing in Sigma 2 are techniques of fragmentation and blur; When you attack enemies, their arms, legs and heads fly away, gushing red. But this is Ninja Gaiden, in which enemies are enemies are somehow scary than vigorous.

A single -armed ninja can still throw me and detonate me if I stopped moving. To fight this, you are armed with blurred techniques that meet their name. By causing a ponderous attack near the wounded enemy, he sends Ryu into a flashy animation of speed fluctuations, the camera is greedily thrown to get a better look when it transforms his enemy into piles of guts (think about the glory of Doom). And then without any problems in the command, potentially using side injuries from one convergence, to immediately start another on a freshly devoid of baddie arm.

Ryu himself feels amazing to control thanks to agile and deadly movements: you will be able to cope with attacking and tilting, but the game becomes something more when you pushing Mashing Minned Combo and you start intentionally weaving his ninja skills in Ninja’s ability to mix. If you are cornered by a group of enemies, throw the wall behind you to escape or employ a flying swallow (attack of the dashboard with a screaming speed of diving) to shoot around the arena.

These movements give the fight an amazing sense of momentum. You often don’t even have to snail-paced down to assess the situation with sufficient certainty. Ryu, many available from the first stage, allows me to tear things away, such as running on the wall parallel to the enemy and cut them in half of the air, which made them scream because it was so advice. Grapple Izuna Drop Izuna (which makes him grab the enemy in the air before spinning to the ground and solving the skull) remains one of the most satisfying attacks that can be done in all video games, diseased, even if this is not his most effective injury dealer .

Ninja Gaiden 2 Black has nine weapons and somehow they are all great. Even Devil May Cry has a weapon or two, which I am not so lit, although, unlike the replacement of DMC from the Ryu blade with a pair of bruises or a giant scythe requires a break, interrupting the flow of the fight and discouraging the fight and discouraging and discouraging the fight and discouraging from fighting and discourage fighting and discouraging to fight -Fly Experimentation. Each weapon can be updated to unlock modern techniques, and I am glad that Black is restoring the option to augment them in stores compared to Sigma confined sometimes confined.

Return from Sigma are three additional playable characters: Rachel, Ayane and Momoji. Each of them has a unique mission; While they are broken with the pace of this story, it is not a disgusting distraction of attention, and each character brings a refreshing turn to fight. I especially like Rachel, whose massive club and machine gun are as far as possible from the agile Ninja tools as possible. You can also transfer them to mission tag mode, which offers nice fragments of this bite more of this action without having to get involved in the whole mission.

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Ninja version Gaiden 2 Xbox 360 was noteworthy due to its overwhelming number of enemies on the screen, and although these full swarms did not return to the black, the number of enemy and the general difficulty To have They were struck from Sigma. I played the difficulties of Acolite – which is presented normally – so when a surprisingly airy game, with just a few deaths in the whole run, I was a bit disappointed. Then I discovered that Warrior (settled as tough in this edition) was what the original game is called Normal. Misleading! It is a pity that there is no option to change difficulties in half -story. I came back and played in more tough difficulties with a warrior, mentor and master Ninja and fortunately I can say that my ass is digged, so I can’t wait for the replay.

Demonic sweat

In addition to the ordinary problems of Unreal Engine 5, such as loading the texture and from time to time stuttering (although fortunately I have not experienced much), the fully renovated graphics Ninja Gaiden 2 Black is the winner. The game looks absolutely great; Lighting, tracking rays and character models shine with the highest gloss, and I didn’t even play in the highest settings. The characters are particularly detailed; You can see individual freckles, scars and cracking of blood vessels on the skin. Meanwhile, the definition of buttcheek in the Ryu suit is really impressive in motion. Although slightly less stylized than the original game, none of the charms on my eye has been lost in a way that other ponderous alterations in realism have become wrong.

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It is also supplemented with effective efficiency; For the most part, the game worked perfectly for me at 60 fps to 1440p on Steam. The game is not as nice on board Steam as on my computer. This is definitely playable – trying about 50 fps in low settings from my tests – but it is far from the perfect way to play such a crazy game.

Even if it is not a remaster that I thought it would be due to, Ninja Gaiden 2 Black was an absolutely cheerful way to re -experience the game. Graphic loyalty is nice and everything, but simply having a game version that takes good from Sigma 2 and tuning it to much better experience, limiting weaker accessories and approaching the cruelty of the fight closer to its original form. At the end of the day, if your head does not swim with the details of each version, just like me, everything you experience is a banger of action games with several equal.