Ninja Gaiden 2 brings together solid gameplay and all the annoying issues of the original.

User Rating: 7.5 | Ninja Gaiden II X360
By gamenerd15 | Review Date:
Ninja Gaiden is back and so is it's insane difficulty. Hoards and hoards of bad guys come at you the lone ninja,. You can use several combos at your disposal and each weapon has it's own set of moves. There are new obliteration techniques This game takes more of a linear direction focusing more on the action with barely any puzzle element to be seen. Levels 6, 7 and 8 are probably the worst levels because of how cheap they are with the military guys shooting at you to slow you down while others hit you with rockets and so on. Another level had you follow footprints in the snow and if you accidentally hit a mine it would explode on you. The annoying part was that if you hit the exact same spot, you would get hit again. That is just lame as is the part in level 6 where after you climb a tower there are like 10 dragons that shoot fire balls at you. You can only shoot the dragons down with arrows. The bosses are quite harder than the actual levels and sometimes there are 2 of them right in a row.

Ninja Gaiden 2 as a technical peace is not very well done. The environments have somewhat a more polished feel than sigma, but still look the same. The FMV sequences look that of a PS2 or Xbox game. In level 10 there was huge slowdown when running up the steps with all of those bad guys around. Being that the graphics are not so hot to begin with, this shouldn't be a problem for the 360 at al. The loading in the game is just as long as it was in the original Xbox as well. Loading still occurs while in game and sometimes the game is at a stand still for 5 whole seconds before continuing. The camera is still very jumpy and in awkward positions at times, which is not acceptable anymore now then it was in the first one.

Luckily the gameplay is still quite fun, it just isn't up to the task of taking on the excitement and greatness that original Ninja Gaiden had. To some extent this game feels like an original Xbox game on 360 which is a shame. It seems that the creator of the game thought about leaving Tecmo for quite awhile and just threw this game together without any polish or change to anything at all. Is it too bad that this series has to end on a bit of a sour note. What's done is done. All in all this game is still good, but fails to live up to it's legacy.

Other Helpful Reviews for Ninja Gaiden II

Load Comments (0)