I loved Ninja Gaiden2 man. It had flawless controls, amazing graphics and was just fun as hell to play. Only thign lacking was story.
I think the main reason people hated on it was because it is ridicolosuly hard in some spots and that throws alot of people off.
I have a few friends on my friends list who rented the game and ended up breakign two controls out of frusteration from the games difficulty lol.
its not for everyone, but if you give yourself some time to learn all the controlls and study the game, then its very rewarding and alot of fun.
The game has some of the best bosses ever! Extremely underrated imo!
Some people also hate the camera, which i totally disagree with. For me the camera is perfect.. if the camera gets in a spot you dont like, press the camera reset button and the camera straightens out again.
Besides a few Framerate issues and teh so so story, this game is epic and a masterpeice imo.
kozzy1234
I disagree with more or less everything here. And before I start, let me say NG1 (on xbox) was one of my fave games of all time. I played it to death, on all difficulties, got Master Ninja ranking for every level (eventually), got all the scarabs, unlocked the "ultimate Flawlessness" (or whatever it was called), and i even completed the old NG game unlockables, so don't discount what I'm going to say as the words of somebody incapable of playing the game
The controls were OK, but felt more imprecise than before. The flow of moves felt slightly off compared to the first game, which was compunded with teh awful camera that kept getting stuck on things, and having to be reset. I should never have to reset the camera. I didn't even know there was a reset camera button in NG1.
The game is not difficult, it's cheap. Throwing enemies with long range, unblockable attacks into every combat scenario is a lame tactic used by unimaginative developers. Which is a shame, because in NG1 the rocket troops etc all had weaknesses that could be exploited. In this game, the length of the recovery animations when you get hit by those big attacks meant it was very easy to get stuck in an unbreakable loop until you die.
The bosses were rubbish compared to the first . Again, they were cheap, with no real weaknesses to speak of. That stupid worm sticks out in my mind. There werre no memorable (for teh right reasons) encounters like with teh bone dinosaur in NG1 where you had to work out his atttack pattern and weakness in order to defeat the boss. You just tried to stay out fo the way of the unblockable attacks and spam your own attacks in the hope you get lucky, rather than there being any strategy.
The graphics are undeniably pretty, but not groundbreaking in the way NG1's were, which pushed the Xbox to it's very breaking point. The graphics were a technical mess in this game, and the slowdown was so bad in places i thought it was deliberate use of slo mo effects to make the game more dramatic (like the sequence where you fight hordes of enemies up a staircase....i forget the level)
I also hated the weapons. The bow was crap, it was near impossible to get in decent hits when using the first person view, and removing the different arrow types was a major mistake. The other weapons were frankly, lame. They all handled the same as each other. the flail and the dragon sword were the only differnet weapons, with every other one handling much like them, with the possible exception of the staff, but i never felt the need to use that very much. all scenarios could easily be beaten using only the dragon sword or the twin swords, depending on your preference (but teh twins felt no different to teh single sword, bizarrely)
I completed the game (on the highest default setting), and got bored, promptly trading it in. Sad really, because I pre-ordered it with great hopes that it would be an instant classic like it's predecessor, but that was not to be.
Ok, rant over. :P
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