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Why? Why? Why?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: June 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I cant understand for the life of me why a video game needs to be so hard that it takes every ounce of fun out of the game. I really want to like this game. It looks good, the controls are good but they made a critical mistake in the game. If you enter a boss battle with no health and no items to boost your health...game over. When you die you continue from the boss battle with the same amount of health you enter the fight with. A videogame should NEVER leave you with no options but to start over from the beginning. I'm about 7 hours in and there is no way Im starting over from the beginning. I cant believe I wasted 60 bucks on this. Now I get to take it to Gamestop so I can get ripped off again.

Too Hard

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: June 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This was fun for about an hour. Then I ran into a boss that is to hard. I died about a zillion times.

Anyone out there I will send you my copy free just to get rid of it before I break it.

I was misinformed. I thought it had an easy mode.

Way to hard

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Well, At first 4 levels, I did enjoy the game. However, after 5th level, the game producer somehow decided to put enemies with projectile weapons. They use RPG, fireball or explosive kunis. And believe me, those enemies can shoot you from far far away. (I played the easy mode. Can't image the normal or higher difficulty ) This kind of stage designs really really drag the overall rating of this game.

The story is boring, no puzzle, stage design is annoying and the frame rate is not stable. I recommend you buy the ninja gaiden - black instead of this one.

Camera View!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Bloody camera view is the most frustrating thing about this game. It constantly sweeps around and half the time it's impossible to know where the enemies are. Not to mention the camera sweeping and panning around makes one have to constantly change the direction they want/need to go with the thumb stick. It's more annoying that Mass Effect's camera system. Simply frustrating to no end! Am I the only one that's just annoyed at how the camera system works? One can use the right trigger to center on Hayabusa's back to keep the camera from constantly sweeping around, but it would have been better if the button made the camera focus on the bad guys instead so one wouldn't have to jump around blindly to find them. Sure, you could turn around and look for them, but by then you'd have a sword in the back.

My first run with the 'new' Ryu

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for the gift card and how I heard NG Black was so great. First, let me say this game focuses more on survival than stylishly beating up on enemies. You'll get ambushed many times by numerous enemies, sometimes spamming projectiles to no end.

I feel kind of bad for using items, but I suppose this game encourages it, because your score is not affected. Still, it makes me feel like an amateur. The gameplay is as deep as you want it to be. You can use one weapon and spam the same combo everytime, or you can do many different combos with many different weapons.

This game is glitchy so beware. I've had to restart twice due to game freezes, and sometimes the camera gets skippy. Oh yeah, the camera.. The bane of everyone's existence. It's usually too close and not high enough, so you can't see very well. And I really hate it when stuff is exploding all around you and you can't see anything. Also, sometimes I get a wall or door between me and Ryu, so I can't see a thing. Right trigger readjusts the camera but it doesn't always help.

This feels like an unfinished product and is frustrating at times so I'll give it two stars. Probably deserves three, but I am kind of annoyed at the moment. I know many would like to disagree with my rating, but I'm not all that happy with my purchase. I guess they feel like the gore and combos make up for its shortcomings. Not me, I'd trade in the delimbing fests for a more polished game.

Flashy Fun Gory- OMG is it HARD!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: June 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

wow let me start by agreeing with all the rest of the reviews so far. THis game is great. Good story slick graphics fun gameplay etc. My only complaint is that its HARD! I started on the easiest game mode and holy crap the bosses can combo kill youin like 20 seconds flat. the camera doesnt align itself during the action so that you can see your enemies either so you must anticipate where on the screen they will be when the stupid camera is pointing itself at a wall or some other inanimate object. Dont get me wrong, im all for a challenging game, but when your pulling every combo availible and using your entire healing inventory just to attempt to beat the third boss guy and still manage to die oh only about 20 times in a row- it stops being a fun challenge and just starts getting frustrating. good game but easy mode is NOT easy.

NOT GLITCH FREE

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a awesome game!! It is very challenging and the gameplay is excellent!(not to mention this is some of the best graphics ive ever seen on a game) The only complaint I have is a glitch. I got to a level where your in some caverns and you come along a big worm boss. Well, i got him down to almost no energy left when he dissapeared. I waited and walked around for almost an HOUR and he never appeared. I am going to try again soon but if it happens again off to gamestop I go!!

I finally beat it!!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Very difficult game. At certain points, the game stopped being fun and was just plain tedious. The graphics are incredible and the game play is similar to the first one.

I didn't like that you could only save one game file. I actually had to restart the game halfway through. I kept dying and didn't have any health potions.

The game really picks up near the end. At one point, you face about 30 ninjas at one time. This should have been the best part of the game. Unfortunately, the 360 can't handle this part and the game slows down to a crawl. Very disappointing.

I also didn't care for the optional tests of valor sequences. It was just wave after wave of the same enemies. Not much fun.

Overall, a good game but can be very aggravating

same old NG1 action.......on steroids, plenty of room for improvement

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Good-Improved graphics/LOTS of weapons/frequent save points/better music/semi-regenerating health bar/gore/finishing techniques

Bad-bland environments/glitches and bugs/camera seems to "fight" you/low replay value/VERY little unlockable content/enemy AI resorts to cheap tactics

This games combat is its saving grace, its addictive, fun, and satisfying with so many ways to off the opposition. The finishers can really bring out the masochist in you. I'm currently on master ninja having played the 1st 3 difficulties. The enemy AI is really intelligent that they'll adjust to always find the most effective way to take out Ryu, most of the time thats resorting to cheap tactics such as 6 enemies aggressively attacking you up front(2 of them looking for an unblockable throw while the remaining 4 relentlessly executes combos) and the remaining enemies stay in the back throwing shuriken after shuriken that explode. You will constantly be attacked as soon as you walk through a door without even sighting an enemy, constant cheap shots like this along with the camera looking at everything but the action will be more than enough to frustrate the avg. gamer. There is no theater mode/concept art, or anything of that nature upon completing the game. The unlockables include costumes(1 per difficulty) and these are color variants not even new costumes. This game seemed like a rushed product, but even after dying so many times you'll still keep playing because the combat was so well made.

Incredible game... still think first one was better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

After playing the original Nintendo games and being blown away by the first Xbox Ninja Gaiden, I sold my old Xbox to purchase the new Xbox360 when I learned this was to be released. Unfortunately I had to return the console as it stopped working after a month of owning it. I purchased the game and borrowed an Xbox360 console from one of my friends so here's my review.

Being this a sequel of a game that was a breakthrough in game play and graphics, it was supposed this would be better that the first version. While there are a lot of new features and new weapons, I still think the first one is way better than NG2.

Some enhancements made are welcome and some of them were needed, the problem is that many of these changes affect directly the game in a major decrease of the level of difficulty. I recall the first NG to be a very difficult game even in easy mode (called Acolyte in NG2), NG2 on the other hand feels a very easy game compared to the previous one even when playing in `Path of the Warrior' which is next to easy. You start gathering new weapons very early in the game and if you get to master the ultimate techniques, it is quite easy to upgrade your weapons to a maximum level very early in the game, by using more powerful weapons it is of course easier to get rid of the `difficult' enemies in later levels. Another change is the auto healing system, you get into a fight with a certain level of energy, after you defeat all enemies on screen your life bar will regenerate to almost the same level of energy you had before starting to fight, which leaves all the healing items to be useless unless you are fighting a boss. Team Ninja did not think the auto healing was enough and made another change, each time you reach a save point and save, your energy bar is filled to its maximum. To me, all this auto healing system takes away the emotion and stress of seeing your life bar decrease in the middle of a fight.

The graphics are definitely better than before, the stages are beautifully designed aesthetically, however, programmers failed when designing some of the levels as there are these `invisible' barriers in a lot of places that you cannot go through even though in many situations, these places behind these `barriers' are reachable by going around them. The camera movement is poorly designed and most annoying, using an ultimate technique or combo may result in a messy movement in which you may not see anything at all of what's happening on screen, I recall this being a small issue on the original game but this time the camera problem is SERIOUS. The story that was developed for this sequel is the most nonsense story I have ever seen even for a video game (in one of the stages one of the `Greater fiends' actually invites you to a Colosseum to fight him as he had been searching for a `worthy' opponent, all this as an excuse for a huge battle in the mentioned Colosseum) Fortunately, the game is filled with action and the plot only serves to set up the cinematic battles and sequences for Ryu Hayabusa.

The almost perfect sceneries and all the action compensate for this game. There are very few calm moments during the game, opposite to NG in which you fought groups of ninjas/enemies and some fooled around while you were engaged in combat with one of them, in this one, all of them will be attacking you at the same time so you'd better learn some combos or rely on ultimate techniques as enemies will be all around you. Battles are intense and leave no time to catch your breath until all enemies are defeated (after you kill the boss I mentioned in the Colosseum, all the enemies watching the battle in the audience will attack you, you'd think that defeating the boss would be the end of it), in many cases you'll fight a boss and kill it only to see a cutscene that puts you into battle with another fiend immediately after that (be careful when fighting the Armadillo, when defeated make sure you block as it explodes and can kill you) . Enemies that play the role of bosses or mid bosses will appear as regular enemies in later stages... sounds difficult? Don't worry, we now have autohealing!

I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the game, I actually like it very much and have been playing it like crazy, NG had unlockables and hidden items that gave extra value to replay, NG2 does not have anything at all (at least not that I'm aware of) but it's still a great game to play, stages are incredible, longer and filled with action, there are things I didn't like but there are others I just thought were great and I will not mention as I wouldn't want to spoil a few surprises.

NG2 is a great game with beautiful graphics and filled with action from the very beginning, if you liked the first one like I did, you are definitely going to enjoy this one as well.

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