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Best game I have ever played.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Pretty much every other review on here sums up this game very well.

BUT....

A few changes to a few bosses have made this game much more difficult. A lot more bosses deflect Flying Swallow and so that makes them 500x more difficult. Bosses that do this:

Alma (second time you fight her)
Final Boss

Now they are much more difficult and you will need to actually try to beat them. Yes Alma 1.0 is still mind-numbingly difficult and she will still kill you in a matter of 10 seconds with one of her combos.

Most reviewers don't say this, but I think this is the most rewarding game I have ever finished, because once you are done you feel like you actually accomplished something rather than being "Ok well time to put it back on the shelf."

Check this game out on Xbox Originals (on the 360) or go get it used from gamestop, you will like this game.

Just be patient and you will like it.

Also, check out Ninja Gaiden II, its pretty good.

i do NOT own this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is for the buyer's knowledge!
If the game is not under $15, including shipping, IT IS NOT WORTH IT!
Xbox Live offers this game for 1200 Microsoft points, which is approx. $15!
Save yourself some time any money and buy it from Xbox Live (unless you don't have 5.9gigs)

and no, I'm not a Microsoft rep., it's that I just discovered this myself.
hoped it helped someone :)

(Yes it is Ninja Gaiden Black I am speaking of.)

Good game but ridiculously and overboardly hard

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is good and worth playing but it is frustratingly rudiclously hard. Having some difficulty is good but this game just goes completely overboard and after about the 30th time you die in the same level you just want to quit and never play it again.

Have we been waiting for this?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't know if im alone out here but i've been getting sick of a lot of new games coming out. It just doesn't seem to be as fun as before, But Ninja Gaiden has grabbed my attention. I loved the first one, and yes, it is HARD! But all it takes is practice and eventually i beat the game. Since i've had this i've liked it. It just seems that this is a new hack and slash game genre which i believe will be considered an xbox classic.

Greastest Action Game...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

....ever released for the original x-box. Greatest Action game I have ever beaten.. Backwards Compatible as well so it will work on your 360. Tells a great story and the gameplay is unbelievably amazing. You will get completely lost in this story and the ending with screw up your mind!! BE WARNED!! Not for the feint of stomach or aggrivated gamer who quits after a difficult game. THIS GAME IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT, but well worth every hour & every cent!

Finally

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Weirdly. I just now got around to playing this. It's probably the first game to challenge me and make me want to throw my controller against the wall in years. As a matter of fact. The last game that did that was Burgertime. And I was 7 years old.

Graphics. Sick

Controls. Are simply amazing. Not one glitch. It's all up to my timing and forethought.

Music. Is great for the game. And the game is already amazing. Even though it's pretty much ninja techno.

Difficulty. Well I've beaten on all the modes but one. And that one is currently making me curse my xbox. Master Mode is very very very hard.

AWESOME, BUT FLAWED 8.75 OUT OF 10

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ninja Gaiden is one of the few games that makes you feel like a ninja, because of how well executed and slick the combat and graphics are. All of the missions and bosses are challenging, and they will slaughter and punish you because the game is just so freaking hard. The camera is flawed too, unfortunately. For example, you will notice how protagonist Ryu Hayabusa is a long distance away from the camera, which makes the combat difficult. And you will get lost a lot and have to find items and look at your map constantly. But, as anyone who likes this game will tell you these problems just lift away. If you're looking for a Ninja Gaiden that is not as punishing as this, go buy the awesome-looking Ninja Gaiden Sigma for Playstation 3, or wait until the Xbox 360-exclusive Ninja Gaiden II comes out in 2008.

Only for the diligent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ahh...ninja gaiden. I remeber the first time I played this game and died hundreds of times. Even the first level was trying.. I knew I was in for a hard deal. Yet I continued to try and die and try and die. I made it to Alma (probably the hardest boss ut not even half way through the game). Died I don't know how many times and FINALLY beat her. Then I fought the Vigorian Empire soldiers and gave up, traded it for halo two.

Then I heard of the release of Ninja Gaiden Black. I was inspired bu its release to dance woth the devil again. I persevered and beat it on normal ( which is like a cakewalk now). After that I felt unsatisfied and continued on hard, which wasn't much harder. Then I tested myself on Very hard which was hard AS HELL!(remember you can only progress to the next difficulty after you beat the prior). Then lo and behold I accoplished a feat that even only one of the game developers accomplished: I defeated the Master Ninja Level in 20 hours! It took me like 35-40 hours to beat it on normal. My point is that this game is about perseverance and progression. You must be patient. The sheer amount of work tean ninja put into the game is worth the try.. the graphics, the motion capture the gameplay, the depth and amount of moves you can pull off are all something to be studied by other developers. At 20 bucks this is an absolute steal. I look forward to the ps3 release.

Ninja Gaiden black review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun, although it is one of the hardest games i have ever seen. It takes a while to master, although once you do its worth it. The controls are fluent and the graphics are decent. The game is also quite long, making it worth the money. Unfortunately there is no multiplayer.

There IS an easy mode that IS much easier...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is fantastic. I've never reviewed anything on Amazon but this game is incredible. Definitely worth the $20 I paid for it used.

To enter easy mode die 3 times in the first level and agree that you need help when prompted. This makes you a 'ninja dog' (not a 3d fighting dog---it's an easy mode) and the game is then possible for the casual gamer.

Even on easy the game will take a great deal of time and a mastry of the weapons. I've probably put about 15 hours into the easy mode and am on level 11 but it is much easier. Normal mode is quite difficult and it annoyed me to the point of almost giving up. Like everyone on here says.... it's HARD. I'll do it on my next time through. But use easy mode and you'll be fine once you learn the techniques.

This is my favorite game for my 360 and it's not even a 360 game, that's how awesome it is...I haven't played anything else since I bought it.

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