Official Ninja Gaiden Thread

[Evil_Cloud]

Oh great, they've censored the European version of Ninja Gaiden...

 

[Blade]

You need to modify the memory data? What do you mean? Are you playing on Hard or something?

I'm going through on Normal first, and the game is kicking my ass. (well, mostly the bosses..) One aspect that's relatively convenient, though, is the save system. Save points are frequent enough, and well-positioned.. so far.

 

[zurich]

You need to modify the memory data? What do you mean? Are you playing on Hard or something?

I'm going through on Normal first, and the game is kicking my ass. (well, mostly the bosses..) One aspect that's relatively convenient, though, is the save system. Save points are frequent enough, and well-positioned.. so far.

Ya right, wait till you get to the city, ugh. I'm stranded there.. i can woop the soldiers silly, but maybe once every 3-4 encounters with 3 black ninjas, I just get aced and die (and there hasn't been a save since the beginning of the level).

 

[maskrider]

You need to modify the memory data? What do you mean? Are you playing on Hard or something?

I'm going through on Normal first, and the game is kicking my ass. (well, mostly the bosses..) One aspect that's relatively convenient, though, is the save system. Save points are frequent enough, and well-positioned.. so far.

I modifed the number of items to get me large amount of essense (to buy things), unlimited number of resurrection Talisman, health recovering and magic recovering.

The game is kicking my ass, especially for those long range warhead/gun shooting ninjas.

 

[Johnny Awesome]

Those Ninja's are tough. The secret is to keep moving so they never land a fire bomb on you.

 

[maskrider]

Those Ninja's are tough. The secret is to keep moving so they never land a fire bomb on you.

The problem in one of the stages is that there are 5 or 6 of the warhead firing Ninjas and you need to use arrow to destroy 8 or so targets (not the Ninjas). Aiming and running cannot be done together, when I stay still the warheads come, heh !

 

[Blade]

Yeah, I'm already cursing the bow-and-arrow controls. It's not like the throwing stars at all..

 

[Paul]

Ya right, wait till you get to the city, ugh. I'm stranded there.. i can woop the soldiers silly, but maybe once every 3-4 encounters with 3 black ninjas, I just get aced and die (and there hasn't been a save since the beginning of the level).

Exactly, wait until you have to face the group of 6 of them. The game is unnecessarily hard, the poor camera doesn't help either.

If someone wants hard they can pick it out in a options menu thanks.

 

[zurich]

Well after being stranded in the city for 2 days, I've finally overcome the learning curve hump and am wooping ass (for now ). For the black ninjas, I found that you just keep blocking & countering and/or wall attack. As for the exploding shurikens, I just ignore them until they're about to go off, then block (it takes off a sliver of health and staggers you, no big deal).

edit: I agree that the 'normal' option is unbelievably hard. I expect they'll modify it for Europe and/or Platinum Hits. I think a simple tweak would be to remove the respawning HARD enemies (like Ninjas, keep the soldiers) and have save spots refill your health & magic (unlike the floating Xbox ). Atleast that way if you're stuck at a save with no health and/or money, you can slowly work your way through by backtracking and saving.

 

[arhra]

edit: I agree that the 'normal' option is unbelievably hard. I expect they'll modify it for Europe

Heh, usually, if anything, games get modified to be harder for their european release (ZOE2's european normal mode is equivalent to the NA hard mode, for example).

 

[Blade]

Okay, I think I'm starting to see what you mean. I'm in Chapter Four and the rate of enemy respawning is downright outrageous. I leave an area and then 3 or 4 guys appear when I go back. Ugh. I decided to buy the Dragon Sword upgrade and as many health potions as financially possible.. and they were gone within 5 minutes..

 

[notAFanB]

something lightharted and very inkeeping with this thread at the mo