HCgamer says - "After leaving Team Ninja charismatic, but not stroniącego of alcohol and various drugs Tomonobu Itagakiego, the new adventures of Ryu hayabusa scene was promoted as a scene that would bring a fresh breeze to the series and put more on the story and focus on the main character. When fans heard that the difficulty level is lower, the producer spared no negative comments. The company itself has promised, and veterans will be happy and so in fact. The changes that occurred in the gameplay have been accepted positively, but there were a few negative reviews. The new head of Team Ninja studio - Yosuke Hayashi - set to change the face of the game and did not follow the style set by Itagakiego. "
Screen Rant Writes: Team Ninja knows fans want a new Ninja Gaiden game, but if Ryu Hayabusa is going to come back, there are some things that the series needs to fix.
- Better story, not that it has to be very deep though
- Better level design, on par or even exceed NG1
- Better enemies design, NG3's enemies design were boring and repetitive
Bring back the difficulty of the first game both 3 and Yaiba (yes I played that POS game) had laughably easy difficulty that it wasn't even funny.
In the conclusion to a three part series, CV takes a look at the most recent Ninja Gaiden games, for better and for worse.
They need to make a true sequel to Ninja Gaiden 2, that was the most satisfying combat I've experienced in a hack n slash game.
been playing 1&2 on and off since they were released. I usually will play until I get frustrated then take another year off lol. Nver tried 3 or the 4th one even though they are in my backlog.
I tried to go back to Sigma but good god those controls are just insufferable. Couldn't do it.
Phil writes, "Sometimes all it takes is one game to make a long-running or promising franchise become dead in the water, maligned to irrelevancy and just a memory in the annals of gaming history. It's a dog-eat-dog industry where it doesn't matter if the franchise has been around for ages or for milliseconds--just one or two failures and you're done. That's the case with these franchises, all of which I'm sad to see are currently nowhere to be found. Whether any of these will return for a kick-ass comeback or not is up in the air, but what is known is that for many, these franchises met truly unfortunate ends."
For Tony Hawk's Pro Skater really the first 3 were really the only good ones. After that they sort of went downhill.
Klonoa was great but released at a bad time on just 1 system with no marketing. Razors Edge fixed many issues with NG3 vanilla and is a guilty pleasure. Another one that killed a franchise is Lost Planet 3. The better game was Japan only in EX Troopers on PS3. I also would say Marvel vs Capcom Infinite killed the series. I know it's less than a year old but the writing is on the wall. Silent Hill series as soon as Konami gave it to western devs and also made mobile spinoffs.
I loved the dead space 1+2 hated 3. Played through them so many times but found number 3 such a bore to get through, really hope they pick this back up.
Finally a good review.
ign gave it 3/10 . thats more than enough it deserves
"Better and more interesting story"
How so ? it's even weirder and crappier , wich is exacerbated by the annoying emphase on cutscenes and qte . In this case , less was actually more
while broke on so many levels the game plays and runs great. One thing I realized last night, moving through Chapters 5-7, is that NG3 is still actually quite fun & plays rock solid. Granted I'd prefer to see more of the Old NGs. I'd prefer to see the old combat system, I'd prefer to see a better story if any at all, I'd prefer to see better enemies, boss battles, a more Epic game. But at the end of the day, despite any gripes, the game runs like butter and is a fun action game. I'll take fun and smooth over choppy, glitchy and suspect any day. though I certainly hope they get back to their roots of NG 1 & 2 [Sigma] for the next installment....