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The only let down for me is the many comeback to the brain room

It’s so outdated… love what it stands for and my memories…it was not fun when I tried it again. Need a true remake

this game was so based when I was a kid. I loved it

you may have played some of these, but lemme recommend some modern games that have kept this aesthetic going: Electric Highways, Gemini Rue, Technobabylon, Virtuaverse, Void & meddler, The fall, Bomb rush cyberfunk, Sludge life, Sunset Overdrive, Proteus, and a wierd one but call of duty infinite warfare has a more sleek modernized version of this aesthetic in most of its multiplayer levels and weapons and music. Not all these games look exactly the same but idk they feel like they have this same energy to me that brings me nostalgia to this style and era of games

that phantasy star area reminds me of coruscant in star wars episode 2

This game is full on crazy, i remember it from my childhood and for the longest time never remembered the name. The weight off my brain when i rediscovered this one hahah phew

4:28/9:30 Rachel is one of my favorite babes in the Ninja Gaiden series and Dead or Alive series. She is the blonde bombshell of both franchises.

Ninja Gaiden Black on Xbox Series X looks great but obviously the Master Collection looks ten times better but Ninja Gaiden 2 on Series X is 4k 60fps and even if the Master Collection looks better the feel and Aesthetic of OG Ninja Gaiden 2 was different and the only games were you play as Ryu Hayabusa or feel similar to Ninja Gaiden is Nioh 2 and Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate both made by Koei Tecmo which own Team Ninja

this game,was good

That wall run is mighty smooth and looks so freaking nice on the eyes! Also, chopping off heads never gets old!

incredible video. hit my nostalgia and I love the commentary. something unique. keep em coming man

Everyone had that Pal who got a Dreamcast rather than waiting for the PS2 or Xbox, and we mocked him mercilessly for having the inferior console. But Toy Commander was one of the games that made us secretly jealous. Soulcaliber and Sonic Adventure were the other two.

The premise sounds a bit like Dead Space 🚀

Great channel

Ninja Gaiden is so rad, really wish they would bring it back to modern consoles!

i love this game. im hoping that it gets added to to ps4/5 as a ps classic, with trophies.

I absolutely love the city of Tairon in this game. It's so moody and atmospheric with an eclectic blend of different architectures. I love how unsettling it can feel in contrast with this high octane action. I miss the darker aesthetics of action games from yesteryear. Great video, dude.

This game on a series console looks and plays better than all AAA games. it really made an impact on how i purchase a game or not since this masterpiece only 9.99

As someone who plays games with either stylistic or realistic graphics, I can 100% say that I feel that from a design stand point, cel-shaded games are easier to read, and clarifies a lot of things better in games. This is especially true in fast-paced games like GunGrave, Superhot or Hi-Fi Rush, where shit is just constantly being bombarded on you and you have to have a more clear picture instead of all this impractical fidelity.

Wish I knew what I knew now when I had this for Dreamcast….wish universe was still open….some of the best gaming

<Sigma.

For the NG enjoyers. What exactly happen between Black and Sigma? I know the later came out with more missions/playable segments, but I see everyone saying it plays worse, look worse and that all the additions actually make the "flow" of the the game well, worse. From a player perspective how do you feel that? And if you guys now, what happen on the dev part that made it so?

LOVE this game. Was excited to see what the ex Team Ninja devs were cooking and whether they could crack the sword + guns formula from Devil's Thirds. Sadly the reviews were a bit off. Got tipped on to it from reviewers with a better knack for tough arcade/action games like The Electric Underground which helped. Getting to grips with the hidden mechanic of guard cancelling and other stuff on offer really changes up the game and adds some really unhinged combat and combo options, like pistol shot -> sword slashes -> point blank flying knee (to knock over enemey) -> quickscope rifle and emptying half a magazine into enemy headshots thanks to aim assist on pads. Funny thing is, the difficulty in game is such that this doesn't even break the game, and you might get interrupted by other enemies before you get to do a lengthy and comolex combo like the above. It's very fluid amd you have to keeo constantly moving, similiar to ny experiences of Ninja Gaiden Sigma and Black especially on higher difficulties. I've done playthroughs on my Xbox One X (which was held back being locked to 30fps), and also a few playthroughs on my PS5 in glorious 60fps shortly after grabbing mine in June. (lol 60fps when it remembers to be, the game really isn't the best optimised at times and the infrequent slowdowns can get hilarious). The art direction is pretty strong, if a little disjointed😂. And even the sense of humour is quite broad and all over the place and VERY sarcastic and self aware. The visual gags in the cafeteria stands as memorable. The game is mega short and feels rushed and unfinished (in a way, I suppose that works to its favour being such as a short game, and the whole idea of locking difficulties behind playthroughs was probably an artificial way of adding length). Apparently the development was VERY rocky. Would have loved to see what the fully realised and unhindered vision for his game could have been from the ex-Team Ninja devs. Hopefully we'll see another crack at the Devils Third/ Wanted: Dead gameplay formula from Soleil or their successors that gets things right.

Game is bad and combat have nothing to do with it. Everything around is bad.

I think the only thing holding Black back as the best action game of all time for me might be the janky SLOW camera and any weapon mechanics that relied on its use (ie bow and arrow), especially for certain set pieces and bosses. The military fortress level is the worst level in the game for this reason imo. Eff the twin tanks, eff the radio tower, and eff that stupid Apache helicopter.

One thing I like about this game is that you kill mostly humans who have similar ninja skills like you. The swordplay really feels great when you are cutting and fitting. Other hack and slash games have you fighting only sandbag monsters or demons. Another thing is because it's not just a air combo mad simulator.

I actually enjoy playing with Rachel but would have pefered to only use her in the mission modes to keep the flow of the main game consistent

The master collection has a series of fan mods that convert the sigma games to black and 2, respectively. As close as you can get without the original hardware!

When Ryu said to Rachel “My strength comes from my training. Not from some curse in my blood.” He became my favorite fictional character of all time.

Going through and emulating games I had as a kid but never beat, or games I just dont have anymore, and this one has always stuck in my mind, never beat it was always too scared to play it, giving it an honest go now and this game was super ahead of the curve in a lot of aspects.

This made me want to rip my Black disc and emulate it.

Imo ninja gaiden 2 is the goat

I’ve been wanting to play the ninja gaiden games real bad, and it’ll probably have to be the collection sadly. I really appreciate how you focus on things like the environment and puzzles, they’re such an underrated part of action games, and when they’re not there I really miss them (looking at you DMC 5)

Nore og xbox content 🙏🏼

The ninja Gaiden series is basically the Yang to DOA's Ying, While DOA is full sexyness, Ninja Gaiden on the contrary is full gorefest, Mr Itagaki did a very good job on giving to their fans two different franchises that please them in different ways. Nice video mate! :3

The original xbox just had a unique vibe and aesthetic that bled into all the games on the console that made it have a feeling unlike anything else. Blacks OST just screams Xbox along with the environments

If you had a Dreamcast game close to finished then moving it to Xbox gave them the biggest possible boost in visual quality with last-minute type changes without incurring a lot of development cost. On PS2, you're getting bad output and bad texture quality in comparison, not even a match for Dreamcast. You could throw more geometry and massive full screen effects on it though that you couldn't on Dreamcast. But the types of post process you can flood PS2 with is not a good fit for this game, and overhauling geometry is too expensive. On Gamecube, textures and output aren't going to suffer much of a compromise, but you again don't want to have to overhaul the modelling to get top end visuals out of the system, plus if you had any sort of magical lighting model even plain look up tables, well good luck getting that to work and maintaining 60fps - the system is heavily optimised towards OpenGL lighting model, and offers a fair bit of friction against "smart" approaches. It was actually routine on Dreamcast to compute lighting by a simple dot product and then table remapping it to an artist designed look, and on the Cube, you can sort of do that but your overdraw doubles. On Xbox the main system limitation is that you can't have a lot of independent drawables/entities, but being a Dreamcast game, you were limited in that anyway. Otherwise, the system is extremely flexible, you can re-implement any sort of vertex processing pipeline and you can push the colours and shading even much much further. And of all the systems, it's the cheapest in terms of effort to port to as well.

In terms of action games, have you ever heard of the Dishwasher series by Ska Studios? Feels like one of the closest things to Ninja Gaiden to my understanding, if in 2D perspective rather than 3D. For other action games, that are already out, have a demo or have yet to release, these ones may be intersting: - Cookie Cutter - Decline's Drops - Soulstice - Immortal: And the Death that Follows - Magenta Horizon - No Straight Roads - Genokids - Enenra Daemon Core - Iron Corbo - Lost in Random

I never beat the original because I got my ass handed to me so many times. But the original Xbox created so many good memories

Black has better colours, better costumes, less Rachel which IS good, better watter effects, No ugly staying blood splatters

Beating this game when I was like 15/16 during the summer hols is still one of my crowning achievements.

Have you played any fromsoft games? I haven't played Ninja Gaiden but the way you describe the game sounds like it actually really inspired the fromsoft Dark Souls/Sekiro gameplay, especially Seki

Would you get a remaster of this game if they made it?

Yoooo Ninja Gaiden is my favorite action game from that gen!

I never got to play NGB since I owned an PS2 so shinobi was the ninja game I got. I wish I owned an xbox just to play Black

I was about to resume watching another video i was in the middle of but luckily I saw this new video before I made such a horrific mistake.

Yeah, Ninja Gaiden Black is a vibe. One of my favorite games of that generation, its' quality is as good as legendary games such as Resident Evil 4 or Metroid Prime. And it looked so amazing on the OG Xbox, like a glimpse into the future. It still holds up visually and I agree it is because of the strong art direction.. and amazing animation! And the gameplay is so satisfying when you get into the flow. It's really sad there is nothing like it today, at least nothing that scratches this particular itch. Same for Ninja Gaiden 2, which is pretty different actually with focus 110% of fights but I also really got into it the last few years. Thanks for that video, I hope at some point, the series will return.

This game and Project Eden for the PS2 both have a special place in my memory.