I do actually wonder if they had to release this super overly-safe template game so that Microsoft would let them spend all the money on making the far more innovative and "riskier" Demon's Souls.
Devin Mann but demon souls is PlayStation exclusive so Microsoft had nothing to do with it. Maybe Sony took demon souls whilst ms took ninja blade as the “safe bet” or something like that.
Meanwhile in the Ninja Blade timeline: "Can you imagine a timeline where this game didn't take off and instead Demon's Souls did? We'd probably be waiting around for Demon's Souls 5 instead of Ninja Ring."
Ninja Blade Ninja Souls 1-3: Takes place in the far future with techno ninjas. Fans debate whether it is the same universe as Ninja Blade Iron Will (Blood Borne): Samurai soulsborne with guns to parry, still has Lovecraft elements, takes place in a 1920 Tokyo aesthetic instead of 1890's London looking location Vortigern (Sekiro): Mythic northern Europe. The Roman empire has fallen and there's a warring states period across Germania and Britania, any creature in Sekiro that's a Yokai is replaced with a Fae approximation. Sword Saint Ishin is replaced by Ghillie Dhu, Saint of the Forests Age of Storms (Elden Ring): Instead of George RR Martin, Fromsoft has contacted Kaoru Kurimoto to help with story writing. Armored Core remains entirely unchanged
Honestly, a Clown Ninja picking up the Moonlight Greatsword in an elaborate quick time event where he cuts down a bunch of giant tree root justifies this game's existence.
12:10 Watching this video now, after he released his 'King's Field: The Ancient City' retrospective, that entire room is a recreation of the same room from that game, in which you also acquired the Moonlight Sword. Pretty cool easter egg imo. Sword. ua-cam.com/video/VuQGvY5VOeo/v-deo.html
Played this game many years ago but did not finish it for some reason (not because I didn't like it, probably had to reinstall windows), but didn't know the MGS was in it!!!! Now I regret not finishing it :D
Ds1: "You have to find openings on your own rather than simply waiting for the designated time when the boss will let you hit it" *Moonlight butterfly flashbacks*
Yup, immediately thought of that and Ceaseless, and the Old Iron King from DS2. They DID do that "bad" boss design a bit in the Dark Souls series, if you're being fair.
@@c31l That's not what he was talking about though in terms of offense/defense phase bosses. That's just a puzzle boss. A frustrating one but not bad per se.
it's impressive that you managed to talk about this game for so long without mentioning Ninja Gaiden once. That seems like the most obvious inspiration for this game
Exactly lmao, this is the first comment I've even seen address it. It seems like an obvious cash grab on the success of the Xbox 360/PS3 era Ninja Gaiden games.
Anyone else notice the Moonlight Greatsword environment is an exact replica of its placement in the Heart of the Forest from Kingsfield 4? Love the absolute disrespect of promptly destroying it in a quicktime event lol
I almost wonder if Pineapple has even played Ninja Gaiden games, this game (and dark souls in general) borrows quite a lot from the gameplay style first developed in that game series. I'd say more than castlevania.
Yeah, the only game with cut scenes of this level is MG Rising. And tbh I actually enjoyed the plot and overall atmosphere of Tokyo. 8/10 for nostalgia reasons and you can't convince me that the masterpiece MGRR wasn't at least partly inspired by this game.
@@abbc5156 Relation (connection) between this game by FromSoftware and games set in Team Ninja's Dead or Alive universe: * The title and the ninja theme is similar to the 2004 Xbox title Ninja Gaiden and its more well-known updated Black version. * Ken Ogawa is similar to Ninja Gaiden Black's protagonist Ryu Hayabusa, except Ken lacks his mouth mask and had sleeves on his arms. * The enemies can be similar to the fiends from Ninja Gaiden Black, but in this one, enemies are originally humans but mutated caused by the Alpha-worm virus. * The gameplay is similar Ninja Gaiden Black, but this game had quicktime events in addition to hack and slash. * The music is almost similar to Ninja Gaiden Black. * The infected schoolgirl in the opening cinematic looks similar to Honoka in her School Girl Strikers DLC normal costume in Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, except in DOA5:LR, she had pink hair with a headband and a different color on her plaid skirt. * Both games ran on the Xbox consoles (this game ran on the Xbox 360 while Ninja Gaiden Black ran on the original Xbox).
It's incredible how the same devs can make a game that feels like a relic of 2009 and another one that is a timeless influential masterwork, one week apart.
I imagine the teams working on the games were comprised of different members of From. Honestly it would be a major bummer to know you worked on a forgotten game like Ninja Blade at the same time your buddies down the hall were working on what would become the first in a long line of classics.
@@fraundakelmbrilpondaprost90 not really, that other team would then be pulled into the next souls project and reallocate to a different team setup. Not like they fire good developers for being on a project that didn't pan out. Those people probably just worked on the other souls games.
@@randomnobody9229 I'm not saying they'd be fired or never work on a Souls project, just that they had to work on Ninja Blade while others were putting together the "beginning" of it all.
Agetec bankrupted in trying to localize Armored Core games, yet they still kept pushing up to Verdict Day. There's still a market for mecha games. It's just that current Fromsoft dropped it in favor of fantasy games.
@@TheRibbonRed I was unaware of that... *weeps inside AC cockpit* Well, the dream is dead. Long live the dream. Looks like I'll have to get my ol PS2 refurbished afterall so I can keep running the old AC games.
I had this game as a present back in the day and had a mixed feeling about it. Back at the time I considered myself a super hardcore gamer and only played games at max difficulty, and this game got the best of me. I ended up quitting and coming back to it multiple times with various difficulties, and ended up selling because I couldn't take it anymore.
Iron Prineapple: "The pace of the fight in Souls games is dictated by the player and how aggressive they wanna be. You have to find openings of your own, rather than waiting for the designated time, where the boss will let you hit it." Moonlight Butterfly from ds1: ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF
@David Assébof No sir, three out of just over a million games. Narrow it down to console/pc games, 3d games, action games, etc and that pool is much smaller. Most definitely not millions. We're probably talking in roughly the range of 50,000 games at the most. And honestly, how many action games have you played in your life? maybe a few hundred at most if you're really big on it? Because for me looking at dark souls, zeldas, marios, metroids, DMCs, skyrim, spongebob, nier, and tons of other stuff I cant think of off the top of my head maybe 3 of 160 for me personally? so roughly 2%? That not a small number anymore.
I read that they workshoped ever aspect with Microsoft to make feel like a Hollywood action movie. Fromsoft probably released it the same time as Demon's Souls as a safety net, as they projected that to sell about 75k units. The execs probably were breathing a sigh of relief that they had this conventional sure fire hit releasing with their weird king's field spiritual successor that one obsessive dev in their company wouldn't shut up about, to make up for that game's likely upcoming lack of sales and popularity. This is one of the few times where we got the good timeline instead of the crap one.
@@parkout95 Relation (connection) between this game by FromSoftware and games set in Team Ninja's Dead or Alive universe: * The title and the ninja theme is similar to the 2004 Xbox title Ninja Gaiden and its more well-known updated Black version. * Ken Ogawa is similar to Ninja Gaiden Black's protagonist Ryu Hayabusa, except Ken lacks his mouth mask and had sleeves on his arms. * The enemies can be similar to the fiends from Ninja Gaiden Black, but in this one, enemies are originally humans but mutated caused by the Alpha-worm virus. * The gameplay is similar Ninja Gaiden Black, but this game had quicktime events in addition to hack and slash. * The music is almost similar to Ninja Gaiden Black. * The infected schoolgirl in the opening cinematic looks similar to Honoka in her School Girl Strikers DLC normal costume in Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, except in DOA5:LR, she had pink hair with a headband and a different color on her plaid skirt. * Both games ran on the Xbox consoles (this game ran on the Xbox 360 while Ninja Gaiden Black ran on the original Xbox).
@@parkout95 Who's this no one? Because there are rather large communities that like both and they built the foundation for Fromsofts most successful game
It would be cool if FromSoft could revisit this franchise and give it a second chance. I'm not saying it has to be a SoulsBorne, but FromSoft is a far more experienced studio now compared to then.
Ok, you CANNOT convince me that the... specific design of those arm cannons at 9:52 are unintentional. They knew exactly what they were doing there, and I just want to know why lmao
One bug I got when playing this on PC was this weird visual effect where fire effects would always obscure objects in front of them like they're burned into your retina, even if they were miles away in the background. So there'd just be this orange glowing orb onscreen in front of enemies, walls and even the player because the skyscraper in the background was on fire!
6:34 "Take any boss in the Souls Series... the pace of the fight is dictated by the player" Me, who just spent ten minutes waiting for Moonlight butterfly to stop attacking and lay its head on the bridge for no reason to let itself get hit for a microsecond: 👁️👄👁️
I liked this game when I was a kid, I even 100% it, getting that "moonlight sword" with no context in a room that looked way out of place in the game was very puzzling back then, now that I found this channel I finally know where it came from, my teen self must be happy.
I enjoyed the game too weirdly enough to beat it and the QTEs didn't bother me at all. not sure how Ill like it now though. I died alot too ahh the beginnings of dying over and over again.
I had DMC vibes from that moonlight greatsword cutscene, but in a very awkward way. You know how every time Dante in DMC acquires a new weapon, there's a cutscene where he demonstrates what it can do in a very stylish way? Well, he generally does that in two types of cutscenes. The first type is when he slays a bunch of enemies that come out of nowhere displaying what the weapon can actually do, while being Dante (careless, cool and hellishly stylish). The second type is when he does some wacky cool moves that represent the FEEL and MOOD of the weapon (I'm looking at you, Dr. Faust, Nevan, and Gilgamesh), rather than actual moves. Well, this was neither. I swear to god, if the moonlight greatsword cutscene had enemies in it, it would be actually pretty good! And without them it just feels wacky and awkward... He stylishly cuts a bunch of... Roots? Don't get me wrong, Dante in DMC 4 often does the same thing with the big black obelisks, but when he does it, he doesn't even pretend to be serious, he does all kinds of "WOHOO"s and wears a grin during all of it, so you can tell he's just having a BLAST. This cutscene is just trying to be too serious while in actuality being way too wacky for itself, which makes it awkward.
Exactly. The moonlight greatsword cutscene has that same energy as whenever Dante gets a new weapon in Devil May Cry. But with Ninja Blade's general tone, plus the fact that he shows off the sword's power by....cutting some tree roots, it just feels super off this game.
Yeah, I mean 10+ main title games for Armored Core clearly shows it never caught on, right? Though honestly it'd be cool as shit to see Armored Core get a little love in this style.
@@B-RY27 Tenchu from software sucked Tenchu was a activision game and Tenchu 1,2 and 3 were amazing everything made after 3 were by from software and they all sucked armored core nice tho
The funniest part about 5:45 wasn't the cheap explosion edit but how almost immediately after the explosion yt just cuts into an online casino ad lol that killed me
I actually bought this game on release and kinda enjoyed it because I was looking for anything similar to Ninja Gaiden 2 (one of my favorites of all time)
I had it too, but it really wasn't good. I also bought it for the same reason as you (I loved Ninja Gaiden 2) but it was nowhere even close. You could get a few hours of fun out of it but really wasn't great.
@@B20C0 a game doesn't have to fit within arbitrary rules in order to enjoy it and classify it as personally good. By your logic, DS3 sucks because I found it frustrating after 100%ing 1 and 2.
For anyone who's interested, I recommend watching Matt McMuscles' "Demon's Souls - What Happened?", which explains a lot of what was going on in FromSoft when Demon's Souls and Ninja Blade were being developed, and how it's basically a miracle that Demon's Souls even exists.
I remember seeing my dad play this a few times but I never got to know the name of the game. Thanks Pineapple. Now one of my mysteries has been solved. I didn't know it was a fromsoftware game.
Same!! I was like, omg it wasn't all in my head... Lol. I used to think it was SOOO realistic, 10/10 graphics xD but I felt the same shit about fable 1 and 2 xD oh, how far we've come. ((*insert cool DS quote here*))
Ninja Gaide is just such a big milestone. Most developers are prone to fail by default trying to copy it's core mechanics. I'd just whished it's sequels would have been as true to the original as possible. Instead they wanted to make everything bigger, shinier and therefore it became shittier.
I’ve been binging these videos where you pick apart all these older fromsoft games and am honestly very impressed with the video quality. I love the face you mention the similarities between these old titles and newer ones it’s very interesting how it all links up. With you commentary and video style I could see you doing this with all types of developers. The intro is awesome
"In how many games can you drive a motorcycle up a building" everyone else be saying DMC3, but in Saints Row 2 you can actually drive motorcycles up buildings in gameplay. Its just a thing that you can do.
What really blows my mind about this game is that they thought that it would be the successful game instead of Demon Souls Let me make it clear, they had more faith in the QTE SIMULATOR *NINJA BLADE* than *DEMON SOULS*
Because back then who wouldn't? It's the same formula as God of War, with a bit of Ninja Gaiden. On hindsight it should be almost foolproof. Nobody wanted to bang their head with over 40 tries trying to complete 1st and 2nd bosses. They probably think: "At best it'll turned into a franchise, at worst it'll be passable but still make money". Unbeknownst to them, it's a lot worse than that
That time we already had Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, Dante's Inferno and God Of War. It's not doubt they overpowered Ninja Blade, that's why only few people know it.
@@ShatteredGlass916 they at least could’ve had a little more faith in the game that did something different though. Did they never consider that maybe that formula was getting old?
@@Anonymous-73 nope, that's what i'm trying to say. In that time maybe they thought the could get away with just copying what's big. The Demon Soul concept are probably secondary to them because they probably deemed it less safe of a product compared to just copying GoW's QTE and NG's ninja setting
Consider the success of the Horizon series. I don't think there's anything fundamentally new or innovative with those games (at the time of their release), and yet they are quite successful nonetheless. Producing it turned out to be a very successful bet because all of its ideas are 'safe' and not out of the box (except for the 'robots are animals' design concept, which is pretty original)
Yeah, they should have just asked for a third Otogi game for 360 over this turd. The first two otogi's were amazing and still remain my favorite original xbox games.
on THAT one? it‘s been like that ever since! i really have no idea why anyone would choose an xbox over a playstation. there are no exclusive gems whatsoever.
I like how at 0:18 you showed intense highlights from bloodborne and sekiro, but for dark souls you just showed the player standing in front of firelink shrine. Which is exactly what I think of when I think of dark souls for some reason.
6:15 Thats the problem I had with the butterfly boss from ds1, my melee focused build just had to run around and wait for it to perch to get in a few hits. Ended up feeling really slow and not very exciting.
You actually don't have to. Firebombs dealt good damage to the moonlight butterfly and even better damage using black firebombs. Its what I did in my first playthrough and did it in every subsequent melee playthrough of ds1
@@bitchface235 If you find it stupid it doesn't mean that it is stupid in fact. Two games? There are tons of exclusives for PS consoles. Also I don't think that PS3 costs more than 1-2 days of regular work so it's not a big deal to get it. Besides that many people consider gaming gear as something collectable, keep that in mind.
I see that this game has major flaws, but imo its not absolute dogshit and I personally liked the game back then better than many games that are out now
Yeah me to also if from soft could make another bloodborne or otoagi or metal wolf chaos that would also be cool i mean dark souls is cool and everything. Its just not really my thing.
@@rahulverma8774 yeah unfortunatly , from soft is kind of like most publishers in that regard. Same reason ubisoft won't make another pop or splinter cell.
@@brendanpelkey120 I dont think we should compare FromSoft with ubisoft ........... ubisoft is so greedy tht they rarely do any worthy changes in gameplay whenever they introduce sequels .......... but FromSoft studies its consumers and giv them wht they want .....they take time in making games which makes their games better .......... but we all can agree tht both companies dont like taking risks
@@IronPineapple that's arguable. For Answer is the best customizable mecha game _to date,_ and the whole IP got at least AA class following. If you compare it to the Souls series, sure. But ignoring Armored Core's existence while calling yourself "a fan of Fromsoft" kinda feels weird. Sounds more like you're just a fan of their fantasy games.
12:10 Fun Fact. The area where you get the Moonlight Sword in Ninja Blade is a nearly identical to the one where you get it in King's Field IV: The Ancient City on PS2. The only difference being in King's Field 4 the area is more ruined and light is shining through. I guess by this From Software is basically telling us that King's Field is truly dead and will never return. :'(
I think its probably one of is first video game back at the day when first played a videogame every game felt amazing and when I remember the game in my head it feels like it was the best game ever made. But in reality the game sucks ass even if I got amazing child memories of it.
even whit that said game that have a special place in my childhood memories are still good game. Even as a child I could see the difference between a good and a bad game and when a revisit those games I still have a good time.
Same! I loved Ninja Gaiden for the xbox360/ps3, and this was just a fun budget version of that. Also, I didn't have any technical issues. I can imagine that would ruin the fun quite a lot.
"Ever since releasing Demon's Souls, they've released banger, after banger, after banger." Me: *coughs in Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor for the Xbox 360 Kinect*
"In how many games you can ride a motorcycle up the side of a building?" I'm sorry but in Bayonetta you ride a motorcycle up the side of a launching rocket...
@@plugshirt1762 Relation (connection) between this game by FromSoftware and games set in Team Ninja's Dead or Alive universe: * The title and the ninja theme is similar to the 2004 Xbox title Ninja Gaiden and its more well-known updated Black version. * Ken Ogawa is similar to Ninja Gaiden Black's protagonist Ryu Hayabusa, except Ken lacks his mouth mask and had sleeves on his arms. * The enemies can be similar to the fiends from Ninja Gaiden Black, but in this one, enemies are originally humans but mutated caused by the Alpha-worm virus. * The gameplay is similar Ninja Gaiden Black, but this game had quicktime events in addition to hack and slash. * The music is almost similar to Ninja Gaiden Black. * The infected schoolgirl in the opening cinematic looks similar to Honoka in her School Girl Strikers DLC normal costume in Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, except in DOA5:LR, she had pink hair with a headband and a different color on her plaid skirt. * Both games ran on the Xbox consoles (this game ran on the Xbox 360 while Ninja Gaiden Black ran on the original Xbox).
Never forget that when you say, “thank god we’re in this timeline where demon souls was popular” some one is saying “thank god we’re in this timeline where ninja blade is popular”
Can we see what the Ninja Blade 2020 is like? I'd rather no Dark Souls than everything being on fire. It would suck, sure, but it's better than living in an IRL Lost Izalith.
It really does ooze the vibe of "okay we have been working on demons souls and the upper execs won't have a lot of faith so they want us to make a game that hits all the trends" thus a shitty clone of ninja gaiden with shitty weapons and boring boss fights and way to many turrets and quick time events.
@@bitchface235 never understood how quicktime events every even became popular in the first place I mean I haven't met a single person who liked quicktime events
This "defensive phase -> attacking phase" boss design? Well... honestly, it's part of why I don't like Elden Ring bosses. In that game, From leaned so _hard_ into making you dodge absolute combo and AoE _barrages_ to then take an opening to quickly smack them a few times. Like - really, it's _basically_ that exact type of design. I really don't like it.
Yeah I was coming down to type this too. Armored Core has had a diehard fanbase since PS1. And for real like, I love Souls and stuff, but come on. It's been 7 years since anything AC.
ACV and ACVD had some issues. I love a lot of what they did, but then there was a lot I felt was wrong with them. EDIT: Granted, at this point, I'd take something in the style of ACV. I'd prefer something along the lines of the PS2 ACs, but that style had some merits to it.
@@MidlifeCrisisJoe 100%. Some of my favorite games were Armored Core and Tenchu, both of which are 100% MIA because Souls exists. I like the Souls series well enough, but for my money they don't compare to AC or Tenchu.
Otogi is my favorite "Pre-Souls" FromSoftware game. The combat in that game is so good, and the destructible environment makes it so epic. Love that game.
Technically speaking, it's the area in kings field 4 where you get the moonlight sword, it's a great place... and he broke it so I hate this game even more now
@@mj1mj3 Technically it's still counts as "played", more in the sense of you're playing interactive video throughout the game's episodes/arcs than to circulate your controller more actively as the supposedly action game
This was one of my favourite games when I was a kid. Back then I did not really care about comparing games to think if they are good or bad, I just thought that being a ninja and running around is real cool, and that's it lmao.
2:45 best example of this would be the Yakuza series, metal gear rising revengeance and to a lesser extent the god of war series, all of them use quick time events absolutely perfectly and the gameplay is elevated because of it.
I'd like to throw Asura's Wrath into this as well. Sure, it also has a lot of QTE's but they feel pretty good to pull off most of the time. Just makes you feel like you're part of the action sometimes.
Ninja blade: clown outfit
demon souls: no clown outfit
i rest my case
Dark Souls 2: jester outfit
i rest my case
Bloodborne: nice clean suit
I rest my case
Hotel: Trivago
I rest my case
DS2 also had the silly looking moth outfit
@@yoursexualizedgrandparents6929 you got to admit tho it had good pvp
"walking through slime"
The entire game is a swamp level, From you bastards.
Mayazaki has a slime foot fetish
Maybe the real Blighttown was the games they made along the way...
Fromsoftware releasing this game and demon's souls at the same time: "I'm playing on both sides so I always come out on top"
I do actually wonder if they had to release this super overly-safe template game so that Microsoft would let them spend all the money on making the far more innovative and "riskier" Demon's Souls.
Devin Mann but demon souls is PlayStation exclusive so Microsoft had nothing to do with it. Maybe Sony took demon souls whilst ms took ninja blade as the “safe bet” or something like that.
Nice "It's Always Sunny" reference
Oof
Demon's souls was an assumed failure before it even came out, so how can you say that?
Meanwhile in the Ninja Blade timeline: "Can you imagine a timeline where this game didn't take off and instead Demon's Souls did? We'd probably be waiting around for Demon's Souls 5 instead of Ninja Ring."
Sekiro is a Spanish European medieval game in this universe
@@beepboopmeow203YOU MEAN BLASPHEMOUS!?
@@jonathanjoestarwithpluck4930blasphemous is a heian era samurai game in that universe
Ninja Blade
Ninja Souls 1-3: Takes place in the far future with techno ninjas. Fans debate whether it is the same universe as Ninja Blade
Iron Will (Blood Borne): Samurai soulsborne with guns to parry, still has Lovecraft elements, takes place in a 1920 Tokyo aesthetic instead of 1890's London looking location
Vortigern (Sekiro): Mythic northern Europe. The Roman empire has fallen and there's a warring states period across Germania and Britania, any creature in Sekiro that's a Yokai is replaced with a Fae approximation. Sword Saint Ishin is replaced by Ghillie Dhu, Saint of the Forests
Age of Storms (Elden Ring): Instead of George RR Martin, Fromsoft has contacted Kaoru Kurimoto to help with story writing.
Armored Core remains entirely unchanged
@@kingsadvisor18Instead of Armored core 6, they got chromehound 2
Honestly, a Clown Ninja picking up the Moonlight Greatsword in an elaborate quick time event where he cuts down a bunch of giant tree root justifies this game's existence.
Catch!
@@popoeti3215 Excelent
12:10 Watching this video now, after he released his 'King's Field: The Ancient City' retrospective, that entire room is a recreation of the same room from that game, in which you also acquired the Moonlight Sword. Pretty cool easter egg imo.
Sword. ua-cam.com/video/VuQGvY5VOeo/v-deo.html
@@WannaComment2 Thank you for the addition.
Played this game many years ago but did not finish it for some reason (not because I didn't like it, probably had to reinstall windows), but didn't know the MGS was in it!!!! Now I regret not finishing it :D
I'm just here to watch that sick warphole animation again
Eh it's Vaati. how you doing man?
you could watch the rest of the video too tho if you want
That was sick though, you can’t lie
Ayyy thanks vaati!!
that was pretty sick
"If you still dont believe this is a FromSoftware game here is the moonlight greatsword" NOW THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT
Rip sekiro
Just some dumb Activision game
@@Archimedes.5000 you can argue that The dragon wields a Moonlight Greatsword
@@Archimedes.5000 i enjoyed sekiro but i dont consider it a souls game
I actually wanted the mortal blade to be moonlight greatsword in sekiro at least thats before I played the game and realised it isnt moonlight gs
@@JHMninja89 well I don't consider Ninja Blade to be a Souls game either
Moonlight Greatsword is a trademark of From in general, not just souls games
"In how many games can you ride a motorcycle up the side of a building?"
Literally the entire Devil May cry franchise: Am I a joke to you?
Thats legit what i said... when he said this I kinda paused and thought... "Actually a surprising amount"
@Pabs some GTA motorcycles too
Doctor who too somehow
Let’s not forget saints row 2
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Ds1: "You have to find openings on your own rather than simply waiting for the designated time when the boss will let you hit it"
*Moonlight butterfly flashbacks*
Exactly what was running through my mind xD
Yup, immediately thought of that and Ceaseless, and the Old Iron King from DS2. They DID do that "bad" boss design a bit in the Dark Souls series, if you're being fair.
@@nickh8721 Bed of Chaos
@@c31l That's not what he was talking about though in terms of offense/defense phase bosses. That's just a puzzle boss. A frustrating one but not bad per se.
Demon of song came to my mind
I was behind the mystery
nah you were a head of it
bruh xD
The man behind the slaughter
it's impressive that you managed to talk about this game for so long without mentioning Ninja Gaiden once. That seems like the most obvious inspiration for this game
That’s what I was thinking the whole time
It's pictured in the slurry of influences at 8:02.
Exactly lmao, this is the first comment I've even seen address it. It seems like an obvious cash grab on the success of the Xbox 360/PS3 era Ninja Gaiden games.
Very much so, seems FromSoftware love them some Ninja Gaiden. Dark Souls reminds me of Ninja Gaiden in some ways as well now that I think about it.
Tells you all you need to know about the depth of the thought processes behind this, "review."
Listen. You can wield the Moonlight Greatsword while wearing a clown outfit. That's what I call an 11/10 game right there.
Can’t you do that in DS2 as well?
@@HekateMGO that's just prooves that Dark Souls 2 = Best Souls
It's got little bit something for everyone.
@@ЕвгенийЕфимов-й7н Based and Dranglaicpilled
No
"In how many games can you ride a motorcycle on the side of a building?"
You havent played Devil May Cry it seems.
He did draw a comparison to DMC earlier, but fair enough
lmao I have not played the older ones, so you may have me
Or Bayonetta.
@@IronPineapple A lot of the Ninja Blade clips just scream DMC3 ripoff with QTEs. The motorcycle, riding a rocket, the weapon showoff...
Not to mention riding a missile around. From really ripped off DMC3 here.
Ninja man: "oh what a nice sword"
Sword: *C A T C H*
Ninja man: "wait wha.."
A: restart
*insert markiplier catch video*
Anyone else notice the Moonlight Greatsword environment is an exact replica of its placement in the Heart of the Forest from Kingsfield 4? Love the absolute disrespect of promptly destroying it in a quicktime event lol
Miyazaki was so impressed by that spider he used it twice bro.
“Can we get Ninja Gaiden 2?”
“We already have Ninja Gaiden 2 at home.”
I almost wonder if Pineapple has even played Ninja Gaiden games, this game (and dark souls in general) borrows quite a lot from the gameplay style first developed in that game series. I'd say more than castlevania.
@@hobnails yeah I think the same thing.
@@hobnails true it feels a lot like it. NG series is just brilliant.
Ninja blade is better than shitty ninja gaiden and dork souls games
@@doge2629 Hahahahahahaha
Found one of the IGN critics that couldn't beat any of the Souls games.
"A really unnecessary edit to draw people back in"
-Explosion-
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For me it was: Explosion! PEGI 18 xD
For me it was *explosion!* Pringles are doing an Xbox promotion!
Played this game over and over again as a kid and loved it, didnt even know it was made by fromsoft
Yeah, the only game with cut scenes of this level is MG Rising. And tbh I actually enjoyed the plot and overall atmosphere of Tokyo. 8/10 for nostalgia reasons and you can't convince me that the masterpiece MGRR wasn't at least partly inspired by this game.
@Elodie Channel Haven't heard about it before, but I can see the similarity.
@@abbc5156
Relation (connection) between this game by FromSoftware and games set in Team Ninja's Dead or Alive universe:
* The title and the ninja theme is similar to the 2004 Xbox title Ninja Gaiden and its more well-known updated Black version.
* Ken Ogawa is similar to Ninja Gaiden Black's protagonist Ryu Hayabusa, except Ken lacks his mouth mask and had sleeves on his arms.
* The enemies can be similar to the fiends from Ninja Gaiden Black, but in this one, enemies are originally humans but mutated caused by the Alpha-worm virus.
* The gameplay is similar Ninja Gaiden Black, but this game had quicktime events in addition to hack and slash.
* The music is almost similar to Ninja Gaiden Black.
* The infected schoolgirl in the opening cinematic looks similar to Honoka in her School Girl Strikers DLC normal costume in Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, except in DOA5:LR, she had pink hair with a headband and a different color on her plaid skirt.
* Both games ran on the Xbox consoles (this game ran on the Xbox 360 while Ninja Gaiden Black ran on the original Xbox).
So you didn't finish it
"Imitation of God of War and DMC"
bro this is the most blatant Ninja Gaiden rip off I have ever seen
DictatorTots copy of ninja giaden
He desparately wants to be Ryu Hayabusa.
Kagerou ProJess tbh they could just buy Team Ninja out and bring them back.
@@r0gue2dred786 A new NG with co-op that doesn't play like ass online would definitely be cool to see.
Ninja Gaiden but utterly fucking terrible.
It's incredible how the same devs can make a game that feels like a relic of 2009 and another one that is a timeless influential masterwork, one week apart.
Yeah Ninja Blade really holds up
I imagine the teams working on the games were comprised of different members of From. Honestly it would be a major bummer to know you worked on a forgotten game like Ninja Blade at the same time your buddies down the hall were working on what would become the first in a long line of classics.
@@fraundakelmbrilpondaprost90 not really, that other team would then be pulled into the next souls project and reallocate to a different team setup. Not like they fire good developers for being on a project that didn't pan out. Those people probably just worked on the other souls games.
@@randomnobody9229 I'm not saying they'd be fired or never work on a Souls project, just that they had to work on Ninja Blade while others were putting together the "beginning" of it all.
OEM for Xbox's "U.S." gamer Style I think.
(Yup those company, not gamers)
"But none of them ever really caught on"
That's because FromSoft was too cowardly to release Metal Wolf Chaos here in the west
Agetec bankrupted in trying to localize Armored Core games, yet they still kept pushing up to Verdict Day.
There's still a market for mecha games. It's just that current Fromsoft dropped it in favor of fantasy games.
@@TheRibbonRed I'll have to pour a forty out for Agetec. I *love* the Armored Core games.
@@TheRibbonRed I was unaware of that...
*weeps inside AC cockpit*
Well, the dream is dead. Long live the dream. Looks like I'll have to get my ol PS2 refurbished afterall so I can keep running the old AC games.
@@TheRibbonRed if only they'd make a mecha souls...
@@Lightpowder Frame Gride?
I had this game as a present back in the day and had a mixed feeling about it. Back at the time I considered myself a super hardcore gamer and only played games at max difficulty, and this game got the best of me. I ended up quitting and coming back to it multiple times with various difficulties, and ended up selling because I couldn't take it anymore.
Imagine that version of you picking up Demon Souls
@@Anonymous-73Doubt he had a ps3 at the time.
Iron Prineapple: "The pace of the fight in Souls games is dictated by the player and how aggressive they wanna be. You have to find openings of your own, rather than waiting for the designated time, where the boss will let you hit it."
Moonlight Butterfly from ds1: ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF
Only redeeming quality with that is you can still use ranged attacks on it, but also that usually causes it to die reeeal quick.
“Are you challenging me?”
@Lancelot Mcgill True 🤣
Mist Noble from Sekiro: Am I a joke to you?
read it at the same time of the video
“How many games can you ride a motorcycle up the side of a building?”
*laughs* *in* *devil* *may* *cry* *3*
Also laughs in Saints Row 2
Bayonneta
@David Assébof but its interesting that 2 of those games are the exact type of game this is a copy paste of
@@AustinPrice184 Yea, even that whole Moonlight Greatsword sequence screams Devil May Cry.
@David Assébof No sir, three out of just over a million games. Narrow it down to console/pc games, 3d games, action games, etc and that pool is much smaller. Most definitely not millions. We're probably talking in roughly the range of 50,000 games at the most. And honestly, how many action games have you played in your life? maybe a few hundred at most if you're really big on it? Because for me looking at dark souls, zeldas, marios, metroids, DMCs, skyrim, spongebob, nier, and tons of other stuff I cant think of off the top of my head maybe 3 of 160 for me personally? so roughly 2%? That not a small number anymore.
I read that they workshoped ever aspect with Microsoft to make feel like a Hollywood action movie. Fromsoft probably released it the same time as Demon's Souls as a safety net, as they projected that to sell about 75k units.
The execs probably were breathing a sigh of relief that they had this conventional sure fire hit releasing with their weird king's field spiritual successor that one obsessive dev in their company wouldn't shut up about, to make up for that game's likely upcoming lack of sales and popularity.
This is one of the few times where we got the good timeline instead of the crap one.
Nope, we got the worst timeline in this case too
@Jotaro97 No it was like kings field meant to be a contender to elder scrolls.
@maltheri9833sir demon souls and dark souls 2 were pure failures
No one liked them when they released
@@parkout95
Relation (connection) between this game by FromSoftware and games set in Team Ninja's Dead or Alive universe:
* The title and the ninja theme is similar to the 2004 Xbox title Ninja Gaiden and its more well-known updated Black version.
* Ken Ogawa is similar to Ninja Gaiden Black's protagonist Ryu Hayabusa, except Ken lacks his mouth mask and had sleeves on his arms.
* The enemies can be similar to the fiends from Ninja Gaiden Black, but in this one, enemies are originally humans but mutated caused by the Alpha-worm virus.
* The gameplay is similar Ninja Gaiden Black, but this game had quicktime events in addition to hack and slash.
* The music is almost similar to Ninja Gaiden Black.
* The infected schoolgirl in the opening cinematic looks similar to Honoka in her School Girl Strikers DLC normal costume in Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, except in DOA5:LR, she had pink hair with a headband and a different color on her plaid skirt.
* Both games ran on the Xbox consoles (this game ran on the Xbox 360 while Ninja Gaiden Black ran on the original Xbox).
@@parkout95 Who's this no one? Because there are rather large communities that like both and they built the foundation for Fromsofts most successful game
It would be cool if FromSoft could revisit this franchise and give it a second chance. I'm not saying it has to be a SoulsBorne, but FromSoft is a far more experienced studio now compared to then.
Especially now that Ninja Gaiden IP is dead
Fam just play nioh that games fireeee
The ONLY good quick-time event ever programmed into a game is Chris Redfield's boulder punching madness. That is the Citizen Kane of QTEs.
Knife fighting Krauser in re4 was epic.
The qte in the senator armstrong fight where youre mashing x as fast as you can and doing almost no damage is one of the peak qtes
Microwave hallway
thats the difference between Chris and Leon Chris doesn't run from boulders
@@tylerdark5957 huh, i wonder if that’s an intentional contrast now that you mention it
Ok, you CANNOT convince me that the... specific design of those arm cannons at 9:52 are unintentional. They knew exactly what they were doing there, and I just want to know why lmao
lmao
no no no no no no no no no NO!!!
I was gonna say the same thing about 9:42!
Wow...
Did not notice that for a bit.
"zombie helicopter"
*dmc2 infested chopper ptsd kicks in*
Oh god don’t make me remember that
it was serious sam that came to mind. equally annoying.
Pls no.
Literally made me go "Huh, for some reason that zombie helicopter reminds me of a certain helicopter in a certain capcom game that everyone hates"
I've never heard of an undead helicopter before today. I used to think I didn't have any fetishes but now I'm not so sure...
Inspiring to see the iterations FromSoft went through over the years to get where they are today.
Ok, but I’ll give this game one thing
That’s the coolest version of the moonlit great sword I’ve seen
i say bloodborne has the coolest!
Nah, Bloodborne has the best one.
Mbrace but look at it! It’s like a glass blade, and that’s really cool!
@@yashkeshavpatnam1852 I think that's how it was in Demon's Souls.
Mbrace I didn’t know that, I’ve not played demon souls
came here to see those sexy commissioned renders
👀 👀 👀
Devil May Cry 3 has the best "driving a motorcycle up a building" scene.
True.
Ff7
13:36. They also copied the "surfing on a rocket" scene from DMC3😒
I love that someone other than me references dmc atall i feel like its a niche game for some reason even though its GRANDDADDY hack n slash
Facts
One bug I got when playing this on PC was this weird visual effect where fire effects would always obscure objects in front of them like they're burned into your retina, even if they were miles away in the background. So there'd just be this orange glowing orb onscreen in front of enemies, walls and even the player because the skyscraper in the background was on fire!
6:34
"Take any boss in the Souls Series... the pace of the fight is dictated by the player"
Me, who just spent ten minutes waiting for Moonlight butterfly to stop attacking and lay its head on the bridge for no reason to let itself get hit for a microsecond:
👁️👄👁️
She eats the flowers to "refuel" its magic.
@@Ali-Sensei Nah man, I think he's just stress snacking
Or just bring the witch npc with right outside the boss gate and just wait 30 seconds while she murders it? You play like shit.
@@oh-not-the-bees7872 Imagine not knowing that. Your comment is worthy of a whoosh
@@oh-not-the-bees7872 wait are you saying that AVOIDING summons is playing like shit?!
I liked this game when I was a kid, I even 100% it, getting that "moonlight sword" with no context in a room that looked way out of place in the game was very puzzling back then, now that I found this channel I finally know where it came from, my teen self must be happy.
That one sword is probably the only true weapon that clearly marks all the Souls Games.
Yeah I liked this game as a kid too. Never knew it was FromSoftware though and watching this video made me realise how my memories were a lie.
I enjoyed the game too weirdly enough to beat it and the QTEs didn't bother me at all. not sure how Ill like it now though. I died alot too ahh the beginnings of dying over and over again.
@@dramalexi actually its in almost every From game, its OP as heck in the Armoured Core series
@@Cutie_Amor thats what he said. You are agreeing with him.
I had DMC vibes from that moonlight greatsword cutscene, but in a very awkward way.
You know how every time Dante in DMC acquires a new weapon, there's a cutscene where he demonstrates what it can do in a very stylish way? Well, he generally does that in two types of cutscenes.
The first type is when he slays a bunch of enemies that come out of nowhere displaying what the weapon can actually do, while being Dante (careless, cool and hellishly stylish).
The second type is when he does some wacky cool moves that represent the FEEL and MOOD of the weapon (I'm looking at you, Dr. Faust, Nevan, and Gilgamesh), rather than actual moves.
Well, this was neither.
I swear to god, if the moonlight greatsword cutscene had enemies in it, it would be actually pretty good!
And without them it just feels wacky and awkward... He stylishly cuts a bunch of... Roots?
Don't get me wrong, Dante in DMC 4 often does the same thing with the big black obelisks, but when he does it, he doesn't even pretend to be serious, he does all kinds of "WOHOO"s and wears a grin during all of it, so you can tell he's just having a BLAST.
This cutscene is just trying to be too serious while in actuality being way too wacky for itself, which makes it awkward.
Exactly. The moonlight greatsword cutscene has that same energy as whenever Dante gets a new weapon in Devil May Cry. But with Ninja Blade's general tone, plus the fact that he shows off the sword's power by....cutting some tree roots, it just feels super off this game.
No joke right.
DMC?
@@beanieguitarguy4070 Devil May cry. :3
I guess this is the game they thought would have the max appeal to the general audience and demon's souls is the passion project that won't sell
The moonlight great sword is legit fromsofts Mario. That damn sword is everywhere.
“None of them ever really caught on”
Armored core fans still waiting on armored core 6: am I a joke to you?
TRUE exactly that. I was kinda sad he didnt even notice the franchise :( just shows how few people actually know about it
well, all two of you are now in his comments, so now he knows :^)
Yeah, I mean 10+ main title games for Armored Core clearly shows it never caught on, right? Though honestly it'd be cool as shit to see Armored Core get a little love in this style.
I love armored core
Fromsoftware said they were working on AC6. Still fucking waiting.
“Never caught on”
Us Armored Core fans crying in a corner
For real man,
That upset me he just gonna dismiss tenchu and Armored core like that
@@B-RY27 I also liked the "Banger after banger" thing when uh.
Verdict Day and V exist and those sure ain't banhers
@@B-RY27 Tenchu from software sucked Tenchu was a activision game and Tenchu 1,2 and 3 were amazing everything made after 3 were by from software and they all sucked armored core nice tho
I LOVE AC.
i wanna really play armored core, so i hope they make a new one
The funniest part about 5:45 wasn't the cheap explosion edit but how almost immediately after the explosion yt just cuts into an online casino ad lol that killed me
Fun fact: the special agent in this game is the father of President Michael Wilson in Metal Wolf Chaos
They're all in connected in some way? My God, maybe he's in Souls series as well? Hidden somewhere in the game, we just gotta find him.
If all games made by fromsoft are somehow in the same universe/worle I wouldn't even be surprised
RIIIIICHARDDDD
You mean the metalninjasekisoulsbourne universe?
LET'S PARTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
I actually bought this game on release and kinda enjoyed it because I was looking for anything similar to Ninja Gaiden 2 (one of my favorites of all time)
Same
Yup, it's actually good game and qte while annoying were flashy and cool as hell.
@@wykydytron good is a huge stretch. It happened
I had it too, but it really wasn't good. I also bought it for the same reason as you (I loved Ninja Gaiden 2) but it was nowhere even close.
You could get a few hours of fun out of it but really wasn't great.
@@B20C0 a game doesn't have to fit within arbitrary rules in order to enjoy it and classify it as personally good. By your logic, DS3 sucks because I found it frustrating after 100%ing 1 and 2.
For anyone who's interested, I recommend watching Matt McMuscles' "Demon's Souls - What Happened?", which explains a lot of what was going on in FromSoft when Demon's Souls and Ninja Blade were being developed, and how it's basically a miracle that Demon's Souls even exists.
I remember seeing my dad play this a few times but I never got to know the name of the game. Thanks Pineapple. Now one of my mysteries has been solved. I didn't know it was a fromsoftware game.
Can't believe I owned this when i was young. I thought this was a fever dream. I loved Ninja Gaiden so I guess I just accepted this.
LMAO! I feel you bro. I just wanted a ninja game 😂😫
Same!! I was like, omg it wasn't all in my head... Lol. I used to think it was SOOO realistic, 10/10 graphics xD but I felt the same shit about fable 1 and 2 xD oh, how far we've come. ((*insert cool DS quote here*))
@@laynedoe3455 To be fair. Ninja blade still looks decent even now. At least better than dork souls.
@@doge2629 fuck no.
Ninja Gaide is just such a big milestone.
Most developers are prone to fail by default trying to copy it's core mechanics.
I'd just whished it's sequels would have been as true to the original as possible. Instead they wanted to make everything bigger, shinier and therefore it became shittier.
In before FromSoft's Elden Ring is just a Ninja Blade game sequel in disguise
First reply
Hello Justin
who even is justin y
Wouldn't be so bad. It would probably be pretty good.
Man I'm surprisingly glad to see you up and about again.
Kinda makes youtube famialir again.
The guy in the game: throws the motorcycle
Dante: *smiles*
I’ve been binging these videos where you pick apart all these older fromsoft games and am honestly very impressed with the video quality. I love the face you mention the similarities between these old titles and newer ones it’s very interesting how it all links up. With you commentary and video style I could see you doing this with all types of developers. The intro is awesome
"In how many games can you drive a motorcycle up a building"
everyone else be saying DMC3, but in Saints Row 2 you can actually drive motorcycles up buildings in gameplay. Its just a thing that you can do.
Ive yet to see this
Really? I've never seen it before gotta go search for the video
@Channel07 wha- THAT DOESNT COUNT! :P
I was thinking of that too, along with sr1
*laughs in basically all the Trials games*
"How many games can you ride a motorcycle up the side of a building?"
DMC3: am I a joke to you?
I was going to say the same thing XD
"How many games can you ride a motorcycle up the side of a building? "
**DMC 3 has entered the chat**
This game really wants to be dmc
Bnayonetta
What really blows my mind about this game is that they thought that it would be the successful game instead of Demon Souls
Let me make it clear, they had more faith in the QTE SIMULATOR *NINJA BLADE* than *DEMON SOULS*
Because back then who wouldn't? It's the same formula as God of War, with a bit of Ninja Gaiden. On hindsight it should be almost foolproof. Nobody wanted to bang their head with over 40 tries trying to complete 1st and 2nd bosses.
They probably think: "At best it'll turned into a franchise, at worst it'll be passable but still make money". Unbeknownst to them, it's a lot worse than that
That time we already had Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, Dante's Inferno and God Of War. It's not doubt they overpowered Ninja Blade, that's why only few people know it.
@@ShatteredGlass916 they at least could’ve had a little more faith in the game that did something different though. Did they never consider that maybe that formula was getting old?
@@Anonymous-73 nope, that's what i'm trying to say. In that time maybe they thought the could get away with just copying what's big. The Demon Soul concept are probably secondary to them because they probably deemed it less safe of a product compared to just copying GoW's QTE and NG's ninja setting
Consider the success of the Horizon series. I don't think there's anything fundamentally new or innovative with those games (at the time of their release), and yet they are quite successful nonetheless. Producing it turned out to be a very successful bet because all of its ideas are 'safe' and not out of the box (except for the 'robots are animals' design concept, which is pretty original)
Xbox 360 2009: Ninja Blade
PlayStation 3 2009: Demon’s Souls
Xbox really got the short end of the stick on that one
Yeah, they should have just asked for a third Otogi game for 360 over this turd. The first two otogi's were amazing and still remain my favorite original xbox games.
Business as usual.
on THAT one? it‘s been like that ever since! i really have no idea why anyone would choose an xbox over a playstation. there are no exclusive gems whatsoever.
Series X should be launching with Ninja Blade Remastered 😂
@@finalfantasy84 keep saying that and they'll buy more :p
I like how at 0:18 you showed intense highlights from bloodborne and sekiro, but for dark souls you just showed the player standing in front of firelink shrine. Which is exactly what I think of when I think of dark souls for some reason.
haha that was actually totally unintentional
@@IronPineapple dang, I thought I was an intellectual for a sec.
6:15 Thats the problem I had with the butterfly boss from ds1, my melee focused build just had to run around and wait for it to perch to get in a few hits. Ended up feeling really slow and not very exciting.
You actually don't have to. Firebombs dealt good damage to the moonlight butterfly and even better damage using black firebombs. Its what I did in my first playthrough and did it in every subsequent melee playthrough of ds1
7:29 imagine being a ninja, trained to be a killer machine, the ultimate warrior, and your best outfit is clown.
You know, it probably says a lot that FromSoft decided “this is what westeners will like... Demon Souls is too difficult for them”
They must likely didn't think the old school style wouldn't catch on. I'll be honest, only old timey games I like is blood Bourne and god of war.
@@Darkest_matter For some reason I still feel like Bloodborne was just released several days ago.
@@Darkest_matter 5-6 years ago isn't that old
They underestimated the masochism of western players
@@Darkest_matter The fuck does old timey mean
You mean to tell me THIS got a PC release, and we're still never gonna get Demon's Souls without an emulator?
From soft doesnt own demon souls, if the game gonna have a pc release, it depends only on sony
PS3 is kinda cheap now, I would consider buying it just for the exclusives if I were you
Or Armored Core on PC.
@@selekcjaosci8124 that kind of stupid to spend like a hundred dollars or more or a ps3 just so you can play like or or two games tho.
@@bitchface235 If you find it stupid it doesn't mean that it is stupid in fact. Two games? There are tons of exclusives for PS consoles. Also I don't think that PS3 costs more than 1-2 days of regular work so it's not a big deal to get it. Besides that many people consider gaming gear as something collectable, keep that in mind.
"Finally you beat the giant dad ... No don't say that" brilliant.
i didnt get that :/
@@flamingburitto you might want to look up what Giant Dad is in Dark Soul
i loved this game when i was a kid, didnt even know it was by fromsoftware
It was on steam for awhile but it's gone now.
@@milesbbop9563 Thanks, I was questioning my memory
That intro has quickly awakened all the Armored Core fans out there.
all 5 of them :x
@@MelMelodyWerner Those 5 fans must have bought thousands of copies of each Armored Core game then.
Awaken my M A S T E R S
@@Naruxos07 if you like something you support it
@@Meracog Armored Core sold well
there's one guy whos crying rn because you said his favorite game is trash
I loved this game back in the day. My favorite game from back then was probably Jericho.
@@mahdicloete5343 Clive Barkers?
@@thuropendragon7498 yeah
@@mahdicloete5343 jericho is the shit! I used to play the hell out of that and he Condemned games.
I see that this game has major flaws, but imo its not absolute dogshit and I personally liked the game back then better than many games that are out now
3:12 legit the greatest quick time event
Lmao so many great stuff going on there, but the timing of the entire scene is pure gold
I honestly have to believe that was done purposely. The editing is so tight and funny
I'm going to die
elr maestruloii te manda uyn saludo
!!!!! vergil te
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Is it real? LOL I don’t even know what it’s from if it is.
None of FromSoft's games ever REALLY caught on?
I don't think you realize how popular Armored Core has been ever since the PS1 era.
Armored Core was actually kinda big back in the day. I really want them to go back to that at some point.
Yeah me to also if from soft could make another bloodborne or otoagi or metal wolf chaos that would also be cool i mean dark souls is cool and everything. Its just not really my thing.
But the true boss of any company is money ........if soulsborne is so profitable .......why will they bother going back
@@rahulverma8774 yeah unfortunatly , from soft is kind of like most publishers in that regard. Same reason ubisoft won't make another pop or splinter cell.
@@brendanpelkey120 I dont think we should compare FromSoft with ubisoft ........... ubisoft is so greedy tht they rarely do any worthy changes in gameplay whenever they introduce sequels .......... but FromSoft studies its consumers and giv them wht they want .....they take time in making games which makes their games better .......... but we all can agree tht both companies dont like taking risks
Well, I heard something like Armored Core 6 was supposed to release in either 2020 or 2021, so there's that.
“This game has a lot of quick time events.”
Ever played Asuras Wrath?
Try Wonderful 101
I loved that game
At least Asura's Wrath does it right
I mean the game is pretty much an anime movie, an awesome one too.
The game is a better movie then game
"Ah, you were at my side, all along"
My mentor..!
My guiding moonlight!
*let me tell you that as an artist, it's GREAT to put out something that is an overtly juxtaposed mess! it is the prelude to a MASTERPIECE*
Demon souls: "THE game that put Fromsoft on the map... "
Armored Core Series: Motha F#cka WHAT?!
"mainstream" is the key word for that part, don't think armored core ever truly got popular enough for that
@@IronPineapple Sadly you are right.
Tenchu was also hugely popular back in the PS2 days.
@@IronPineapple that's arguable. For Answer is the best customizable mecha game _to date,_ and the whole IP got at least AA class following.
If you compare it to the Souls series, sure. But ignoring Armored Core's existence while calling yourself "a fan of Fromsoft" kinda feels weird. Sounds more like you're just a fan of their fantasy games.
@@ryanjoseph9335 I played some of the Tenchu(s) but I didnt remember were From Software games.
12:10 Fun Fact. The area where you get the Moonlight Sword in Ninja Blade is a nearly identical to the one where you get it in King's Field IV: The Ancient City on PS2.
The only difference being in King's Field 4 the area is more ruined and light is shining through.
I guess by this From Software is basically telling us that King's Field is truly dead and will never return. :'(
I watched this video now, after seeing Pineapple's videos on both King's Field games and let me tell you I was stunned when I saw that lol.
and the Moonlight Greatsword is in Elden Ring as well.
Alright alright alright. I'm gonna be that guy.... I liked ninja blade
I think its probably one of is first video game
back at the day when first played a videogame every game felt amazing and when I remember the game in my head it feels like it was the best game ever made. But in reality the game sucks ass even if I got amazing child memories of it.
even whit that said game that have a special place in my childhood memories are still good game.
Even as a child I could see the difference between a good and a bad game and when a revisit those games I still have a good time.
Honestly I liked it too planning to replay it to see how my opinion holds up 😂😂😂
Same. It had it's flaws, but overall it was pretty fun to play at least.
Same! I loved Ninja Gaiden for the xbox360/ps3, and this was just a fun budget version of that. Also, I didn't have any technical issues. I can imagine that would ruin the fun quite a lot.
"Ever since releasing Demon's Souls, they've released banger, after banger, after banger."
Me: *coughs in Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor for the Xbox 360 Kinect*
"In how many games you can ride a motorcycle up the side of a building?" I'm sorry but in Bayonetta you ride a motorcycle up the side of a launching rocket...
In DMC3 you ride one up the side of a collapsing building
Now we just need a game were you ride a motorbike across the thread of time itself..
@@Thefourthdimensional in DMC5 you ride a motorcycle on enemies
@@TheDarkEnigma *fires up unity*
I don't know how bayonetta manages to be over the top so much it becomes mundane, this game on the other hand is just boring
You might be the first person in about 15 years to think about That's So Raven.
"Mom, can we have Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance?"
"We have Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance at home."
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance at home:
This is Ninja Gaiden at Home
Better than metal gear rising....
@@komozoyo5849 no....
@@plugshirt1762
Relation (connection) between this game by FromSoftware and games set in Team Ninja's Dead or Alive universe:
* The title and the ninja theme is similar to the 2004 Xbox title Ninja Gaiden and its more well-known updated Black version.
* Ken Ogawa is similar to Ninja Gaiden Black's protagonist Ryu Hayabusa, except Ken lacks his mouth mask and had sleeves on his arms.
* The enemies can be similar to the fiends from Ninja Gaiden Black, but in this one, enemies are originally humans but mutated caused by the Alpha-worm virus.
* The gameplay is similar Ninja Gaiden Black, but this game had quicktime events in addition to hack and slash.
* The music is almost similar to Ninja Gaiden Black.
* The infected schoolgirl in the opening cinematic looks similar to Honoka in her School Girl Strikers DLC normal costume in Dead or Alive 5: Last Round, except in DOA5:LR, she had pink hair with a headband and a different color on her plaid skirt.
* Both games ran on the Xbox consoles (this game ran on the Xbox 360 while Ninja Gaiden Black ran on the original Xbox).
Dude, Ninja Blade came out 4 years before MGR ....
The craziest thing is that the Moonlight greatsword location is the exact same as Kings Field 4. The roots and everything!
"Demon's Souls was the game that put FromSoftware on the map"
Armored Core: "Am I a joke to you?"
Yes
Tenchu: "Nani the fuck?"
Right!
Never forget that when you say, “thank god we’re in this timeline where demon souls was popular” some one is saying “thank god we’re in this timeline where ninja blade is popular”
Can we see what the Ninja Blade 2020 is like? I'd rather no Dark Souls than everything being on fire. It would suck, sure, but it's better than living in an IRL Lost Izalith.
6:33 - Moonlight Butterfly. Hmm... don't know about that chief.
Ty
Well if you have a bow, or bombs... you can always attack it
thats why that boss is trash
@@kiro253 Killer soundtrack though 😏
Literally my exact thought when he mentioned bosses switching between attack phases and defense phases
That scold worm was reused in dark souls as the slug in the swamp in ds3
8:11 "It feels soulless" lmao
It really does ooze the vibe of "okay we have been working on demons souls and the upper execs won't have a lot of faith so they want us to make a game that hits all the trends" thus a shitty clone of ninja gaiden with shitty weapons and boring boss fights and way to many turrets and quick time events.
@@bitchface235 never understood how quicktime events every even became popular in the first place I mean I haven't met a single person who liked quicktime events
"Wait, it's all Moonlight Greatsword?"
"Always has been."
Fromsoft in a nutshell.
There's just something about a super serious ninja dressed up in a clown costume that makes me laugh too much.
This "defensive phase -> attacking phase" boss design? Well... honestly, it's part of why I don't like Elden Ring bosses. In that game, From leaned so _hard_ into making you dodge absolute combo and AoE _barrages_ to then take an opening to quickly smack them a few times. Like - really, it's _basically_ that exact type of design. I really don't like it.
"Fighting your dad in some kind of sword dimension."
It almost looks like Ken and Kanbe somehow found their way inside of Gilgamesh's Noble Phantasm.
Would it be more appropriate to compare it to the UBW ?
@@lamelane2762 I am the bone of my Moonlight Greatsword.
Bruh, it's UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS, not Babylon's gate.
Ooh, an inside joke that I didn’t understand. Unfortunately I don’t watch bad anime
@@Tenchigumi Salt is my body and rage is my blood
>"But none of them really ever caught on"
*Cries in no new Armored Core games since Verdict Day fell flat*
Bruh for real armored core was my shit growing up. I never realized that from is responsible for 2 of my favorite series.
Yeah I was coming down to type this too. Armored Core has had a diehard fanbase since PS1.
And for real like, I love Souls and stuff, but come on. It's been 7 years since anything AC.
Shmandalf Armored Core 2 on my pizza hut demo disc was a formative gaming memory.
ACV and ACVD had some issues. I love a lot of what they did, but then there was a lot I felt was wrong with them.
EDIT: Granted, at this point, I'd take something in the style of ACV. I'd prefer something along the lines of the PS2 ACs, but that style had some merits to it.
Yeah. Man even bringing the later titles like 4/4A and V and VD to PC would be amazing bc of their multiplayer.
"Never really caught on"
*stares in Armored Core*
Seriously. As an old school AC fan, it truly sucks that both FromSoft and the fans of FromSoft have forgotten and abandoned us.
@@MidlifeCrisisJoe 100%. Some of my favorite games were Armored Core and Tenchu, both of which are 100% MIA because Souls exists. I like the Souls series well enough, but for my money they don't compare to AC or Tenchu.
I would love for AC to comeback
Honestly I loved ninja blade. I found it as a great one time play through game. Probably because I had an Xbox and not a PlayStation haha
This was From Soft?! I remember 100%ing this game back in the day holy shit.
Developer: "How many turret sections should we have?"
FromSoftware: "Yes"
Otogi is my favorite "Pre-Souls" FromSoftware game. The combat in that game is so good, and the destructible environment makes it so epic. Love that game.
Agreed, Otogi killed ass.
I love how unnecessary making getting the Moonlight Greatsword a quicktime event was.
False. That secret proves this game is set in the future of demons souls.
Technically speaking, it's the area in kings field 4 where you get the moonlight sword, it's a great place... and he broke it so I hate this game even more now
The game actually implies that it's a prequel to Metal Wolf Chaos.
Umbaasa
Actually looks like Ash Lake.
Do you wanna play a game that's almost entirely made out of Quick Time Events but is still a great experience? Try Asura's Wrath.
What a good game
I kept my 3 for this.
Asura's Wrath is the best anime I've ever "played".
@@mj1mj3 Technically it's still counts as "played", more in the sense of you're playing interactive video throughout the game's episodes/arcs than to circulate your controller more actively as the supposedly action game
Ever heard of The Wolf Among Us? One of my favourite stories in a video game.
This was one of my favourite games when I was a kid. Back then I did not really care about comparing games to think if they are good or bad, I just thought that being a ninja and running around is real cool, and that's it lmao.
ah the times when we had innocence i miss those
Be a ninja, running on walls, throw shuriken, fast pace combat. As a child in 2009, this is a game I can dream of
2:45 best example of this would be the Yakuza series, metal gear rising revengeance and to a lesser extent the god of war series, all of them use quick time events absolutely perfectly and the gameplay is elevated because of it.
I'd like to throw Asura's Wrath into this as well. Sure, it also has a lot of QTE's but they feel pretty good to pull off most of the time. Just makes you feel like you're part of the action sometimes.