In Ninja Gaiden

For me, this is another one on the "I'll NEVER finish this one of these days" list. I can do fine sprinting through the first few levels, but then I die. Period.

I always liked the way it looked. The way Ryu ran, his sword, the little "HA!" thing whenever he swings, it blew me away the first time I played it. My gaming experiences previous to it were Mario, Tecmo Bowl, Mario Brothers 1 and 3, 1942, Stealth, Pinball, and hours and hours of Trog. It had a totally different look and feel that I hadn't seen yet.

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Yeah, here we go. My favorite NES game ever... GREAT choice Manuel ;)

Where do I begin? This game is just absolutely perfect IMO. As stated already, the story is great. I love the way that the music fits the mood of what's going on in the cinema screen at all the appropriate times. Memorable characters are in the game as well. I liked the way they tied in Malth and Ryu's father together as the ones that battled.

I honestly can't tell you about the first time I ever played this game, but I do remember being blown away... I couldn't even get to the second boss that very first time I played haha Wow, that was a long time ago. I played it so often before that I could get through the game without dying, which I think is a pretty good accomplishment. I've been playing it more lately now because I need to re-record my VirtuaNES movie of it... I did HORRIBLE on that run. I'm going to get a no-death run up whenever I get my retrousb NES controller in the mail.

This game is pretty tough, but if you keep playing it you'll soon be able to play in patterns. After that you get bored with the patterns and start trying new stuff. Like just recently I started learning to get to Bloody Malth with the spin attack. I usually just ran up to him and swung, but I'd like to beat him without getting hit ;)

Also, this is one of those occassions that I like the artwork we got in North America moreso than the Japanese artwork. The Japanese cover and cart looks a bit too drab to me.

To be true, this one was especially for you, Roth.

Please make sure to post that speedrun here. I'm looking forward to it.

I'm in the same boat as Newb, i really enjoy it for the levels I can actually beat, then, I just die. Music is great too, it's probably my favourite out of the trilogy.

I've not played Ninja Gaiden much (didn't really click with me) so can't comment on it really, but I thought I'd mention the name change in Europe. It was renamed Shadow Warriors apparently because of the 1980's censors dislike of the word 'ninja' (see Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles and others). What I find funny about this is that 'Ninja Gaiden' is still written on the box directly below 'Shadow Warriors', making the whole name change pointless!

Hmmm...

I don't recall fighting that giant pixelated "X" on the game before.

But yeah, 'Ninja Gaiden' is one of the bestest ever NES Games.

Dammit! It shows up on mine... can anyone else see it?

i see a big X too.

For anyone seeing an X, just copy the web address of it and paste it in another window. Hit Go, then Refresh. You should be fine after that.

you know, i tried that last night and it didn't work, but just now it did.

Helps if you're not a hotlinker.

I 'shacked it, works now.

WHoops. Completely forgot about rehosting it. I'll shack the other one, too.

This game rocks, and it’s so tough. It’s a game I bought back when it first came out. I didn’t conquer it until just recently.
Minor SPOILER about the last boss…I could defeat the first form without any problem at all, it’s the second one that had always given me trouble. I could not for the life of me dodge those curving fireballs consistently. I decided to take him on using that spinning slash technique, and it worked so amazingly well-I jumped through him 2 times, and he was dead. The last form was luckily beaten on that same life. <END SPOILER>

I suppose I should have taken more interest in the storyline. Whenever the cinema stuff would come up, I would always skip it to get back to the game play. By the time I had made it to the end, I had no idea who the people were that were being talked about.

My 2 most annoying things in that game were 1) the birds, which would always come at you at the wrong times which is probably just good level design, 2) the way you fly backwards after taking a hit and it always happens when you have no platform to land on.

I loved all the ninja weapons, and the great play control in that one though. I like launching the orange ninja star, which comes back to you, and then I keep jumping to avoid it so that it keeps going back & forth around me.