Ninja Gaiden 3

I'll take your word for it.

But yeah, I'll agree. God Of War, while good, is massively overhyped. Not every "stylish crazy action" game is a GoW clone. If you want to be technical, all of the titles in the genre more or less follow Devil May Cry (the Trope Codifier), if anything, and that series beats out Kratos & co. by a margin of a few years.

The kusurigama was one of my favorite weapons, along with the tonfas, Lunar, Scythe and Talons.

I'll stick to Lunar whenever possible. The most defining weapon, even though the end-level morningstars attached to the ends are really over the top, of the series. Often, I use it to smack smack whooop on crowds unless some Tactical Ninjas want a different weapon to keel

In NG 2 you can fight effectively with almost any weapon in almost any situation, except maybe the vigoorian flail which is more of a crazy-but-cool toy. They all have a pretty broad range of attacks.

It was a set of bladed nunchaku. What's not to like?

Sword chucks, yo!

edited 16th Jun '11 11:50:18 AM by ShirowShirow

I demand gopher-chucks for NG 3

I demand Ryu's talking demon tongue as a weapon.

That red-cloaked villain will be named Betty.

And one of the villain's evil henchmen will be a demonic cow.

Ryu's newest large-chested traveling companion will be named Ling.

Dat solo boob action!

Solo boob of all things? Oh damn please stop, my mind can't handle the squick

I forgot the name of the bishie among the 4 Greater Fiends, but the weakness of the bishie, is a BFS. Smacking him with it is damn hilarious

Alexei? I think?

We really do need an actual Big Bad though. Last game had The Rival Spider clan leader, bitchy Mcblood bitch, Satan and the last-minute appearance of the grand priest all vying for the title. Note that i can't remember any of their names.

Seriously. Ninja Gaiden 2 would have actually been improved by the complete removal of the storyline. There aren't many games i can say tha about.

I don't understand anything that happened in the plots of either of the two games. It's kind of funny when you consider how great the cut scenes in the NES games were.

Apparently, the order of the series is New!Ninja Gaiden -—> Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword -—> New!Ninja Gaiden II —> New!Ninja Gaiden III (presumably) -—> the NES Trilogy (III comes before II) —> the OVA —> Dead or Alive, so maybe the lack of fleshed-out plots is telling of the chronology.

The OVA? Really? They're counting that?

And DOA's the very last thing? Wow, Ayane sure hit puberty early.

Ninja Gaiden II was thoroughly satisfying in gameplay and combat, but the story was a prime example of bare-bones and not necessary to anything. It improved upon all obnoxious mechanics of the first Ninja Gaiden, such as the save feature restoring your health and even an automatic save at the beginning of each level. And besides the Dragon sword my favorite weapons were the Vigorrean Flail, Lunar Lance and Eclipse Scythe.

I like the idea behind III being a little bit more trying for Ryu as a character, besides his initial defeat by Doku the previous games didn't really have him struggle to win the day. You can still be badass and take a beating at the same time.

edited 16th Jun '11 6:48:13 PM by KJMackley

Either she's an early bloomer (she's only around 16 by the time of DOA3 IIRC) or all of these titles take place over the span of a few months.

Several months during which Ryu's clan village gets burned down 47 times.

Yeah, the perpetually low ages of Ayane and Kasumi are both nonsensical and biting team ninja in the ass with the various bans on Dimensions. Just say they're 18 already. Jesus. They have the exact same body types as the others anyways.

Then again the low female age phenomenon can't be attributed to Team Ninja alone. Among the Loads And Loads Of Characters of King Of Fighters the one named "Mature" was so called because she's the oldest female fighter. She's 28.

edited 16th Jun '11 7:05:24 PM by ShirowShirow

Ayane seems to be the most busty of all the DOA girls... even in NG 1.

I guess Team Ninja likes their high school girls. If they age them, they'll have to introduce new, younger characters to replace them.

That's pretty freaking creepy.

Actually, Vanessa's older at 30, but the characters have had their ages frozen since '95, so Mature would have been two years older than her by the time of Vanessa's debut (2000).

I'm pretty sure that Tina is 1st in terms of cup size out of the gals. Sure, they're all stacked, but Tina beats out most of them, if not all.

It's Japan. I'm not surprised.

Remind me never to try and think i know anything about an SNK fighter while you're around.

The Team Ninja girls do sort of mesh together after awhile. Would it be so wrong to have one with a visible physique? A plump rear? A flat chest? BAH!

Then again, with Itagaki gone this game's Mission Control actually appears to be wearing a business suit of all things. That's one hell of a start.