Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword is a 2008 action-adventure video game released for the Nintendo DS, developed by Team Ninja and published by Tecmo (in Europe it was published by Ubisoft).
This game contains examples of:
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: In Dragon Sword, after finally explaining what the collectable Wooden Amulets are for, Denroku comments that he read it in the strategy guide.
- Faux Action Girl: Momiji unfortunately doesn't have a good showing in Dragon Sword - she demonstrates some skill as a ninja but loses handily to the first big fiend she encounters and spends most of the game as a tortured captive of the Black Spider Clan. Thankfully she gets to be a full-blown Action Girl in Sigma 2. And by the time of Ninja Gaiden III, she spends a whole level fighting alongside Ryu almost as an equal.
- Omnicidal Maniac: The Dark Dragon in Dragon Sword, according to Nicchae, would've annihilated both humans AND fiends had Ryu not destroyed it soon after its birth.
- Non-Dubbed Grunts: Dragon Sword has no English voice track, as Tecmo Toei felt no need to hire English voice actors, since the game only has grunts and a few words uttered through the whole adventure. Still it's quite impressive that all sounds and grunts alike are performed by the original Japanese voice actors, and actually recorded for production, not recycled tracks from the console versions.
