Ninja Gaiden II

that is not true. i am a first time player to the franchise a newbee to it and i passed path of the acolyte. it doesnt matter if your new to it as much as your effort you spend playing and getting to know the game. it was a great game. hard ass hell though. sigma 2 looks pretty good too. they always have badass bosses and characters.

Those are some huge crazy weapons there.

LOVE IT i became alomost passionate about the first trying to beat it faster each time i played the new look is great the lunar staff is the s@#t.

I usually like bashing this Ryan guy, but I can't with this game, because when I was alway's getting stuck on this for the longest I bashed this game myself. However I would love to give this a 10, but I can't due to the mear fact that without a strategy guide, or knowing a Ninja Gaiden nerd, you wont really succeed in this. It's definently a game for a hard core gamer, I'm on level 13 of 14 now, and still get frustrated as heck. I know I'll probably be doing the ol controller toss on the last level, just knowing how hard it will be.

Well, i believe NG2 was one of the best games out there better then a 8.2 rating though.. I thought though personally the levliling of your weapons and spells and your item list were very welll put together. Like these comments above mine i have seen i agree the monsters and other things lol we h ad to fight was a little weird and i also thought some fighting situations were way to slow like the level where yuor going up those stairs and like 30-40 ninjas attack and its so slow u cant even really maneuver. But besides that it was one of the best and gory games out there to date.

Pros:

Stunning Gameplay
Visually the best 360 game to date
The fluid combat sequences
Outstanding frame rates and animation sequences
The weapon assortment and ability to change in mid attack
Reaching a save point pushes you to the furthest of your abilities at times
Tailisman of Rebirth is literally a lifesaver
Option to manually save multiple save files
Obliteration and Ultimate Techniques
Regeneration of portion of health after battle
The Chiburi Move - Ryu shakes the blood off of his weapon after a battle
True Dragon sword/Genshin combo

Cons:

"Cheap" Boss Battles
Camera Issues at times
Rating:

This is one of the best games that I have played on the 360 to date. It is challenging, visually stunning and a lot of fun. I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to take on a challenge of playing it on the higher difficulty setting. I give it a 9.0 out of 10 as it is that good.

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8.5 is way to generous of a score for NG2! In my opinion some of the enemies in this game looked downright stupid and had no right to be in a ninja game (robots, werewolves, chpt 3 boss). Also it seemed as if TeamNinja wanted to make different locations for ryu to go to because unlike in NG1, where the locations remain consitent with each other. In NG2 the chapters take you to different locations like NewYork, Tokyo, Mt Fugi. This game also cheats a lot, by letting you get killed by enemies that you cant see because of the poor camera angels. This game in my opion should have gotto between a 5 nad a 7

The review was dead on about the game the only thing i would add is that First timers will not beat this game even on the path of the alcolyte. Play the first game before you get into this one

This review said it all. The new techinques aren't as much as a playoff of the first NG as other features, but I did get the same feel. I'm (somewhat) glad to know that others have experienced some slowdowns, but at least they aren't permanent. I do believe this game did deserve a 9/10, though; the technical issues weren't that bad. But hey, everything else was accurate.

I gotta see what Famitsu gave it....

I don't think so but part 1 will definitely get you prepared for this one.

game is incredible so far!!

got a question about this site though, i just joined and are there forums because i cant find any?

To be honest, the entire month of June is going to this game. Not to mention, I'll be going for the 1000 in this one! (I've got 1000's in 14 games - a number of them are hard/and or time consuming)

I see that technical issues such as slowdown, etc. was mentioned in the review. I've been seeing reports saying that Ninja Gaiden II performs better (technically) in the retail copy as opposed to the reviewable debug builds (ex. TeamXbox review). So therefore, I'm not too worried about that. I just picked up my copy today from Gamestop. Afterwards, I went home and beat the last two chapters of Ninja Gaiden Black. 'Bout time for some NG2 action! Sounds like it'll be just as great judging from this review and the TeamXbox review.

I'm with you Axe. I actually called a bunch of different store to see if anyone got it today cause I just can't wait to play it. I will definitely be putting in a lot of time on this game.

Hell yeah! I'm picking up this baby tomorrow. Still, I'm playing on Acolyte for the first time through.

Hell yeah! I'm picking up this baby tomorrow. Still, I'm playing on Acolyte for the first time through.

Wow that sucks that they didn't fix the camera issue from the first one. I think i'll just rent.

i still havent played the ninja gaiden for the original xbox is there any story points i need to know for this one?