• Gamespot – 4/10
• Games Radar – 2/5
• Game Informer – 6.5/10
• USGamer – 1.5/5
• CVG – 3/10
• OPM – 3/10
• Edge : 2/10

I had a feeling this would be reviewed very low but any of you duders picking it up?

Ha, I forget this thing even existed, let alone it was apparently so close to release. Oh well, from what I remember seeing of this the reception doesn't wholly surprise me.

The scene at the end of the gamespot video review made me giggle at least.

Not surprised, the trailers looked like total crap. (And no, I'm not talking about just the terrible dialog)

Sounds like a day one purchase.

Good. I don't want any of the ideas from that game to catch on.

Not surprising after that trailer from a while back. Seems the Ninja Gaiden name is only getting worse and worse.

Can't say I'm surprised, but yeesh, some of those scores are harsh.

That's essentially my response to this.

Yeah, I'm buying it later. It was either this or infamous for my 3rd game and this one looks up more my alley. Looks fun.

What happened to you Ninja Gaiden. Come back to us.

From the moment I first heard Spark was involved when the game was announced, alarms went off in my head.

Doesn't surprise me at all. This game has always looked dire.

Quick Look pls

Another series being driven into the ground.

....i kinda still want to play this?.........

Dang man, can you even imagine where the Ninja Gaiden franchise could have been today if Tecmo hadn't been complete shitholes and Itagaki and his developers had been kept on and Hayashi had been fired? We'd have the sickest ninja gaming experience known to man running on the new consoles, but instead we got NG3 and this.

Was going to say Demoskinos is but he already commented. As for me, I'll be watching it on YouTube. Spark Unlimited yo.

@awesomeusername: Its a Ninja Gaiden game even if none of them will ever live up to the splendor of Ninja Gaiden Black I can't help but buy it.

Well for better or worse....its official. If anyone remotely cares what I think of it I'll report back tonight.

hmmmmm, might be fun to stream it and make an angry rant video?

Hmm... couldn't say I didn't see this coming after seeing the E3 demo last summer.

I thought it looked good, but not enough to buy day one. Bummer!

I don't know anything about Spark.

Now I wonder how many of those reviews are just upset about the tone/humor of the game. This game never had a chance. Could be action game of the generation, but it was dead out the gate.

@demoskinos: I (& the entire internet) know you will buy anything Ninja Gaiden. Nothing wrong with that, I was just messing with you. If anything, the case looks pretty cool. Would like to hear your thoughts on the game since I bet most reviews dislike it because the tone/humor. GameInformers little blurb pretty much points it to be a decent game besides the "humor".

Seems like my decision to not get this from Gamefly and get the new Atelier game and Second Son instead was a good one.

Disliking a game's tone and/or style of humour should still serve as valid criticism, though. And besides, Gamespot and OPM at least spent most of their attention lambasting the gameplay and the supposedly atrocious camera more than anything else. Not to mention a framerate on consoles that also apparently sometimes veers into the single digits...

Damn that harsh .... the game never caught my eye (nor really any of the 3D ninja gaiden games) so I wouldnt buy it ... but is it that bad?

Itagaki was the driving force behind the goodness of Team Ninja. I'm still pretty shocked at just how far of a dive the quality took after Itagaki left, though.

Does that mean anything anymore?

@awesomeusername: No offense taken sir. Im going to report back for sure. Possibly tonight if I don't get distracted by Dark Souls 2 or Metal Gear Solid V or FFX HD or...oh god so many games. I don't have enough time to play them all.

What? Of course it does. It means it gets pretty choppy at points. If you're referring to the specifics of stating 'single digits' then perhaps not; point is the framerate gets to be pretty dire, but there's also nothing wrong in pointing out to just how bad.

Yeah... Kind of what I expected, sadly.

@yummylee:

Yea, the single-digits thing, in light of Titanfall.

Well you could read some of the reviews. I have and, nope, the major criticisms aren't just on the "humor".

I wasn't saying it isn't a valid criticism, I just bet that's what everyone is most annoyed by. I read on Game Informer the cameras a bit bad at some points but isn't that to be expected from a Ninja Gaiden game? I'm not saying that shouldn't be pointed out either. Just saying from what I've played of Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus and NG3, a bad camera will always be a problem with Team Ninja. I don't read reviews, just skim them from Game Informer so I wouldn't really know all the problems with the game. But I don't care for the game at all. If I played it, it'd be because I got it for $15.

Spark Unlimited is a mediocre development studio with a scant but poor history. In addition to assisting on Yaiba, they were also responsible for Lost Planet 3 and the FPS games Turning Point: Fall of Liberty and Legendary. In short, their track record is not that good. They're the obvious weak link in the partnership responsible for this game.

Man, you forgot the most important of the game's scores: the 9/9/9/9 from Famitsu.

Important as in "Japan just because you don't know how to make console games anymore doesn't mean you need to be this desperate for validation."