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My really crappy mini-review for Ninja Gaiden 2

by mechakirby on July 25, 2008
4 out of 5 starsScore: 80/100

I'm not really sure why I bought this game. It was kind of an impulse buy, because I kind of enjoyed Ninja Gaiden Sigma. And the boxart is sweet. I think thats what got me.

Anyways, yeah the game is really cool. Really intense action, and very satisfying when you can successfully dispatch a large group of enemies. I love how the body parts and the blood actually stays on the ground too. A very enjoyable game if you can get past it's faults.

The graphics are... average. There are some small glitches like floating body parts and blood, but nothing that really effects the game. Character models looks great, but thats just about it. Theres nothing else really thats really outstanding in the graphics department. The engine is really starting to show it's age.

The "story" is non-existent. Which saddens me, because a story is what makes a game really memorable and makes it stand out. If a game has a good story I can usually give it a free pass on some of it's faults. Thats not the case for Ninja Gaiden 2, so I'm going to whine and cry all I want about this games camera.

God damn this game is hard. And it's not even the enemies or the bosses that make the game hard, it's the camera. It's just abysmal. I feel as if I'm battling the camera more than the enemies, and I fell unprepared when I reach a boss because of that.

Don't even try and tell that I suck at the game to try and justify everything thats wrong with this game. Shut up. I got through Ninja Gaiden Sigma just fine. There was only one part of that game that I had trouble with, but besides that I breezed through that game. I was breezing through Ninja Gaiden 2 also but I just simply lost interest. Tecmo's gonna have to patch this one if I'm ever going to come back to this game.

And it's like some of the enemies are designed to take advantage of the **** camera to kill you. Like the wolves? Man those things are cheap. They like come out of nowhere and take you down then like plant a bomb on you? What is that? Oh, thats bull****.

Luckily the awesome factor of this game sort of makes up for the terrible camera.

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