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Resident_Hazard on 04 March 2011
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Khuutra said:
Resident_Hazard said:
chocoloco said:

Obviously, otherwise he would know it is about the bloodiest game ever with fighting strippers!

As for the gameplay?  I have never seen such absent-minded button-mashing nonsense in my entire life.  Talk about a fucking mess.  It was nothing but mashing the X button the entire time, and all the weapons were interchangeable, making having more than one weapon type essentially meaningless.  Boss battles were just obnoxious, and if it weren't for that broken Conan game, I'd say they were the worst I'd ever experienced.  (Okay, to be fair, Onechanbara on the Xbox360 manages to be slightly worse than Ninja Gaiden II on almost every level, but NG2 was intended as a AAA-style release, and Onechanbara has always expectedly been crap.)

Ladies and gentlemen, we found it:

The wrongest post.

The game has Achievements for playing through it entirely using each of the weapons, which means that there is no weapon that is effectively better for any single situation in the game, thus, they are interchangable in strength and use.  Which they were.  

To be fair, I did use more than the X button, but in these contexts:

Boss battles:  Mashed Y button, a few times, got killed faster than the scene took to load.
That one (final) boss battle that, for no reason whatsoever, suddenly required strategy when I had to hold B to fire an arrow at the boss's tiny weakspot.  Since this didn't fit the flow of the rest of the game, I had to resort to IGN's walkthrough to figure out how to fight this guy.  
And those moments when I was pressing A & X at the same time trying to be fancy.

Other than that, the game is mostly spent just hammering away at the X button.  Which means that Ninja Gaiden II is pretty much played the exact same way as Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad, which I have also played through.

Sorry that my accurate description of Ninja Gaiden II upsets you, but if you had actually played that monstrosity, you'd know what I'm saying is true.  Frankly, I'm surprised I didn't wear out the X button.