Frankly after playing God of War I was really under whelmed by the series, the same with ninja gaiden, but not to the same extent,
I played through both and frankly I don't see why people are so enamored with either, plus they are both just over glorified single player beat-em ups, hmm come to think of it they just high polygon renditions of the nes version of double dragon
God of War
-fixed camera hurts, I can't look around and get a better view of where I need to go
-gameplay lets see first combat I beat it by hitting square, square, trianlge, square, square, triangle ad nauseum until the game ended, with the only breaks the occasionally hitting R2 to activate magic mode followed by square square square or circle circle circle, the occasional quick timer event, or jamming down both analog stick to go into rage mode. and Oh boy how could I forget collecting angry orbs to power up weapons
next platforming, uhhhh, the platforming in god of war is absolutely atrocious, lots of walking on planks I'll give it that
and finally boss fights, these certainly were disappointing, big bosses do not equal cool or fun bosses, just stick square square square roll and victory is ensured
Graphically, yeah the backgrounds were cool when some big Greek structure was in the distance and you'll never ever hear me complain about 60 fps, but enemies and textures all lack detail, textures in particular were monotonous and their never was a huge enemy count in wide open areas
and the story, wow that was cliched,
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Mr Angry did something bad and he feels bad, Mr. Angry can get revenge on the guy responsible for making him do that bad thing, Mr. Angry is so angry that he can even return from the dead to get revenge. Mr. Angry finds out revenge doesn't make him stop feeling bad. Mr. Angry tries to kill himself, but then Mr. Angry is given a greater purpose
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Ninja Gaiden is a bit better but it is steal just a glorified beat em up
gameplay always broke down to slash-slash-slash-kick to break the enemy's gaurd-slash-slash-slash, or for big enemies slash-slash-slash-roll, with the occasional magic uses to make life easier, and jumping and spinning at those fish
and oh boy instead of god of wars angry orbs I get to collect ninja orbs to power up.
platforming was significantly better than god of wars but it still was somewhat clunky and the camera frequently made scene's harder to deal with than they should have been.
Story wise was basically God of wars, but replace angry with ninja and swap a few words around and drop the ending sentence and replace with and magically ninja'd away with after a job well done, and add it was the uncle the whole time.
Frankly the only highlight of the story was the spider-clan ninja's sometimes humorous journal entries
Visually it's really nice, and runs at 60 but outside of small room there's never more than 3 enemies at once (save for fish) and really the game is generally in closed of areas when your actually doing anything
Basically in my opinion, god of war is a very well polished but mediocre game that features a really angry hero and violence and a few topless women and that's why people like it,
and ninja gaiden, is a very well polished but average game that features a ninja with some nostalgic ties and violence and that's why people like it
and come on they are both just over glorified beat em ups
never played devil may cry so I can't have an opinion of the game
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NOW A PUNISHER CAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!
