Ninja Gaiden 2 What a Game...

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DMeisterJ said:
Wow. Could you be more wrong?

The camera is furiously infuriating. And if you haven't died from it, consider yourself lucky. I'm always at the mercy of that son-of-a-bitch.

It's a good game, but me (and every reviewer) would still put the God of War series and DMC series above it.

I find that Ninja Gaiden 2 is a poor man's God of War, only with a worse camera angle, and crappy story, and god-awful graphics. I mean seriously Ryu has no texture on his suit. That annoys the hell out of men.

Anyhoo, yeah, NG2 is a good game, but not better than DMC or GoW

God of War >>>>> Devil May Cry >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ninja Gaiden 2.

 

I have to completely disagree with you. Ninja Gaiden 1 is quite a fantastic game. It's actually better than any game in the other series besides perhaps DMC 1, which I would give points for being innovative for the time.

Ninja Gaiden 2 is, imho, far better than DMC 2 and 4, however, it is slightly worse than DMC 3 and 1.

Certainly there is no doubt that NG1 destroys all of those games, and NG2 does move the series forward in many ways, creating a better fighting system than the first game.

The stories are all throw-away in these games(except GoW which actually depends on the story to make up for shoddy gameplay), and the NG fighting system, while not as flashy as DMC4, is much deeper and more intricate, and therefore funner for the hardcore player to master.

 

Basically, it comes down to this. If your good at DMC4, big whoop. You can blow through that game even on the surprisingly easy DMD mode, in a few hours, and it really takes very little skill or even effort once you figure the game out.

Beating NG2 on even the easiest difficutly level is quite a feat, and that's a huge step in the right direction for fans of this genre of game.

Visitors to the genre would certainly probably prefer the much more user-friendly DMC4 or GoW2, however. If you're old school, though, and actually want to play these games for years to come, there is no doubt whatsoever that Ninja Gaiden 2 is the superior game for you, and you would be remiss to even play those other games because their casual user-friendly nature will leave you feeling empty or disgust you entirely.

However, DMJ, even on a casual, userfriend level, I still think NG2 is a little better than DMC4 and much better than God of Puzzle 2, which from time to time, literally bored me to tears. I'm a grown man. I don't cry easily. At the point when I was moving corpses on conveyer belts so I could kick a freakin stone platform in water simply to jump across it, I could have puked. GoW isn't even the same genre of game as far as I'm concerned. It's like comparing Metroid Prime to Halo. It's a puzzle game with a great story, and some clunky fighting and minigames in it. All you have to do is see Kratos double jump to realize that, lol.

Anyway, you're entitled to your opinion, but you should know that the hardcore underground fans of the genre certainly reflect my sentiments in this post.

 

They don't none too much like God of War, either, lol. I personally think that it's the most over-rated series in the history of gaming.