Well there's a lot to be said for the Hurricane Pack, since Intercept changed the balance of the entire game (I missed it in NGB). Ninja Gaiden Black was also expanded enough to be a real expansion instead of just a special edition. And Ninja Gaiden 2 of course was great.

When he pulls off the mask

There will be another mask beneath it!!!!! :P

But seriously I hope we don't see his face

But yeah hyped as hell :D one of my fave genre and franchises

BAD news day, seeing DMC 5 so different and Ninja Gaiden without Itagaki, two of my favorite franchises being destroyed T_T, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So..? , that doesn't make him legendary, he didn't innovate the genre, recreate something new to it, or made a "great" sequel , NG2 was meh compared to the first, and the first wasn't groundbreaking in storyline , setting , scale as much as it was difficult.

atleast Devil May Cry had something unique going with it, so did Onimusha , God Of War , Shinobi , Bayonetta  and so many others , why aren't the developer of those are lesser than than this guy? , they made more than ONE game too

he already have a face in the old games >_>; read the post i made.

Ninja gaiden was around long before itagaki

"Ryu is pulling off his mask to represent a more human side to the series' protagonist and the idea that players will discover more about him."

Ninja Gaiden: Other N!!!

This is like your thing about Miyamoto, isn't it.

Regardless, it's beside the point. People love Itagaki's games. That's all there is. Your definition of legendary doesn't enter the fray at all.

Very few serious action game fans seriously consider Kamiya "lesser than" Itagaki, but there's nothing intrinsically wrong with thinking he's the best in the business.

I don't, myself. I prefer Mikami's games on the whole. But that's aside from the point.

i know people love him , but i ask why ? is it because he looks cool? , has a katana ? look like a long haired Yakuza guy ?

i don't understand how the game series could "Die" if he leaves, because it was made before he joined ,it just happened that he was there when they're making a new game, his personality is almost non existant in the series when it went 3D apart from the big boobie girls, sure he made Dead or Alive but like i said that game is Tecmo trying to make a Virtua Fighter of their own, it almost the carbon copy of it, and lets not talk about Extreme Volley Ball games those are a big joke.

hes more Infamous than Famous to be honest the only thing that make him so popular is his frank personality and his childish "XTREME!" attitude.