>>724659684bombed brutally in japan according to famitsu
>>724659684no because it's too hard for them, they'd rather play shit like zzz
Japan only likes cunny.
I like it
>...
>>724659684>no Honoka>no Marie RoseWhat do you think?
>/our ninja/ Ryu sidelined to 3 or 4 short chapters>herbivore male chigyu is the main characternobody likes NG4
>>724662063Chadkumo IS /ourninja/
>>724662063this argument doesn't work when you can play as ryu in all the chapters
>>724662424>non canonmmmnyo
>leave Ryu Hayabussy to me
>>724659684Traditional action games typically do better overseas. Japan is very casual and wants games like gachaslop. I doubt this game sold more than 20k units in Japan.
>>724659684I didn't see any big vtuber playing so i guess not
>>724662451no way you retards are succumbing this low
>>724659684>DMC4 has you play some faggot>NG4 has you play as some faggotCan't wait for Darksiders 4 to have you play as some faggot instead of the last horseman
p**ferll*m* getting his bussy destroyed in MN..
>>724663851It's over...
>oh my chimichangas is that Soda poppin in DMC5>!>!>!?!? i will now donate money to him>Holy poogerss is that some gay faggot lights in NG4? EPIC EXECUTION ?!?!? le hard... i feel valid VALID EXECTUTION EXECTUION POGPGPOGPOGGaming is dead.
>>724664994are you getting mad at something that was in ng2? where bosses were getting OT'd when they had 20% HP remaining?
>>724661807>>724661851My heroes
WHY THE FUCK IS YAKUMO TARGETING THE FUCKING SHITTY LANTERN 10 MILES AWAY RATHER THAN THE BOSSR IGHT IN FRONT OF ME
>>724659684I haven't played a Ninja Gaiden game but I this character owes me paizuri NOW
>>724666276>are you getting mad at something that was in ng2yeah, next time paint it black.
>Ryu's void bullet absolutely chunks enemiesWhy did this thing suck so much ass in nioh 2 then
>>724667249They thought no one was gonna bother grinding for it. Plus Nioh man doesn't have dragon genes.
>>724667931>Plus Nioh man doesn't have dragon genes.Technically Hiddy is way stronger than just a mere dragon descendant, he's half-Ten related to Otakemaru
https://youtu.be/zfdba_wvv4w?si=KoQhfIfgMffCwkVb
NGB/NG2 originally being Muttbox exclusive killed any chances of the franchise being popular in Japan.
Fresh save MN is going to make me hate this game
Hayabusa chapters are kinda boring. He just doesn't have the same variety of combat expressions as Yakumo in this game, even though he's obviously overpowered to fuck and back.
the drill is SOOOOOOO bad, i'm wailing on this basic armored samurai for hours and i'm not delimbing him for shit
https://x.com/MasterNinjaRyu_/status/1984327754846802116MasterSHILLRyu putting ng4 haters in their place
This game did the impossible and somehow made going back to Yakumo feel good, I remember in 4 once I got the hang of dante again playing Nero just didn't do it for me, but Yakumo is still fun. Bloodraven isn't as fun as Gleam but you get more weapons to make-up for it.
>>724670690I find Gleam pretty boring, it's just powered up light/heavy. Would've liked it more if it had 2 stances like Yakumo
>>724663191Does that mean NG5 will have faggot, poster boy, and poster boy's rival (forma twink)?
>>724659684prprpr
>>724659684Was Ninja Gaiden ever even big in Japan? I feel like it and DoA were always Western phenomenon when Xbox was at its height of cultural relevance.
>>724671315That would be fucking awesome
>>724671172Gleam feels like an EX move in a fighting game, you pop it and go back to your normal stuff, it's strong, fast and feels good. It's what I want out of a meter system that you use for simon says stuff.Blood Raven feels good for being basically a second movelist that costs a bar but your mileage varies a lot on how useful those attacks are while feeling worth spending bar over your normal options.While I do wish Ryu had more moves and the old school forward inputs since while I don't mind the Back-forward stuff, they are a little wonky at times compared to the 360 inputs. He's still insanely fun and plays with a lot of the new system mechanics quite well though.
>>724669292>i'm not delimbing him for shitAre you holding the bloodraven moves? That's where most of it's damage comes from. It's good against bosses since they'll usually eat at least one fully held attack in a string but not so great against normal enemies because holding leaves you too open.
>>724672334I am, you just deal 0 damage with it even when you let it go all the way
>>724672538well bloodraven XXY and 360 X delimb often enough for me on MN.
Why is she so smug ?
Finished my first playthrough, already did the boss trials and 4 of the combat trials. Clocked 50 hours so far. Amazing game. Only now noticed that the title screen changes according to the outfit you have equipped, used the default ones for the entire first playthrough.
>>724659684Can't speak for the general gaming audience, but the ones who are playing it seem fond of Yakumo, they all call him Yakumo-kun and talk about him as if he was a 10 year old boy trying to act tough.
>>724663191DMC4 has Dante appear several times before you play as him, and then you play as him for about 40% of the game, then he appears in the finale and gets a cool sendoff. NG4 has Ryu appear one time for a minute before you play as him, and then you play as him for about 15% of the game, then he doesn't appear at all for the game's finale and is not mentioned again.
>>724675676To be fair if they didn't have the decency to shorten the rehashed levels and made you actually run across them backwards it would be a lot more than 15%.
I'm done with doing fresh save MN, gonna try doing MN using only one weapon for all of them
>>724675939I will not be fair to them. They clearly had no intention of being respectful towards Ninja Gaiden. They thought they could carry the future of the franchise with their cast of shitty OCs and discard everything else, from the setting to the characters to the weapons. They only put Ryu in the game last minute in rehashed little segments of previous levels with a hastily thrown together moveset, out of fear they would get trashed by everyone who played the old games.This will very likely be the last ever NG game and their sendoff for Ryu, the protagonist of the series for nearly 40 years, is to have him fight a shtity blob fiend boss fight and then lose to Yakumo before disappearing forever. Fuck them.
>>724676291oh sorry, didn't know I was talking to a schizo faggot, carry on
>>724676623I don't see you disagreeing
>>724676049holy chad
>>724673225Confidence is stored in the breasts.
Finally got around to finishing this quest. The final form of this goober was actually pretty fun to fight, guess that's makes sense why you unlock him as a boss trial after.
>>724677636Yeah this one was really fun, a lot of back and forth. He kind of breaks the rules of the game to make that happen but it was fun.
Where you staring at ???
>>724678221Kage-Hiruko
>>724678221It was love at first sight
>>724678221My God those milkers.
The drill has the best OTs.
>>724678802Yakumo has pretty good obliterations across the board. He's brutal.
Sometimes I had it say kills 97% on the result screen and I just wonder which damn niggas I missed.
>>724679516probably assassinating enemies, i know that in chapter 5 or 6 there's a lone tengu right besides an umi terminal and if you don't assassinate him like 4 more tengus come
>>724678802Nah it's the staff especially with the head stomp
>get to THAT boss in NGII>turn on some podcast>get the blanket out>chair in recline mode>get in a cave spam UTs until the boss diesHonestly a comfy boss. Nice change of pace compared to the rest of the game
>>724679654I see, didn't even know that could happen.
>>724679791You can just mash YYY with the scythe after UTs to kill the worm quickly. I'm not even talking about the actual easy loop you can do either. The worm is the least offensive part of that chapter, don't get why people act if it's the worst thing ever.
God, I hope the new game mode is Ninja Gaiden Abyss. Abyss seems to be THE post game Team Ninja mode.
>>724679791Worm kino ITT??? based, zased even.
>>724679901If the Xbox rumor is true, do you think that means theyll bring the 360 games to PC. The notion of playing NGII and Nioh 2 without umping between boxes gets my dick hard. God I love video games.
Just finished my MN playthrough and basically every boss can be cheesed with either the rapier or the ninja toolbox. Ryu didn't get to do a single attack in his second phase because I just ended up gap closing with the drill light attack and cancelling his red attacks.
>>724680207i havent played ng4 yet man it looks great but im trying to beat NG2 master ninja. I gotta become one of the 8,000 players who beat this game on master ninja brother. Fuck i love ninja gaiden so much. Im happy your enjoying ng4 bro
There's no worse feeling than dying while playing Godly for a while and then barely winning after playing like trash on a retry.
>>724680207The drill is amazing when you don't have 6 dudes wanting to go to town on you from all directions.
>>724680295NTA but I believe in you, how far are you in?
>>724680573Chapter 2
I'm starting to think Ninja Gaiden Black is a JRPG. Lots of exploration and farming.
>>724659684The weekly famitsu thread next door has it at number 5 which seems pretty good. I'm surprised they're still buying games.
>>724659684NopeIt was a massive flop worldwide
Man the environments are really gay this time around
>>724659684japan likes nortubel more
You say Four of Porn?
From the Japanese discourse I've seen on twitter and youtube, they seem to like it well enough. Can't really speak for the entire Country though.
>>724663191aren't there 4 of them and all of them got their games already and you play as everyone?
Can Yakumo use Bloodraven on his dick?
I'm not a fan of the backforwards inputs at all.I get that they changed it because casuals kept accidentally doing the forward input, but I actually find it harder to do the moves now. I wish it was forwardforward instead like in Bayo
>>724685467Cant be a Master Ninja otherwise
>>724685467Cant be a Master Ninja if you can
>>724685467>Can Yakumo use Bloodraven on his dick?Isn't that just what an erection is?You're infusing your dick with blood power
am i the only "vet" who thinks this game is absurdly difficult? i'm on normal and dying to bosses 10 times minimum. the damage output bosses and some enemies have is absolutely absurd. the game is full of "le delayed xD" animation dogshit for the sole purpose of fucking with your timing. like yeah i'm sure i could clear the game faster if i was downing every healing item i had and spending all my ninja coins on them, but i'm finding this game stupidly hard out of the gate. i'm genuinely surprised i find myself struggling so much to adapt to this game.
>>724685467He can, he simply doesn't NEED to.
>>724686985I was the same way and realized that a lot of NG muscle memory can fuck you over with this game, you need to play it on its own terms. Bloodraven/Gleam is an essential mechanic and its basically the first NG that revolves around meter management. Funnily enough it kind of reminds me of DMC1, where Dante is really reliant on his DT skills to survive
>>724686985average ninja gaiden experience if you haven't played these, or it's been years since you last played
>>724686985it's hard as fuck and there's a lot to learn. trying to rely on previous game experience is not enough
>>724686985Day 1 was full of supposed vets getting humbled by this game. It's genuinely tough.
>>724687278i've cleared NGS1 and NG2B on master ninja
Have they confirmed how many chapters the DLC will be? I'm guessing 5-7
>>724688938Nothing yet, a dubious leak posted here claimed there were 7 additional chapters but obviously that should be taken with a grain of salt. For now all we have is the promo image with Yakumo and Ryu.
It didn’t come out in Japan
>>724660457>famitsuphysical is irrelevant for adult games
>>724685467There are hidden Raven techniques only spoken of in whispers. Tyran has heard tell of them, maybe he will loosen his tongue after a round of sparring.
>>724687621how long ago was it
>>724668219But Idolm@ster was popular back then.
>>724689901Idolmaster had more games on PS3 and PSP than 360 and sold way more on those platforms. Yes yes, everyone knows the Miura idolmaster meme, but that does not reflect the actual popularity of the console, especially when you're talking about a game that had big arcade scene anyway.
>>724680295Dude I got to the last couple chapters and I'm on the area where you need to run through a bunch of hallways where they spawn minibosses and I just got so tired of it. The dogs are also the most obnoxious fucking things in the entire world.
>>724690105Ninja Gaiden 4 letting you obliterate dogs is immensely satisfying.
okay I may have stayed past my bedtime by a bit but I managed to S rank the two boss chapter. it's interesting that I scored terribly on the individual bosses in boss trials time-wise but got a perfect time score in the chapter that was just those two bosses
remember me?
>>724691678Literally killed him so fast that I didn't even notice he grows a demon arm in his second form during my first playthrough kek
>>724691678Hope we get to play as him in the DLC, his boss fight was sick.
>>724659684Is there a name for stirrups that wrap near the big toe? Asking for a friend.
How hard is Master Ninja? I thought Hard started out really rough but got easier the further in you go. Unlike the other games there aren't any outright annoying parts either except for maybe the lanterns so I'm more inclined to try MN in this.
>>724659684nips don't buy anything that isn't shitendo or the occassional nu-capcom aaa slop, generally speaking. market has been pretty dead/myopic in nippon since the 7th gen and has only gotten worse over time.
>>724694439Master Ninja is tough, but it's actually a lot of fun. It's demanding but you still get a lot of player expression.
>>724689174Digital is irrelevant in Japan.
>>724695878idk if its player expression if that's what 99% of players would dot. just went through that are and did exactly that
>>724696597This one is easy, I just think in general a lot more of your moveset is viable compared to previous games.
>>724662424>it gets good 10 hours in
The stupid fucking dogs are pissing me the fuck off. Is there a way to stop the stupid fucking fuck fuck grab? Like what the fuck is this shit, I get grabbed and can't do shit.
>>724697183you're supposed to mash but the window is so fucking tight most of the time you're just stuck watching a 2 second cutscene before you die
I don't want to make a new thread so I'll ask here. What confing do I need for best image quality? I'm on AMD with a 1080p monitor.
>>724697443I've been button mashing the moment it grabs me, am I doing something wrong. This is so stupid.
>>724697817you're just not mashing hard enough kek anyway just spam UTs nigga
>>724659684>Make a new sexy character>Immediately kill her off in the same gameAre they retarded?
>>724661807...(stoic)>>724661851...(aloof)
>>724691909More like hoping for a DLC that upgrades the game to Sigma-tier content-wise so that we can play as Kagachi, have more levels as Ryu, and play as Ayane, Tyrant and more.
>>724659684trash game that crashed and failed.
>>724697517Everything on low. DLSS enabled. 720p.
Has anyone found something similar to glimmer cancel for Yakub?
>>724698972I'll hatefuck in front of you and then piss over her.
>>724699032Why so angry? I was just trying to help.
>>724659684it sold 800 copies
>>724659684>kurobowhat the absolute FUCK am I supposed to do?!?!?!?
>>724700296is that the dog? he has like one string in phase one just hold block dodge the wing attack and use bloodraven when he does the special attack
>>724700296First phase he mostly does some combos that finish with a red attack, just block/dodge the first hits and then hit him with a drill attack when he's about to do his final hit. Second phase he rarely does those combos but when he flies up he can can do a red charge move. Use the drill light attack to gap close on him super fast, and that leaves him vulnerable for a long time. You can also hit him with a fully charged UT every time after he goes up in the air to do his big dive bomb move that the game suggests you use the glider to avoid.
>>724663191Never compare Nero to Fagumo again. I'd take an all Nero game given the proper additions necessary to fill out the lack of Dante's styles.
>>724700476>>724700484Sorry I'm on my first run which I chose hard and couldn't do any of that because I maxed out the dual blades instead of the mary poppins shit.I somehow did it anyways, just reacting to stuff as best I could and shitting out damage when I could.This game is awesome, holy fuck this new captcha is God awful
>>724701337What's the new one? I'm still on the old one
>>724701337>maxed out the dual blades instead of the mary poppins shitThat doesn't matter at all, I didn't use a single one of the directional moves regularly on my Master Ninja playthrough. Basic X and Y moves do just fine.
>>724701362It has way more letters and basically a small text above that says "type only letters with 0 above them" and 4 or 5 letters have circles above them>made me do another one just posting thishey fuck you
>>724701419Heh, I'm trying my best not to use items or retries meanwhile homies be clearing this shit with no damage, no unlocksRespect to the master ninjas, i'll catch up to ya after this captcha
>playing NGB for the first time after NG4i'm constantly laughing out loud imagining the nostalgia ridden NG purist retard's reactions (who claim to be "character action game fans") if the games were released in opposite order>empty corridors>gimmicks & "exploring" all the time>have to pause the game to switch weapon>absolute bottom of the barrel boss "fights">respawning enemies and backtracking>camera LOL>jump feels lazy as fuck>combat has little to no depthpretty convinced that some of these people have absolute zero self-awareness
>>724699159I bought them all.
>>724702128The real takeaway is that every NG is completely different from the one before. You went from an adventuring game to a pure action game to a more cinematic game to ng4 which honestly I don't really know how to describe, more anime-ish NG I guess?
>>724659684Steller blade raped floppa gayden 4
>>724701296Nero is not as fun as Dante. He is the tutorial character for a reason
>>724702524i don't know, the """adventuring""" in this game sucks pretty hard too. it's literally running from an obvious milestone to another. get a key, open door, put a book on an altar, a "hidden" door opens. yet the game is divided in chapters and despite the "open world" it just feels like an excuse to recycle the areas. as an action game, this sucks, as an adventure game, it's extremely restricted and lame, not a proper adventure in the slightest as there's barely any story or lore to begin with. i think this game might just suck actually. it almost feels like a fake game from a netflix show.
>>724662586True, if the game was truly made for Japanese audiences it would be a 3 day long turn based JRPG
>>724702128There's definitely some things "wrong" with NG4 that weren't nearly as egregious in previous games (biggest one is the huge amount of forward momentum your moves have), but I hate how many retards love to boil down the entire quality of a game down to a single thing. Apparently it doesn't matter that the older games had:>complete dogshit bosses>plenty of shitty filler water, platforming and "puzzle" sections>terrible bow combat that you were forced to use>tons of completely unreactable 1 frame start up moves>enemies randomly iframing through your attacks with you not being able to do a single thing about it>obnoxious amounts of offscreen projectile spamNo, they're masterpieces compared NG4 because the moves because the moves don't move you towards the enemy as much.
>>724703056None of those things matter because you could outplay the bullshit, you can't with 4.
>>724703682What bullshit can't you outplay in 4?
>>724703983Forced rail section, forced walking, forced difficulty and enemy sponges, forced gimmicks, forced shills.
>>724704190>forced rail section>forced walkingHow are you outplaying the forced water sections in NG1 and 2?>forced difficulty and enemy spongesLmao, didn't take you long to even stop trying
>>724704321not an argument
>>724704369Neither is anything you said
>>724704429your game flopped
>>724704783Still waiting for you say a single thing that would signify you have any intelligence at all.
>>724659684Her toes look like fingers. What is this ape caricature?
The detractors aren't sending their best anymore lmao.
>>724704850YWNBAW tranny
>>724705291I'm sure it's just 1 mentally ill jeet
>was struggling with MN a week ago>can now do it with easeFeels nice, game flows really well when you understand it
>>724705864I kneel...
NG bros, can you explain to a DMC bro what's wrong with NG4?
>>724706190Nothing major really, it's a bit different from previous entries because it has some Platinum dna now but I've been enjoying it a lot despite some gripes. The pacing could've been better and I wish Ryu had more stuff, he feels like a last minute addition.
>>724706190It's kinda like DMC 4 in a way that the main protagonist of the last 3 games has been sidelines in favor of a new OC, whom you play as for most of the game and you only get a handful of missions as the old protagonist and they just consist of playing through the same levels and killing the same bosses you already killed as the new guy.
>>724706190Animations are limited compared to the older games.
>>724706574thanks for the slowmo retardbro i would've never noticed the sudden cut
i want more can only use base form combat trials, hope the dlc doesn't add only die in one hit or hp constantly falling down
>>724708520The DLC is adding a new postgame mode.
>>724709182is it confirmed? please let it be a bloody palace type of thing
>>724659684Yeah seems like Yakumo has been pretty well received.
I'm done. but not really, think I'll keep playing since I still have some missions to finish and gourdies to get. Want to see if I can get a better score in some of these too
>>724710439Nice, right now I'm doing another run of MN trying to get better scores since the first time was really rough I was just spamming items
>>724704190your AI broke. tell grok that complaining about rail sections and enemy hp outs him as a shitter. the rail sections are perfectly normal platforming sections like the series has in every game, if not easier than those. the enemy hp is low as fuck. you can kill most things in 2 seconds and you have berserk mode to clear an entire room at once. then ask grok if the forced bow sections from itagaki's ninja gaiden games were good.
I love this game bros
>>724710853My scores are from me eating too many deaths instead of using items. But I did eventually give in during certain encounters. I had to use some on Cetus for example because he hit me with the teleport grab when I was just about to kill him.
i just learned that you can UT instantly after an izuna drop..
Yakumo is just way more fun dude, he has that fucking hammer which is the most satisfying weapon in the game.
>>724659684Japan doesnt play videogames anymore
>>724709626https://youtu.be/8_at63TQXZg?si=6nGO52_KTzHLFokV>There will be postgame challenge content that exists separate from the Ninja Trials.It's confirmed, but we don't know the specifics of it other than it's not just more Ninja Trials.
>>724668107>Ryu>just some dragon descendantThe Divine Dragons are literally GODS who defeated Ultimate Super Satan
Does it count the death/items if I reload from checkpoint instead of battle?
>>724671767I hope that the DLC not only adds the new weapons, but lets you unlock new moves for existing weapons
>>724659684
>>724712056Plus, Ryu himself is 3-0 against the dragon that killed the other Divine Dragons. I hope the main villain of NG4's DLC is Vigoor itself. The statue of Vigoor looks like that nigga from the boxart of Ninja Ryukenden. If NG ends with the Two Masters DLC, Ryu better kill that nigga once and for all.
>>724712052Damn it can actually become a really good action game if they nail the DLC and make it so you can skip the cinematic fluff when replaying it
>>724712129>Ryu unlocks the True True Dragon Sword>it gets an expanded moveset to differentiate him from Yakumo's DDB>the purple glow of the TDS gets resotred in its final formI could see Yakumo's DDB not getting new moves to prioritize the use of his scythe.
The DLC should be about Yakumo and Ryu giving Seori a new shot at life, they both clearly emphasize with her and Yakumo the edgelord actually cried when she died.
This game is super tough on Master Ninja, but really fun to play. I can't see myself doing it on a fresh save though, they weren't lying about it being balanced for NG+
>>724712294And here's that faggot again in NG04. God, I wish Vigoor were a boss so that Ryu can kill him and dispell the darkness for good.
>>724712601Nah.>Know a bitch for a few days>Give even a drop of a fuck about herNot plausible.
>>724712601The DLC is gonna be Ryu-time since he's front and center in the DLC poster whereas Yakumo was front-and-center in the base game poster. Seori is dead, and character who die in NG stay dead.
>>724712757A few weeks
>>724667249All the NG ninpo suck in Nioh, it's actually rather shocking when all the others range from usable to game breaking.
>>724713101In which they barely interacted.
>>724696925and yet it always plays the same, give multiple people the lvl 1 sword in ninja gaiden and they will tackle the first level in different ways.NG4 is a fucking failure of a game.
>>724712207How do AI slop faggots not even fix the eyes
Ryu's missions are so much easier than the Yakumo ones it's crazy. I was kinda bouncing between A and B rating for the missions once I got the hang of the game (started off with C rating's for a bit) but then got SSS for 3 and 1 A for Ryu's missions.
>>724714120this is particularly retarded since everyone who plays ng1 quickly moves to izuna drop spam as the dominant strategy
>>724714804Its not AI, just a retard that save a low ress version of it.
>>724714963Not really. Your small online circle is not reality.
>>724714993>>724714804fuck forgot pic
>>724714963I noticed NG4 actually gives enemies the abililty to attack you while doing the Izuna setup combo which makes it infinitely better.
WTF DO YOU DO AGAINST KAMIKAZE LANTERNS
total DDO rape incoming
>>724715291throw them with shurikens so they explode early before reaching you
>>724660457>famitsuPayed Pokémon shills
>>724715291do a quick combo and then go somewhere else
>>724716273you can't combo the kamikaze ones they just come exploding to you
I was right there to get my first untouchable and then those stupid things that explode had to fuck it all up.
>>724696008bro... it's not 2015 anymore
>>724716887Playing through MN and dreading going into chapter 3, I genuinely think ch6 is more fun. Except for that part where there are 10 enemies then you climb up and are met with 3 exploding faggots and 2 tengus.At least the dogs are fun to fight not like older NGs
>>724715291It's considered a power attack so just interrupt it
>>724714120in ng1 perhaps, in ng2 it's the same iframe abuse into UT
XXY is pretty useless with twin swords but it looks cool how you flip off the enemy
cope
>>724719607i love the game but them not posting a 1 million sale means it's doing badly, whatever it's not like a new ninja gaiden would've released regardless of the outcomeif they make an infinite content DLC then i'm the happiest man
>>724710294Lmao so well received the game flopped. Get out of here he’s hated
Two swords is more edgy and lamer than one sword man. This was purposefully done?
The armor costume for Yakumo looks cool it just has that gay tail part.
>Master Collection flopped>2 Black flopped>Ragebound flopped>4 floppedThis is realistically as good as TN could've ever done, there just isn't interest in Ninja Gaiden as a property.
>>724722423I just want more action games in general. Fucking normies. Look what they did to God of War.
>>724722702at least it's not a soulslike
Ninja Gaiden 2 is impossible to get good at if your brain isn't at absolute max performance. The slightest amount of brainfog will make it impossible and at that point it's just determinism. No amount of skill or practice, or spaming of UT's will help you. Even the slightest distractions throw everything out the window. You can really boil the whole game down to determinism. There is a skill element, but you have to be performing above a certain lever for any of that to be expressed. This game has reminded me of my mental decline and shown me that I'm really, at the end of the day, too brain damaged to play videogames. Even at my best I'm akin to a pro at his worst. I may as well be mind blank and retarded. The sensation of how brain damaged I am is almost palpable, and at times I feel I can't even ascend to though, which is not to say I can't "think", my mind isn't gone, but I'm basically retarded. This game is a perfect window into my own mental capabilities.
>>724659684These are some awfuly drawn feet jesus
>no bow and arrow
>>724722702>new Onimusha is also likely going to underperform>Capcom will make another DMC eventually but will most likely fuck it up since there's no way they'll outdo DMC5 and Itsuno isn't there anymore>Itsuno is working on a game but no one knows how that will turn out or when it will release>Kamiya is working on Okami 2>Itagaki is deadIt's over this time for real.
>>724659684censored nigger shit>>724660457good if true
>>724723491>another dmc>most likely suckyea who could see that happening after 2 shit gamesno one!
>>724715291You can try to find a combo that ends with you being away when they die.What I do is launch them into the air, do a few hits then hit forward heavy to flying swallow through them.They should explode after you have gone through them.
>>724722892Action games need to take more inspiration from Souls. Specially when it comes to level design and environments. Most action games are just about walking from one bland arena to the next.At their core, they're a great genre, but a lot of things about them need to be revised.
>>724717352>then you climb up and are met with 3 exploding faggots and 2 tengus.Deviously kino to be honest
how are the ninja gaiden games on steam? I heard they were ports of already watered down PSP ports. Do they run well?
>>724724345they all run well and only ng2 is horrible but fixed with a mod, ng1 and 3 are fine
>>724724026they need better arena designs instead, level design is pointless for an action game, it would boost the sales for da normies, but I am not a publisher so I don't care for that
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>>724714120>and yet it always plays the sameI don't really get what you're saying here, every game will have different people approach it in different ways. The stronger defensive tools and offensive tools in NG4 mean that MN will reward people for their approach as long as they are competent enough. Some people don't seem to use walls at all, I rely on them. Other people bait parries, I prefer perfect blocks, but dodging also works just as well. Some are more conservative with Bloodraven, others, including me, like to use it as much as possible.
Just finished chapter 1 on Master Ninja, died like 79 times :(
>>724726345can only go up from here..
can someone explain true obliteration to me. the way this game explains it is absolutely fucking worthless and retarded.>L2+Square or Triangle (after first hit)what the actual fuck is this game trying to tell me
lets see more busty anime waifu feet
>>724727171Why doesn't my copy look like that. I have everything set on max.
>>724727306what? gleam attacks have followups and if you're in bloodbath mode you insta kill them
>>724727306You have a train room to figure it out.
>>724727306It's pretty simple, when Ryu awakens the dragon sword (Press the Left and Right stick) doing a gleamblade attack will instantly kill enemies you hit. It works the same way Yakumo's berserk does.
>>724727574thank you for explaining it i missed the part where the dragon sword being "awakened" was ryu's berserk mode. i appreciate you anon.
>>724727681fuck you faggot
>>724727681Yeah no worries. I guess Ryu is too refined and proper to go berserk. Wonder if they'll give it a new name when he gets weapons in the DLC and needlessly confuse people even more.
>>724694439It's not that hard in my opinion but it's not actually very well balanced. Enemies aren't that much more aggressive than hard/normal, but everything does enough damage to kill you in 1.5 hits. In this game MN is clearly meant to be played in NG+ spamming healing items.
>>724662063Joe Musashi takes the W
>>724712601Yakumo didn't give a shit, he has no emotions or character whatsoever. He probably was one second away from stabbing her to death himself and saying "mission accomplished, mondainai" before he got his kill stolen. Dogshit character.
>the theme in the first boss fight is yakumos not the commanderskino
>>724689174>>724716065Eric, meds
>>724719743>1 million saleThe game peaked at 11k on steam (data from other games can help estimate total owners at around 100k), sold around 15k copies in all of Japan and didn't even make it to the top 10 in the UK charts for its release week. We are looking at under 300k total copies sold total across all platforms. This game is one of the biggest flops of all time. Platinum dug up Ninja Gaiden's corpse to piss on it and set it on fire before throwing it down the Mariana trench.
>>724728308I guess if you are that bad at reading a character you would dislike Yakumo.
Why did they make Ryu's walking animation so fucking silly.
>>7247224232 Black was probably such a low cost production (literally just Sigma 2 code running in UE5 with new models/textures) that it's very likely a more profitable game than NG4.
>>724728683....mondainai
>>724728754Owari da...
>>724728683He seems unphased to me, what are you trying to suggest here
>>724728847Sadly, I must diagnose you with autism.
>>724727171because the game looks better on ps5
>>724728924Dude won't even look at her
I wish that doing a second chain UT just deleted any remaining essence and stopped any being generated for 10secs.At times, it's just too easy/effective to abuse UT like it's NG2 all over again...and it has never been engaging to play this way. You basically stop interacting with enemies.But it's so tempting...
>>724730134I don't mind spamming UT, the enemies are so desperate to get to you that you need to constantly gimmick them and if you drop the loop once you're dead
>>724727526Brother... there is LITERALLY a tutorial for this.Do the tutorial lol
>>724727878I doubt he'll get more than the one.
>>724730649I think he'll get at least two, but I mean, who knows. I don't want to sound like the Dragon's Dogma fags.
>>724731038Can you only reflect projectiles with bloodraven forms?
>>724731086Yeah, Bloodraven block.
>>724731240Cool. nice to know, thanks
>>724722423I hope some famous e-celeb discovers NG4 and it leads to an influx of newcomers and sales spikes like Maxor did with MGR, I hope these newcomers replace the old guard because there is nothing to salvage out of dementia NG fags, unlike DMC or Bayonetta oldfags.
>>724731791All the famous e-celebs did play NG4. Asmongold, moistcr1tikal, maxdood etc. The game just is not appealing to an outsider. I mean look at the screenshot you posted. The character looks awful, the environment, is two colours, how is this going to attract any would-be players?
>>724724026>be playing action game>get out of a heated battle against a group of tough enemies>you're left with very little health but you managed to clutch it out so you feel great>make a wrong turn and die to a trapYeah, no.Souls level design is antithetical to action games. One is about being empowering while the other is about being careful.
>>724732262>The character looks awful This is something I will genuinely never understand, how does Yakumo look awful and some say overdesigned yet Genshin someone who has a big heavy armor, an eyepatch, metal claw on one hand, an electric sword on the other is not overly designed.>the enviroment, is two colors There are more than just two colors in the game, the outside stages, the forest, the nightclub, the DDO base. I agree they should have done better with the environments but it peaked with the NGB and drastically went down in quality after.
>>724732262>how is this going to attract any would-be players?You're right. They should've given Yakumo a rainbow neon skin to appeal to all the e-celeb faggots and normalfags.
No, I will not tell you about the dinosaur.
>>724722423>>724731791NG will probably have a resurgence in popularity as MGR did. Honestly, the buggest issue with NG4 is fucking Game Pass and the price. Once the DLC comes out and the price goes down, I'm sure it'll be fine in the long run.
>>724733521>>724733816If they put Ryu, Ayane, Momiji etc. in the trailers and on the posters this would have sold twice as much and you know it
>>724733521The more I play the game the more I like Yakumo's design. They lean really really hard into the bird theme, the talons on his boots, the tail 'feathers', the beaked mask, the way the scarf in bloodraven looks like bird chest plumage, the scarf turning into a wing.It's kino.
am i the only one hating that they mapped the dodge/block on the same button?
>>724733521I didn't say Yakumo looks overdesigned, I said he looks awful. Which he does.
>>724736168It doesn't appeal to your boomer tastes, its okay.
>>724736136That's how it has always been
>>724736136First Ninja Gaiden?
>>724736285>>724736350yeah. I only played nioh so I was used to the dodge and block button being separate and being able to do dodge cancels..
>>724736545holding a direction and tapping L1 will also dodge
>>724736274Yeah it's just not for me it's fine. I still bought the game and liked the combat. But it also seems like it's not for 99.99% of people judging by how this game is selling.
Everything in the game is blue looking like the raid redemption movie
>>724737309What? That movie wasn't blue.
>join fiendbusas discord to see what others think of ng>he's a schizo tooYou LITERALLY can't be a normal person and a Ninja Gaiden fan
>Abyss is KT's goto post game mode>Stranger of Paradise had an Abyss>Nioh has Abyss>Wo Long has an Abyss>There's a whole Musou revolving around the Abyss>mfw NG4 DLC adds an AbyssFuark bros, I can't wait for NG4's Two Masters DLC.
>>724738573???
>>724739489he types like he's 40
bump
>>724743368there's another ng thread too
lol, any japanese vidya question can be answered yes or no based solely on what the game is on.If it's not on phones/switch, they don't care.
>>724738746Platinum! give me Ayane, Abyss and co op and my life is yours!
>S rank hard>start MN>everything 2 taps youah, so this is how it is
>>724728807>"Owari da" (finisher)>2 seconds later>"Owari da" (level dialogue)funny guy
>>724669292It's weak against crowds, but it's the best against bosses and generally one on one, because you can just hold the br drill in front of the enemy and you will parry all their attacks.
>>724702608The whole concept of a tutorial character is inherently retarded. Just limit the main characters move set at the beginning to something basic and simple and have it become more complex as you unlock more moves. That's how ever other game does it.
>>724747502At least it's not Unreal
>>724748374the game isn't that ugly while playing it's just a filter..
Chasertech said the game was mid btw.
there should've been more fights between enemies, seeing a DDO crawl away with no legs from an armored crab was funny
>>724748594Idk, I've wasted some time trying to improve image quality and best I can get is activate FSR, which makes no sense.
>use 15 items>still get SSSI guess the most important thing is killing every enemy, doing it fast and not dying
I finally beat it. Hard mode, JP voices, control scheme 3. Overall it's a very good action game that I'd definitely recommend to any fan of Japanese action games. That being said, is it still NG? I dunno, in some ways yeah but in some ways it's definitely a Platinum game. I didn't dislike Yakumo as a character but I wasn't crazy about how they introduced the Raven clan. Like "unlike the NOBLE Hayabusa clan, we're the edgy underdogs that do the REAL dirty work". I thought Umi was annoying and I didn't like how technology focused Yakumo's weapons were so I mostly preferred his dual katana. Weirdly enough, all of his weapons felt kind of same-y as well despite having different niches. Like most of the weapon input skills did the same flavor of move across all weapons. The auto-save checkpoint system was retarded and they should've just made it auto-save when exiting the shrines and muramasa shops. Ryu was very fun to play as though and I really wish he would've been the main protagonist. I know what they wanted to do required a new character because I wouldn't be okay with Ryu having blood ninjutsu stuff but I just wish they would've wanted to make a game with Ryu as the main guy. Great OST that I'll definitely be downloading but not very NG-like. Despite some annoyances though, it was still a highly enjoyable action game and one of Platinum's better games, if not their best. Giving Yakumo Ryu's moveset and gleam is kind of lame though. They should've at least kept gleam as a Ryu exclusive thing and only have the base combos transfer over instead.
>>724749382I used like three items and didn't die, still got an A rank on some missions. Still don't know what I'm doing wrong.
>>724749608Maybe it depends on the length of the mission, I got that in chapter 5 MN which is one of the longest.
>>724749608it's just looking for a certain number. if you're triggering lots of score bonuses ie izunas, UTs and berserk kills you're good
>>724749593Pretty much almost sums up my thoughts and feelings on the game, I enjoyed it and I hope the dlc is good as well.
Those Shadow Fiends and Vangelfs are on demon time in those purgatory trails, a goddamn cordinated rape squad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2OR_JaXDaM&list=RDm2OR_JaXDaM&start_radio=1
For the love of god post more art of the new girl and Ayane's new design
>>724750467Okay.
>>724750307Van Gelfs are pure rape monsters in 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5h4zoVwKJc
I love how many people are going "well this doesn't play like NG" when all the previous games play very differently from each other.
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I'm on chapter 3 on Master Ninja right now and I'm afraid of the Kitsune Courtesan boss
>>724750906Just play Ryu and own her.
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>>724750906Just use the drill, holding X literally auto parries all of her melee attacks.
>>724750884>those tats(?)yakumo you're so fucking gay
>>724751259cope
>>724751259The tats are tough
how do I get good at using the dual katanas? Their bloodraven attacks take way too long to charge up
>>724752102don't charge them. if you want to bloodraven, either do strings or the pole stand moves
>>724733521yakumo legit looks like they did a focus test for edgy OC and ran the result through an AI to make himhis design sucks
>>724752102Don't charge them up, charge up the aerial / ranged ones, try to figure out the dodge offset - Bloodraven tech that makes Yakumo overpowered, otherwise just try to make opportunities for it, you just need to be fast and decisive.
>>724752102Don't try to charge all of the attacks. The uncharged regular attacks on the BR katana are actually very good. The jumping light, air light, projectile are super solid. Charging on the ground is better when you can engage with a wide attack and knock some enemies off their footingKnow when your charged attacks have block properties so as you get better you can get more comfortable using charged attacks.Also use dodge offset normal dual katana attacks into a bloodraven charge attack that you want.
>>724750467Nobody is making art of this game it bombed too hard
>>724752314Yakumian kino
