Ragebound makes me nostalgic for a time when tie-in titles were a thing and you had devs trying to put their own spin on a property in a different genre.

Also this game loves and appreciates Ninja Gaiden more than 90% of NG fans.

Combos are bad for action game design. They trade the fundamentals of beat em ups like committment and positioning for gay attack strings that force the player to either crutch on shorter efficient combinations, have an enemy design of retarded punching bags with limited bursts of hyperarmor (Devil May Cry) or enemies that enter a punching bag mode (see Nioh, FFXVI) or to use boring cancels added as crutch from game designers (Ninja Gaiden 4, Bayonetta).
This is why 2d sidescrollers are seeing such resurgence. They actually go back to lost fundamentals of arcade game design before the genre tried to one-up itself with the cuhrazyyyyyyy pizza man combos