Its good but it felt like I basically had to unlearn Ninja Gaiden to really start enjoying it. The focus on meter management and defensive options make it quite different
>>723989820
wasn't Black's entire backbone it's defensive options? I recall that game placing a much larger focus on it than the games that came out after. Obviously not with as many mechanics as 4 but it was still a defense oriented game for the most part
>>723990407
blocking and counter attacking are massively overtuned
that said, you can also kill anyone in a few hits and a lot of enemies love to spam unblockables if you're being a pussy. black has the best offensive-defensive flow. maybe 4 is as good, it's too early to tell.
>try MN >can't even beat the first wave of enemies in chapter 1 after trying for an hour
Haha...
Seriously, what the fuck am I supposed to do against like half a dozen mid tier ninjas and one boss ninja? I killed them once with 4 spam and then jobbed to the 3 dudes who show up after.
>>723993609
play safe no need to be constantly aggressive
charge UTs more
switch to the assassins box when you need a breather
always go for the gun fags first
Fresh datamine from 2ch for the upcoming dlc weapons
Ryu >Dual discs, it's a version of falcon talon but also can be used ranged (this is just like the ninja toolbox from yakumo) >Dual swords, probably blade of the archfiend will come back
Yakumo >Bloodscythe, can be thrown like a boomerang >Gunsword
Apparently 7 chapters long
>The AI on hard is brutal and punishes you for bad postioning >But because its not exactly 1:1 with Ninja Gaiden and II, its bad
People's expectations are genuinely idiotic at this point.
It's a fun game, but I'm pretty disappointed in the Platinum part of it. Having more entertaining characters and story was the thing I hoped Platinum would inject into the franchise, but it's easily the weakest part of the game. Surprisingly Yakumo is probably the best new character because he has the least obnoxious dialogue. It felt like they tried to recreate the MGR codec team, but the dialogue is just really boring in that uninspired jap dialogue way. Everyone yaps a lot but has nothing interesting to say.
Still, the gameplay is enjoyable and thats what really matters. But I feel this game could easily been great, instead of merely good.
>>723993998
Definitely not buying this game then if Ryu only gets 3 weapons in total, no scythe, lunar, talons, tonfas, kusari gamas, flails. How lame. Thanks for saving me $90.
>>723993998
I only bought base but at least it'll be worth getting the DLC down the line. But Platinum tends to work VERY SLOW on DLC (at least the case with W101's DLC) so maybe I can pick it up on a sale.
>>723995656
I wouldn't be surprised if they were told to hold back on the story. I also expect a lot of that went with Kamiya. I doubt we're ever getting the likes of Wonder Red from Platinum ever again.
>>723988691 (OP)
I'm still crap at this game but I first tried chapter 13 even after hearing a bunch of other anons discuss how difficult it was, I think with the 2 defense increase items and all the consumables it's pretty easy to just facetank stuff
