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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 12:45:43 AM No.11879510
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I love this game but from chapter 14 onwards it starts pulling out some cheap shit, it's like the devs said "yeah let's just start making the game unfairly difficult here so that the least amount of people can finish it lol"
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 1:41:36 AM No.11879663
>>11879510 (OP)
Doesn't that sound cool to you?
>"Whoa. I'm one of 50,000 people who finished this game! I'm gonna keep getting better until I'm one of the 5,000 people who could finish it on Master Ninja!"
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 1:56:14 AM No.11879710
>>11879663
I don't put any self worth in finishing a toy, no.
And before you call it a skill issue, I beat Ninja Gaiden Black when I was a teen without any real issue on Master Ninja just playing casually.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:02:32 AM No.11879737
>>11879710
Suit yourself, I find competition fun and learning and improving from others pushing me to be a good habit to develop and it helps me in my every day life.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:10:00 AM No.11879754
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>>11879737
>I find competition
ninja gayden black is a single player
you are not competing against anyone
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:14:28 AM No.11879770
>>11879754
There's always competition to be found.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:28:22 AM No.11879808
>>11879663
It would've been cool if they achieved that through actual difficulty instead of making the last chapters annoying as fuck so that people would put the game down
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:50:00 AM No.11879847
the ghost fish made me rage. several playthrus including the hardest difficulty before i found out about the jumping attack trick which trivializes them
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:43:04 PM No.11880883
>>11879847
yeah i remember cheesing the firewheels ninpo and roll jumping as fast as i could to get past them. they were super annoying. i think i tried using the nunchucks but i cant remember if the flails had an infinite combo or not. the combo on those would end so i would still get bit. So i just would burn through all my resources because of those damn fish.

I feel like they could have
A had less fish so you could defeat them through normal mean
B taught you some of the tricks to defeat them like through a ninja diary
C not had them do as much damage

really any of those 3 could have worked but they did none of them. i dont know what itagaki was thinking with that one but once you know the jump attack trick they start to be fun. i will say that the design of the fish is kino and adds a lot of ambience when you see them just idle animating around. from that perspectve theyre kino.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:46:13 PM No.11880889
How hard is this game (specifically the Black version on the OG Xbox) compared to DMC1 and DMC3SE on normal difficulty?
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 5:04:37 PM No.11881038
>>11879754
Beating the game means I'm better than OP who got ass raped in Chapter 14
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 5:08:06 PM No.11881043
>>11881038
>I'm better than OP
thats not an acomplishment
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:17:01 PM No.11881184
>>11880889
i think that they are different enough playstyles that its hard to compare the two. i havent played much DMC just a bit of DMC1 so i not qualified to answer but i have played an extensive amount of NGB and compared to my brief experience with DMC one person good at one would not steam roll the other game because the way you approach encounters and the abilities you have are very different.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:34:22 PM No.11881224
>>11879510 (OP)
quit bitching, I beat this game and I'm trash at video games.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:58:04 PM No.11881283
>>11879510 (OP)
Never beaten Black, but Itagaki's cancerous "FUCK YOU, I MADE IT HARDER" mentality reared its ugly head in NG2 when they introduced the ninja dogs and the military guys with missile launchers.

>>11880889
DMC1 and 3 are both distinct games in their own way, with 1 being a Resident Evil-like and 3 having more playstyles to mix and match with Dante's weapon sets, while NG is pretty straightforward with Hayabusa's weapons and ninpo magic.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 7:06:45 PM No.11881295
>>11880889
Two different animals entirely. NG is somewhat like a 3D fighting game where you walk around from match to match. The enemies are legitimately trying to kill you, they don't just dance around.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 7:21:01 PM No.11881321
>>11881184
>>11881283
>>11881295
I see, guys
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 4:13:13 AM No.11882271
>>11881283
I much prefer ninja gaiden black over NG2. I remember when NG2 launched it felt like a massive disappointment and I only played through the campaign once just didn’t find it fun.


if the tools ever become available it would be really cool if people could start editing ninja gaiden black. I would really love playing through the campaign again but with drastically different enemy spawns to mix things up. I think that would be an amazing experience. I would be very interested to see if the clone ryu mini bosses would work if they were placed in different areas or if the AI would break.
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 4:46:25 AM No.11882341
>>11881283
>and the military guys with missile launchers
Non issue complaint made by people who never played the harder difficulties. If you did you would be complaining about Incendiary shuriken ninjas.
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Anonymous
7/20/2025, 10:21:54 AM No.11882810
>>11882341
NTA but yeah until you get good those rocket guys can be annoying. Functionally they’re the same as the magic mages you just roll and jump to bait their shot and then attack.


I used to get fucking pissed playing against the incendiary ninjas (black spider ninjas or the red flame ninjas on higher difficulties) but honestly I give them a pass. The game is called NINJA gaiden. If you are going to get destroyed it may as well be from ninjas using ninja weapons. That’s what you signed up for. Projectile spam was also nowhere near as bad in NGB than NG2. they also attack in smaller groups so there is not as much shit flying everywhere like a bullet hell game.


NG2 pissed me the fuck off because they gave the ninjas rocket launchers instead of just keeping them as seperate factions and enemies. Way more boring that way. I wasn’t trying to play a gijoe game fighting dynasty warrior hordes of snake eyes from gijoe using military weapons I got the game to just fight ninjas with ninja weapons. NINJA gaiden.
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Anonymous
7/20/2025, 10:25:00 AM No.11882813
>>11882810
Also to elaborate on something I forgot to mention, despite being called ninja gaiden and just wanting it to be ninjas, the reason why I also give NGB a pass for the commando enemies and the military enemies was it felt like a larger than life conflict where ryus clan and the other ninja clan where fighting in different areas and predictably stirred up to much shit so inevitably other groups came in to get rid of you guys. It was good world building. Like the dead ninja you find with the journal saying he slipped up in his last fight and got wounded by those swat/SAS looking guys. Just thought it felt realistic to a degree.
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 12:21:58 PM No.11885290
>>11880889
I remember DMC1 being a bit of a challenge and DMC3 being fairly tough, but NGB was way fucking harder. Even with Izuna Drop I felt like I barely made it through that game at points. Hardcore players undersell it because they've put the work in and forget their first playthrough but NGB and NG2 are really hard.
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 5:33:05 PM No.11885778
The only problems with this game are the ghost fish (which are just blatant padding) and the swimming level.
Anonymous
7/21/2025, 5:40:41 PM No.11885798
>>11885290
> but NGB was way fucking harder
I think the OG US release of DMC3 is bullshit hard so if its normal mode counts (it's actually non-NG+ hard mode in disguise) then I think it's a bit more challenging than NGB
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 6:06:37 PM No.11887995
>>11879754
ummm EXCUSE ME
ninja gaiden used to have XBOX LIVE LEADERBOARDS
and in fact have them right now if you connect your xbox to insignia
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 3:56:29 AM No.11889148
>>11879510 (OP)
Well it is known as a difficult game for a reason. I definitely agree it has some cheap shit in it and there are parts about the game that could have been way better but I still think its the goat in its genre. A NGB that is mostly the same but with qol improvements would mog any action game today easily and I say this as someone who loved DMC5.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 5:48:57 AM No.11889379
>>11879510 (OP)
This is for those that enjoy SNK games, higher level DMC play and that like to attack enemies that actually fight back. Believe me that end part of the Temple is a filter on top of the 1st boss, once you surpass it, things go back down to being easier.
Anonymous
7/23/2025, 5:50:23 AM No.11889382
>>11881283
I do not know, I would say NG3 was harder and full of the most BS things even the re-release hardly fixed anything.