Ryu Hayabusa shoulda set up some home alone traps in his village so it wouldnt gotten raided by the united states military #notallninjas

Game is kind of mid, I would give it a 5 out of 10. Better boss battles and a soft lock on that doesn’t change the direction of where I’m attacking mid combo to attack someone off screen would make the game feel better to play. Suffers from that fewer enemies but have way too much health. I’d rather there be more and they have less health. Enemies block and dodge a lot which isn't usually an issue up until you have to fight a bunch of adds in the middle of a boss fight. The boss battles are horrendously boring and make no sense sometimes. You fight one boss multiple times the exact same way, some are just straight BS like the final boss. I have no idea how I squeaked by the final boss on Normal. The whole rework with no items and stuff wouldn't be so bad either if it wasn't such a pain to just land a Y attack after a dodge because you flick the stick towards them and instead of swinging at them Ryu just attacks someone else entirely or the window is so small you just miss it. Although the thought of having you health regen depend entirely on hitting this Y after a guessing game of whether they'll either spam it or just never do it is kind of ridiculous. Then the rage system is dumb because there was multiple instances where I killed everyone so fast that I got it at the end of the fight so I never got to use it. The first system from 1 & 2 was significantly better. The blood lust sections are beyond dumb and a waste of time. Ultimately the good stuff like the combos themselves and the tough enemies aren't terribly bad, the way you can do all of the levels with all four characters is insanely cool, but it doesn't make up for the terrible time I had with the story mode. I was begging for it to be over by the end of day 6. Hopefully 4 takes very little inspiration from this game in particular, but I hope it lets you use all of the characters in the challenge mode like this one. It's just less fun overall.

Wanted to like this one, instead I dropped this one. Your better off waiting for Ninja Gaiden 4 and forgetting this game. This game was very frustrating to play through. Enemies blocked all attacks and some of the mechanics in the previous game got removed. The only good part was playing as the female. But even then it just had to drop a boss fight with 3 bozos spamming blue fireballs . 4/10