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Ninja Gaiden Black: An exercise in frustration
Posted on October 5th, 2005 3 commentsNinja Gaiden on Xbox is a superbly crafted game that supplies hours of action and fun.
At least… that’s what I hear. I have a problem. I can’t beat the first boss on Ninja Gaiden. The big guy with “numb chucks” (as Napoleon Dynamite would say). I got him about 1/3 down after I had spent all of my elixirs and used my reincarnation scroll.
Ninja Gaiden is HARD. I’ve always been an RPG or FPS player, and 3rd-person games typically drive me absolutely bats in the belfrey looney nutso. I have yet to play any 3rd-person game where the camera doesn’t totally screw things up on a consistent basis. Ninja Gaiden Black still has an annoying camera, but at least it’s fun. However, I keep getting the nagging suspicion that when I’m trapped in a room fighting endless waves (3 at a time, mind you) of brown ninjas, that I should be able to somehow avoid getting hit by one of the ninjas while I beat the other 2 into submission. I want to turn my ninjaizer up to “Puree”, if you don’t mind.
No. Not in this game. This game has strange conventions where if you start a swing with your sword, it’s insanely hard to stop that swing, turn around and take a swipe at the ninja that just jumped over your head. Oh, wait… maybe that’s semi-realistic.
Anyway, I’m no stranger to difficult games. I’ll prove it: I finished Panzer Dragoon ORTA on hard. Oh, and I also think that Ikaruga is delightfully fun. See? I can appreciate difficult games. But this Ninja Gaiden nonsense is killing me.
I borrowed the original Ninja Gaiden from a friend and gave up on it after I don’t know how many hours of trying to beat numb chuck guy.
I want to really have fun with Ninja Gaiden Black, but numb chuck guy is totally thwarting me.
Maybe I need more illegal ninja moves from the government.
3 responses to “Ninja Gaiden Black: An exercise in frustration”
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Heh..posted the Tron thing under the wrong post but no matter. Also, the reason you cant beat Ninja Gaiden is because only people who don’t do anything and live in an apartment payed for by their parents that they go out to eat from (paid by their parents) with a car payed for by their parents. Good work Camden!!! And you want hard games?!?! I BEAT BLASTER MASTER BIZZATCH. I mean…very good, carry on.
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I meant to end that rant about parent livers with the tagline “are the only ones who can beat it”. Also, Mr. Finster, since this is the first time I have posted in 2394872394 years, what was that crack about Noel in fantasy football losing to my “team” with team in quotes. Yes we’ve had some locker room spats but most of them are Harrington wanting to play and not being allowed to due to the fact that he sucks. Also, we have replace Buffalos defense as they were an devisive factor. I think we have much more of a team dynamic now.
And in closing: GO NINERS!!! We can go 2-14 this year if only we can beat St. Louis a second time. 😉
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Blaster Master… I am duly impressed. That game was insane. And if the Niners start Alex Smith, their next game against the Rams will be a contest to see which QB gets more concussions. Oh wait, the Rams defense isn’t that good. Nevermind.
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Me October 6th, 2005 at 07:01