There have been a few weapon adjustments, some are a welcome change while I question others. The controls aren’t as tight as I remember but they don’t impact the game at any rate. The level layouts are identical however item and enemy placement is different. Which is sad as Ninja Gaiden on NES had a fantastic score, one that I enjoyed listening to in the game’s hidden sound test.Īt the very least in terms of gameplay things are mostly still the same. The new music tracks lack any distinctive flavor and don’t match the action either. The few tracks that it has in common with its NES counterpart sound like garbled approximations. The soundtrack has also been rearranged and is different and in my opinion terrible. But as a whole it is incredibly inconsistent.
I can appreciate what they were going for and in some cases it can look nice stages 2-2 and 4-2 look spectacular. Not only is it choppy the scrolling is wrong as the backgrounds move faster than the foreground. Even worse though is the piss poor parallax scrolling. The backgrounds have been redesigned in a more realistic style that does not mesh with the character sprites. The biggest screw up however comes in the game’s backgrounds. The sole bright spot would be the redrawn cutscenes, which feature better art and more detail. The sprites are even worse than its NES counterpart I don’t know how the hell they managed that. Rondo of Blood is a good example of using the system’s capabilities to make a game look better while staying true to its unique visual style. It makes the game looker nicer in some respects but also completely destroys the grittiness that made the NES version look so good. The overall color palette is brighter and the resolution is much higher. The visuals are the most interesting component of this version of the game and what everyone is curious to see how it stacks up. But there are enough changes that it doesn’t measure up to the original. On the one hand this is still the same great game released for the NES in 1989 at a base level. A remake of Ninja Gaiden hit the PC Engine in Japan and is certainly interesting. It is no exaggeration when I say the majority of that time was spent in stages 6-2 and 6-3 those of you familiar with Tecmo’s classic know why. Not just because I like the game so much but because it is also one of the most difficult games of all time. The amount of hours I have sunk into that NES cartridge should be illegal by all accounts. If I had to make a list of the games I have spent the most time with Ninja Gaiden would be in the top five. Developer: Tecmo Publisher: Hudson Soft Released: JanuGenre: Action
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