I had previously gave this game 5 star rating prior to making my Backloggd account. That was a gigantic mistake after playing this and many other games this past weekend. The lack of health items kind of annoyed and I played other Ninja Gaiden games on hard difficulty and this one just kind of had cheap tricks to make it more difficult. I hate how based on the damage you took how little your health would be even after health upgrades.

Ryu seemed like a shadow of his former self and kept thinking if this was actually a prequel, but it was not. A seasoned veteran with dealing with fiends and crazy people taking over the world is nothing new to this man, but he did not act at all like he would in the prior games and had me shaking my head through several cutscenes. Troy Baker, you better watch yourself.

Close to the end you get to fight the unfair harder enemies and are ridiculously spongey unless you spam ultimate techniques if they give you a few seconds to even charge up. Was stuck at one of the later boss fights because I had decided to level up some of the other weapons added in the "Razor's Edge" version, but apparently they made them weaker, atleast in this boss fight. I had to use my underleveled Jiranmaru which ended up doing more damage than my other "stronger" weapons!

I will be playing Yaiba soon to finish off these games and I hope it will be more enjoyable than this was. What was wrong with the younger me?! Wish I could go back in time and slap myself silly! Despite it all I really want a new installment, I have been begging for one for so long that I even had a dream about a new Ninja Gaiden game! I am just gonna pretend this is just a noncanon spinoff to the other two. Loved playing as Ayane and wished they would of added Momiji stages like Sigma 2. It scratches the itch, but does more harm than good.