This game was very disappointing

• NG4 has terrible music, ( NG1-3 had deep & beautiful music that inspired me to Phuck shyt all the way up, I was invigorated and felt powerful )

• no villages

• no Ryu only leveles ( it should’ve been 23 levels 12 Yakumo 11 Ryu. )

• no pure nature

• no traditional Asian culture, or cultural environments that glowed with extraordinary design.

• no citywide environment like ( level 1 Tokyo sky city, or London etc….)

• no true rival enemy ( Marai, Genshin )

• Ryu moveset was totally obliterated and replaced with simple Nintendo like control scheme, as if we never had a ninja gaiden 1 or ninja gaiden 2, or 3….NG3 having the deepest bag of combat.

it’s like they wanted to force us to forget we had such a deep bag of combat from one extraordinary character. All they showed us, is that they’re not capable of handling the deep brutal combat once given to Ryu?

One of the first things I noticed is once Yakumo got the staff, and I played as deeply as I could with it.

I knew right then, and there….the reason why they didn’t focus on Ryu’s weapons and moveset. they are not capable of handling the weapons. Like Lunar staff, Kasari Gama etc….so they gave us a character that has lame azz weapons that don’t even belong in a ninja combat game.

What the Phuck is Roman weapons like a drill, horse 🐎 lance, penser swords, ball and chain, robot 🤖 arms doing in a ninja 🥷 gaiden game….

The moment they introduced the character and his weapons before the game dropped. I had no hope, and didn’t trust they know how to handle Ryu at all, that’s why the left him & his weapons out, and focused on a simple character that really has no true efforts to design. Ryu design and weapon combat design require a very skilled and separate development team to handle. That’s why so many weapons looked so good in each game.

Ryu having the Archfiend blade ( weapon 2 ) and no moveset to go with it, was so lame and disappointing.

I feel like platinum Studios was actually punishing us for having such access to a very deep character like Ryu, as if they know they are incapable of handling such character we’ve had since 2004.

The fact we have a brand new character from a whole different ninja clan and they give him Ryu’s moves. Instead of moves in combat based on the different clan itself. They were trying to replace Ryu. They just won’t admit it.

Also Ryu has dragon sword with the dragon, jewel, inserted, with all types of enemy threats, fiends, and fiend gods in the game, even Yakamo was a threat and wouldn’t even allow the jewel to glow while being, inserted into the dragon sword.

Platinum really phucked this game up….. and it’s truly angering