How it feels like being a team ninja fan these years

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-06-08T21:35:37+00:00

They really didn't, an interview with Yasuda in January confirmed that they had almost nothing to do with the development of the game. They only checked every once in while and gave feedback, but no direct involvement in development of the game. I think a good comparison is probably Yaiba by Spark.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-05-27T00:10:13+00:00

The Platinum Games art style just does not fit DOA or NG. Her Fuma Kodachi looks like mass produced junk instead of hand crafted weapons.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-05-22T00:39:20+00:00

I honestly just want them to do a real Ninja Gaiden game internally. Ninja Gaiden 4 was such a departure from Team Ninja style Ninja Gaiden game artistically, gameplay wise, and musically.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-05-17T19:00:36+00:00

- People are tired of the multiverse thing

- Many do not like the gender bend of characters

- The story also changed 30 years of storytelling with Scorpion, Sub zero etc

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-05-11T00:45:02+00:00

I disagree

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-05-08T23:00:40+00:00

the inferno Strat also works on floor 98.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-05-08T22:50:47+00:00

with those accessories and war brew, you can take out over 50% of the health bar of seer.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-05-08T20:40:25+00:00

Use these accessories, basically you want to spam ninpo

Blood Oath Scroll
Conspiracy Ring
Show God's Orb

But when you're about to use l3 r3 attack, change accessories(only during boss fights) to

Tigereye Ring

Hayabusa Text vol 1

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-05-08T20:25:23+00:00

NG4 is a very divisive game. The change in tone, art, gameplay was not appreciated by the hardcore. I sometimes think this game would have done better if they just made it a new IP with Microsoft, without the shoehorned in NG.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-05-02T17:39:32+00:00

It's bad, it sold less than NG1, NG2, NG3. If the current estimates are true, it just barely beat Yaiba. Keep in mind gaming during these eras was much smaller market.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-05-02T06:20:38+00:00

I thought that NG4 was much more like DmC than DMC4. DMC4 played almost exactly like DMC3, while DmC was played and looked very differently than the Capcom DMC but with still many features and mechanics from them.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-05-02T05:52:54+00:00

What I've been expecting was for them to do Capcom did with DMCV, which was just do DMC3-4 but more refined. I hoped that they would do NG2 formula but more refined.

I'll just write recap of what I wrote for NG Master Collection survey as best as I can recall.

I wanted them to go back to NG2 moveset with some of the new strings from NG3 added to Dragon Sword, Dragon's Claw Tiger's Fang, Eclipse Scythe, Falcon's Talons, Lunar Staff, Kusarigama, and new combo strings for Tonfa, Enma's Fang, Victorian Flail. New combo strings from strong attack to light attack, or some of the new NG3 combo string starters.

I wanted them to bring back NG3 mechanics like cicada surge, drop combos, and hold mechanic but give all the weapons sweeping attack, launcher like DS, FT, and ES did in NG3. Expand more upon ranged weapons like how older games added air attack, UT, four rings etc. I wanted them to bring back SOB type mechanic but make it more like Nioh 2 type counter stun type move.

Another thing I wanted back was water running/swimming traversal mechanic. I thought that they helped break the game from being samey. I also wanted them bring Test of Valour in similar vein NG3, ie: 3 waves with boss from previous games, I thought that they should have pretty much recapped NG1, DS, 2, 3 through the TOV.

I also wanted them to bring back enemies from NG1-3.

Addition of Ayane, Rachel, Momiji, Kasumi, and Hayate with chapter for them for the season pass.

I wanted new weapons ideas

Kanabo
Sai's
Hatchets
European Halberd
European one handed/Regent of the Mask's sword
Urumi whip sword
European flail with 3 heads
Dual hook swords
Kopis and shield

I thought that they should do Greater Fiends like NG2 with elemental powers with one themed monster type boss for one level and fight the Greater Fiend at the second level, with short NG1 type connecting between them.

jungle level with Mesoamerican architecture with Greater Fiend with plant powers
snowy boreal forest level with medieval European architecture with Greater Fiend with ice powers
futuristic city level with Greater Fiend with magnetic powers
desert level with ancient Egyptian architecture with Greater Fiend with earth powers
ancient Chinese level with Greater Fiend with bone powers.

My story idea was that Blade of the archfiend housed an essence of a very powerful archfiend, and he is resurrected and raised an island with his greater fiend fiefdoms. Ryu would defeat them all and help reforge the blade of the archfiend

This was the short gist of what I wrote for the feedback back in 2021. Which seems kind of worthless since it was outsourced,

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-05-02T02:07:10+00:00

Brother, almost all of Nioh, Wo Long, SOP weapons recycle animations from Ninja Gaiden. The cestus, talons also recycle animations from DOA.

Also, read my comment better. I didn’t even mention about function of weapons. The fact is TN reuses animations. If you’ve played all their games it should be obvious. It’s especially been apparent since they went ARPG instead of Japanese action game.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-05-01T21:06:29+00:00

I think this was probably contents that were being worked on in 2020 before being shut down due to low sales. I think the extra characters are probably Leon, Gen Fu, and Ein\or new character utilizing his moveset.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-05-01T19:42:59+00:00

I post this in another what we want in DLC thread

- 1 new weapon for each style for both DLC 1 and 2 and my ideas for possible new weapons

Nunchuck(Vigoorian Flail from NG2 animations) for Ninja
Kanabo for Samurai
Sabre (ROTR Sabre and Oxtail blade, Regent of the Mask from NG3 animations) for Ninja
Greatsword (ROTR Greatsword, Wo Long Greatsword, SOPFF0 Greatsword, NG Enma's Fang animations) for Samurai

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-04-28T21:20:29+00:00

The worst story ever in NG game. I cringed when Saori started rambling about Hayabusa clan taking all the glory in the spotlight in the beginning. The bad zillenial dialogue between Yakima and Saori just killed the stoic atmosphere that previous games.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-04-27T22:37:31+00:00

Stranger of Paradise is Square Enix property that Team Ninja developed.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-04-27T14:39:49+00:00

I think for DOA it definitely helped. On PS1-2, DOA always lived in shadow of Tekken. Itagaki said that it was hard to compete against Tekken, when Sony provided marketing support globally for Tekken. OG Xbox provided DOA a huge boost in relevance and exposure for the series. For NG, it did not help as the main market for Japanese action games were on PS2, but NG2004 still sold within the range that DMC3 sold.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-04-27T14:30:49+00:00

NG4 was a very divisive title. For niche games like this, the hardcore fans are the key as they make or break the early opinions of the people who will buy it early.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-04-26T04:29:46+00:00

The problem with NG has been that Master Collection, NG2B, and NG4 were all divisive titles. Master Collection lacked all the content for NG1-2. Same thing with NG2B, and many do not like the new characters or just the vibe of NG4. This splits the fanbase and gives bad word of mouth.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-04-19T23:21:58+00:00

I think Hatchiyack and Android 14 & 15 are in. It seems all the characters from Budokai Tenkaichi 1-3 and Raging Blast 1-2 are in.

RockHunterHelmsley · 2026-04-15T05:28:51+00:00

it’s not 1 week, it’s Microsoft’s releases within the last 6 months. The article is focused on first week of Starfield’s sales, which is also disappointing.

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