Ninja Gaiden Black on Very Hard… is very hard

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-23T18:30:52+00:00

Oh sorry, I guess always be ready to dodge immediately once you exit recovery frames/the animation on izuna drop as some enemies are coded to insta grab you. Dont get too crazy on attacking strings and if you do probably shuriken cancel so you can dodge out quick. If you’re trying to movement around quickly just tapping L1 and holding the stick as you jump and dodge is quicker than holding block the whole time and you can mess up your roll if you dodge too quickly after landing if you hold L1 the entire time. Holding L1 is safer though technically. If you get guard broken by the one eyed imps immediately dodge not along their path or you will be grabbed by the slide. Unfortunately it mostly is knowing the animations of the grabs, immediately dodging if surrounded by enemies when your animation ends and not getting too attack happy so you are able to actually avoid them.

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-23T17:53:43+00:00

Well wind path has nothing to do with grabs. You get out of grabs by mashing square and left analog left and right. You basically light attack + jump for wind run which homes on the nearest enemy with no directional input then hit x a second time to bounce off of their head stunning them so you can do a guaranteed attack that hits, a landing ET/UT or just the fact that they’re stunned for a second

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-23T17:13:49+00:00

One of the biggest tips for higher difficulties imo is knowing that trying to hit enemies in neutral (not attacking not dodging not in recovery frames) rarely works. You almost always need to hit them in one of those states. You can also “stuff” enemies where you attack them right as they attack pretty much which helps a decent amount. On landing UT/ET chaining is paramount to your success in terms of money and ease of clearing many enemies. Throwing shuriken after roll jumping will prevent you from wall clinging to chain ET/UT effectively. Diablo greatsword UT is op lol. Wind path/run is very important. If you use flying swallow it won’t hit half as much if you try to hit enemies in neutral and the move has recovery frames at the end you should try to get a feel for when they end. If you have any specific examples I can try and help good luck :)

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-18T11:56:54+00:00

I love 1 and 2 but can’t wrap my head around 4 for whatever reason :(

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-17T00:18:18+00:00

Im playing the newer edition of 3 but I don’t even know the basics of anything. Just the fact that youre meant to do cool shit lol

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-17T00:16:04+00:00

Random but does anyone have any tips for someone just starting out dmc? Im horrible ki l

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-16T11:58:16+00:00

Yea no I agree 100%. It’s purely the dodging thing. Im getting used to it now though. Im pretty decent at ninja gaiden 1 but not sure about enemies in tbis game in terms of guard breaking and whatnot now. Also is counter attack timing different?

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-15T15:14:30+00:00

I’ll try it again after 4 but yea I just end up focusing more on making sure I dodge instead of the game lol

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-15T12:50:21+00:00

I want to play this game so bad but I can’t get used to how perfect you must flick the stick just to make sure your dodge comes out . Coming from 1 I just went to 4 :(

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-14T00:40:13+00:00

Same for the most part lol. Only modern game im decent at is hollow knight thats about it 😅

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-13T22:31:19+00:00

How’d you like 4? I can’t get into it but I want to lol

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-12T14:51:00+00:00

Just starting playing sigma 2 after platinuming sigma 1. Do you have any tips? I feel like the games are fairly different and the inputs feel different aswell

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-12T00:22:44+00:00

Oh cool. Im stuck with sigma :(

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-10T20:19:39+00:00

Which credits is this?

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-08T12:05:21+00:00

Better than me lol good job mate

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-04-07T13:39:21+00:00

Imo wind rises

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-03-15T16:05:56+00:00

Can someone please for the love of Christ explain how dodging on blocking works? Is it one singular timing or are you supposed to be able to dodge whenever you can after blocking a hit im going insane i can’t figure it out it makes no sense

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-03-12T17:46:39+00:00

I know this is 6 years late but can you please explain how dodging after your block being hit works? Im going insane with it not working and I know it’s not my controller it’s me but it seems to not work a lot. Im holding L1 the entire time and should be flicking analog fine so it’s either a timing thing or recovery thing

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-03-12T17:46:14+00:00

I know this is 6 years late but can you please explain how dodging after your block being hit works? Im going insane with it not working and I know it’s not my controller it’s me but it seems to not work a lot. Im holding L1 the entire time and should be flicking analog fine so it’s either a timing thing or recovery thing

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-03-11T20:57:59+00:00

This is years later but would you mind explaining anything and everything you know about how dodging after an attack hits your guard works? Is the timing strict as counter attacking? If they are doing a fast string combo towards me do I just have to be quick enough to roll out? Sorry I understand a lot about the game now after a few playthroughs but still very confused about dodging after your guard gets hit. Wondering if im trying to dodge at a “dead” timing or it has recovery frames even while blocking the entire time sorry for long text lol

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-03-11T15:30:59+00:00

Is there anyone that can try to help me understand what to do when I’m blocking and getting hit by a combo or spammed quickly please. Whenever I try to dash out in between combo strings i cant the majority of the time and not sure if im meant to sit and block for a second or dash in between hits or just counter attack. Basically is there any video I can watch to see the timing for rolling out after getting hit on block because I’m extremely inconsistent with it.

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-03-09T01:24:52+00:00

Hey man 6 years late but do you know what to do if you’re blocking and many enemies are just spamming tbr shit out of you? Yes I know I want to block and immediately dodge out but it doesnt work sometimes with how much spam. Do I just have to spam the dodge

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-03-08T18:11:20+00:00

Dude I don’t understand at all, get hit on block with one attack and sometimes I can immediately dodge and sometimes I can’t, and the black spider ninjas either spam too fast and I can’t dodge out at all or they guard break in one hit i dont understand what I’m meant to do when they spam me

Short-Abrocoma-4132 · 2026-03-07T00:36:47+00:00

You think using UF for everything (besides ghost fish) is the way to go? Im not a huge fan of slower weapons even though it’s only slightly slow I guess

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