Xed51 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 6:36 am
Older Itagaki games were more successful in the west than they ever were in Japan, specifically because gamers in the west were normal people who enjoyed action and beautiful men & women. Nowadays westerners enjoy getting AIDS, getting robbed, getting murdered, having their culture destroyed and their freedoms taken away, aborting babies and turning their children into eunuchs if they don't outright murder them by sending them to be beheaded in some third world country,
I legit don't understand Americans, and I live here. I'm willing to bet that at least half of the populace in the USA, doesn't understand Americans at all, coz Americans seem to have changed what & who they are, over night. Biden has literal Fat White guy Trannies dressed up as little girls in a dress as his secretary of health, AYY LMAO! I really don't understand what was so bad about Trump. If we had 5 more years of him, I'd be a multi-millionaire just sitting on my ass coz that's how much my property values went up under him.
After seeing that whole Gamestop Hedge fund Stock scandal though.
(YoungRip is a Blood. No wonder why he has such a solid comprehension of what the American government actually is, gangsters.)
It's easy to see that the 1% fucking hate it when anyone who's not part of their club gets obscenely rich without their consent.
Only the Inbred Blue Bloods are allowed to get rich by sitting on their ass, & doing nothing.
Meanwhile, I truly am considering moviing back to Asia, to forcibly protect my shit or go down dying to protect what's fucking mine, FROM THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT! Asia loved Trump coz he kept China & Israel off of our ass. Israel already attacked Damascus, the first day Biden was in office. I tried preventing that by voting for Trump. TOO BAD, Americans are so fucking stupid. They don't understand that everything that the media tells you about Trump is a lie. Everything they're saying is actually true of Biden.
so I don't see Itagaki relating to modern audiences too well because the games he made are you know, good and fun to play lol.
I do wonder what he's gonna do. I agree with Jack that his projects usually need a huge budget, while stuff like DMC5 can be made on a relatively small one (hence why the low sales of DMC5 are considered a triumph. An Itagaki game would need to push a lot more copies to be successful.)
Even Nioh sold more than the avg Itagaki game does lol. Itagaki games sold well during their era, about 1 million to 2 million copies. He was always more of a prestige guy that you dump millions into regardless of how badly the game actually does, which is similar to how Hideous Kojima is regarded.
Itagaki games probably did make back the budget & a profit during its era, but I don't see that happening in the modern era at all.
FYI Cyber Shadow is shit. Aight it's not shit, but it's basically like what Nioh is to Ninja Gaiden. It's good for what it does, but is in no way shape or form, a good replacement for what Ninja Gaiden is.
First off, WHY THE FUCK DOES CYBER SHADOW PLAY MORE LIKE A MEGAMAN X GAME! IT HAS THE STUPID SPIKE 1-hit kill PLATFORM PUZZLES, THE SAME STUPID CHARGED UP ATTACKS, THE SAME CHARACTER WHO STARTS OUT USELESS, BORING & SLOW BUT EVENTUALLY GAINS POWER-UPS.
I agree with most of the negative reviews.
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I hate most of the brownnosers who act as if Cyber Shadow were anything like the Ninja Gaiden games, when that's the main reason why I don't like it (
It's nothing like Ninja Gaiden!!!!), and wish I could refund it but I bought it on the Switch.
Moreover, why the fuck does the Cyber Shadow character play more like Zero from Megaman X than he does Ryu Hyabusa? You have the same exact wall slide jump ability. the same exact dash ability, the same exact charged attack ability.
Why did the asshole who made this game market it as a Ninja Gaiden when it clearly plays more like Megaman X? MMX is a great series. In fact, I was debating between buying the entire MMX collection + Casltvania Anniversary collection when it was on sales vs Cyber Shadow. Cyber Shadow cost as much as those 3 games combined. I went with Cyber Shadow coz I love Ninja Gaiden!
Did this guy play Ninja Gaiden? Why is the Cyber Shadow ninja so weak? He loses 3 life bars each time he gets hit. Ryu Hyabusa is actually very tanky, but the fucking Cyborg Ninja feels as light & weak as a feather.
Worse of all, CYBER SHADOW HAS BACKTRACKING! The level layouts flow more like Order of Ecclesia (Quasi-Metroidvania) rather than a straight forward action game, except you have no hub.
That's another thing, I was promised a fast-paced high octane action game but what I got was a mid-paced Megaman influenced game, and it fucking has backtracking just like a Mega Man X game!
I've been fucking bamboozled! I wish I could refund this piece of shit. It's not a bad game at all. It's just not a Ninja Gaiden game. Had I known that it was just a Megaman X game cos-playing as a NG, then I would've got the MMX collection instead!
It doesn't even play like the MM Zero games. If it did, I'd be complaining far less coz Zero is way more heavy on the action, like a Ninja Gaiden game.
I even turned on my Retrocade to play the 3 NES NG games to see if I remembered them wrong. Nope, they still play the same as ever. NG games are like the Sonic the Hedgehog of Ninja games. All you do is run forward and try to beat the stage as fast as you can while running & attacking everything that gets in your way.
The challenge of a Ninja Gaiden game should revolve around crowd control, knowing when to jump over an opponent and then attack them from behind or when to jump+attack to land on the platform before the enemy pushes you off.
That's how NG difficulty should be balanced. Cyber Shadow's difficulty feels more like a Megaman game, in that you're spending half of your time navigating through platform puzzles, and you have to rely on the sepcial skills that you picked up through the game.
That's not what I fucking play Ninja Gaiden for! WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THAT RYU HAD TO WASTE 6 or 7 STAGES BEFORE GETTING A FUCKING DOUBLE JUMP, OR A SUPER DASH? OH WAIT, HE NEVER HAD THOSE ABILITIES COZ RYU IS SUCH A BADASS THAT HE DOESN"T NEED SPECIAL SKILLS. ALL HE NEEDS ARE HIS BASIC SWORD SLASH AND THE ABILITY TO DUCK!
You can't even duck in Cyber Shadow, lol! Which was jarring, but I let it slide so long as the rest of the game feels as fastpaced as a NG.
NOPE! Cyber Shadow is not a slow game, but it's also not this constant battle with an endless horde of enemies that the entire NG series is.
Objectively Cyber Shadow is prob a low 8 (it's not a bad game at all), but as a NG fan it's a fucking 4 for me dog. Fuck this game!
BTW the music sucks. The music in the game is passable, but it's not Ninja Gaiden music.
Ninja Gaiden music is supposed to be funky as fuck.
NG NES games have always had music that get extremely pumped to run, jump & kill.
For Fuck's sake, NG's NES music goes hard as fuck!
Every single song from Cyber Shadow that I've heard so far sounded like it wanted to be as dramatic sounding as that Mine stage theme from NG1. That's fine, but where the fuck is my fucking Ninja Funk, you fucking idiot! This was like the only Cyber Shadow song that I thought sounded ok, but it's still nowhere near NG's level of catchiness.
I only got up to Stage 8 though, and then I quit coz I got sick & tired of all of the damn spike 1-hit kill platform puzzles. It truly does feel like a Mega man game, but no Megamang I've ever played, have ever went that insane with the 1-hit kill spikes. They're fucking everywhere in Cyber Shadow's late game. They're on the fucking ceiling, the ground, even on the goddamn walls. You have to specifically time your dash jumps, and I'm out here thinking.... HOW THE FUCK IS THIS NINJA GAIDEN? That's how MMX plays, not NG!
Oh yeah I almost forgot about the story. I actually love the story for NG1 & 2. NG3 was when it got kinda weird, but unfortunately Cyber Shadow's plot seems mostly inspired by NG3.
Not that NG3's plot was bad. It wasn't, NG3 made sense at least, since the main bad guys were the CIA and it's believable that the USA has or had access to such tech. (I wouldn't say it's believable in today's USA though. Today's USA seems to be run by a bunch of literal monkeys.)
What was great about NG's plots is how the cutscenes actually made me more hype to play the game. part of it has to do with how awesome the cutscene music is.
The songs that NG used, made it sound like the world would end if Ryu fails at his task.
Even better is that the actual story being told was easy to follow, and would be right at home with an 80s era Martial arts flick. You're a Ninja, from a rival Ninja clan who came to America to enact revenge for your dead father. During your quest, you're abducted by the CIA who force you to do your bidding, otherwsie they'll just kill you like they did with Walter. (Sure they tell you that they didn't kill him, so why the fuck do they imply to you that you'd meet the same fate as him if you don't do as you're told? LOL!)
The rest of NG's story plays out like a Mercenary film. He's sent to complete a task, he does no matter the cost.
My fave of the series is actually NG2, but I felt that NG1 had the easiest to follow story that didn't require you to play a previous game in order to understand it unlike with NG2 & 3.
Cyber Shadow's story, isn't really a story. It's a lot like Dark Souls, the story already happened but you piece together what the story was through terminals and cutscenes.
The story is fucking dumb. You're part of a Ninja clan that has a female called Master who's the leader of the clan. She caught a sickness so her father, who is a doctor tried to save her from the sickness.
He later sacrifices the lives of every ninja from her clan in order to save her, and transfer her 'essence' into a synthetic body to keep her alive. You're one of the last remaining survivors who tries to put a stop to his plan. It's implied that you're the Master's lover or something.
It's a really fucking dumb plot, coz I'd be thinking that if the main bad guy is a docter who's also the father of the Master, why are they not part of the same clan? Ninja clans are generally part of the same exact blood line. I don't think they would waste the lives of those they would consider one of their own.
My first reaction was that the plot was meant to be nonsensical like a typical NES plot, but after replaying stuff like Shatterhand, Secret Ties, The NG trilogy. NES action games actually didn't have confusing plots at all. NES action game plots were good enough to be the plot of an action movie, or an action anime like Ninja Scroll and what not.
Cyber Shadow's writing seems like it's trying to combine some Zen philosophy with a GITs-inspired take on on Machine-fusion being the higher evolved from of humanity.
My problem is that, that's all the fucking plot is. The plot is basically something that sounds like a background lore, rather than an actual plot.
The plot of NG1-3 is to save Irene Lew, that's it. LOL! You're given a different reason each time, but it's actually Irene's presence that causes all of the drama in the NES games, because Ryu would actually have a much easier time completing his tasks if he just killed her or left her behind.
That's why I still enjoy the NG series to this day, including the Itagaki games & even Koei Tecmo NG3. Every single one of them follow the same exact "Ryu must rescue a girl on his path to complete his conquest" set up. Ryu doesn't even have a romantic interest in Rachel at all but it's Ryu's heroic sacrifices that shows to Rachel that she doesn't need to sacrifice herself at all in order to save or avenge those she loves. All she has to do is her part and keep the faith.
In NG2, Irene was yet again the main damsel just like in the NES games but with a twist, we only know her under her real identity in NG2.
NG3 showed Ryu being a father figure to some Japanese lady and her daughter, and he moves on when its discovered that her husband still lives.
That's what I really liked about the Ninja Gaiden games. Ryu is very Japanese, he thinks the way to peace if for righteous men to be even more proficient at violence than those who commit evil. It's what the entire NG series revolves around.
Cyber Shadow tries to go for something deep, but it left a sour taste in my mouth coz I'm just laughing at the main character, and calling him a simp coz that's legit how the story comes off. We're never shown or given a reason why The Master is so special. She just happens to be the leader of her shitty Ninja clan, and that Ninja Clan itself seems to be written like a random treehouse club
I was always under the impression that Ninjas were supposed to function like a CIA agency, and expertise in espionage & information warfare.
That's the main reason why in both the NES Ninja Gaiden trilogy and the 3d Ninja Gaiden trilogy, the American CIA have such a heavy presence in those games. They're in the same business.
NG gets it right though, and they always portray the CIA as evil, WHICH IS TRUE, AY LMAO!
