Ninja Gaiden II: Now with added limb amputations

This is only £7.99 new in Gamestation which makes me think it might be shit but most reviews seem favourable. ILG opinions?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czFwddhsb-4

It's good fun but can get quite hard and there are a lot of severed body parts in it. Would definitely buy it for £8.

it's only £7.99 cos it's quite old now, onimo; did you ever play god of war, devil may cry or the original ninja gaiden? they're basically just fancy versions of streets of rage

NG2 is bollock hard tho

did anyone play devil may cry 4?

I gave up on DMC4 and NG2 at around the same point (less than 25% in). Neither really captured my attention. I wouldn't call either crap, but both seemed to suffer from a more of the same kind of feeling, where improved graphical resolution didn't equal an improved, more fun game to play. In particular, I remember being turned off by the long distance arrow shooting enemies in NG2 and confusingly designed paths you had to try to figure out (i.e. I kept getting lost). In DMC4 it was the frustrating swinging puzzles & unsatisfying combat. I never put both down in anger saying that's it, and meant to pick both up again, but here it is a year and a half later and both sit on my shelf untouched (though unsold, so there's maybe hope yet). Flashy, but soulless.

it's only £7.99 cos it's quite old now, onimo; did you ever play god of war, devil may cry or the original ninja gaiden? they're basically just fancy versions of streets of rage

Played God Of War and loved it. Street of Rage fucking OWNED. Never played NG but I'm a fan of hack and slash things as long as t feels like there's a bit of skill involved in learning combos and moves rather than just kicking the shit out of your controller waiting for some enormous thing to die. I think I'll take a punt for £8.

Finally getting an HDTV in a couple of weeks so I'm looking forward to playing a few of my xbox games in glorious HD, and being able to read the instructions on Dead Rising.

dying for an HDTV here; I have an 24" HD monitor tht the xbox looks amazing on so I imagine anything from 30" up would be killer

thankfully they're pretty cheap now, but: lolrecession

onimo - Ninja Gaiden is a much harder than the God of Wars. Keep in mind, if you haven't played Ninja Gaiden Black before, that the general consensus is it's a better game in every way than Ninja Gaiden II. It's also backwards compatible and available as a digital download for 1200 ms points.

took a punt on this fpr £5 in gs; harrrrrrrrrrd

every time i see this thread pop up I'm sad it's not actually about The Dark Sword of Chaos

bought this for $6 US, pretty fun so far. pretty sure i havent gotten to any of the controller smashing nightmare parts yet tho