Caltrops - Ninja Gaiden - Re: Hey this game isn't that hard.

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by FABIO 12/22/2004, 4:19pm PST

Creexul :( wrote:

"constantly block and then try to start up a combo SOMEHOW" technique

This is a must for black ninjas, only for them that ONE second you let go of the block button is all the window they need to throw (with no warning) 5 exploding darts into you which send you flying all over the place.

But I think Mischief Maker said the one move that gets you through any fight is jumping then slashing down. The combat is sheer brilliance and the best thing ever when (somehow) you're fighting three dudes and you slash two up on either side of you, (somehow) do a split jump to kick both of them at once, (somehow) decapitate one then in the same motion (somehow) spin kick his headless body into a third enemy, then skewer the last remaining one. But then you realize that pulling the same boring move over and over (inbetween holding down block all the time) is the best way and it ruins the whole experience.

All they needed to do was set the damage down by at least 1/4th for normal difficulty.

It would have been fine if they just weren't so fucking retarded with save point placements. I wouldn't care so much about dying all the time if I could restart RIGHT THERE and try again, but dying on a hard part means you have to go back 10+ minutes and fight your way through more more battles before you can take another crack at the part that killed you. There are parts where if the game was an RPG it would not only have a save point, but an inn and item shop to restock on items. But in this game the closet save point is 5 minutes back through more random fights. Then some other parts you'll start a level and there will be a save point right there, then after one easy random battle there will be a second save point on the very same screen.

It's not quite the same level of "fuck you" from the orgininal Ninja Gaiden where losing your last life on any of the 3 last bosses would send you all the fucking way back to the very beginning of the level you just spent half an hour getting through which means half an hour more of trying not to get knocked into pits by zombie witches throwing knives before you can go die on the last boss again, but it's comes awfully fucking close.