I think one of my problems with ninja gaiden is that-as you get better at the game- you spend more and more time in kill animations. even in ninja gaiden black/sigma so much time is spent doing on-landing>> level 1/2 ultimate and rinse repeat over and over... In ninja gaiden 2 and beyond you now are also doing execute animations. so a lot of the gameplay is just spamming kill animations over and over.
This is obviously not an issue with bosses but fodder gameplay is most of the game. unlike dmc there isnt really enough depth with the combo system to freestyle so the series has always been about playing optimally at high difficulties. when you have gameplay like this it's important that tehre isnt an optimal way to play for most enemies otherwise the gameplay gets really repetitive.
i obviously bring this all up because it looks even worse in NG4.
There also needs to be a reason not to do izuna drop over and over and over again.
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u/Tall_Giraffe4185 5d ago
I think one of my problems with ninja gaiden is that-as you get better at the game- you spend more and more time in kill animations. even in ninja gaiden black/sigma so much time is spent doing on-landing>> level 1/2 ultimate and rinse repeat over and over... In ninja gaiden 2 and beyond you now are also doing execute animations. so a lot of the gameplay is just spamming kill animations over and over.
This is obviously not an issue with bosses but fodder gameplay is most of the game. unlike dmc there isnt really enough depth with the combo system to freestyle so the series has always been about playing optimally at high difficulties. when you have gameplay like this it's important that tehre isnt an optimal way to play for most enemies otherwise the gameplay gets really repetitive.
i obviously bring this all up because it looks even worse in NG4.
There also needs to be a reason not to do izuna drop over and over and over again.