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Ninja Gaiden II brings frustrating difficulty to one million customers photo

Itagaki is helping the remains of Tecmo profit from beyond his grave as the publisher and Microsoft proudly announced that Ninja Gaiden II has sold one million copies worldwide. Do you think its creator will get any of his royalties now?

This is quite a coincidence actually, as I only just bought Ninja Gaiden II myself, since it was finally cheap enough. No offense to Team Ninja, but I'm not paying full price for a game that's guaranteed to make me break my controller and cause misery for the next week.








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Cynical Gamer's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2008 07:35
Cynical Gamer
Oh don't be a weaksauce.
Gameboi's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2008 08:07
Gameboi
I've been holding out on buying this -- only because I know it's going to be hard as hell, and piss me off (like the first one).
JynxShot's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2008 08:25
JynxShot
Considering that an average playthrough has you kill about 2,000 enemies, we're looking at ~2,000x1,000,000 for a total of 2 billion enemies brutally destroyed.
And that's only for one playthrough.
Jesus fucking christ I want to go home and play it now.

Also, Jim- don't be weaksauce. I love your articles, but don't be weaksauce.
Usedtabe's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2008 08:26
Usedtabe
As a newcomer to the 3-D NG series, I didn't find this game that frustrating. Now, it was hard as piss sometimes, but nothing that a little practice didn't take care of. It's one of the few games that really reward you for learning it's little "rules". I want to try the first one, but I think that without the obliteration technique that's in 2 it will be much, much harder. Anyways, path of the acolyte isn't bad at all. Warrior has been pretty tough so far though.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2008 08:28
Holyetheline
This game is amazing. I've barely spent any time with it though. I need to buy it.
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2008 08:39
Char Aznable
There were only like two stages that were frustrating for me, and those were ones that included the cheap ass rocket launcher dudes. Ugh, fucking annoying. Aside from that, it seemed like the rest was pretty fair (and damn fun).
Timmeh's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2008 09:01
Timmeh
You coulda had mine Jim. I can't bring myself to put the disc into the console any more because one of my controllers has 'mysteriously' developed a rattle and I can't afford to replace it.

Char: What difficulty did you play it on? I finished it on the easier one and thn tried a harder setting and got so pissed off with all the lame shit like constant incendiary shuriken spam from off-screen I put it away and haven't touched it since.
mraka's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2008 09:11
mraka
Beyond his grace? Is Itagaki dead?

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KMCC's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2008 10:32
KMCC
I wish I could continue to enjoy NG2...it was always freezing my system at the same exact spot: when you drop down through the steaming door into the kitchen full of werewolves.
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2008 10:43
Jim Sterling
Beyond his grace? Itagaki lacks elegance?

mraka: Master of spelling the word "grave" correctly.
ninjikiran's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2008 13:34
ninjikiran
As a newbie, Path of the Warrior was easy. I got the giant skull and decided to load up path of the mentor. Minute I figured out I was being raped by exploding surikens and rocket men I decided that was the end for a while. With a level 1 dragon sword those dudes are tooooo tough.
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2008 14:17
TrailerParkJesus
I'll get this game eventually. I still gotta get through Black though.
Cube's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/29/2008 17:24
Cube
God people need to stop with the WHINE.

I finished ninja gaiden 3, and ninja gaiden black on xbox is a cake walk comparied to ninja gaiden 3.


and the final boxx in ninja gaiden black is the guy you fight at the start of the game and I killed him accidently I thought he was just one of the lame kill all the boss again at the end of te game bosses.


you young punks and your "HARD games" you guys don't know what hard is.

ninja gaiden on xbox is for the baby in the household to lern the true lessons of gaming life on.
Roryzilla's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/30/2008 01:25
Roryzilla
^wat
Extacet's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/31/2008 03:14
Extacet
Cube, you have an enormous e-phallus. Congratulations.

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