Tecmo Koei, let me stop you now. Don't go down that path. Wipe the dollar signs from your eyes.
Tecmo Koei president Kenji Matsubara spoke with Play magazine recently, and they discussed Sony's motion-sensing technology announced at E3. Matsubara expressed interest in the tech, but says that he would have to test it to see if it would be a good fit for their games, like Ninja Gaiden.
"I’m very interested in the new motion-control technology announced at E3, but we really need to know how responsive it is,” said Matsubara. “I’m sure that for casual games these motion controls will be very popular, but for action games like Ninja Gaiden we need quick responses and if you're swinging your arms around like you’re using a sword you will soon be tired.”
He makes motion tech sound like something he wants to work up to: “Maybe we have to change the playing style and check the technology to see how quick it can be,” he said. “So, at first it will be casual games and then maybe hardcore games and we have to prepare for that and provide the games to satisfy that playing style.”
Or you could just, you know, leave it the way it is with the buttons and all. Right now, Ninja Gaiden is difficult for all the right reasons. Don't change it and make it difficult for all the wrong reasons.
[via NowGamer]
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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11:40 AM on 08.06.2009
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Swinging your arm up and down or left and right isn't as fun as most people think.
Yet still, Ninja Gaiden is fun.
It's kinda like the move to 3d graphics in games. The first wave of it looked absolutely ass-y, but the 2d stuff still existed, so it was all good, and the 3d kept progressing until it became something that actually looks nice.
Aside from NG2's cheap, off-screen, ranged enemies spamming bazookas at you. That's not challenging, that's just cheap.
I absolutely 100% agree with the continued use of buttoned controllers, though.
Where I do disagree with Dale is when he says Ninja Gaiden is difficult for the right reasons. No it's not. That game's difficulty is artificially increased by stupid shit like a bad camera and Ninjas with rocket launchers.
It's ridiculous.
Still, I love those games anyway.
THE FUCK IS WRONG YOU YOU? WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE NARUTO?
That being said, Ninja Gaiden 1 was difficult for the right reasons, but even as a fanboy I know NG2 is cheap and unbalanced, esp. on higher difficulty levels. I still wouldn't trade those fucking rocket-launching suicide blood explosion ninjas for anything less, though.
Actually, the explosive shuriken fuckers are worse. Much worse.
Otherwise it's just like Arttemis said: Cheap.
Priorities, priorities.
I mean you have to do is press Square (ps3) until other guys die, there is no other possible thing to do!
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