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Message: [QUOTE="ATenderLad, post: 54519, member: 3864"] I suppose I didn't *really* go looking for a Ninja Gaiden article, but I will stick around for an Octopus Rant. Random notes! [LIST] [*]It's a boring answer, but my first Ninja Gaiden was...the first one! My older cousins basically played everything on the NES, wasted all of their money on every new cartridge they could find. The kind of guys who wrote letters in to Nintendo Power, and had a good friend who was one of those...I forget what you call them, game counselors? I remember they called him once for me when I got stuck in Super Metroid. (I've never played the 3D Ninja Gaiden games, so I guess I'll focus up and keep reading...) [*]Oh no, G4TV. I had a three month stretch in base housing where that was one of the only things that came through clearly on the jank-ass cable setup. It was either G4TV or constant re-runs of American Choppers, so naturally I learned a whole lot about men screaming for overpriced luxury items. [*]"Recent shadow-release...technically a remake of a re-release...DNA comprised of 90% Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, an earlier re-release..." I-I need to sit down, the floor keeps rushing up to meet me. [*]I've semi-abandoned an article on genre, with a section titled "[U]A Character Action/Spectacle Fighter, by any other name, would smell as sweet[/U]". What are they? Are they meaningfully different from Hack n' Slash? Do all of them still fit the bill of the old standard Beat 'Em Up? Trying to suss out what makes any given game one genre or another on Steam drives me crazy. [*]You lost me at "Enemies frequently have grab attacks", but "You can instantly decapitate some enemies"? [I]Son of a bitch, I'm in[/I]. [*]Oh shit, they doubled down on the dismemberment for the sequel and made it [B]integral to the gameplay?[/B] [/LIST] [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" width="158px" size="208x360"]17913[/ATTACH][/CENTER] [LIST] [*]Wait, no, they also added legions of assholes shooting you from off-camera, like your own personal Bolivian Army Ending? Eh, I still want to play it though. [*]Okay so Sigma 2 is less chaotic, ergo less interesting. Makes sense to me. [*]Black 2 is "the one you can actually reasonably play, currently", got it. [*]So that lady is a...ninja, like a stealthy shadow warrior? I think her gag boobs put the B in Subtle. [/LIST] I'll say this much, I *do* want to try Ninja Gaiden 2 now, if only to slice up hoards of enemies like the Black Knight in Monty Python. Great little breakdown of the series, Cephalopod, and funny to boot! [/QUOTE]

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