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I have no idea how that line shows up, or that it seems to change color randomly. I went back and fixed it for this last video and made sure it's fixed for the last two. As for all the previous videos in the sigma playthrough, I can't guarantee I'll go back and fix all those considering how long it takes for me to re render and then upload each video. Plus, I wanna prioritize editing and recording commentary for the remaining post game videos before I start summer classes in like two weeks. Fixed version of Sigma Chapter 17 is now up, though.
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  We've made it to the chapter where the player can choose to wrap up any last thing they need to before entering the point of no return. Though with how thorough I've been, there's nothing in the way of loose ends to even consider.  Bosses  Marbus Marbus is the third Greater Fiend spoken about by Rachel at the start of Chapter 8 (the one who guards the Emperor). Marbus' appearance is not too far from that of a typical goat demon design, and has a voice I'm not too fond of. He's a pretty decent fight, assuming you can get him to actually attack rather than make use of his primary gimmick.
 Vigoor Emperor The ruler of all the Fiends, at least in this guy's domain. This fight actually has two forms and, well, neither of them are especially great though the second is certainly more tolerable. The first utilizes a gimmick involving controlling a floating platform to move along all three axis' but it's quite clunk to deal with to say the least. The second form ends up being a chance to use every projectile you've been saving to pelt him from a distance due to the nature of the arena being mostly lava.
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I like how the Vigoor Emperor has two forms: 1. Angelic disembodied head with androgynous features and glowing body gems 2. Giant pile o' skulls
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I'm a tad late on this but, Was I the only person who found it much easier to deal with ghost fish by spamming the A+X jump move (I forget its name but it jumps towards the nearest enemy without requiring directional input) and the basic aerial attack with the Dragon Sword (which hits 360° around Ryu)? I think I learned that playing the original Ninja Gaiden, which I want to say did not have the kunai scroll that tells you to use the Flails.
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Killing the Devil to cure your Devil-itus, that's the Ninja way.
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Fedule posted:I'm a tad late on this but,
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I'm like 95% certain that kunai scroll is not in vanilla NG.
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I'm 100% sure that kunai isn't in vanilla NG. After player feedback about how much they hated the ghost fish, the developers put in that kunai in the rerelease to get the player base to shut up. Otherwise you have people spending over 5 minutes on ghost fish when they should be moving through at a slightly rapid pace.
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   This image will make sense in the video, I swear.  Labryinth of Zarkhan
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I always enjoyed how in the Ninja Gaiden universe there's the country with advanced technology and a modern military that's...ruled by a giant spider skull pillar.
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Sindai posted:I always enjoyed how in the Ninja Gaiden universe there's the country with advanced technology and a modern military that's...ruled by a giant spider skull pillar. I share similar sentiments. Also, Arclight. "Penultimate" is the word you were thinking of at the bone stairs. bman in 2288 fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Jun 24, 2017 |
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 ArclightBorealis and PSWII60 would like to express our utmost appreciation and respect for the creators of one of the true classic games of our time. Bosses  Fiend Murai And here it is. The final boss...not quite what one would expect, huh? It doesn't have a strong sense of "finality" to it or whatever, but Fiend Murai is still a pretty good boos fight on the whole. His movements are much like his human form, but with the Dark Dragon Blade his methods of attack are way different. And numerous to say the least.
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The first time I tried doing this boss in Black... oh, boy. I like this game a lot. That sense of closure in the end really seals the deal.
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The sense of closure one only gets from beholding our stalwart volcel hero turning down sex by transforming into a loving ghost bird and flying away. Poor Rachel, she never scored...  (I think only RE4's ending compares?)
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beep by grandpa posted:The sense of closure one only gets from beholding our stalwart volcel hero turning down sex by transforming into a loving ghost bird and flying away. Poor Rachel, she never scored... Maybe he just doesn't want to have sex with her.
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That's exactly what I'm saying though! 
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 ...Thanks, Hayashi. Endgame
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beep by grandpa posted:That's exactly what I'm saying though! I am not a clever person, I have recently learned.
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The one thing I really don't like about NG's combat is the super moves. They're invincible, do huge damage, and can be used at any time, so there's no reason not to use them whenever possible.
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Well, that's one ninja who didn't have to fight a medieval Psycho Mantis throwing buckets at him.
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   Ninja Gaiden Black is a game with value. This is a game filled with content that isn't given to the average player on their first runthrough. With multiple difficulty settings that remix enemy and item placements, unlockable bonuses, and a challenging yet rewarding mission mode it would've been foolish if I didn't show off any of this after finishing the main game. This is gonna be a long one, especially since most of these post-game changes still apply (mostly) to Sigma. And it's so long I had to split it into two loving videos. Strap in.  Fierce new opponents have risen up and lie in wait for your return. Though you may traverse areas once thought conquered, you must not become complacent. To fail here is to disgrace the Ninja way. When first entering Hard mode, it feels like a natural step up from what was seen at the end of the normal difficulty. Even with equipment fully reset it's still manageable at the outset. But there's some major changes that give you a glimpse at how much more hellish the higher two difficulties will be. Enemy Remix Much like Devil May Cry, Ninja Gaiden Black totally remixes and upgrades the enemy encounters throughout the game, a feature that showed up at its earliest during the first Hurricane Pack. Now it's part of the game right out of the box. How the remix works is that the enemies are categories into a sort of hierarchy. There are Humans, Humanoid Fiends, and Large Fiends, and the ones you fight on all the higher difficulties are harder enemies that replace the lower ones that you encounter on Normal. And while not every enemy gets a replacement, some of the ones that stay get some minor additions to their attacks. So there's still some consistency in the encounter design, and the game won't force you into absurd, randomized fights. There are some unexpected changes to be had, but they are sparse as to not become obnoxious. And while some of the higher level ninjas or humanoid fiends may hit harder, your attacks when used properly will do just as much damage to them as well, preventing fights from becoming long slogs due to damage sponges.
In the original Ninja Gaiden, the boss fights didn't get a significant change in difficulty that wasn't just higher damage values on their attacks. You could still fight them exactly as you did on Normal. Black throws that concept out the window by adding support enemies during the fights. Yes. The boss isn't fighting you alone, they've got their lackeys to distract you. This is something of an evolution of the concept introduced in the Masakado fight, and a bit of Marbus too, but with some more strict rules regarding the implementation. For start, only two enemies spawn at the beginning, and the regular enemy count cannot go higher than that during the battle. If you kill the two enemies, that will be it and you can fight the boss uninterrupted. That is, until they lose a quarter of their health, at which point two new enemies will spawn. However, because of the rules set in place for limiting enemies on the field, you can ignore the starting enemies to focus on the boss (good luck with that), and so if you kill an enemy when the boss has, say, 60% HP left, the next enemy that is queued up enters the scene. So it's more of a waiting list for the trash mobs as opposed to them being dumped haphazardly. Two more enemies will always be added to the queue when each quarter of the bosses health is lost. This change in boss fights still works really well here, because while at first the regular enemies appear to be no more than distracting, there purpose during the battle, especially when killed, opens up some new strategies. For instance, you now have a source of essence with which you can potentially use an Ultimate Technique. Or better yet, attacking an enemy while the boss is in range will have a high chance of registering that damage to the boss itself, due to the way the hitboxes work and the fact that the game is not registering the boss as the primary target, meaning it won't be on full 100% defense constantly. Sometimes the bosses attacks might end up killing its own lackeys in the process. It's like discovering holes in the logic of the game's systems, but it feels good when you do it, because at the end of the day every boss exploits poo poo to some degree, so it's only fair for a ninja to do the same. gently caress honor. Doppleganger Fights So the enemies are updated, and they join in during the boss fights as well. But there's one more unique foe thrown into the mix. The Doppleganger Fiend (not Fiend Ryu, as is possible to misinterpret). Ayane leaves a special Kunai Scroll at the entrance to the Monastery describing a new foe that has the ability to perfectly copy the abilities of another, and from that point on specific chapters will feature special fights with this enemy. Ninja Gaiden never really had anything in the way of a rival character, like other character action games like Devil May Cry. There never was a recurring foe in Ryu's journey that could be seen as his equal and a constant foil during the game. The doppleganger isn't that, unfortunately. It is exactly what the name implies, a clone. You are fighting against yourself and not a foe that is similar yet still unique in its own right. But this alternative is still one of the most fun encounters ever made in any action game. There is so little in the way of exploit or cheesing against a foe that knows your moves better than you. You have to stay on top of everything this clone will throw at you, and it makes moments where you open it up at the right moment for an Izuna Drop all the more sweet. Of course, just like all the other bosses, the Doppleganger Fiend does a bit of cheating itself. While it only uses the weapon it has visibly equipped to its back, it has access to every projectile in the game, and can switch between either Art of the Inferno or Fire Wheels for Ninpo. You also can't impale it on the ground should you knock it down. But everything else about it, works exactly the same as Ryu does in the player's hands. Of course, as it is AI the Doppleganger does a good job of staying on the defensive and minimizing on wasted frames. Trust me, you play through at least one of these fights, and you'll get a feel for the excitement that comes from playing a competitive fighting game. Bonus Weapons The rewards you get for collecting Golden Scarabs change each difficulty, but the last two always stay the same. These are two extra weapons that don't really give you much advantage over anything, especially when they're acquired so late in the game, but they are nice bonuses that are also available during certain battles in Mission Mode, so it's a good idea to explain what they are.  Plasma Saber Mk. II An upgraded version of the Plasma Saber, in which the plasma oscillator has been tuned to the maximum. This is just a reskin of the True Dragon Sword, alas. The Plasma Saber was originally part of the "Ninja of the Future" skin featured only in the original version of Ninja Gaiden, but since the costume was dropped due to its tacky-ness, the devs decided to still keep the sword since that part was cool. It's a light saber essentially, with cool oscillating sound effect when it swings. Other than that, it's not too special.  Dark Dragon Blade Moveset An evil blade that has been sealed away by the Hayabusa Ninja Clan. Chaos brings out its hellish power. This is an interesting weapon when put next to Ryu's arsenal, as despite being a late game unlockable that is only useable in the final two chapters, it has the highest attack power of any weapon. Including the Unlabored Flawlessness (without the low health bonus). With its extremely small moveset, it's made up for with some unique charge attacks and its combos having a high stun rate on enemies. It also swings fairly fast too, though because of how short the combos are, you'll have to contend with the recovery animations happening very frequently. Of course, outside of the campaign certain missions in Mission Mode allow for its use, and a better demonstration of its power. Golden Scarab Rewards Unlike all the other items in the game, Golden Scarabs remain in the same locations on all difficulties, and the different rewards on each level informs the kind of challenge the game wants to impose on the player. In Hard Mode's case, items that were simply acquired on the critical path are now locked behind scarab rewards, meaning things like technique scrolls cannot be acquired at the same time they used to, and a tool like the Spear Gun is not available unless you've kept up on every scarab as they've shown up.
 An enormous evil clouds the sky, as even greater threats loom in the distance, sharpening their fangs and talons. Those who wish to attain mastery in the Ninja arts must be able to eliminate these monstrosities without hesitation. A bigger step up from the last difficulty, higher damage from enemies is the last thing you'll be worrying about. This mode introduces new limitations on tactics you may have grown accustomed to in order to get this far. Item Limitations After completing Normal and Hard, you'd become used to how many elixers you can carry and possibly even rely on having your inventory topped off so you can power through the really hard sections. Very Hard throws a wrench in that mentality by straight up cutting your maximum capacity for each item by about half. Elixers of Spiritual Life are now cut down to 6, Great Elixers of Life and Elixers of Devil Way cut to 3, and Great Elixers of Devil way cut down to 2. Even the Talismans of Rebirth are cut down by one. Thankfully projectiles are not affected by this, just anything that would be able to heal Ryu. So get better at not being hit, or just be lucky with blue essence drops from enemies. Enemy Remix
Introduced originally during the Master Ninja Tournament Finals and the second Hurricane Pack, these two fiends are the most formidable post game foes when combined. Of course, fighting two at once is only reserved for a battle in mission mode, as the fights with them on Very Hard and Master Ninja has you facing them one at a time.  Nicchae Nicchae is clone of the first Alma fight through and through. While she does hit harder by nature of her being an Ancient Greater Fiend, because she's based on the original boss fight her windows of opening are similar. In fact, it's potentially easier to get damage on her than it is compared to either Alma fight. Still, it being based on one of the better fights in the game makes her an enjoyable fight. But she's not the real threat. That's reserved for her sister.  Ishtaros This right here is it. The hardest boss conceived in any version of Ninja Gaiden 1. A fitting honor considering her entirely unique moveset and tactics. In fact, she feels almost like a proper bridge between the fights in Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2, as she pushes the combat engine to its limits with her extremely aggressive AI and attacks. It's a better example in that respect than Gamov, as there are still plenty of ways to take her on and the fight doesn't devolve into abusing one single tactic.
On Very Hard, the focus of the Golden Scarab rewards are Ninpo and Ninpo related upgrades. Getting useful skills like the Art of the Inazuma is only possible if you've collected every scarab as they appeared. Because of how much harder the enemies are here, this mode can be seen as trying to beat out players' reliance on Ninpo by locking them behind hidden rewards.
 The highest plateau amongst the ranks of Ninja...Master Ninja. This is a journey to Hell, so intense it defies description in the lowly tongues of men. Can you overcome the tribulations before you and achieve the ultimate honor? This is it. There's no major reward for beating this difficulty other than the pride and joy you'll feel upon completing it. In all fairness, it is a marginal increase in difficulty over Very Hard, as opposed to the other difficulty jumps. But this also means that the beginning chapters will be the hardest hurdle to overcome, and if you can get past that you'll still have enemies with their reflexes and attack power at their maximum potential. I've only ever completed it once (a few months prior to actually starting this LP) and even then completing all the combat challenges and getting every upgrade was something I had to pass on. Golden Scarab Rewards On Master Ninja, the rewards for collecing scarabs could be seen as less than rewarding. There are two opportunities to get smoke bombs from here, and with the exception of the last two rewards everything else is one of every kind of disposable item, including the Ayane variants. Of course, the latter could be useful to have once reaching the end game, but if you're gonna be extremely reserved with item used the first half of the rewards aren't even going to fit in your inventory. You need actual skill and perserverance to get through this mode and not some rewards for trading in some gold colored bugs.
 Ninja Gaiden Arcade  Itagaki decided that because NG Vanilla already had the NES trilogy as unlockables that Black should have something slightly different. This is the arcade version of Ninja Gaiden that came out the same year as the NES port, and like arcade/console games of that era they differ quite a bit. While the NES games were more like hyper fast versions of Castlevania, this is a 2D beat em up, pre Final Fight/Streets of Rage. So much worse and boring. I mean, in a way it's still pretty novel since at the time of Black's release Ninja Gaiden Arcade had never received a faithful home port, so as a curiousity I don't mind it. But the amount of time I spent playing this for the video should be pretty evident that it's not the thing most people will recognize or want. Bonus Costumes    
 Mission Mode is the big addition to this game over the original, and is largely not based on anything that was featured in the two Hurricane Packs. These are combat challenges that you'll quickly find that, despite multiple difficulty options being present, the actual challenges themselves are much harder than what someone who just beat the game might be accustomed to. This is because unlike the main game, difficulty does not change the enemy arrangement, only the damage necessary for them to kill you faster. Playing through these even on Normal is sure to hone anyone's combat skill as they find new uses for their tools against unique enemy configurations. The way the mode is set up is that missions are split into categories, with five missions each. The name of the category gives an indication on what the primary focus is on. At the start, only the first two are unlocked, and the missions can be tackled in any order. Once five missions are completed, the next set of five is unlocked, and this repeats for every five completed missions. Tackling these in the order they appear can be tricky due to there being no actual difficulty curve. There will no doubt be missions early on that destroy you while unlocked ones prove more manageable. But of course, part of that can be attributed to player skill improving. There are 45 regular missions, and an extra long 46th mission that can actually be tackled after completing 40 missions. The mission categories are as follows. Path of the Master Ninja Ninja and Samurai are the primary enemies, and these missions regardless of difficulty will pull every kind of foe. From the lesser Shadow Ninja all the way up to the deadly Flame Ninja, these encounters have an edge to them that not even the main game provides. Especially Phase Four. On top of having more human enemies on screen than your average fight, you gotta take on a hundred of them. It's fun, but it is one of the hardest missions to take early on, and demonstrates clearly that the assumed intended order does not have a smooth difficulty curve. Nightmarish Phantasms Fiends take front and center in this category, specifically Fiend Bosses. These differ slightly from their main campaign versions (at least on Hard and up) is the variety of enemies summoned along with the overall quantity. Further demonstrating that because each mission only needs to load in one single, isolated stage the devs decided to take advantage of the remaining memory to push the intensity of the game's combat further. Abysmal Lair Abysmal Lair is focused on fiend battles, all conveniently placed in sections featured in the Aquaduct chapter. Of the 5 phases in this category, three of them involve a worm fight and as such the game throws every reasonable combination at the player, culminating in two electric and one fire worm. Honestly, this category isn't very hard except for Phase 3 where you're in a somewhat cramped space that is occupied by an ogre. So the camera doesn't like to play fair here. Military Destruction All military based, including tank and helicopter fights but with extra reinforcements. Though the one phase that will challenge you the most is the 100 enemy endurance test as that throws every possible SAT and Military enemy type at the player. Yes, including the mechanized soldiers with their Anti-Flying Swallow move, and gently caress ton of rockets, so have fun with those. Descent of the Fiends A kind of grab bag of various fiend and boss encounters that it's fairly hard to give it a short and easy descriptor, though the best I think can be said is that they're all "mid level" encounters. Nothing from the start or the end. Phase 5 however deserves special mention as it is based on the Master Ninja Tournament Finals, the special combat challenge that was made for the top scoring US, Europe, and Japan players of the Vanilla game to play in front of a live audience at TGS 2004. Seriously, I still can't believe a game like that which isn't a competitive multiplayer game was able to have something like that happen. So cool. Captivating Goddesses As the name implies, the primary enemies are Alma (both versions), Nicchae, and Ishtaros, so fiends of the female persuasion. Although there is a gimmick mission in phase 3 where the player must protect Rachel, who's been chained up at the top of the pyramid near Zarkhan. It's a weird way of mixing things up. Fateful Confrontation All Doppleganger fights, four of which can be encountered in the campaign on higher difficulties (though the Dabilahro and Viggorian Flail dopplegangers are in different arenas). There is however a Doppleganger in phase 5 that uses the Lunar, which is pretty neat though not that much harder than all the others in this category. Battlefield of the Abyss Like Descent of the Fiends, this is a grab bag of fiend battles that involve late game encounters, or in the case of Phase 5, an encounter that the main game never even thought to include due to its insanity. If you thought fighting against one Doppleganger was fun yet intense, try throwing two into the mix. It's crazy, but it's only a prelude to what a player can expect in the next category. Giants of the Underworld A category of missions focused on fighting two boss fights, a concept that I can only hope that the devs thought long and hard about whether they were going too far, before Itagaki said it was fine and do it anyway. That said, there is some thought put into these missions as again, they're limited to only two at once, but those two fill different roles that cover the others weaknesses fairly well. The one fight that might be the most manageable though is Nicchae + Alma, as both are literally the exact same but with the former dealing more damage overall, so it's at least easy to prioritize who to take down. I can guarantee though that finishing these fights is satisfying beyond belief, but even I can't recreate that success again easily. Eternal Legend The last category in the Mission Mode, although it's not a set of five missions. It's a single mission. What is the Eternal Legend you ask? Wait a little longer and you'll see.
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Back in the day, before finding out their actual names, I always thought Nicchae was a resurrected Alma and Ishtaros was a fiend version of Rachel. They both have ridiculous stripper boots, a thong and a grappling hook so I'm sure you can see where the idea came from. Couple points: You say that during the Masakado fight the mages spawn indefinitely, but if you keep killing them they actually will eventually run out. There's definitely a lot more of them then there are minions in any other fight (I think 20?) so it's really not worth it, but younger dumber me used to do that every time so I could deal with Masakado on his own. Also, IIRC you can directly damage Pazuzu without knocking him down by shooting him in the head with the bow or incendiary shuriken, and you can also shoot him while he's perched up on the balconies. I don't have a save handy to test this with so I don't remember exactly how it worked mechanically. Aforementioned younger dumber me thought this was a pretty pro strat (it really isn't.) BDA fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Jul 2, 2017 |
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 Ninja Gaiden Sigma is also a game with value, but most of that is stuff that's carried over from Black and largely intact. Even with Sigma's specific weird changes you'll face a lot of the real challenging stuff in the same way. That said, this video's gonna be way shorter and not cover anything in the campaign, because the same still applies from Black. There are however some new challenges in Mission Mode, as well as a special set of missions only available through a series of (low priced) DLC.  Mission Mode keeps all the same categories that were in Black's mission mode, but the individual phases themselves are mixed around. Some are the same, others are moved elsewhere, others are removed outright in favor of new ones that make use of Sigma's exclusive content. Ultimately, it's still worse than Black's because, you guessed it, there are Rachel missions as well and we all know how much I love playing Rachel. Unearthed Challenge There is one extra category in the list that is actually hidden from most players. You see, the game had a collector's edition when it came out and it gave players access to a set of five extra missions, which were actually 4 reused missions from Sigma plus a Rachel version of a dual boss fight that she is not suited for. But it's still available for everyone that has the game normally if you input the following code on the mission mode screen: Up, Down, Left, Down, Right, Up, Square. And there you go, 5 extra missions that the Sigma team had no real reason to hide, as they aren't anything super new or special. Good job, Hayashi. Ryu Ryu doesn't have that many new missions considering that the base game did not add much in the way of new content for him. There are missions such as a fight against Gamov, inside a burning building in the Hayabusa Village, a 100 fiend battle, and a dual boss fight between Dynamo and Alternator. Of all those that I just described, I don't need to say which of those is absolutely awful. Rachel Rachel has a few missions of her own, with one in almost every category (and actually two in one case). Most of the time Rachel's missions are in the last phase of a category, and sometimes it's easy to tell if it's her because the thumbnail will be very similar to another Ryu mission (such as the 100 man fights, though in her case that number is lower). She even gets a fight with Doppleganger Ryu for whatever reason, and of course she gets a dual boss fight against Nicchae and Ishtaros just like in the main game. Except only you have to win it. It's poo poo. Moving on.  Survival Mode is the most interesting addition to Sigma that isn't even available on the disc. Yes, Team Ninja got on the DLC train pretty early in the PS3's life cycle and released a series of three, $2.99 packs of missions with different rules from the actual mission mode. It would've been nice to actually have these as part of the game, especially since that was the point of Black after NG Vanilla had the Hurricane Packs that can't even be acquired anymore (PS3 PSN's gonna have to stop existing at some point so that's where my main critique of this comes from). But I digress. Each of these packs contain five missions that focus on a different goal, and a major change to how essence works to facility the survival aspect of this mode. In this mode enemies do not release Yellow Essence when killed by an Ultimate Technique. It will instead be blue. If this was in any other context this change would be ruinous, but for a mode where you're trying to survive for a long period of time this seems pretty logical. After all, using UTs give you karma points and absorbing blue essence isn't gonna give you health back anyway. If you're heavily damaged, getting off a UT and absorbing blue essence that is worth 50% of your health bar is a godsend. Plus, at certain points you won't have the option of getting blue if you're fighting a boss, so the missions still aren't a cakewalk by any stretch. I think it's a novel change up overall. Lastly, there are bronze, silver, and gold rankings for each mission that are based on killing 30, 60, and 100 enemies respectively. Of course a skilled player will find this irrelevant for certain missions as 100 enemies killed is far from the possible maximum. Weapon Master Weapon Master has Ryu limited to a single weapon, and each gauntlet holds 3 to 4 bosses separated by an arbitrary number of enemies that must be defeated prior to each boss. 100 enemies is how much you need to beat in order to repeat the cycle, and it's during the boss fights that the biggest screwups can happen, such as dying. One thing to note is that starting out, the enemies and bosses are fairly weak health wise. Like, a well placed UT or heavy attack can deal significant damage on the first run, but as the gauntlet repeats, the defense gets better and better until they become much harder to kill and they start hurting you way more in return. Combined with the blue essence released from enemies killed by UT, that decisions starts to make a lot more sense. Speed Master Speed Master, unlike Weapon Master, has a set timelimit of approximately 10 minutes and you aren't limited to a single arena. In fact, part of the challenge involves getting to that single arena as you have to run a small gauntlet with enemies impeding your progress. This makes sense as the difference in score between players would be way smaller if there wasn't a chance for someone to be set back. Any weapon can be used during this, and some of the gauntlets themselves can get pretty tricky to run through. Hell, the third one is crazy as you reach a spot where the only way to progress is to murder a bunch of rats, something you might not thing to do if you weren't already keen to doing karma runs and extracting essence from the weirdest places. Rachel Master The final category is based around using Rachel, and is closest to the Weapon Master category (with the final mission more resembling Speed Master). As you'd expect, these aren't particularly fun as the similarities to weapon master mean having boss fights that aren't well designed for Rachel's playstyle. Plus it gets dull after a while going through that same format and not having the benefit of other weapons to mix things up. Kinda wish I didn't just blindly buy this pack along with the other Survival missions, but hey, I need 'em for preservations sake.
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 This is it. The finale. One last challenge to take on before this LP can be even considered complete. 30+ minutes of drat near every enemy the game can think to throw at us with the two hardest bosses conceived on the Ninja Gaiden 1 engine waiting right at the end. Welcome to the Eternal Legend. The Sigma version. Still a legitamite challenge, no matter which version you're playing. The rest of the video can speak for itself. -------- Thank you all for watching this LP. And thank you Tomonobu Itagaki, and the rest of Team Ninja for creating the finest character action game ever.
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Well done, Arclight! Your LP did Ninja Gaiden justice. Can't wait for 2!
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Jul 5, 2017 20:43
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WOW what an LP. Thank you so much for the work you've put into this, dude. This is the definitive Ninja Gaiden LP experience for me and you have completely done this classic, classic game justice, as said before me. I can see myself going back to this BUT you don't have any playlists set up and all the videos are hidden so I am afraid I'll lose them all to the sands of time 
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Jul 5, 2017 23:44
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Those Hard / Very Hard / Master Ninja videos might have been a massive pain in the rear end to make, but I definitely appreciate them. I never saw the higher difficulties of Ninja Gaiden, so thanks.
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Jul 6, 2017 04:27
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Thanks for the LP. It's actually gotten me into Ninja Gaiden and by extension, Nioh. Though sadly I only have easy access to the Sigma version of Ninja Gaiden 1. Looking forward to your LP of 2.
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Jul 6, 2017 19:07
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So as a follow up to the image of my broken controllers that I inserted at the end of the Eternal Legend video, only several hours after the update went live did I receive a replacement DS4 that I ordered from Amazon two days prior. Could only go so long without a controller that I need for two consoles, but now that's resolved. Now let's hope from here on out I don't run into any fits of anger like what led to this situation. beep by grandpa posted:I can see myself going back to this BUT you don't have any playlists set up and all the videos are hidden so I am afraid I'll lose them all to the sands of time
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Jul 6, 2017 19:54
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Commendable performance. Your controllers were sacrificed for a good end.
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Jul 6, 2017 20:01
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This was fun and I feel like it was very well-made. I absolutely loved every part of Black as a teenager and I was very happy to relieve it vicariously. I was also happy to finally see what Sigma was like since I did not have a PS3
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Jul 6, 2017 21:56
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You've inspired me to get my rear end up and finally get to and beat the Eternal Legend, so thank you. But there's no loving way I'm gonna slog through very hard and master ninja. My dedication ends at hard. I'm am not a master ninja 
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Jul 8, 2017 19:03
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I stumbled over it kinda late, but thanks for LPing this!  Just starting it up, but I've always wanted to see a good, skillful LP of the Xbox's Ninja Gaiden.
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Jul 9, 2017 22:41
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Tbh even I first saw this LP I thought "no way he's gonna maintain this kind of effort/quality, what a shame it'll be when he quits" and here we are at the finish waiting for ninja gaiden 2. gently caress yeah, man. gently caress yeah.
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Maybe an odd question OP but can you post in this thread when NG2 goes up? I just thought about this LP and realized I'll have a hard time finding NG2/NGS2 because I almost never check the LP forum thread listing. Would greatly appreciate it 
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