Review: Ninja Gaiden (NES) 8-Bit Ninja Action At Its Best!

Ninja Gaiden for the NES has always been the seminal ninja action game on the system. But how does it hold up these days? Check out the video for the full review!

[JoseGarcia-uqkr]

incredible review! Your words encapsulated why Ninja Gaiden is held in such high praise, and is a joy to play. Keep up the reviews! and thank you for all the time and energy you take to create them!

[OurStorySoFarTV]

An absolute classic. I haven't played it since I did an episode about it over on my channel, but, OF COURSE, now I want to go back and play it again after watching your video!!

[Liksmaskaren]

I used to rent this game as a kid. I remember it being pretty hard but I played through it in a few weekends. It's not an unfair game in any sense, it just has some weird programming for the enemy spawns.

Great review of a great game. I really would like you to review Journey to Silius if you have the time in the future.
Both Ninja Gaiden and Journey to Silius had some really awesome music.

[longplaysdays]

Nice review dude, definitely gonna be making a walkthrough for this game soom

[TheJadeFist]

By the time I had first played this, i think it was 2000ish and I had already had a N64 and what not, but I still loved it, never did beat it though.

[patmccrotch]

The music, my god. I've learned that over the years, the faster you move forward.. the easier the game gets (most times) speed kills in this one

[egymario]

Human torture? ha ha, you seem really good at the game, you were so having fun playing it. Also first review of the year lets go.

[backinthedaygamer]

Man that was a good review! This game easily makes me more angry than any other in my huge library of games. I haven't played the arcade in so long. It looks better than I rem

[Rojaniel]

I've never actually beaten this game, but I've come close. I ahted dying so much, but that was outweighed by the fun I had playing it.

[allenofblacksteel]

looking for an old certain game. I remember it just similar to ninja gaiden or castleveinia in term of gameplay. The game have a stage that is when you reach to a certain map you will see the whole background of the map is black. the entire map have lot of giant iron bar maybe the color of the iron bar is white. It's like a giant prison because behind the those iron bar is the princess stuck and imprison behind the bar. when you reach at the end of that prison map you will see princess behind the bar and a boss ready to fight you. I don't remember if defeat the boss will rescue the princess behind those giant iron bar. the princess size is just as big as the character player control.
Anyone of think of?

[NowThatsGaming]

I recently played this on the Switch and boy is it hard. I still find it fun to play, but those constant respawning enemies get annoying after away.

[dreamlandnightmare]

It's not really that hard until the final stages, and then the difficulty is mostly due to some tricky jumps and sadistically placed respawning enemies. The real challenge is defeating Jaquio and the demon, especially when the game sends you all the way back to 6-1 every time you fail.

[slavicus]

The difficulty of this game is very exaggerated. The game is extremely generous with infinite continues and checkpoints, there's almost no RNG, so you will quickly memorize any stage through trial and error and then breeze through it. The bosses are all simple. The only hard part is the final stage because of how far it sends you back when you die to the final boss, but even then if you persist you will eventually memorize a route to breeze through the final stages, because there's no randomness to it. Plus the game even saves your final boss progress, you don't have to re-do any fight! I played this game for the first time recently and I beat it on my first try, in one sitting, and it took me about 4 hours (2 hours spent on the final stage.) I think there are WAY harder games on the NES that make this game look like a cakewalk. But at least this game is harder than Contra and Mega Man, those games are just straight up easy. Ninja Gaiden II is even easier. The only hard Ninja Gaiden is the third one because they removed infinite continues and checkpoints.