Ninja Gaiden 3 Pc Full Of Boring

His company is involved in unethical genetical experiments, and the terrorist attacks are launched to facilitate these plans.

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Ninja Gaiden 3 is just a poster example of a horribly misguided sequel, both in terms of tone and game design.

Starting with the very premise, Ninja Gaiden 3 oozes the desire to be darker and grittier just for the sake of being dark and gritty, best exemplified by Yosuke Hayashis constant insistence that Ryu Hayabusa was a Japanese Dark Hero now during presentations of the game.

Series veteran Masato Kato had been brought back on board to pen the story, but somehow that didnt translate into a rediscovery of old virtues.

Ninja Gaiden 3 Pc Full Of Boring

It rather seems that he since graduated from the Hideo Kojima school of writing, so the new game is full of boring exposition, pretentious moralizing and a weird kind of half-realism.

They actually demanded Ryu to show up at their location, for nebulous reasons.

Well knowing that it has to be a trap, Ryu faces the masked antagonist only known as The Regent of the Mask, who puts an old Eastern European curse on Ryu that causes the Dragon Sword to be absorbed into his right arm, which is then filled with the spite of all the countless people the ninja has killed.

Of course that offers just as countless opportunities to hammer down ad nauseum how Ryu is just as bad as his adversary each time the two meet.

With his Japanese Dark Hero powers he strives to overcome his Japanese Dark Hero curse and defeat his enemies as a Japanese Dark Hero, before they can feed him variations of were not so different, you and I so often that he starts bleeding out of his Japanese Dark Hero ears (Japanese Dark Hero bleeding pictured).

Japanese Dark Hero.

Mizuki McCloud Member of a special unit within the Japanese Self-Defense Force, she approaches Ryu with her superior Ishigami about the terrorist threat.

During the operation, shes also single-mothering Canna, the orphaned daughter of her sister.

Ryu bonds with the two during the mission, but apparently someone watched The Dark Knight before writing the story, so in the end Ryu does what a Japanese Dark Hero has got to do.

Ken Ishigami Secretary of Japans Ministry of Defense, he leads the operation against the terrorists, but always leaves the impression that he might be hiding something.

The Regent of the Mask Mister Exposition for this game is a big shot in the Lords of Alchemy, and just an annoying, arrogant pain in the ass.

He puts a curse on Ryu, although it is never elucidated how he gained this paranormal ability.

His identity is involved in a twist that is completely unpredictable, but just feels cheap and contrived when it happens.

Ayane Her role in the main story is tiny again: She brings Ryu Hayates katana as a loan after he loses the dragon sword, and has a few short appearances afterwards.

In Razors Edge she stars as a playable character in a few added missions that are only tangentially related to the plot.

Cliff Higgins Cliff is a scientist working for the JSDF, and incidentally also the brother of Mizukis sisters husband.

Momiji Momiji joins up with Ryu when he returns to the Hayabusa village to seek treatment for his curse.

Apropos of nothing, the two end up fighting Obaba from Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword again.

Ashtear The withered old man is the CEO of a multinational corporation called LOA, which surprise, surprise stands for Lords of Alchemy.