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This includes internet protocol (IP)addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type,date/timestamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’smovement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. If you're a fan of challenging action games like Dark Souls, you owe yourself a favor to play the modern Ninja Gaiden games. Known as some of the hardest games of their generation, these titles starring Ryu Hayabusa (and one starring another protagonist not worth naming) have some excellent boss fights which will make you sweat and cheer with delight upon defeating them. At the same time though, no series is perfect and there are some clunkers as well.To celebrate 15 years since the 2004 revival of this NES series, let's take a look at the 5 best and worst boss fights.
Keep in mind that this would be from the modern games so no 8-bit adventures here.RELATED: 10 Best: Doku. When playing Ninja Gaiden for the first time, there's no other opponent that you want to take out more than Doku. Not only is he the one who destroyed your village, he actually took your life. When you finally get the chance to take on this demon samurai, the game doesn't dissappoint.If you stay far from Doku, the boss fight becomes a game of chicken as he will largely just throw his sword at you and do a shockwave attack. However, once you get in close you have to remain on a hair-trigger to avoid his health stealing attacks and carve him. This fight leaves you extremely satisfied which makes it a winner in our book. 9 Worst: Gigantosaurus.
A highlight of the, Alma is the first of the Greater Fiends that the player goes up against and Alma lives up to that lofty title. Taking place in a crumbling church, the setting is the perfect atmosphere for a fight with a being of darkness.While Ryu has fought other bosses prior to this, Alma is the first one to really keep you on your toes at every moment. You have to constantly dodge out of the way of her ranged attacks and beware of her grabs. Once you knock her out of the sky, you have to take advantage of every second to massacre her. Although she returns later in the game, we give the edge to this fight for feeling more balanced and having a better atmosphere.
7 Worst: Fiend Murai. Spoiler alert for a 15-year-old game, but the true villain of 2004's Ninja Gaiden is. Your master Murai! The twist comes out of nowhere with no time to breathe as he quickly absorbs the power of the Dark Dragon Blade to face you in the final boss fight. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a dud of a battle.Despite having what is billed to be the most powerful weapon in the series, Murai fights like a chump for the most part. With boring attacks and a bland environment devoid of life, this final battle ends an otherwise excellent game on a sour note.
6 Best: Fiend Ryu. Much like Street Fighter, the Ninja Gaiden series made a habit of releasing expanded versions of previous titles. Serving as a 'director's cut' of the 2004 original, Ninja Gaiden Black balanced out the game and added some new content. The best of these new additions has to be the boss fights against Fiend Ryu.Simply put, this boss is an evil doppelganger of our favorite Dragon Ninja.
He has all of your attacks and on the higher difficulties fights as relentlessly as an expert player would. The best part is that you fight him multiple times throughout the game as the fiend wields different weapons each time. 5 Worst: Ishtaros. If you haven't made it to the end to the end of Ninja Gaiden Black's Mission Mode or never played the DLC for the original game, you will have never fought the Greater Fiend Ishtaros. Count yourself lucky if you haven't.RELATED:Now then, Ninja Gaiden players are used to punishingly difficult boss fights but even by our standards, Ishtaros is a hideously difficult foe.
Most of your attacks and weapons will do squat to her and even worse she will counter the majority of your attacks. Due to the claustrophobic environment you fight her in, you don't have much room to maneuver either. Even the most seasoned ninja will have a tough, unfun time here. 4 Best: Volf. There's many ways that we can sell you on boss fights throughout this list, but this one can be put simply. You fight a giant werewolf Greater Fiend in a colosseum while other wolves cheer for blood. What more can you want out of a boss fight?Volf is an intimidating son of a gun with his massive scythe weapon and towering frame.
Once you successfully cut him down however, you take his own scythe and get to use it on werewolves who climb down from the stands to eat you. Can you see how awesome this is? 3 Worst: The Archfiend. Much like the first game, Ninja Gaiden II is a fantastic game but one that ends on a downer as the final boss is one of the worst parts of the game. The much-ballyhooed Archfiend that the villains of the game were trying to summon might look tough, but is anything but.RELATED:Not only is the Archfiend's first form a lame fight where you must use your bow of all things to win, but his second form isn't much better as its derivative of many other fights in the series.
While the atmosphere of fighting atop Mount Fuji is an awesome visual and better than Fiend Murai, the gameplay can't live up to it. 2 Best: Genshin. Ryu's main rival throughout Ninja Gaiden II, Genshin is the leader of the Black Spider Clan (notable for those explosive shuriken jerks from the first game) and faces you four times throughout the game. However, we're actually going to give the edge to your first encounter with him here.Not only do his claw and deadly sword make him look powerful, his aggressiveness in combat really keeps on your toes. At this point in the game you don't have much to defend yourself with but you must avenge your father who failed in combat against him.
As the Castle Of The Dragon burns around you, this fight heats up your soul and prepares you for the bloodshed ahead. 1 Worst: Ryu Hayabusa. Remember Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z? We wish we didn't. If Ninja Gaiden 3 prepared the casket for the series, then this game closed the lid and nailed it shut.
However, we're not here to talk about the game as a whole. Let's focus though on this travesty of a boss fight.For those who don't know, you don't play as Ryu Hayabusa in this game. Instead you play as another ninja Hayabusa killed earlier in his life brought back from the dead for revenge. Unfortunately when you finally get the chance to take him on, it ends up being a tepid, drawn-out affair whose difficulty comes from the poor game mechanics, not the skill of your foe.NEXT.
Yaiba is a Beat' em All that came out in early 2014, result of a collaboration between Team Ninja and Sparks Unlimited, and directed. The protagonist is, who was killed by the legendary Dragon Ninja and came back to life angry. In his search for his arch-enemy, he will slay his way through hundreds of not particularly bright zombies.The game features a very fast and offensive gameplay veering on the Mass Beat 'em All type, a liberal use of, a visual aspects heavily inspired from, and some light, using an abundance of crudeness and profanity.Oh, and there is in the title, making it a to the series. The game was released in March 2014 for PS3, 360, and PC.
The latter which is a first time for Team Ninja to release a game for that system.: Ryu's moveset in this game is mostly based on the first modern game. He also has the Fire Dragon Ninpo and the bow from the third game.: Special pre-orders in Japan come with a skin of Beck from. This same skin was offered for free at launch among several other costumes with the Western release.: Miss Monday's research of Ryu details his adventures from both the NES and modern trilogies. Another confirmation that the two trilogies are in the same universe and timeline.: Del Gonzo turns out to be one of these; it's foreshadowed by a number of things, such as the fact he only appears as a hologram, demonstrates an a couple of times, and mentions details that mean he's a lot older than he appears.: Del Gonzo summons meteors on Yaiba.:. By the later points of the game, you're fighting multiple versions of earlier bosses in a exhausting frequency.: The overall tone has much more in common with or than the series.: The first time Yaiba was killed, he mockingly laughed at Ryu before his body split in two from the force of Ryu's last attack.: A truck crashing between two giant legs, on the roof a lingerie shop.: Miss Monday, to Del Gonzo. With a touch of.: Del Gonzo, after becoming an incarnation of the Aztec God of Underworld. He even says he's gonna be sore tomorrow.: Miss Monday and Yaiba when he was being reconstructed.
And from the tone of her voice when recounting this, she's not ashamed.even if they were recorded. Miss Monday: Let's just say some parts of your anatomy didn't need any enhancement.: A gameplay mechanic of this game, it features fire, electricity, and bile (as in zombie puke). Miss Monday: Calm down, Tiger.
They'll know where he is.: Monday and Del Gonzo.: Sidesplitter, a zombie clown with cleavers for hands.: With; the zombies appearing occasionally do something stupid.: The reason why Ryu and Momiji want to destroy the giant alien corpse. Considering what the substance extracted from it, it seems to be pretty reasonable.: The trailer for Classic Mode ends with Yaiba's sexy throwing herself at him.only for her advances to be ignored in favor of good ol' sake.: The pirate part is missing, though.: A zombie vomiting toxic waste. He even makes a gesture of 'let me finish this first' before fighting Yaiba.: How Yaiba uses what's left of his sword.: The Robotic Defense Unit(RDU). Just his behavior, he don't look like a dog at all except for having four legs.: Some zombies, like Zombride and Eletric Stiff.: This game easily has the most swears and curse words in the series.: invoked The game features a retro-mode, full with 2.5D scrolling, 8-bit cutscenes and.: Yaiba's cybernetic arm can function as a, has concealed blades, and a rocket thruster.and that's just what's revealed thus far. Miss Monday:.: Yaiba does get to fight Ryu (the main protagonist of the series) again. And Ryu is pretty hard to deal with for beginners.: Yaiba, Del Gonzo, and Miss Monday are all pretty much.: Yaiba.: Ryu to Yaiba.
Yaiba says he.: Miss Monday and Yaiba planned to withhold the cure to the zombie epidemic that Yaiba's cybernetic brain managed to record for a couple of months so it would be worth more money.: Yaiba wields the broken katana that Ryu damaged in their fight.: In the intro, it take a few seconds to Yaiba's sword to crack.and his torso to be cut in two. Ryu's courtesy.: Though the cause is yet unrevealed.
Hayabusa's role in this game is trying to figure that out. He finds out that Yaiba and Monday's boss, Del Gonzo, is behind this and tells it to Yaiba.