Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Oct 2, 2021

  I don't know why this game is hated. It is fantastic! The combat, jokes, characters and so on are just pure entertainment. Maybe because this game is NOT easy and you have to learn how to properly counter enemies and learn their patterns! After you know how to combine elements and do perfect counter, this game is opens up fully! It is 10/10!
• gamedeal user

  Dec 25, 2014

  i don't get why the bad reviews ! the game is really lots of fun and even funny too. the game is an action/beat them up (Devil may Cry..etc) but with a sense of humor, the jokes might not be for everyone but they made laugh. the gameplay is really fun though the upgrades could be better, it isn't as deep as Ninja Gaiden or Devil may Cry in terms of combat but it is a lot of fun. the game ran perfectly fine at max settings at 60+ fps from start to finish. P.S. the main menu's music is a killer, i can't stop listening to it
• gamedeal user

  Feb 20, 2015

  Love ninja games, but didn't played modern Gaiden's (although heard about it's hardcore difficulty). «YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z» is a rather monotonous spin-off slasher with a trash story about russian scientists, zombies and silly jokes. The campaign is short (that isn't a minus, otherwise this will get boring very quickly). The graphics isn't bad, but environment design seems dull (for this kind of plot). There is only a couple of interesting bosses and locations in the whole game. You'll understand what the whole spin-off will be after playing only 10 minutes and it woulnd't change until the very end. It's hard to recommend this game (especially with that one occurred bug that erased all my save files), but if you don't mind playing the average slasher game, you can buy it with a discount. P.S. The Ryu can just destroy you, even on a easy difficulty. Good luck beating him!
• gamedeal user

  Mar 6, 2016

  I had read reviews before even considering buying Yaiba so I should know better right? But with "Ninja Gaiden" in its title I still hoped for some decent amount of quality. You could have fooled me. Repetitive gameplay, repetitive combos, embarrasing "jokes" and really frustrating stupid camera. This is not worthy 30€ not at all, no way sir. But the cel-shaded stylization makes Yaiba eye-candy.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 31, 2017

  You start fighting the main boss right at the beginning of the game and you fight him the whole game. The main boss is the camera which is garbage your view is constantly awkward and off. The last time I was beaten this bad by a camera I was drunk in a back alley in New Orleans refusing to give up my wallet and Nikon.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 11, 2017

  Man, this game is just so bad, but there's no denying it's extremely fun. It's a decent hack and slash with a great comic feel, and it's just awesome to pull off combo after combo on huge waves of zombies, but the story and everything is plain dreadful. It's dumb, crazy, got a stupid plot and all, but it does ensue for heaps of fun and mayhem if you pick this game up really cheap. It's not for you if you're looking for a proper Ninja Gaiden game, but it's certainly for you if you're in to the hack and slash genre, like badass cyborg ninjas, zombies, explosions, blood, gore and choppas! It is such a dumb game, but it's action packed and full of humor and you will get to pick up missiles in mid air and throw them at helicopters. The camera is bad, story is bad, dialogue is bad, characters are bad, AI is dumb, but the gameplay is regretfully fun. Once you complete this game, it will get you thinking what the hell you're doing with your life. 5/10
• gamedeal user

  Sep 6, 2017

  I struggled to write this review as i don't like writing negative reviews, especially about a series i like... As much as i loved playing Ninja Gaiden 1, 2 3 Razor's edge, Devil May Cry 3, 4, and Metal Gear Rising, I can't say the same about this game. I was hoping this would be as good, but...the game play is just clunky, the story (or lack there of) just treats you like an idiot. Tomonobu Itagaki would not have made this game this way....and Why aren't Ninja Gaiden 1 2 and 3 available on Steam? I'll go back to playing Metal Gear Rising instead of this game.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 25, 2017

  I want to clear up a few misconceptions about this game. It's an absolutely brilliant title, and in a just world it would not have a "mixed" review. 1. There is nothing wrong with the camera angles, it's a fixed camera game like many of the greats... perhaps in an age when we are used to full 3D camera control for everything, it can be a bit off-putting.... but it works very well for what the developers are trying to do here. Some of the combat requires Quick Time puzzle type events or platforming, and the predetermined camera angles are a necessity to make it work. They even give you options of a wide and a tight angle if you're not happy with one in particular. The camera angles also play A Part and their quest to make the game seem like a living comic book, they wanted to control each frame, and as your character moves around inside each area it very much feels like a comic book in living, Vivid motion. Personally because they are less common in most AAA releases I find segments of games with fixed camera angles to be Charming, like some of the ones that were thrown into Nier Automata... they give a nice change of pace. 2. There is nothing wrong with the control scheme, I would bet good money that anyone who has complained about the controls attempted to play this game with a keyboard and mouse... this is a third person Japanese console port, it was not meant to be played with a keyboard and mouse. Dust off your Xbox 360 controller and let the good times roll. 3. The humor is just fine, if you find it beneath your level of maturity go watch Masterpiece Theater. 4. The length of the game, is indeed shorter than I would like it. In my experience this is the nature of any good game, no matter how long it is, it always ends too soon... Often beating a good campaign is bittersweet at best. In Yaiba, There's a fluid and frenetic arcade type Sensibility, to it's combat. You dive into the action quickly with little or no delay... I can easily Envision replaying this title. Perhaps I would have been bothered had I spent $60 to acquire this game early in its release, but that is no longer the case. Bide your time and pick it up for $6 on its frequent steam sales... it would be money better spent than flushing it down the toilet on one of the pointless Ubisoft or Bethesda season passes that they tack on to their releases. I wanted to talk about all these things, because I had delayed buying the game due to negative reviews listing these problems, as with most subjective things you have no way of evaluating the person who is rendering the opinion you using to judge a purchase. I wanted to try to explain in detail to give Anyone who reads this review a little more context then what is found in most of them. This is a fantastic game, if you love ninjas, comic books, Pulpy Revenge fiction, alluring hackers, sophomoric humor and frenzied action, this game will be right up your alley. Hell... It even has Zombies if you are into that. The combat is like a guitar, easy to pick up but difficult to master. The game isn't a button Masher.. But you won't find it confusing either. Enjoy.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 14, 2018

  Conclusion: Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z is not so bad as most of the reviewers scored it. It´s a very violent game, with cool characters and a short story of retribution with 2 members of a ninja clan. Also the next characters works good in this piece of violence. The sound is good with nice voices of all actors/enemy and the score is techno based, all around a good Ninja (Cel Shading) Gaiden in my eyes Grafik: 7/10 Sound 7/10 Story 7/10 + Cool badass characters, nice cutszenes+anime style, very bloody, a lot of moves/skills, short but good entertaining story - Unfavorable camera angle, hard to master for beginners, sometimes laggy in fights with hoards of zombies
• gamedeal user

  May 14, 2018

  Fun at first, but soon enough game become repetitive and frustrating. Imbalanced enemies and copy-paste bosses except the last one. My most unpleasant game experience in many years.