Ninja Blade Review

So what is it about?

2011: Weaponized parasites codenamed Alpha-worms infested the Ground: Alpha site. All of the infected humans turned into bloodthirsty monsters, And guess what? You are the super ultra awesome ninja that’s going to save the world from infection. Isn’t that awesome?! So get ready for some epic boss battles, Cool Quick time events, nice wall-running and some high-speed extreme sword fighting!

Gameplay: Xbox 360©

(QTE means: quick time event)

You start off with an explanation of your mission, you are now ready to jump out of the plane and start your first QTE (and kill your very first Alpha-worm). A really big button pops up showing which button you need to push to kill the monster. Of course this is still very easy but don’t worry it gets harder as the missions pass. As you slice the monster in half with your Ninja Blade, the next one is already coming and you better get used to it as the whole game is just like: Start movie-shooting out of a plane with a Gatling gun that can change into a rocket launcher-kill kill kill-mini boss-ultra epic super move called Todomé (it’s a QTE and they actually look surprisingly good)-kill kill kill-maybe again a miniboss-Todomé-kill kill kill-final boss-ending movie. That is the very basic layout of the missions. As you progress through the missions you earn new Elemental throwing stars which can be used to crush boulders so you can swing to new places with your grapple wires, put out fires and much more, as you progress through the first mission you gain your extra swords: A pair of long range swords who can be used for very fast en group attacks and a big heavy sword which can be used for crushing armors and breaking walls. In my opinion the variety of weapons that they give you is good so you won’t get bored with one weapon, Everyone has his/her favorite sword and so you can choose if you use 1 or 2 or 3 swords its all YOUR choice. BUT What I don’t like is the fact that like 30 to 45% of the missions is Quick time events. That disappoints but overall good gameplay (BUT in my opinion and I THINK many will agree the game play is a Ninja Gaiden rip off, only this game is not as hard as Ninja Gaiden). With this said, the game is by me defined as hack slash. I’m not really in to hack and slash but with this game I didn’t mind, I liked it. (Give them a big applause guys they made me like a hack and slash game.)

Upgrading

Whenever you kill monsters they drop blood crystals which can be used to upgrade your swords and throwing stars. Upgrading your weapons gives them of course stronger power and… new cool good looking combo’s.

Gameplay: computer/laptop

So the first thing I notice is that the game is slower than the Xbox 360, which should not happen with my 8 GB of memory (you sir got owned by my badass laptop).

I personally don’t like the controls for the PC version of Ninja Blade. You can dash/dodge with the control button which I think is very misplaced while attacking with your right hand and running around with WASD and then use your pinky to goal the way down of the key board to escape?! Not a good choice everyone could know that (-1), but there IS the option to change your controls what is sometimes not even available in some games (+1 for Ninja Blade) Overall the rest of the controls are good (+1 yet again).

Graphics

Ok, first of all things I notice is that whenever I swing my sword it’s like ghosting, however it doesn’t go away and I have had this with all my computers and laptops. Maybe others don’t have this, maybe they do, but in my opinion NO ONE should have that problem. Overall the graphics are really good for a laptop/pc game I was amazed how good they were (+2 ), but what disappoints me both xbox360 and PC is that sometimes the graphics are better than other parts I don’t like that next time fix it! (-1).

I can’t really add anything Xbox specific so:

Conclusion

• Gameplay Xbox360: 7.5 (no I won’t make it a 7)
• Gameplay Pc/laptop: 6.5
• upgrade system: 8
• Graphics: Xbox360: 7
• Graphics Pc/laptop: 8.5

TOTAL: 7,5