Review Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge

Series Ninja Gaiden It has always distinguished the incredible complexity of high-speed bouts with clever opponents and deep combat mechanics. But after the collapse of the studio Team Ninja in 2008 and leaving Tomonobu Itagaki, who took with him all relevant employees, continued to face Ninja Gaiden 3 It came out not the way it would like to see a small but close-knit community of loyal fans. Instead of neat fights with a thorough study of the behavior of enemies, players have greatly cut down mechanics and flat grinder style Dynasty Warriors with a focus on the worst in a series of plot in which the once iconic character presents this scum, and the problems appear only player at the highest level of complexity.

After the failure of Ninja Gaiden 3, The team led by Yosuke Hayashi decided to listen to the many critics and make a new version of the game. Thus was born Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor Edge Platform Nintendo Wii U. The result should be partly to please all fans of the old series. Team Ninja, Though not copied mediocre plot, but a nasty cut scene murder unarmed soldiers and strongly pulled gameplay.Although Mizuki still does not understand why her adopted daughter refuses to shake hands with smeared in the bowels of Ryu Hayabusa, grand pianos protrude from every bush, and the motivation of the villains is only reduce abdominal muscles with long reflex eruptions of stomach contents, Razor Edge please just gameplay.

Weapons that you get as you progress through the story, add variety and variability.Apart from the classic sword back into play steel claws that allow your enemies to break apart and cause incredible damage to enemies deprived armor.Lunar staff that works well on the area, and two katanas, which can pump up to 4 level, too, celebrated their return.Apart from these you get Kusari-din, which with good acceleration has quickly and touches all around the character and deadly scythe attacks having maximum damage.All weapons can be improved in a special menu at any time of the received karma points.As well as the ability to open a different character, such as stroke, cut down in flight the enemy's head, counter, meditation (treatment in exchange for the power of CI) and improved health.In addition, there can be three types of pump ninpo and buy new costumes. All this brings a sense of progress and allows you to customize the hero the way you want it.

The combat system got rid of QTE, he returned to the familiar mechanics of storing essence and now looks more like a series of past greatness. Opponents of the move quickly, briskly moving away from your attacks, make the counter and grabs, all the forces trying to prove that the new Team Ninja can develop games as well as the old. Mountains of severed limbs, which were absent in the original third part, and the rivers of blood add even more adrenaline into every fight. The speed of the game does not fall even when the start of the mission for Ayane, who returned to Razor Edge with its unique style and a little history, the dilution episodes for Ryu. Taking part in fights with speed improvements over the NG3 combat system, you returned almost forgotten feeling of delight from the game mechanics, which lacked since its release Ninja Gaiden II back in 2008.

However, the level of the first two parts of the game, unfortunately, does not hold.A variety of opponents leaves much to be desired: the whole game you will fight with soldiers in the uniform of different uniforms.From time to time you will not understand how to play off the demons who took the first part and the Ninja Clan Black Spider, familiar from the sequel. But their is not enough to compete with a variety of Ninja Gaiden Sigma and Ninja Gaiden II. At the end of the game there will be three kinds of new mutants, but strong weather they do not.

Bosses made you stronger. In fact, the game only sane boss who repeated several times, and a bit like Genshina from the sequel.The rest - unintelligible "tanks", which simply can not be destroyed quickly: you have to shoot at millimeters with them health, engaging in endless rolled up, moving away from the attack.Sometimes come across strange individuals who simply can not be destroyed in the ordinary and you will be tormented for a long time until the game on its own, understandable only to her, the initiative does not include a QTE,immediately after which the boss dies. And time on time is not necessary.QTE can not turn on and you will suffer, failing a battle again and again, and again, and the next day a miracle happened: you will immediately see QTE, and the boss will die instantly. Understand the principles on which these triggers are activated, apparently, can only developers themselves.

Similar points have in common battles with the enemy, there is sometimes included script, the hero kills all with one hit as long as you do not promazhete. This, perhaps, there is some logical explanation, but the game does not talk about, and to find out empirically, we have not succeeded.

Such random very annoying and makes it impossible to control the process. As well as the absence of departing from defeated enemies shower and drugs that restore health and energy KI.The system instantly storing essence in exchange for flying on the battlefield of the soul, familiar from previous installments, it does not work, and in its place nothing new has been added, which reduces the dynamics of the battle.Restoring health through Ninpo is also very ill-advised course of developers, which leads to the fact that ninja magic, you just do not use, is constantly saving it for the bosses.Moreover, ninpo altogether ceased to be effective, as even in the form of pumped causing minor damage.

Health can be restored at the falcon, which keeps the gameplay and using meditation, in the heat of battle it is not possible because of the duration of treatment and the animation speed of enemiesYou are guaranteed to have time to hurt.Since most of the bosses - "tanks", which normally does not work, no combos, you have to be ultra-cautious to protect health during long battles with them, repeating one and thethe primitive actions to the bitter end. As a result, the dynamics of these fights went down the drain and not pales in comparison with the battles of the first two parts Ninja Gaiden or recent Metal Gear RisingWhere each boss, with direct hands could kill in less than a minute.

Because of the positive moments in this version of the game, it is worth noting convenient operation on the controller Wii UDespite its size, it is very comfortable to play and triggers top boxes that operate as buttons that allow very quickly to make slip, rescuing the hero from another attack villains.The game uses a touchpad, which helps to quickly change weapons and Ninpo, look at the target pump capacity or use Ninpo. In addition, the graphics in the game has become clearer than in the original version Xbox 360Although no revelations should not wait - detallizatsiya not changed, and frame rate problems have not been solved.

Despite the worst in a series of story and a strange set of bosses, with the usual battle enemies and regent of the mask can give many hours of joy adrenaline fights, decorated with blood and flying scraps of defeated opponents. Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor Edge, With all the disadvantages inherited from the original, yet it is much better, so if you have already passed DmC: Devil May Cry and Metal Gear Rising: RevengeanseIt is necessary to pay attention, and this remake.

Same Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor Edge will on Xbox 360 and PS3