Sep 19
XBox 360 Ninja Gaiden II Trailer
This past weekend I was on the 360 a lot either watching Season 6 of The Shield, playing Geometry Wars, or trying to redeem my 1600 Microsoft Points to no avail.
I did take a pause long enough from all this madness though to hear that the Ninja Gaiden II Trailer was officially out and online.
I was a definitely a big fan of the first one so I had to check it out from XBL.
Thanks For Wasting a Minute of My Life
The way that Ninja Gaiden II was on XBox.com earlier this week and the way it has been prominently displayed on Live, you would think that this trailer would be something. Well let me tell you it’s not. This is the teasiest of trailers that I’ve ever seen. I hate it when this stuff comes out.
I guess it’d be different if I was one of those people who analyzes every frame in the trailer saying, “OO, that looks a new weapon that will surely lend blah blah bblah…” But I’m not. There was no action in the trailer, Ryu was sporting something on arm that made him look like Shredder, he jumped up in the air and then it was over.
This btw WASN’T in the trailer.
XBox and Team Ninja – Thanks for wasting my time.
My Readers – I hope you just skimmed this post and you read that it’s not worth your time to even look at this thing. However, if you just NEED some ninja action check out this vid from gametrailers.
Oh, if you DO want to see the trailer from xbox.com, jump to the page here.
September 20th, 2007 at 5:26 am
Sadly I got duped as well, and downloaded the trailer yesterday. Now, I read your post hoping to learn that the terrible teaser I downloaded yesterday was a fluke. It wasn’t now I have wasted double time having watched the teaser trailer and read your post.
Now it took me far too much time to type this comment… Damn you Team Ninja! … give me some DOA4 DLC!
September 20th, 2007 at 9:21 am
@Apex – There are some gameplay vids floating around though. MUCH better. *nod*
September 21st, 2007 at 1:54 pm
My buddy Thomas – Technical blogger wrote about this game today but I think it was Ninja Garden you can check it out here http://scissormonkey.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/i-am-a-suckie-ninja-playing-tenchu-z/#comments
He’s a great guy and he has an xbox also. 
he didn’t like it too much.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:21 pm
@Opal T – Look at you! Bringing ppl together across the web! Thanks for the link. (#):)
September 21st, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Thomas is my favorite Microsoft guy. He’s a really nice person and so are you.
I thought it was funny that two of the bloggers I read were writing about that game, although I think he was playing the first one.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:45 pm
@Opal T – Tell me I’d be saying this 5 years ago and I wouldn’t've believed you, but “Ninja Gaiden (not Garden) is much more brutal and bloody than Tenchu!” Which is crazy ’cause all you do in Tenchu is sneak around and assassinate people!
September 21st, 2007 at 11:49 pm
I completely sucked at Ninja Gaiden. I liked the graphics, and I enjoyed the game play up until that danged Horseman with the bow in the village. I could not get past that.
I don’t have a lot of time to play video games, so if I spend a couple of house in the same area, and I am unable to advance the game definitely loses me.
I am not going to pretend that I am good at performing those dang tricky button sequence moves, and I think that is evident in how quickly I was done with Ninja Gaiden. I had even bought a book to help me with the game, and I still sucked at it.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Oops sorry – once I got the hang of Tenchu Z, I have been having a great time with the game.
September 24th, 2007 at 12:06 am
@Thomas – Ha ha ha! I know exactly what you’re talking about. My friend Bubba used to be CRAZY about Ninja Gaiden and eventually he played it on its hardest difficulty. Needless to say, he started CURSING the horsemen boss/miniboss.
But really, don’t feel bad. Gameplay wise, that’s a really challenging game no matter the difficulty.
And thanks for the heads up on Tenchu Z again! I think that might be the one to get me back into that series. *nod*
September 24th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Bush – If you are a fan of John Woo or Chow Yun Fat, you should also check out Stranglehold. It is also an excellent game. Not a stealth game, it is an FPS.
September 24th, 2007 at 12:21 am
@Thomas – Thanks for the heads up. I actually downloaded that a while ago and had a BLAST with it! There was another game that it reminded me (in some regards) called Dead to Rights. I’m a bit hesitant to buy it though because I’m afraid the gameplay might get stale a couple hours in. What do you think?
September 24th, 2007 at 1:29 am
I am not familiar with Dead to Rights, so I am unsure about the comparison. I would love to tell you that Stranglehold doesn’t get boring, but I only got passed the first boss.
I will say that once you have precision aim, crotch shots do not get old. I think that this game honestly has enough diversity of the play that it should stay interesting. I am looking forward to getting back to it – and Halo 3 coming out on Tuesday. It seems there are quite a few excellent games out right now!
September 24th, 2007 at 8:54 am
@Thomas – Hm. Well thanks for the the info. And yes, it’s a fantastic time to be a 360 owner! I’m so glad I got mine when I did!
September 8th, 2008 at 9:11 am
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