Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Jun 10, 2021

  My review will be the same for all three games in the collection; Is it overpriced? Yes. This for the absolutely bare-bones, subpar PC port thats missing functionality from the original console versions you're getting should of been $29.99 and no more. 3 games or not, the base asking price is bordering on the absurd. Does it feature robust graphics options? Absolutely not. To wit; there are none. You actually have to set your desired resolution mode with a command line option. Some of the most absurd nonsense and complete vapid lack of effort on a developers part in a long time. There are essentially 3, 720P, 1080P and 4k. (You also have to maximize the game to full-screen on each launch, by clicking the button in the top most portion of your window. You can't even alt-enter. Why this is even a thing on top of everything else escapes all logic.) Does it work? Yes. The games actually play quite flawlessly. I burned through all 3 1st missions to test it out. The games look a bit better then their original console versions while running the game in 4K mode @ 1440P desktop resolution. It's just as you remember it really. Never dropping from the forced 60FPS and not a single micro-stutter. Playing with a controller as God intended. I really couldn't care less there is no mouse/keyboard support. People need to get over that for console ports. The game wasn't designed with mouse and keyboard in mind. Get over it. The only hiccup I had was trying to stream it via Discord. It doesn't like that. Beyond that, no issues, thus far. If you're a fan of Ninja Gaiden, I'd still recommend this collection. That being said, you're probably better off waiting for a price drop. In closing, I can't stress this enough; I grew up playing Ninja Gaiden, from the NES to present. The /only/ reason I'm not refunding this is because of the nostalgia and love I have for the series. This is /HANDS-DOWN/ the absolute laziest port of a franchise to PC I've ever seen. I'm still a little baffled you have to use LAUNCH OPTION/COMMAND LINE PROMPTS to set the game to it's desired resolution setting. Could you guys really not be bothered to design a simple GUI with an options menu for this? Jesus H. Christ. A little more effort in the future KT for your PC releases, and God help us if you're actually working on a new entry to the franchise.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 3, 2021

  they removed coop and did not fixed majority of bugs if any. Instead of adressing the real difficulty issues they just nerf the shit out of master/ultimate ninja trials. Overall really lazy and disapointing from Team Ninja.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 15, 2021

  What a tough sell. If you asked me at any point before the final boss I'd say, while it's not the best Ninja Gaiden has ever been it's fun in it's own way. It's visceral, it's fast paced and Razor's Edge did quite a bit to make it a game worthy of the Ninja Gaiden title. After playing the final boss? Well, let's put it this way: not a single frame of the last fight could be considered fun. It's so poor it retroactively stole what fun I had. The truth is that RE is a bit tedious, the difficulty is all over the map and it's not great. It isn't until the last boss that the scales tip. There are a few bosses that feel like they fall into that category, but the last boss takes all of the game's worst habits and then goes on for far longer than it should. This fight doesn't feel skillful in the slightest, it feels like you win when the game gives you enough breathing room and random luck to do so. Its hard to imagine anyone playing this fight and going, "Yes, that was satisfying, fair and a wonderful way to wrap up this game." It's tedious, its frustrating and it's the reason I can't really recommend the game. If this were just hard mode I could probably overlook it, but this is the normal difficulty. The game purposefully ends on this note. Should you finish the game the achievement should be, "Really? Why?" that sums up how it feels to complete it. Once you experience that you look back at the game and realize a lot of it is like that. If you have to play one of these NGS2 is the most accessible, balanced and polished. NGS1 if you need want something a bit more grueling, and NG3RE if you just can't believe it's actually as bad as everyone says. If I had to recommend it I would say it's got the bloody charm NGS2 doesn't, and it's nice to be able to replay the games as the other characters. There's still some Ninja Gaiden in here to be enjoyed, but it's like recommending a roast beef sandwich with a tack in it. No matter how good that sandwich is, all you are going to remember is the tack.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 10, 2021

  after 9 years I can finally play this masterpiece on pc
• gamedeal user

  Jul 27, 2022

  I forgot how rough this game was until i played it again in this collection. They absolutely butchered all the stuff they got right in the previous two games (the originals/Black, not Sigma). Not sure how it is on consoles but the PC port seems really unresponsive during several fights. It often just seems like your inputs arent even registering. They completely got rid of essence which really slows down the pace of combat when you cant quickly chain into an ultimate. The game as a whole is way too linear with basically no exploration and an insane amount of scripted/quick time events which totally destroy the feel and flow. Not to mention forcing this weird cringey family narrative and having Ryu turn into this super talkative emotional protagonist and having uninteresting side characters constantly talking to him throughout each stage without actually lending anything to the experience. Another major gripe is the way they handle health and healing. instead of sticking with tried and true items they opted for a weird mechanic where your health bar takes a certain amount of lasting damage as well as a recoverable amount. The recoverable amount regenerates after each encounter and the rest is only regained once you hit a save point. the problem with this is you wont always be able to enter a boss fight with max health because they neglect to put save points before a lot of them and you end up fighting a boss with 1/3 of your max health if you werent careful through the first part of the stage. This coupled with increasingly annoying/excessively robust enemies and what feels like a cheap bullet-hell experience in many situations, all just makes this a fairly insufferable experience. Hate to be this critical, i know Team Ninja can do an amazing job but they let this one down hard. Could have been a great addition to the franchise if they hadnt gone completely off the rails with their questionable changes.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 10, 2021

  Interesting to note: It's currently 7:50am EST; when I initially purchased this title its User Reviews were "Mostly Positive". However, after I downloaded each title and then went to setup each to match my Screen and Video capabilities, I discovered that this title was some Nintendo 64-ish, limited menu, non-PC-ready port. I immediately went to the 'Support' page to request a refund - and this was all in the span of 10mins. But it was there that I noticed that the User Reviews had already gone from "Mostly Positive" to "Mixed". I'd surmise that by the time I'm finish typing this review and go back to this title's main page, it will be something like "Mostly Negative" (and per reviewers, for the same reasons I'm stating here: piss-poor port).... Let that give you insight into whether you should purchase this title or not. (Shape-up KOEI!)
• gamedeal user

  Jan 30, 2023

  This review is specifically for Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge: This game has some of the worst game design philosophy I have encountered in a action spectacle fighter. Between invulnerable spawning enemies, quicktime events that break the flow of combat, mandatory camera movements that remove the focus off your character that you can still get hit during, artificial difficulty increase of simply adding more enemies to the encounters, and the port having atrocious stuttering for anyone not running their monitor at 60hz. I can say definitively that this is the epitome of kusoge. I feel like something could've been good in this game if they took more time to flesh out some of those problems I've mentioned. i will admit some parts can be fun and the steel on bone mechanic with the base combat system is fun in a vacuum outside of this game, but seriously don't play this at higher difficulties than normal or hero, as the the flaws become very apparent. Play something else that's fleshed out like DMC5 or hell even Kingdom Hearts 2 critical mode. Anyone who unironically has fun with this entry at higher difficulties is either huffing major amounts of copium or actually enjoys CBT.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 10, 2021

  Pretty underrated game. Not as grand as 1 or 2 but offers a pretty fun and challenging experience.
• gamedeal user

  May 5, 2022

  Not only is this a super lazy port, the game isn't worth it.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 13, 2021

  Ill change my review when you fix the porting issues.