Where Ninja Gaiden Sigma really shines is its gameplay, which I find still holds up today. The story isn’t particularly amazing these days and mostly exists to get you moving through levels, but given the era it’s about as good as you might expect. The reboot follows the story of Ryu Hayabusa and his quest to retrieve the Dark Dragon Blade that was stolen during a raid of the Hayabusa clan’s village.
Hailed as one of the more difficult games of the era, the Ninja Gaiden reboot is a third person action/hack-n-slash game inspired by the original, also very difficult Ninja Gaiden series on the NES. Ninja Gaiden Sigma originally released as a PS3 exclusive back in 2007, as a “sort of remaster/sort of remake” of the original Xbox version of Ninja Gaiden Black (which was basically a “GOTY'' edition of the original with some extra features). But what about the games themselves, how well do they hold up? The next few sections will deal with some quick reviews on the games themselves since these are just ports of games that have been around for years now, starting off with Ninja Gaiden Sigma. It’s such a console-like experience that you really might as well just buy the console version instead, or emulate them in RPCS3. Want KB/M controls for some reason? Well too bad, you literally cannot use KB/M in the game whatsoever (you can’t even Alt+F4).
Want the game to start in full screen? Too bad, it doesn’t, you have to hit the maximize button every single startup. Want to change your resolution? You have to use launch options on Steam, and can only use 720p, 1080p, and 4k. These games are such straight ports from their original console releases that they didn’t even bother offering any kind of in-game graphical options whatsoever. Secondly, if you’re planning on getting the PC version, I’ll just stop you right there and say “yeah don’t,” because the PC port especially is extraordinarily awful so just don’t bother. So if you were expecting to enjoy the three Ninja Gaiden games in a nice, moderately good looking package you’ll probably be disappointed. None of the games are remastered or changed at all beyond being ported to new platforms there are no QoL changes, no fancy “HD” textures or even lazy upscaled textures, nothing has been changed whatsoever. First I want to start off by saying that I was kind of expecting this to be a “Remastered” collection of games, but that’s not really what is offered here.
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