@Thorax: Say it like guy-den

NitrousO

@Thorax: AFAIK= Gaiden, g-e-i-d-e-n, belive it means sub/side-story.

could be wrong though.

(俗・ ) Grey Gecko

@NitrousO: Much appreciated, BUT HOW DO YOU SAY IT?!!?!!?

(no longer wishes to pisses off the fanboys with mispronunciation)

Thorax

@Thorax: Gaiden, I believe, is Japanese for story.

NitrousO

My gosh, I couldn't get over the way she pronounced, but it wasn't like I was missing much anyway. Cute video clip but I need more than a couple minutes to adequately sum up any series with that many games in it.

Tiger-Fever

@Katorok: How do you pronounce it? I'm not being a jerk, I really don't know.

I also have no idea what a "Gaiden" is, but the Ninja part has always led me to believe that it has something to do with awesome. Or pirate hatred.

Thorax

The more you know!

@Katorok: As long as she didn't say Ninja Garden, I'm fine with it.

NitrousO

"Ninja GI-DEN" At least she got it mostly right.

StopTheOncoming

GAHHH, the way she said Gaiden was KILLING ME...

Katorok

"It seemed like Itagaki was done..."

Uh...

Yeah.

So those two "largest ever" expansion packs released on XBL for it's time were just little after thoughts, right? Nice little retrospective, but I'd leave those to GameTrailers, a quick video list of what games came out when doesn't say much that a quick look on GameFAQs won't.

Absent Blue

She sounds like she doesn't like saying anything japanese. "Gaiden, Ryu Hayabusa."

Green-clad Gamer Dude

Wow, can a voice be more aggressive to the ears than that? Also I need to play the 3D titles, the last and only one I played is the first on the NES I downloaded on the VC.

Xelotath

I thought Itagaki said it was, "GAY-den."

Either way, the narrator chick made me want to comit sepukku and play more Ninja Gaiden II... in hell.

Delano_J

Easiest way to pronounce it is Guy-den. More specific would be roughly Gah-I-Day-N. *shrug*

SpearXXI

A...VERY...WELCOME...ADDITION

Man, that chick's voice is annoying.

JoRo1986

@Delano_J:
actually seppuku is samurai only practice

dhlt25

I remember the Ninja Gaiden arcade cabinet very well. That was a very fun game for its time. The Nintendo version was certainly revolutionary, no other game had cutscenes like that, and they told the game's story very well.

...pretty sure she's pronouncing "Gaiden" correctly. It's definitely not "Gay-den". The emphasis might be on the other syllable, but wtf, I'm not into splitting hairs.

Highlander Wolf

Anyone ever play Vice Project Doom on the NES?

It's a lot like Ninja Gaiden, except a bit less difficult and overall much better. I could just never get into any of the games in the series, but I love Vice Project Doom.

My name changed for an unknown reason

@Katorok:

It kills you when someone pronounces something the popular, accepted and correct way? (GUY-DEN)

Doug

Annoying voice over with questionable pronunciation.

Joolies

I remember that voiceover voice and I don't like it, even if it did pronounce things correctly.

supercrap

@My name changed for an unknown reason: Ooh, as long as we're talking about vaguely similar Ninja Gaiden alikes--anyone remember Shatterhand? Christ, I loved that game. I also really dug Kabuki Quantum Fighter, even though that title consistently beat the shit out of my 8 year-old ass.

JustThisGuy

@My name changed for an unknown reason: Meh. The Spy Hunter-like car sequences killed it for me. It had a great story for the time, though.

JustThisGuy

Yesss, Shatterhand was the shit. I always avoided getting robot allies whenever I could. I thought it kinda Broke the game.

Batman for NES. That was another NG alike that absolutely KICKED ASS.

BigBooBuddy

@SuperCollider: lmao

meltyman

I can hardly believe you jerks! Morgan Webb's game reviews are like lullabys, her voice like an angel's, and her butt cheeks like the most comfortable pillows.

SuperCollider

Okay, got the ol' kanji dictionary right here. It's definitely "Guy-Den". According to this it means "a traditional biography". So, Ninja Gaiden means "Biography of a Ninja", I guess.

Her pronunciation is spot on, she might be emphasizing the second syllable a tad more than a native speaker, but she's already got it more correct than most people would get.

Highlander Wolf

A year ago I decided to do something that I couldn't do as a kid, finish Ninja Gaiden for NES. Now a year later, I still haven't done it.

Mara

umm she's saying everything correctly, better than most americans.

kitenai

I loved how she said Gaiden!

@Highlander Wolf: I thought gaiden meant 'the first'. So it would be 'the first ninja'.

BillyLee

Are you guys serious? Gaiden in romaji is pronounced exactly how she said it in the video: guy-den. The only questionable part is whether to put the emphasis on the first or second syllable (I am not Japanese but I've studied Japanese). Also, Ryu Hayabusa was pronounced in the video pretty much spot on. If you want to really be picky, you may argue she should have used the L sound in Ryu instead of the R sound, but that's just splitting hairs.

All that said, I still call Street Fighter's Ryu rye-you, but that's only because SF1 came out so long ago when I didn't know better and I've since gotten used to it. Though for me, Ryu Hayabusa is Lee-you Hayabusa. There can be only one Rye-you!

udaho

Believe it or not, Ninja Gaiden's history started before you brats were born. We had three continues and we had to memorize enemy patterns so we didn't die every board. We also called levels boards.

You kids with your fancy shmancy Internets and games on laserdisc. I'll bet you've never had to burst blood vessels in your face blowing into a cartridge to get the damn thing to work, huh? Never had to shove a cartridge half into place and then push it down into the system to get it to sit right? Upside down? Both ways?

Man, those were the good old days. Now go get gramps a glass of iced tea and maybe he'll show you his U-Force.

Johnny_Under

@BillyLee: No, don't think so. It's been ages since I studied japanese, but I think "fIrst" might be "hitotsu-me" or "saisho" -- I could be way off on one or both of those -- but the kanji they're using for Gaiden definitely means "biographical side-story":

[en.wikipedia.org]
Gaiden (外伝) (a Japanese-language word often translated as "side story" or "tale") is used to refer to an anecdote or supplementary biography of a person.

Highlander Wolf

I was expecting more from this game, but story and graphics were mehh I enjoed the fighting thought. It was intense if you are fan of NG and got cash its worth a purchase otherwise rent is good too.

Lets-game

Man, that video was lame. I thought it would be like a GT Retrospective.

"This game came out, it was good. They thought it was done. But no! There was another. Then, another. Then they thought it was done. But no! There was another."
Boring.

LiquidDarsh

@Highlander Wolf: I'm sure I read it in a Ninja Gaiden review.

Man, I'm watching this again just to hear her say 'Gaiden' again. I think I'm falling in love with her!

BillyLee

@Johnny_Under:

Before *some* brats were born. Man, seeing those old NES screens takes me back to 8th grade.

RhymePhile

Gaiden's kanji is 外伝, which means side story, as quoted Wikipedia says. 外 means outside, 伝 means story or incident, thus 外伝 means outside story. 'Supplementary' is a good way of putting it. BTW, Japanese for foreigner is gaijin, which uses the same gai: 外人 (literally outside person). And that wraps up our Japanese lesson of the day :)

udaho

@Johnny_Under: That takes me back. Classic NES games were great for enemy patter analysis...when sometimes the best (or only) strategy involved using your weakest weapon in a position that would get you killed in one shot, when your weakest weapon would take damn near 30 minutes to finish off the final boss.....

Think Mega Man 2 and the final boss. God that sucked.

I worked my way up to the last levels of NG 1 and 2, but never completed them. Now I have to go dig up my emulators and see if I can make them work with my Xbox360 controllers.

TendoMentis

@Highlander Wolf:

Her pronunciation is not spot on. Putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable makes it the wrong word. The emphasis for "gaiden" is on the first syllable only, and the way she heavily puts it on the second syllable makes her seem very unintelligent. It's GAI-den, not gai-DEN.

For instance, take the word "sake" in Japanese, commonly known by Americans as Japanese plum wine. It is pronouced sa-KE (sah-KEH). If you say SA-ke (SA-keh), you are saying salmon (with regards to nigiri sushi). If you say SAKE ("for heaven's sake"), you probably don't know what plum wine is.

And yes, in romaji it would be spelt out ga(gah)-i(ee)-de(deh)-n(n). Gaiden. This concludes my public service announcement.

izrofel

I remember being so pissed when Ninja Gaiden on the NES wasn't a port of the arcade game. It was awesome in it's own way, though.

I was a huge whore for the co-op beat 'em ups that dominated the arcades back then. TMNT, X-Men, Final Fight, Ninja Gaiden...

GorbyGipper

Well, I suppose me not being an anglophone helps out a bit but.. I didn't notice any "amusing English mispronunciations".
Could anyone point them out for me, please?

No, the various "Ninja Gaiden" and "Itagaki" don't count.

Masatomo