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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land It will be interesting to see how Ninja Blade fares against Ninja Gaiden, but so far so good. Just a few days ago we posted about a dozen screens of the game and today we got some more. Unfortunately, it still maybe a little too early to see how this “Ninja Vision” gameplay mechanic will work out, but the game looks… promising?
Busy day Tuesday. Ash and Mike headed out to meet with the developers behind Ninja Blade and Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts while Luke and I headed out to meet with the developers behind LocoRoco 2 and Patapon 2.
Watching Ninja Blade in action for the first time at Microsoft’s Daitabashi offices, it reminded us of another From Software action classic, Otogi: Myth of Demons. While Ninja Blade and Otogi don’t really have that much in common outside of being hack and slash action games, there’s something to protagonist Ken Ogawa’s three weapons — especially the giant, armor-smashing sword he carries — that makes us think “Hey, these guys made Otogi. Maybe this’ll be good.”
Yesterday, From Software unveiled Ninja Blade, and the pre-rendered trailer looked pretty great. Then again, pre-rendered trailers have a way of doing that, so we were left with a whole bunch of questions about how the game would actually play. Questions that have now been answered! IGN spoke with the game’s producer, Masanori Takeuchi, at yesterday’s MS Japan presser, and he says that the game will be around 12 hours long and will feature a bunch of stuff that…well, it sounds fairly run-of-the-mill. Scanning, weapons upgrades, the gradual unlocking of ninja abilities (even though you’re already a ninja), that kind of thing. Then again, these kind of games are rarely swinging for the fences as far as revolutionary content goes, so we’ll hold off on saying nasty things about it til we see how solid the controls and camera are.
Microsoft & From Software unveiled their new action game – Ninja Blade – at today’s Fall Press Conference. When we say “unveiled”, we mean they showed a brief, brief trailer, which you can watch here. Should trailers not be your thing, there’s some screens (from the trailer) below. Not ideal (we have GAMEPLAY QUESTIONS!!) but still, it’s better than trying to imagine what it would look like for a ninja to jump off a helicopter, kill some dragons then run down the side of a building, no? galleryPost('ninjablade', 3, 'Ninja Blade');
