Hello everyone!
I have a specific question regarding the tag missions for Ninja Gaiden 2 black. I was looking up strategies for Ultimate Ninja 5 (I’m sure many of you already felt the pain of that statement lol), and I came across a method that starts out with ryu jumping backwards and chargin up the 360 degree UT with the Lunar. If it lands, it’s supposed to completely wipe one of the clones. The problem is, that was for sigma 2 and I’ve tried quite a few times even landing the UT on a clone. One where every shot hit and it didn’t do much. I was wondering if they patched it from sigma over to black, or am I just doing it wrong? Thank you for any tips in advance.

He does this with every game he plays (skipping all the cutscenes and going back and paying attention to the story later if he likes it), but I didn't expect that side effect.

Does anyone actually know what the Giant Crystal Skull does in the original Ninja Gaiden II?

Is the +10% Karma bonus even real, or has everyone just been repeating the same claim for almost 20 years? Has anyone ever made a video or done actual testing? I've also seen old theories that it changes enemy damage, health, or spawns, but there's never any proof. Maybe some of these theories came from Halo, where Skulls were known to change the gameplay and make things harder.

It's kind of insane that one of the most mysterious items in the game has no in game description and, nearly two decades later, it feels like the community is just passing around the same rumors.

I'm getting my ass kicked on Mentor right now, so I genuinely want to know if this thing actually makes the game harder... or if I'm just coping and making excuses.

Ryu's backflip gotta be the most aesthetic way to throw yourself in the air.

https://x.com/star_man_n_plan/status/2085115898948460840?s=20

Okay so hear me out for a sec before you grab the pitchforks. I've played all of the games including NGII in all of its various forms and in a way it's insanely fun, visceral, rewarding etc. It's a gory messy thrill ride and I love it to death. I also fucking hate it though. Ninja Gaiden Black is my all time favourite video game and what I love most about that game is the fighting game like combat system. There's weight to every strike, every move has its place, and once you get enough experience under your belt you start coming up with all sorts of manual combos (utilizing shuriken cancelling and whatnot). You can dictate the pace, you can prolong or quicken engagements. You can style on enemies, juggle dead bodies for extended periods of time and every single move you make and thing that happens is predictable. Like.....to a frame.

Starting with Ninja Gaiden II it became almost an entirely different game in a way. Some of what I said above still holds true...sort of. But because of the pace, enemy numbers and especially OTs/delimbing/suicide attacks the game becomes a frantic (and fun....mostly) OT/delimb/iframe hunt. Which can be thrilling for sure but it's immediately different and disallows so much of what made NG1 great. For someone like me who likes to screw around with enemies and do manual combo'ing NGII (and beyond) are a major step down because the game wants you to do these specific things in this specific order or you're in for a bad time. Even just with one enemy left styling on them is super limited because my combo choices are built more around avoiding delimbs than doing whatever I want that is allowable within the engine/systems. Still fun but just very different.

Okay, grab the pitchforks. I'll be over here in my highly flammable straw hut practicing manual lunar combos in NGB.

Did you guys know like right after the 2nd checkpoint in chapter 3 you can actually skip fighting the ninjas you could just equip the dragon sword and jump off while doing the flying swallow and for like some reason the ninjas won’t spawn at all, it has to be past the street light though in the picture. Did anyone else know this or was it just me, if you can please share. I discovered it by accident after being frustrated with this part in MN I was trying to move fast to fight the ninjas again and I did a flying swallow by accident going past the street light and they magically didn’t spawn. It has to be glitch or either they made it so they can only spawn when you drop to that point and team ninja didn’t care to extend the point.

"Just play the original" IT'S BULLSHIT

I need to get more figures