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Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword

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Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword

Mar 20, 2008

Main game

3.23 average rating based on 90 ratings

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This action-adventure title is presented in a third person, pseudo-3D manner, meaning all the game-models are rendered in full 3D, but the world the player travels around in is pre-rendered. When played, the Nintendo DS is held sideways, as in Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!. The left screen shows the area map, while the right displays the main gameplay, when set for right-handed play, and reverse when set for left-handed play. Set six months after Ninja Gaiden, Ryu Hayabusa has rebuilt the Hayabusa Village. When fellow villager and kunoichi, Momiji, is … More
This action-adventure title is presented in a third person, pseudo-3D manner, meaning all the game-models are rendered in full 3D, but the world the player travels around in is pre-rendered. When played, the Nintendo DS is held sideways, as in Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!. The left screen shows the area map, while the right displays the main gameplay, when set for right-handed play, and reverse when set for left-handed play. Set six months after Ninja Gaiden, Ryu Hayabusa has rebuilt the Hayabusa Village. When fellow villager and kunoichi, Momiji, is kidnapped by the Black Spider Ninja Clan, he is forced to find her, while uncovering the secrets behind the mysterious Dark Dragonstones and their relation to the Dragon Lineage Less
Developers
Team NINJA
Publishers
Tecmo, Ubisoft Entertainment
Franchises
Ninja Gaiden
Series
Ninja Gaiden
Event
Nintendo E3 2007 Press Conference
Platforms
Nintendo DS
Genres
Adventure, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Themes
Action
Release Dates
Mar 20, 2008 Full Release (Japan)
Nintendo DS
Mar 25, 2008 Full Release (North_America)
Nintendo DS
Apr 25, 2008 Full Release (Worldwide)
Nintendo DS
Jun 27, 2008 Full Release (Europe)
Nintendo DS
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User Stats
229
In Collection
27
Wish Listed
2
Playing
59
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How Long Is Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword?
Main + extras: 3.5 hours
Total completions: 1
iguanaDitty
iguanaDitty gave Feb 3, 2017
iguanaDitty gave Feb 3, 2017
Amazing controls

I loved this game even though all I really remember about it are the stylus controls. And the difficulty. The controls are excellent, fun, and made me feel like I was performing really cool, challenging actions. The game was about right difficulty wise on the easier settings, even for me who sucks at this kind of game usually. It started off a little easy and then ramped to rather difficult; I imagine on the harder settings it gets downright impossible.

I enjoyed this enough I not only want to revisit it but want to check out other games in the series even though they're probably nothing like it.

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Chovus
Chovus updated their status Jul 6, 2020
Chovus updated their status Jul 6, 2020

Beat on loan from my coworker using her DS. Not sure what difficulty I played on, probably normal. I had already played Ninja Gaiden 2 on xbox 360 by this time and the stylus controls of this game did not piss me off like the xbox 360 game did. It was reasonably difficult but not frustrating, though I did mostly flail the stylus around wildly. For some reason I never kept any notes on this game but I am going to give it a 7.0/10 based on memory.

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