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Ninja Blade (2009)

FromSoftware, ND Games

PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox 360

2.81 from 86 ratings

287 members have it in their collection · 2 playing now · 104 backlogged · 55 wish listed

How long? Main story 8h (from 4 logged playthroughs)

It was July 7th, 2011. While investigating reports of unlawful weapons trafficking, peacekeeping forces encountered an unclassified carnivorous species occupying a small village in Northern Africa. These rabid creatures were easily provoked and resistant to conventional attack.
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Details

Developers
FromSoftware, ND Games
Publishers
FromSoftware, Microsoft Game Studios, ND Games
Genres
Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Themes
Action, Horror, Science fiction
Steam
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Release dates

  • Jan 29, 2009 (Japan) Xbox 360
  • Apr 03, 2009 (Europe) Xbox 360
  • Apr 07, 2009 (North_America) Xbox 360
  • Oct 31, 2009 (North_America) PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Feb 19, 2010 (Europe) PC (Microsoft Windows)
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Rating distribution

5 stars
2
4 stars
16
3 stars
38
2 stars
24
1 star
6
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Krauzer

Review Krauzer 2/5 · Aug 19, 2025

This game is an action game developed by FromSoftware, set in a near-future Tokyo. The MC is called Ken Ogawa, a neo-ninja fighting a parasitic outbreak that turns humans into monstrous mutants. The game emphasizes fast-paced combat with multiple weapons and a chi-based "ninja vision" system. Boss battles often involve quick-time events, which add cinematic flair but can become overwhelming. …

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This game is an action game developed by FromSoftware, set in a near-future Tokyo. The MC is called Ken Ogawa, a neo-ninja fighting a parasitic outbreak that turns humans into monstrous mutants. The game emphasizes fast-paced combat with multiple weapons and a chi-based "ninja vision" system. Boss battles often involve quick-time events, which add cinematic flair but can become overwhelming.

This one really feels like a 360-era Ninja Gaiden rip-off, not very unique but it at least made it possible to have a similar experience on PC at the time, since Ninja Gaiden was a 360 exclusive back in the day. The PC version of Ninja Blade was criticized for technical issues, including glitches, crashes, and performance problems. The port lacked official updates or mod support, which left many of these problems unresolved and diminished the overall experience.

Some praised its over-the-top style and cinematic moments, describing it as silly but fun, while others found it lackluster, comparing it unfavorably to Ninja Gaiden and God of War. Overall, it received mixed reviews and holds a "Mixed or Average" score on Metacritic, a game that had great potential but lacked courage to become much more unique compared to a lot of other similar games at the time.

My biggest issue with this game are the bossfights, they are it's weakest point, lasting too long and not having any interesting enough mechanic, not to mention it has a very high amount of them. It offers a visually striking and action-packed experience, best suited for players looking for a straightforward, cinematic game, but I really consider this a very skippable game, there are many other similar title with higher quality.

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Raven

Review Raven 2/5 · Mar 20, 2022

Horribly Unoptimized On PC

There is potential for Ninja Blade in its hack and slash gameplay to be a good overall action game, but poor porting to PC, unrefined and sluggish controls on mouse on keyboard, crappy and slow camera movement, in many places poor, buggy audio quality, repetitive gameplay, boss battles, reused levels and broken 60 fps mode forcing to play in 30 …

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There is potential for Ninja Blade in its hack and slash gameplay to be a good overall action game, but poor porting to PC, unrefined and sluggish controls on mouse on keyboard, crappy and slow camera movement, in many places poor, buggy audio quality, repetitive gameplay, boss battles, reused levels and broken 60 fps mode forcing to play in 30 fps break it short. there is no option to remove motion blur on high settings you need to lower the quality in order for motion blur to be removed however it still shows up from time to time. Gameplay wise the game doesn't take itself seriously and sometimes have this over the top QTE sections i don't mind it but they just put too much QTE segments that it made me want to quit halfway I beat it but I got really bored of the game and got sick of the poor optimization.

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RPeterG

Status RPeterG Jan 26, 2021

Picked this up after seeing it mentioned by a youtuber. So far it's a fun action/adventure game with heavy devil may cry vibes. I had forgotten how annoying quick time events were though, and this game desperately wants to remind me.

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SpoonMan

Review SpoonMan 3/5 · Mar 7, 2017

It was too easy and too short. That is all.

Actual Score: 3/5

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chris.brooks.1291421

Review chris.brooks.1291421 4/5 · Jun 19, 2014

Really great game and interesting story line. Now that I think about it, it reminds me of a Ninja Resident evil game because the basis of the story line are the same. There is a virus (worms) that story to infect people and turn them into monsters. The gameplay was fun which includes 3 swords (balance, power, and speed), a …

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Really great game and interesting story line. Now that I think about it, it reminds me of a Ninja Resident evil game because the basis of the story line are the same. There is a virus (worms) that story to infect people and turn them into monsters. The gameplay was fun which includes 3 swords (balance, power, and speed), a throwing weapon with 3 powers (wind, fire, electricity), the ability to slow down time, and super speed. If that doesn't sound fun then I don't know what does. The reason it is not a 5 star game is because the ending cinematic (after credits) did not make any sense (not going to spoil it but you will understand when you beat the game and there is not save points) and the only time you can save the game is after you beat a mission/level. Other than that this game is excellent.

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