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-Tecmo Mobile (2004) -Played on a Sanyo 8300
Summary Tiny ninjas tempt you to do evil deeds. My Thoughts The prospect of playing the first Ninja Gaiden on a cell phone intrigued me. The original is a revered classic from the NES era. How can you really go wrong with Ninja Gaiden, one of the greatest ninja series ever created? It turns out you can, but first I’ll say what’s great about the game. The graphics look just as they did on the NES and the sounds are pretty decent. Ryu’s acrobatic ninja jumping and slicing sword antics are easy to perform with the phone’s controls. All the enemies from baseball bat wielding brawlers, badass boxers, evil ninjas, and dogs are all present. The challenge of the original also remains as the Ninja Gaiden games have never been a cakewalk. The game preserves the cinematics of the original presented in tiny letterboxed form. There is also a stage select feature so you don’t have to complete the game in one sitting.
If you love Ninja Gaiden so much that you’ll pay for as many chapters as are released then by all means go get it. It’s a very accurate translation. As for me, I can’t stand spending lots of money for a cell phone game that should only be one download and is the sole reason my score is so low.
-Shawn
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Ninja Gaiden Episode 1:
Destiny
There is one thing
that absolutely kills this mobile version of Ninja Gaiden; it’s missing
most of the game. All that the game contains are level 1-1, 1-2, and 1-3 with
the ending boss battle against the machete wielding Jason look-a-like. I hate it
when game companies split up a single game into multiple chapters. You have to
pay for and download the other chapters to play the complete game and is one of
the worst business decisions for mobile games. When I initially downloaded the
game I thought that the “Episode 1” part of the title meant that it was the
first game and that Ninja Gaiden 2 and 3 would come out at some point, but no.
It’s just the first game chopped up into miniscule bits. 
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