THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: demi on November 15, 2007, 06:17:05 PM
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My bearfriend happened to have it, whoda thunk. Bears make good pirates, I guess.
The demo was pretty short, but it controlled good (for a DS game - it's basically Phantom Hourglass), and looked nice as well. It uses pre-rendered backgrounds, with 3D enemies and Hayabusa. Like Onimusha, or Resident Evil.
You hold it like a storybook (Hotel Dusk), and all the action happens on one screen, with your stats on the other. You point on the screen, and Hayabusa runs there. Attacking enemies has you slashing across the screen, and Hayabusa does it with quick precision. Tap the screen, and he throws Shurikens. You can jump by dragging the stylus up, then again for a double jump, and to do the Izuna Drop, drag it down.
Defending requires that you press any button the DS (D-Pad for righties, ABXY for lefties), and to dodge, hold the button down and slash across the screen.
To do magic, you tap on the icon in the corner, then draw the symbol in a time limit. It's like Dawn of Sorrow, but really simpler and easier. From here, a fireball appears, and you use the stylus to drag it around the screen and kill the enemies.
Finally, you are met with a red dragon as a boss, and the arena switches to fully 3D. The 3D looks pretty good (for the DS), and it runs at a very smooth rate.
The demo was pretty easy, compared to the recent Contra 4, and with Itagaki's hardon for difficulty, it is assumed that the retail will at least have some sort of difficulty.
I thought this would be a shitfest, but I thought it was rather nice. If anyone who has a flashcart is interested, I can up it. The demo was all in English, so I'm not sure what convention it was from, or if it was possibly a store demo from EB. The demo ends with "WINTER 2007".
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Thanks for the impressions, demi.
i just hope Itagaki won't turn this all easy for the DS crowd, and it's nice to see the controls are good, it had me worried for a while.
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BUBBUBBUBU YOU CANT HAVE TOUCH SCREEN CONTROLS OMG HOW DID TEAM NINJA FUCK THIS UP SO BAD THIS IS SO SHIT
but seriously this sounds cool, Im looking forward to playing it
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up plz
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up plz
http://download.yousendit.com/57D7A1780EA5CB9A
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demi is hero
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short demo but I liked it
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Yeah, EBgames has this for download if you bring your DS in (though it's not up to play on the store displays). The clerk said "Do you wanna d/l the Ninja Gay-den demo" to me when I bought Contra IV yesterday... I didn't have my DS on me though.
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Team Ninja :-*
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boss fight in the demo, after the quick and easy tutorial.
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Ninpo
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I killed the boss with a ninpo special move and few slashes :-\ IF the upcoming boss fights in the game that easy, this game will fail.
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Ninja Gaiden DS should have been a 2D action/adventure game just like Castlevania DS
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I thought that it looked like shit from the first videos we saw but i guess i was wrong
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ds emulation has a long way to go still
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ds emulation has a long way to go still
new ds emulators are more stable right now, so i tried the demo and other ROMs, and it works great! :D