For the uninitiated, the Black Spider Clan has usually served as the antagonists of the Ninja Gaiden series. Ragebound is set during the events of the 1988 NES game. After series protagonist Ryu ...

Q: Was the goal for Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound always to tell a side story running concurrently to the original NES Ninja Gaiden? Jaumandreu: Yes! From the very beginning, when we were crafting the ...

The early Ninja Gaiden games were famous for helping ... Kenji is Ryu’s apprentice, and his story runs parallel to the OG Gaiden for NES. Dotemu It’s somewhere in between all this where ...

That seems to be the case again with Ninja Gaiden Ragebound. It looks like a supercharged 16-bit version of the NES trilogy and adds some gnarly new ninja tricks. One is the Guillotine Boost ...

In the 90s and early 2000s, nobody did gory ninja combat quite like Koei Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden series. With several entries in the historic franchise, from the classic 2D titles on the NES to the ...

Developer The Game Kitchen said in a hands-off preview of Ragebound that it wants the game to be tough, but fair — unlike the cruel NES-era Ninja Gaiden releases. And for the game’s highly ...

The Ninja Gaiden series was once widely considered the ... from the 2D action platformers that popularized the series on the NES, but the new take on Ryu Hayabusa’s adventures became instantly ...

As for the story, it's set during the events of the NES version of Ninja Gaiden and stars a new protagonist, Kenji Mozu. It's up to him to save Hayabusa Village while Ryu is away in America.

Ryu's journey started with the original Ninja Gaiden arcade game. However, the series gained significant popularity with its NES trilogy as he battled against supernatural forces and sinister ...

Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, a remake of Ninja Gaiden 2 (the 2008 Xbox 360 game, not the NES and DOS game from 1990), also surprise released today, and this has all prompted Team Ninja and Microsoft to ...

A remarkably long time in those days. But that time was worth it. Ninja Gaiden was perfect. Chronologically a prequel to the NES games (as if we play these things for the story), it envisioned 3D ...