No it won't. :p

Screw Itagaki!

Hayashi had better ideas for this game, just look at NG Sigma.

Backflips, better Ryu animations in terms of acrobatics, no tapping A for running on water, great water combat.

But Itagaki removed all of that, except you can fight on water but you have to keep tapping A to be on the water.
This whole top leaderboard thing to upload videos is a joke.

The dodge makes you still vulnerable, which is sad because it was suppose to replace the roll move.

The bosses are a joke, atleast not the Greater Fiends.

The subway metallic worm boss, the water ghost dragon, that big turd that makes a nuclear warhead explosion in the end...etc. cheap!

Some of enemies are a huge joke as well, soldiers that shoots like 8 rockets at the same time, but then you got another soldier doing the same so you got 16 rockets coming at you furiously and you cant even dodge them, let alone the archers or the big enemies that looks like fiend with high tech armor on them, all of them at the same time...stupid!

There is no BALANCE in the game.

This game is definitely harder than NGB was.
I don't remember NGB being this hard on Normal and giving you enemies that makes twice the damage :S.

I am definitely sure I won't be able to complete Master Ninja anytime soon, or at all.

I got no essence to buy much so I am doomed.

Funny how in NGB on Normal I always left items behind because I had everything on max that I couldn't carry anymore, but here I always need them.

Worst enemies in this game that I consider "wtf":

Werewolfs
Archers
Soldiers with rocketlaunchers
Red ninjas with claws and Incediary Shurikens
"Alien" enemies
Dogs!
Fiends with high tech armor
Purple flying fiends with fireballs

All those enemies comes in packs, large packs and their damages are way too much and they grab you every few seconds they can, especially the werewolfs and the red ninjas.

This game deserves an 8 for sure, and this I have to agree with the reviews, the camera seems to be half decent this time around.
Considering they went with a bit tighter areas and more enemies I am surprised the camera even keeps track on Ryu.

The difficaulty...I honestly think Warrior is Hard and Acolyte is Normal :P

And some of the music tracks in the game is awesome, some not so much.
But my guess is that you unlock the OST when beating the game once, just like NG and NGB and NG Sigma was.

I played NGB about 18 months ago.
Now playing NG2, and... im in love.

lol
May be u just can't play good?

Hmm harder than NGB? OMG yes I want it.

Nah I can play, its just that those rocketlaunchers and those red spider ninjas with incendiary shurikens pisses me off.

I am with you SATH ... the game has just hit the CHEAP spot for me. Cant get past the electric firing fish on the subway of chapter 3. I gave up and turned off the console in frustration. THERE IS JUST NO WAY TO DODGE his electric bolts ......

This is a shame really, NG was hard but it never was cheap even ALMA, you had to be really good to kick her ass and it never was CHEAP.

Oh well .... I guess I am just a bit rusty and I need to sharpen my ninja skills more but the game is still cheap in some areas!

Ninja Gaiden is like one of those games that made me wanna smash my controller thru the TV, cause you get sooooo far and then if you dont save it you gotta start over from way before. And some of the fights lasted like 45 minutes on hard it was crazy.

I think you did something wrong if battles lasted 45 minutes. I would say more like 5-10 minutes. Hmm now that I think about it you probably meant the time between save statues.

That's one of my biggest problems with the game. Enemies grab you far too often, and a lot of them do it by leaping at you. The thing is, the camera is so brutal that you can never see it coming.Use your bow. I just sat back and charged up my bow and aimed for its face. Whenever he sends the little mini-fish things or the big blue face at you, just use your blade ninpo.This goes beyond just moments though. It's a defining characteristic of the game at this point.

Would this game not be a lot better with a camera like DMC4 uses?

The game is cheap yes, but I don't know why on Warrior though, which is Normal mode :S

The regular enemies do much more damage than what they could do in NG, like wtf is that all about?

I hate it when people say you are getting "rusty" for NG2, but the thing is now, I am not.
The game is cheap. The red ninjas can throw unlimited FAST incendiary shurikens at you and you cant dodge them, because they come in packs, usually 4-6 of them, shurikens at hand to make you blow up.
If thats not enough, they will gab you and do double damage.

I am on Chapter 11 and I got 3 more to go.
What I have should done on my first playthrough was to play Acolyte first, know the enemies, know the environment, the weapon locations, crystal skulls, the pattern of the enemies, so when I go to Warrior I know what to do, and not to do.

Don't get me wrong I love this game, but shit like this pisses me off, because it is cheap!

I've been finding up until this point though, while the game has been cheap in creating difficult battles, the regenerating life-bar does help. Even when battles are going poorly, I tend to walk away from them with a decent amount of health.

And yeah, those red ninjas are a BITCH! The first time I encountered a group bigger than 2, they absolutely gang-raped me. I had to keep blocking to avoid taking too much damage from the CONSTANT barrage of incendiary shurikens, but the constant blocking was an invitation to get grabbed.

Just wait until you around Chapter 9-11.
Once you get back to Hayabusa village you wish you never got there.

I got my Windmill shuriken and they have screwed with it, its slower now and goes in shorter range, wtf?

Another thing that bothers me is when you fight that demon Spider ninja Rasetsu, I thought he was a boss, but appearently, no.

You have to fight that "kind" in groups later on in the game that doesn't gets based as a boss level, rather than a normal enemy.

It's official, Itagaki thinks his games are challenging while the only thing he does is cheaping it with extra speed and damage for the enemies while yours is normal.

I liked the Elizebet fight, reminded me of Alma than Alexei did, very cool, probably my favorite boss fight.

I'm gonna try to beat mentor to see if there are any other costumes. You get these for beating Warrior.

How the hell do you beat Alexei in an efficient way? I somehow managed to just barely beat him, but I don't have any idea how to do it well while avoiding his retarded grab move.

Well, nicely done. My roommate managed the same thing. I, on the other hand, used a Lives of a Thousand Gods, 3 Grains, and 2 Herbs; it did NOT go well :P

Do fight alexei at the end of chapter 3 ? I left off this morning at that stupid subway worm in the middle of chapter 3 .... I guess more frustration is waiting for me then .... Oh happy days! A week end of frustration :D

Pain, live it, adore it, LOVE it! Ninja Gaiden 2
lol
I would say tho, the controls are damn accurate, i wish the camera was faster to match the controls speed.