Topic: Ninja Gaiden II Hands-on Impressions
The term “much anticipated” is greatly overused in previews of upcoming video games. It’s about as an annoying of a cliché as “jaw-dropping graphics”. Game scribes – including yours truly, on occaision – fall back on such cheap clichés no matter what the game is, whether anyone really is anticipating it and regardless to the truth of whether or not anyone’s mandible actually unattached itself from anyone’s skull. But in the case of Ninja Gaiden II, both statements are relatively accurate. Since 2004’s stunning Xbox-exclusive Ninja Gaiden, fans have been waiting on pins and needles (or katanas and shurikens, perhaps) for the next-generation follow-up.