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[Hot5pur]

For anyone interested, the Ninja Gaiden 4 DLC is out now.


- New weapon for Ryu and Yakumo
- new story content in the form of 3 new missions
- additional trials
- 100 stage bloody palace mode
- new bosses
- new enemies

Base game and DLC are on sale. Pick up the deluxe edition which includes both for an even better deal.
Very excited for this!

 

[Memati187]

Ayane? Or any other tits involved?

 

[The_hunter]

Ryu's new weapons are like the blades of chaos.

 

[Yoshichan]

So what was the deal with Ayane having an insanely detailed model but only being in the game for the total amount of 4 seconds?

 

[Represent.]

the price of the game still shows the same for me, link?

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

Put it all the disc edition.

 

[Hot5pur]

So what was the deal with Ayane having an insanely detailed model but only being in the game for the total amount of 4 seconds?

It was super disappointing, but I imagine it's the new DOA model, they may have just had her there mostly as nice throwback, however brief.

 

[Arsic]

Ryu's new weapons are like the blades of chaos.

I'm tempted to reinstall and just play with this weapon since I'm a big fan of the blades….

 

[paolo11]

How many story missions Ryu got? Also how long is each mission? Currently not available to play atm

 

[Joe Cool]

Call me when I can play the story mode from start to finish as Ryu.

 

[TheLikou]

Ayane had a cool new visual and I was 100% certain that the DLC would be an story with her. And the fucking games shows that she was doing something all the time.

 

[Hot5pur]

Call me when I can play the story mode from start to finish as Ryu.

You can play all the chapters as Ryu.

 

[FreeY$L]

The story missions in the DLC amount to an hour and a half of content, but the main meat of this dlc is the trials and the abyssal road, two new weapons. May not be worth it to some, but it's enough for me, the new weapons are great, and as a long time Ninja Gaiden fan it's fun.

 

[Represent.]

Just bought both , fuck it

 

[bbw_lover87]

Yess bought it ready baby

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Getting this today.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Awesome

 

[splattered]

So if i bought deluxe edition at launch I already get this DLC?

 

[RPS37]

I haven't gotten very far in the main game but is this free and accessible early on?

 

[KàIRóS]

Call me when I can play the story mode from start to finish as Ryu.

Funny that you say that cause that's actually one of the advantages of the plain level design in this game and not gimmicky to each character like DMC4/DMC5, you can replay the entire story with both characters after you finish it once.

 

[Northeastmonk]

I haven't gotten very far in the main game but is this free and accessible early on?

You have to pay. $15 I think. I bought the deluxe edition and played the first mission. It acts like its own campaign but you have to have a cleared game save to access it. The weapon is insane! You can spin it around and it's incredibly fast. Sometimes it feels like it's all over the place. I've unlocked quite a few moves too. The new boss I fought felt challenging. It went up in the air so I couldn't mindlessly use blood attacks.

It's weird going from Nioh back to NG4. A part of me wants to play NG2B again. It's got 3 new chapters, new weapons, monsters, and a dexterity mode. Not bad for the price imo. The new big bad person or demon entity should be a good fight. It certainly has some good vibes going on.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Time to come back for more!

Best hack-and-slash action game of the generation...With that Ninja Gaiden action and the combination of Metal Gear Rising.

This game is super amazing.

 

[DreamcastSkies]

Ryu's new weapon looks more compelling than I initially thought.

 

[AJUMP23]

Game is really good. Enjoyed it.

 

[Hot5pur]

DLC is a real banger. Adds a bunch of good stuff like regular enemies too, and the "devil trigger" or frenzy aspect makes the enemies feel remixed, nice touch. New weapons seem to be universally liked.

People are a bit consumed with Ryu vs Yakumo, but ultimately as a player you get a ton of weapons and play options, having a different skin doesnt seem that important given the similarity in gameplay (same goes for ayane, it would have been yet another weapon rather than different play style).

Where characters made sense is DMC, they actually play very differently. In NG4 (and NG in general) the gameplay across characters is quite similar.

Also as far as the DLC, apparently the new bosses are some of the best. I'm still working through it ...

 

[Northeastmonk]

DLC is a real banger. Adds a bunch of good stuff like regular enemies too, and the "devil trigger" or frenzy aspect makes the enemies feel remixed, nice touch. New weapons seem to be universally liked.

People are a bit consumed with Ryu vs Yakumo, but ultimately as a player you get a ton of weapons and play options, having a different skin doesnt seem that important given the similarity in gameplay (same goes for ayane, it would have been yet another weapon rather than different play style).

Where characters made sense is DMC, they actually play very differently. In NG4 (and NG in general) the gameplay across characters is quite similar.

Also as far as the DLC, apparently the new bosses are some of the best. I'm still working through it ...

Ryu's Jakotsumon is a lot of fun and looks really cool. I just finished the 3 new chapters. The final boss felt harder than anything from the campaign. It was a bit on the short side, but now the Abyssal Road and the bosses from the DLC are playable as trials.

It's weird in that it feels like all of this could have made the base game better from the start. I wonder what else will get released because there's plenty of room for a Black version of NG4 down the road. I think I prefer the flow of NG1 and NG2 more, but I'm starting to like NG4 more than I did at launch. I sat it down for a super long time after finishing it and if it was absolutely amazing then I'd probably had kept playing it. The DLC got me to reinstall it.

 

[EPG_Every_Platform_Gamer]

YEES more single player DLC is awesome, wish more games would do this, single player gamers also deserve DLC and would happily buy if the content added brings value to the package.

 

[Kamina]

I just want playable Ayane with jiggle physics

 

[Celcius]

DLC was short but fun. I was really rusty at first but by the end I felt comfortable again. Hopefully NG5 brings back Rachael, Momiji, Ayane, and Kasumi.

 

[NeverYouMind]

Beat the whole game for the first time (with DLC). The plot was pretty good but this is not a Ninja Gaiden game and I have no idea why they named it that. It has as about as much in common with the franchise as Nioh but with the quirks of Platinum action games. The drill rapier and ninja tool bag were consistently fun to use though. Rechargeable ninpo, gleam launcher, and berserker mode obliteration made Ryu more of a wizard than a ninja for the handful of sections he was playable in this game.

The bosses predominantly sucked as Platinum couldn't help but shoehorn in repetitive pattern recognition with armored state shenanigans and cross-arena boss hit and runs for most boss battles in place of traditional combat. The most fun ones were the Statue, Shark, Armed Harvester, and Dragon (phantom not included) as they gave some room for player expression.

The obstacle courses between enemy rooms for most of the game were annoying and the limited implementation of ninja gear did not add anything to the levels with the sole exception of the surf board. In the mountains the endless obstacle courses (sometimes with giant pot demons taking potshots from a distance) made me want to quit several times. Only the underworld surfing was enjoyable to me as it made exploration and traversal fun. Also, the neon techno shark levels were the only ones with memorable aesthetics.

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The DLC was bottom of the barrel. They reused parts of existing levels, recolored segments of the underworld to create new areas, modified an existing enemy type into Black Spider Ninjas, and threw in a bunch of enemy gauntlets with 4 new boring bosses. The added weapons are worse than what is in the base game. Proto-scythe is slow and its mid-range attacks often leave Yakumo wide open despite mediocre damage. The grappling hook gauntlets sometimes unintentionally pull an enemy toward Ryu or pull Ryu toward an enemy making spacing awkward (unlike Falcon Talons in OG NGII) and reuse gleam of Dragon Sword. I guess they added a Bloody Palace-type mode as well but I can't be assed to fight more gauntlets of enemies after the excessive barrage of so few enemy types in the rest of the game.