Ninja Gaiden 2 To Be The Last In The Series! NOOO!
From Wratty @ 5/14/2008 12:12:00 PM
Kotaku are reporting that Tomonobu Itagaki of Team Ninja has decided that Ninja Gaiden 2 will be the series swansong.
SWANSONG?
ALREADY?????
This is real heartbreaking material. Ninja Gaiden is our favourite XBox game and the sequel will hopefully be our favourite 360 game. It's the sort of game that we could just play for ever, over and over as they release harder and harder levels with more challenging enemies. They could actually just keep the levels identical and put in a couple of new enemies every few months and we would be happy.
Much like our love for Splinter Cell, Ubisoft have guarenteed themsevles a lovely pension thanks to our obsession with that series.
Itagaki does mention in the article that he is interested in something to do with World War 2 (can it be reinvented again?) based around the Pacific, citing the Iwo Jima and Flags of our Fathers stories as his inspiration. Could he actually be considering a story over two games? Something that shows both sides of a story? There is certainly unexplored terriroty there, the last title that we can remember seeing such a premise successfully was the Half Life addons like Blue Shift and opposing force. You could argue that the concept was also explored in Halo 2.
We can only hope that whatever it is that Itagaki decides to do instead is going to be something just as cool and addictive. Itagaki, in the unlikely event that you're reading this please supply us with a lovely new drug wrapped in leather.
SWANSONG?
ALREADY?????
Now we know how Vader felt. Itagaki plotted it all along. Bastard.
This is real heartbreaking material. Ninja Gaiden is our favourite XBox game and the sequel will hopefully be our favourite 360 game. It's the sort of game that we could just play for ever, over and over as they release harder and harder levels with more challenging enemies. They could actually just keep the levels identical and put in a couple of new enemies every few months and we would be happy.
Much like our love for Splinter Cell, Ubisoft have guarenteed themsevles a lovely pension thanks to our obsession with that series.
Itagaki does mention in the article that he is interested in something to do with World War 2 (can it be reinvented again?) based around the Pacific, citing the Iwo Jima and Flags of our Fathers stories as his inspiration. Could he actually be considering a story over two games? Something that shows both sides of a story? There is certainly unexplored terriroty there, the last title that we can remember seeing such a premise successfully was the Half Life addons like Blue Shift and opposing force. You could argue that the concept was also explored in Halo 2.
We can only hope that whatever it is that Itagaki decides to do instead is going to be something just as cool and addictive. Itagaki, in the unlikely event that you're reading this please supply us with a lovely new drug wrapped in leather.
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