Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z has an Image Problem | USGamer

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Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z has an Image Problem | USGamer

Added: 13.12.2013 15:17 | 6 views | 0 comments

USG - "When I sat down to play Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z for the first time, the calendar told me it was 2013 -- but for all I knew, I could have been warped back to 1993. With the protagonist's garish, tattered outfit and arbitrarily assigned mechanical parts -- Kano called and he wants his red robo-eye back -- this reboot of the quarter-century-old series has somehow transformed Ninja Gaiden into an unmistakable facsimile of early '90s Image comics: The heavy metal, teen-friendly brand that sought to reinvent the medium by giving young creators control of their characters, adding a bunch of superfluous lines to everything, and never getting a book out on time."