Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos
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Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos
Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos
Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos
1990
Action, Adventure
The Ninja Ryu is back to avenge the death of his father, and stop the Evil Ashtar. A year has passed since Ryu last faced his arch enemy, and still the activity down at the bottom of the realm of darkness continues. Ashtar, the evil lord who secretly controls Jaquio, is again on the move, and it is up to Ryu, the "Ninja Dragon" to put a stop to it. Use all of the secrets of the real Ninjitsu, along with the exciting audio and visual special effects and be drawn into the fantasy world of Ninja Gaiden II The Dark Sword Of Chaos.

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Ninja Gaiden

AKAs:

Ninja Ryukenden II: Ankoku no Jashinken, Shadow Warriors II: Ninja Gaiden II, Shadow Warriors II: The Dark Sword of Chaos

Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos

1990
Action, Adventure
Avg Percentile 58.6% from 26 total ratings

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Rated 07 Oct 2024
95
92nd
The sequel that maintains (or slightly increases) all of the elements the first got right while completely improving all of its weaknesses. If you want a difficult but fair action platformer (this might be the best in that NES genre) with fun levels and great music, all wrapped up in super professional (if insane) storytelling, this is it. The only thing that holds me back is something about the theme here doesn't have me coming back the way Mega Man or Castlevania does.
Rated 09 Jun 2024
63
40th
Well, at least you can climb now, and they've given the jump a bit more airtime, but they've also made the hitbox on the sword slash a bit less cooperative. Enemies are about as obnoxious as ever, and now you've got the occasional stage environment gimmick to bog things down on top of that. It's fine if you especially like this particular sort of challenge, though I'm not sure how much I do.
Rated 14 Apr 2019
22
26th
better but still too hard
Rated 06 Feb 2018
6
67th
On the gameplay level I have to admit that this is a pretty typically lazy give'-em-more-of-the-same sequel. But it just so happens that in this case what they're ladling me more of just happens to be pretty damn good, so the end result is still perfectly playable. The game also has the unique distinction of having probably my favorite opening cutscene of the entire NES library.

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Franchise:

Ninja Gaiden

AKAs:

Ninja Ryukenden II: Ankoku no Jashinken, Shadow Warriors II: Ninja Gaiden II, Shadow Warriors II: The Dark Sword of Chaos
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