Towards the end this game was a cheap, platforming nightmare that made me curse the developers to eternal damnation. Obviously this game has a famous reputation for being among the most difficult titles ever released, so I would be amazed to encounter a gamer who completed it.
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sharelol sure. i've beat this a bunch of times. it's insanely hard though. I doubt I could do it today. You have to be a friendless 14 year old loser with insomnia and truly nothing better to do.
shareI got to the last few levels back in the day but otherwise, no. Old school games were hard! These young kids will never know the struggle.
shareSame. I got up to one of the last levels where you meet with the glitch of a respawning bird before a vital jump. Assholes...
Yep completely agree with that! Most games are a cakewalk these days, and with easy access to game guides and cheats. We didn't have anything except our wits, and whatever patience we can muster to get the most out of those maximum priced cartridges.
I guess back in the day we did have the Game Genie, if you wanted to be an asshole.
shareI completed it. I actually took a picture of the screen so I could send it to Nintendo and get my name in their Nintendo Power magazine. I actually still have the picture, but I never sent it in. This, and "The Legend of Zelda" were the only video games that I ever really got into. I beat the first level on "The Legend of Zelda" and I beat "Ninja Gaiden" and that was the end of my video game playing. I began BMX, karate, weight lifting, and guitar soon after. I'm still with the guitar (I made a 28 year career out of it) and I still exercise like a maniac. I don't ride BMX anymore, but I do ride my bike around town during summers for fun. All that other stuff seemed more important to me than playing video games. All of the other stuff was real, and video games weren't. There was no future as a gamer in those days- at least not to my knowledge.
You can watch people run through this entire game on Youtube.
In my opinion this game (and its sequels) would have made a fantastic movie.
If you asked me when I was 12, I would've told you that Ninja Garden was absolutely, by far, my favorite game. I loved the cut scenes and the story. It legit made me want to be a ninja.
That said, I never could beat it. I could get all the way to Jaquio at the very end and he would fuck me up every time and send me back to the beginning of the level. Which sucked.
I agree it could make an awesome movie IF it was done right. You couldn't just make a cheap video game movie. You'd really need to bring in the right talent and give it a proper budget.
The difficulty of this game was probably the reason that I quit playing video games. It took forever, but I had to see the movies in-between levels. I wanted to know how it ended.
At the end you battled Jaquio, and just when you beat him, and thought that the game was over you battled a freakn' demon who was about 100% more powerful than Jaquio! Still, the movie scenes at the time were amazing, and a video game that had a REAL closing movie finale with dialog, and amazing graphics was almost unheard of at the time. The bar was set pretty high by that game. I knew that I wasn't going to get another game that would be that cool.
Yeah, a movie franchise would be cool, but if it were done by an American film studio, they'd muck it all up with all sorts of political/eco garbage. So, I'll just stick to watching the cuts of the movie parts of the game that are posted on Youtube.
If you haven't checked them out someone posted all of the movie parts from all of the original games, and the 2000s games (I didn't know that they made more of them after the original 3) on Youtube. I watched the video for part 1. It was cool to see the movie again. Story wise it holds up well. I'll get around to watching the other two (which I didn't beat) and perhaps the newer ones too.
Update: I finally managed to complete it in 2020 along with the first Castlevania. Go me 😁 Was no cakewalk, and I'm no rush to attempt it again.
The 3rd form of the Jacquio was much easier than the second.
I beat it when I was 8 back in the early 90's. No game genie either. Just multiple attempts and unplugging the video cord to secretly keep the game on while at school.
shareAt 8, how did you manage to get past the re-spawning mess of hooded knife throwers and birds in the second to last level?
Did you work out the positions of where they would stop re-spawning?
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