I know these are turorial-based folks, so they aren't with you for the whole adventure, but the series never needed this.

The games taught you how to navigate through the whole design of the environments, as well as simple trial-and-error.

Dread understood this. That's why it was incredible.

Well, even Battlefield needs to up the bar as well. Existing solely to counter CoD's buffoonery isn't enough, even though they are successful at it.

It's EA vs Activision, though, so I can't say I should be expecting either of them to innovate. 😅

I'm really trying to do better. I'm trying to not harshly judge what folks choose to enjoy when it comes to video games, but for fucks sake, raise your goddamn standards.

The genre deserves better. YOU deserve better.

Stop blindly buying these every year. Jesus Christ.

It is such an incredible feeling! Congrats! 😊

And no, I wouldn't really consider it bragging. Paying off a massive debt is not something you accomplish with ease.

Oh yeah, areas you can't reach? JUST SHOW ME! 😆

A large chunk are local.

But fun fact: I moved 15 miles away into a house back in June. I rarely ever go through my old neighborhood/stores.

As far as they're concerned, I pulled a Houdini.

The others at least had some variation of how each area looked, and offered different foes depending on where you're at.

4 has all the shine and shimmer of a great action game with a kickass combat system, but with heavy use of copy and paste. 🫤

I know, it's embarrassing.

To be fair, they grab just about every license out there. I had to blow my points on Mira from K Pop Demon Hunters, so I got something I wanted out of it. 😅

It's just goofy fun. I'm more reminded of my Quake II days than anything recent, so I'd be lying through my teeth if I said I WASN'T having fun with it. 😅

I had serious thoughts about streaming it as my first game, but the Pro is downstairs... and I really don't want to embarrass myself. 🤣

Also, forcing me to use R2 to dodge/block when the previous three games had it mapped to L1 is not as easy to adjust to as I was expecting.

This is most definitely a Platinum game... and probably the hardest Ninja Gaiden entry I've ever played.

Mad props.