Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound | PS5|4, XBOX SERIES X|S, SWITCH, PC | July 31st, 2025 | Metacritic: 86 Opencritic: 87

[Nero Christ]

Gonna wait til that physical drop but the reviews lemme know this fire

 

[MeachTheMonster]

I appreciate the “old school” design.

It’s still a “platfromer” at its base.

Everything is about traversal, positioning and timing.

I played a bit of the Shinobi demo and that plays more like a modern meteoidvania.

Ironically the girl sections of NG play more like the old school shinobi games than the new shinobi game

 

[Grand Conde]

You're at the end game in a fukking day?!

Been playing for two days due to different timezones. I'm on the last act, still a few levels to go but I haven't gone near the secret ops stuff. Will finish on Monday.

 

[Grand Conde]

Portal experience is feeling kinda janky IMO. It's hte most noticeably laggy game I've played on it in good wifi and controls feel a lil too loose. Imma keep playing, but I reckon it may feel a lot better playing natively instead of remote.

I've done the whole thing up to near the end on the Portal except one boss.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Crazy that we're getting three Ninja Gaiden games in one year

Black 2 was a great time and so is this. Might be day 1 for 4

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

I've done the whole thing up to near the end on the Portal except one boss.

So portal play was good for you? It did not feel the greatest for me.

 

[Grand Conde]

So portal play was good for you? It did not feel the greatest for me.

I played everything on my Portal at this stage, so it's hard to tell the difference.

 

[PS5 Pro]

This is like the best possible game that could ever exist

As an OG OOOG veteran of the OG NG's on NES.... nikka

There is nothing wrong with this game imo, I'm in act 2 atm

 

[DonkeyPuncher718]

This is like the best possible game that could ever exist

As an OG OOOG veteran of the OG NG's on NES.... nikka

There is nothing wrong with this game imo, I'm in act 2 atm

Starting the game with the homage to the OG Ninja Gaiden fight that killed Ryu Hayaubusa pops was

Really enjoying this and cant wait for Shinobi!

 

[homiedontplaydat]

Im loving this so far

The Switch version runs at 60 FPS on the Retroid Pocket 5

 

[Marks]

if you're digging this, you fukk with metroidvanias and soulslike shyt i highly recommend you check out the devs previous series, Blasphemous:



I think they did well but i still feel like they're slept on

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

Ain't been a serious gamer in decades, but probably gonna cop this.

Beat the original NES version multiple times (*humble brag* ), and NG2, but I know this is prolly gonna give me fits, lol.


Any of y'all ever read the Ninja Gaiden novel from back in the day? I remember copping that at a school book fair. Was one of my favorite reads as a kid.

 

[Grand Conde]

Stuck on Demon Lord all day.

 

[Grand Conde]

if you're digging this, you fukk with metroidvanias and soulslike shyt i highly recommend you check out the devs previous series, Blasphemous:



I think they did well but i still feel like they're slept on

Blasphemous is dope but this is an action platformer, not a metroidvania/soulslike.

 

[BlackMamba824]

Ain't been a serious gamer in decades, but probably gonna cop this.

Beat the original NES version multiple times (*humble brag* ), and NG2, but I know this is prolly gonna give me fits, lol.


Any of y'all ever read the Ninja Gaiden novel from back in the day? I remember copping that at a school book fair. Was one of my favorite reads as a kid.

I just started my hard play through (which unlocks after being the game the first time). This one isn’t too bad, but there are definitely ways to make it easier or more difficult although this one shouldn’t be too bad for you.

I never played the OG Ninja Gaidens, but I do believe the checkpoints and a few of the talismans in this one can really make or break your play through. There are some that completely heal you at each checkpoint or give you health back for every enemy you kill after a certain number or something like that. And then there’s the accessibility mode which I won’t even get into lol but it trivializes everything. On the flip side, there are talismans that remove all health orbs from the level or if you die make you start from the beginning of the level instead of at your most recent checkpoint.

I do enjoy all the little ways you can tweak the difficulty so you can make it as hard or difficult as you like honestly.