Ninja Gaiden Black cover art

Ninja Gaiden Black

2005 · Team NINJA · ~20h to finish

Enemies act during your recovery frames and refuse to wait their turn. The famous difficulty is the ordinary encounters, not the bosses.

actionPCXbox Series
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty7.3BRUTAL

Long walls, many attempts. Bring patience.

The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Learning Curve
8.8
Reaction
8.0
Execution
7.8
Punishment
7.5
Obscurity
6.0
Strategy
4.0
Grind
2.8
Puzzle
1.0
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Execution drops 1.0 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Reaction drops 1.0 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 2.9 points off, if you use them.

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Screenshots

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT

No walls charted yet. If you have played this, you know where it bites — add the first one.

Assists & accessibility

0/1 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

In Ninja Gaiden Black you can reprise the role of Ryu Hayabusa, ninja extraordinaire.

Where to go from here

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