Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 demo

Not even the mentor level ones?!

I dunno, possibly.

Beating those 2 Tengu things with Momiji was a bit of a pain on Mentor.

A_Nonny_Moose wrote:

Beating those 2 Tengu things with Momiji was a bit of a pain on Mentor.

So your good enough to beat genshin now?

Probably not. Got my ass kicked trying to use the claws against werewolves. Luckily you get the dual swords early on in that chapter, and there's an upgrade shop right at the start. I hate how you can't level any weapons to level 3 until they're all at level 2. I never use most of them but I have to upgrade them before I can get the most out of the ones I do use.

There's some horrible and pointless design choices.

I'm not looking forward to fighting Volf.

Huh, that was unexpectedly easy. Only needed a couple health items. I used up the max number of healing items possible while fighting the lightning guy on Mentor, including the one that brings you back from the dead. Which left me with about 3/4 health total to fight the Statue of Liberty. Pulled it off without dying though.

Now I'm on Rachel's chapter. I hate Rachel.

You don't like playing as the only white character in the game... racist.

The scythe is decent.

Coming back to this after putting narly 90 hours into Sigma Plus was startling, and I also felt like I immediately understood the game more than I ever did before. A whole bunch of subtle things threw me off at first, like Ryu now dashing instead of rolling to dodge, or Flying Swallow needing to be slightly delayed.

The enemies have much longer attack strings in this game, and it's harder to know when you've been hit with an incendiary shuriken. Gunfire also seems to stunlock you more in this game that it does in Sigma Plus. The higher framerate threw me off at first too. the Guillotine Throw and head stomp don't have the same snap to them as they do in Sigma Plus, partly because the frame rate make the animation more fluid.

I was on Chapter 8 on Mentor difficulty, but I started a new game on Mentor just to get used to the game again. Noticed a bunch of stuff in the first chapter than I never really took note of before. SST with the DS has a pretty high de-limb rate. The DS's T counter has much faster recovery than it does in Sigma Plus, so you can actually get an aerial combo/Izuna Drop from it now. You can jump on someone's head and then Flying Swallow back at them if you toss some shurikens first.

Also totally forgot that some combo strings start with T in this game. I've gained a new appreciaton for the Lunar Staff too. Never liked it before, but it was my favourite weapon for dealing with basic enemies in Sigma Plus, so I'm making the effort to use it more this time around. The boss fights suddenly seem much simpler too. That Razetsu at the end of Chapter 1 never touched me.

I was trying to tell u all that lunar staff is awesome

I'm still getting used to it because it has more options in NGS2 but seems a bit less powerful. Less i-frames as well I think, especially on the counter and S>SS.

Man, this game sure takes some cheap shots. There's a bit in chapter 3 where a Fiend grabs you the instant a cutscene ends, and another bit where a Fiend leaps out from round a corner and grabs you with no warning at all. The only way to avoid them is to know they're about to happen. I hate shit like that. You have to be psychic to get it right first time. Sigma Plus didn't have any of that.