Hey, remember Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z? No? Maybe? Oh, you remember the 43 Metascore it has over on Metacritic? Yeah, now that you mention it, it does ring a bell...
Snark aside, Koei Tecmo may be thinking about bringing the Ninja Gaiden spin-off to PlayStation 4, supposedly as a remaster. The company filed a new trademark a few days ago for 'Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z' in the US, whereas back in the days of the original, only 'Yaiba' was trademarked.
As Gematsu points out, Koei Tecmo has a history of trademarking things only when it plans on actually doing something with them, so a current-gen port is naturally the first thing that comes to mind.
But why? As mentioned, Yaiba was panned by both critics and fans alike back when it launched in 2014. Unless Koei Tecmo has some serious upgrades planned, we don't see why Yaiba should ever be considered for the remaster treatment. Guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
[source reddit.com, via gematsu.com]
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“But why”
best headline ever XD
Ninja! Ninja! Rock the ninja!
Ninja Gaiden Z!
I've never actually heard of this. The metacritic score isn't comforting, though.
I really liked Ninja Gaiden Sigma on PS3, even though I wasn't very good at it. A new one would be good.
i wouldn't mind if they released HD ports of all the Ninja Gaiden games on current systems to be honest, they were hard as balls but SO much fun
Never played it and I remember the scores, the studio who made this game also closed after this, right?
lol but why XD
Oh hell no. Tecmo have remastered/ported the Sigma games before, why stop now? I'd rather they redid Razor's Edge and that was a steaming pile but NGZ barely functioned as a game to begin with. The mind truly boggles.
Why can't they just remaster Ninja Gaiden Black, a.k.a. the best Ninja Gaiden game, instead?
Heck, just remaster the trilogy instead. Any Ninja Gaiden games. Just not Yaiba Z. Is games like this why I wasn't fond with Spark Unlimited. The only games that they did well was that CoD game. Lost Planet 3's story was okay but that's the only praise I can think for them.
I think Ninja Gaiden should belong to From lol. But i suppose their new game IS what Ninja Gaiden should be. And does anybody want to tell me where the hell Tenchu has been. Sony needs to figure that out...or maybe thats Ghosts lol
lol & lol why pick that one out of the series.
Sigma 1 & 2 & Ninja gaiden black are the best.
Just being the Trilogy with some story improvements. I’ve never played the (new) Ninja Gaiden Games, so I’d love to see them on the PS4.
You could re-release this trash Koei, you could do that; but why....why would you do that?
Still have this for xb360.
NG Sigma : Good
NG Sigma 2 : Meh
NG 2 : Didn't wanna play it
Yaiba NGZ : Who ?
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