DMC, Bayonetta, God of War and Ninja Gaiden to name a few are often regarded as top class in action game design, there is a lot of undercover gems I want to highlight that I feel are on par or even better depending on who you ask. 🧵

Spinosaurus full combo attack animation

Ryu VS Dark Dragon (Phantom Form) •Master Ninja •Untouched #NinjaGaiden4 #NG4

I made a combo. Kinda weird how the shuriken can appearently splat the enemy to the wall infinitely. At least you can use it to gain some altitude. #NinjaGaiden4

And it’s not my goal to disagree with what was said in the video, but to simply add context and details on why I think it’s very one dimensional and misleading. The amount of control and precision possible in NG4 is impressively high and it will show significantly more over time

Anyways that’s about it for now, might be forgetting something but I’m busy, this is good enough.

Anyways the rant was clearly not very well thought out, but that’s why it’s a rant. The only problem is that people don’t care that it wasn’t a well structured video so the goof troop action game squad will push this half baked narrative all over social media for the time being.

How everyone is playing and it’s the method of play that the game rewards and optimizes around. Well having played the game, and watched tons of footage nobody is playing this way.

So based on this video if I never played the game myself I have to walk away with the idea that I stand in the middle of a room mashing attack, it will always connect no matter what and then hit perfect block when I see some color coded que pop up, that’s the game, that’s exactly

Yes NG4 feels different on a fundamental level from previous games, this is obvious just watching pre release footage , but the complaints lean into this angle without much context or examples given of the gameplay actually playing this way.

Also talking about positioning attacks outside of the enemies active hitboxes, bro please, NG is rarely that precise. Also in NG4 saying this isn’t possible, bro NG4 has a clash parry system, you’re gonna clash in this scenario in NG4 lol

That the game actually reflects this goofy one dimensional play emphasis that people like to cook in their head.

Your gameplay has to reflect your ideology to some degree, I play a lot of fighting games and the reason this is relevant is because you can’t curate real time matches with other humans so fighting games expose just how many people like to theory discuss but have nothing tangible

In a game that is all reactions and magnetism and no positioning. I didn’t even watch that much of the gameplay either since I was listening mostly on the background so I can only imagine how many more contradicting moments existed within the video.

The bro is getting gang banged by enemies but of course this shouldnt matter because just perfect block them all right? Naa instead just folded completely and took a mixture of blocks and hits until inevitably running away. Imagine reacting to nothing and than repositioning

Next up the gameplay. They say actions are louder than words and wow. The bro is talking about no spacing while whiffing a UT and talking about reactions and cancels removing risk but gets hit when he has a glowing red exclamation on him for like 3 seconds lol.

I don’t know what to say but someone who basically didn’t play the game talking about a game will always be an interesting scenario, but these are the people who are the loudest online, the ones not actually playing games but have the biggest opinions on them.

Also he downloaded a save, he didn’t experience the games natural progression or balance and spent most of the time in purgatory which is just a survival death match esque setting where you are scrambling from enemy to enemy trying to kill them before they kill you.

So the resource doesn’t matter but then it does matter? Being in the middle of the fence to uphold the narrative here is funny.

Next up blood raven. This is funny as hell because he says that the resource doesn’t matter because it fills up automatically, but then he says that blood raven attacks are like what your normal attacks should be but then emphasizes that it’s tied to a resource.

Also talking about yakumo doing Witcher twirls, bro this is on his HEAVY attack string, heavy attacks are supposed to be slower and emphasized, this video tries to present it like you’re doing a separate twirl animation to close space before actually starting your attack, lol no