This is a shame to all hack and slash that improved the genre, and it is a worse Ninja Gaiden game than Ninja Gaiden 3 vanilla. Not only that, for some reason, Team Ninja did not wanna make this game, and instead gave it to Platinum Games, which proved to be a lazy company that took the same Bayo/Nier combat mechanics and half-a$$ inserted NG2 mechanics, in the most lazy way possible. It's funny how despite Itegaki making the most unique action game in almost 20 YEARS AGO, neither Team Ninja nor Plastic games were able to elevate those mechanics further. The core unique combat/meta-game of the OG NG2 was learning to use the iframe moves right, while quickly killing enemies left and right. And yet, for some f-ing reason, ever since NGS2, they never tried to improve this. So, despite being well known as the best one, and lying to people about the "definitive" edition to NG2, aka NG2 Black, we, the fans, at least expected them to improve that formula in NG4. But what we got WAS NOT NG4 or even NG3 - it was Nier Gaiden Shinto Priest Wiafu with lame "side missions" with forced walk-sections, which Ratchet style grinding rails sections XD How can you do you?! The combat in this game is almost non-existent in most levels, and when you control Yakumo for 90% of the game, he feels so floaty! Oh! And enemies just tank Izuna drops like they did since Sigma 2, F-Off! But what really ticked me off? When I realized that this game wanted me to play like I am Dark-Souls Parry games! I realized that when I played the first boss, I had 2 options to play "cOoL": 1. Do RED attack when the enemy flashes 2. Parry and press HEAVY attack to stun the enemy with any attack Now, I said F*ck that parry, I'll just connect the 2 RED attacks. But the first is, Yakuma $hitty "Blood" mode is slow AF. F-Off plastic game! Don't make it SLOW and drain some "blood" gauge! I've had enough with lazy boss fight designs that throw in super armor to make that so-called challenging, by basically making the boss not reactive to player attacks! NG2 at least had bosses that reacted to your attacks - when they felt like it. But when you boss fight design is the same and is downright bad and forced action game player to play like a lame Dark Souls one - THAT'S WHERE I DRAW THE LINE A$$H0LE$! Other than that, here's the rest of the $hitty things this wanna-be NG game has: - A wanna-be miko priests which is designed to be way too sexually provocative - Levels are either too white, too grey, or too grey-green and are not varied and beautiful. Why make the same mistake DMC5 did? - Why is Ryu playable 20% of the game - Why does Yakumo steal Ryu's moveset? Is there a point to this? - Side missions concept in a classic hack-and-slash game DOES NOT WORK - Forced walking sections! How do you make such a mistake?! - Having Dark-Souls parry BS mechanics in an NG game is an insult, and I'll repeat it as many times as I want to Overall, it's clear from this point that the developers at Plastic Games are either incompetent to make brand new and stable mechanics that are NOT taken from the Bayonetta games, or... they were super lazy, since it seems that this game was on a tight budget. The unknown and/or "rare" cast English voice actors said as much, but the air combo you can do in NG4 is pretty identical to the one I could do in Nier Automata, which came out in 2016.

和魔女3同样的高水准，叫好不叫座。 教我玩游戏的典型。面对高难的怪群，我一开始没有意识到这个游戏的绝技、处决等技能是进攻同时又是防御的手段，仅靠闪避、格挡进行规避伤害，被各种花式揍飞，体验真就像在吃屎。后来发现受伤后部分血量可以依靠攻击回复，且体术中风驱、飞燕这些长距离带无敌的技能，它们会自动锁定附近的敌人，才发现这个游戏是以进攻为主导。 特别要提这个反传统的视角切换，不能说差，只能说很有特色，正常act大部分时间都是玩家在操控视角，而忍龙4大部分时候的视角切换都是由电脑控制。 当我逐渐习惯了战斗播片，不自由的视角切换，才感到爽起来。爽点足够，但到达爽点的路劲不明显，但凡走错几步我就是到达了粪坑。 演出高水准，跑酷挺有意思，老婆不错。

amazing combat that is super fun and satisfying. story is confusing and bland. hitboxes for some bosses are broken. yakumo is cringe.