Ryu has a strength meter on top of the screen that decreases whenever he takes damage from enemies. Two new abilities that Ryu can do in Ninja Gaiden II are climbing up and down walls and attacking with 'Power Boosting Items' while on walls and ladders. Players have the ability to jump and latch on and off walls and ladders. Here Ryu's double (the orange ninja) is being used to defeat the boss Naga Sotuva.Īs with the previous Ninja Gaiden game, the player controls Ryu Hayabusa through a series of platforming levels called 'Acts'. Ninja Gaiden II introduced the ability of Ryu to split his body into multiple forms. It was then released for the Wii's Virtual Console service on Octo( ) in North America.

The game was later released for the Commodore Amiga and DOS-based PCs by GameTek in 1991. Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos was released in Japan on Ap( ), in North America in May 1990, and in Europe on Octo( ). The game maintains lasting appeal among players, with one reviewer saying that Ninja Gaiden II is 'a challenging experience the likes of which gamers in the 8-bit era lived and died for'.

Overall, reviewers have said that visuals and controls of Ninja Gaiden II improved over its predecessor while maintaining a high level of difficulty for players the game was criticized for having a more generic and predictable plot. The game received positive praise in previews from Electronic Gaming Monthly and Nintendo Power and continued to receive high ratings and coverage, being nominated for several awards from Nintendo Power in 1991. Sturgeon recruits the game's main protagonist Ryu Hayabusa and tells him that he is the only person who can stop him. It is about an evil emperor named Ashtar who, after hearing of Jaquio's defeat, devises a plan to take over the world and engulf it in darkness through an evil sword called the Dark Sword of Chaos. The events in Ninja Gaiden II take place one year after the events in the first Ninja Gaiden game. This game is the second installment in the Ninja Gaiden trilogy for the NES. It was released in Japan on Ap( ), in North America in May 1990, and in Europe on Octo( ). 'Legend of the Ninja Dragon Sword II: The Demonic Sword of Darkness') and as Shadow Warriors 2 in Europe, is a side-scrolling platforming video game developed and published by Tecmo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos, known in Japan as Ninja Ryukenden II: Ankoku no Jashinken ( 忍者龍剣伝 II 暗黒の邪神剣 ?, lit.

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