Ninja Gaiden 3 Razor's Edge General Discussion

TRI Mike

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It doesn't. The main problem is what I already stated. The fights before that one are hard so I never reach these things with a full life bar. The camera is extremely bad so I always fall to a grab or two that happen offscreen. Unlike with the same fight in the ship in Ayane chapter 2, these tend to attack the three at the same time so I can't do shit. It's easy with Busa's scythe or kusarigama but Kasumi has a HARD time
 

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It doesn't. The main problem is what I already stated. The fights before that one are hard so I never reach these things with a full life bar. The camera is extremely bad so I always fall to a grab or two that happen offscreen. Unlike with the same fight in the ship in Ayane chapter 2, these tend to attack the three at the same time so I can't do shit. It's easy with Busa's scythe or kusarigama but Kasumi has a HARD time

Use free camera, do short combos, block a lot and sob

guess at this point it comes down to skill and patience OR you can just let mr regent kill them all while you go watch a movie :)
 

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Use free camera, do short combos, block a lot and sob

guess at this point it comes down to skill and patience OR you can just let mr regent kill them all while you go watch a movie :)
CC no regent.
g-gill basically said what I said and that really is your best bet.

If you can't get there with high health, go back to the checkpoint and get there with full ninpo. Then cicada surge and you'll get most if not all your health back, so at least you'll have that.
 

TRI Mike

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I'm gonna make a few more tries. But if I fail again I'll just focus on the Trials. Oh and gill, Regent is not there in Chapter Challenge.
 

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I always focus on the gorilla clone first. Mash attacks at it til it guard breaks and tries to grab, rinse and repeat. Then go for the snake to avoid the acid. In general if you just stay in their faces they knock you away (no damage) and then try to grab. The more aggressive you are the better. XXXYY with Kasumi does a ton of damage to them. XXY (no follow up) lets you hit and then get out of their range as well. On the bright side there's no Goddess fight in CC so you're almost there.
 

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oh god I can't stand chapter challenge

Im only at day 4 ayane and im dying of bored, feels like im working instead of playing >.>

still have to do momiji, kasumi then have to finish story on normal sigh
 

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oh god I can't stand chapter challenge

Im only at day 4 ayane and im dying of bored, feels like im working instead of playing >.>

still have to do momiji, kasumi then have to finish story on normal sigh

Don't forget to just run through. You can skip nearly every fight in the game if you so choose lol.
 

Brute

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oh god I can't stand chapter challenge

Im only at day 4 ayane and im dying of bored, feels like im working instead of playing >.>

still have to do momiji, kasumi then have to finish story on normal sigh
Like Cyber said, you can run past a bunch of fights and just power through the mandatory ones on Normal. Takes about 12-18 minutes per level.
 

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Day 5 is particularly amusing as you can skip literally everything up to the fight in the canyon (because the boulder exploding is scripted) and then skip right through until Momiji would have burned the webbing in story. Very short chapter.
 

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Day 5 is particularly amusing as you can skip literally everything up to the fight in the canyon (because the boulder exploding is scripted) and then skip right through until Momiji would have burned the webbing in story. Very short chapter.
Yeah, lol. Day 7, iirc, is the "longest," as you have to kill almost all enemies to make the turrets become vulnerable in order to destroy them and unlock each door to continue.
 

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It's easily the longest. Skipping every skippable fight still puts you at around 25 minutes if you factor in both boss fights. Pain in the ass but also the coolest level in the game.
 

Brute

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It's easily the longest. Skipping every skippable fight still puts you at around 25 minutes if you factor in both boss fights. Pain in the ass but also the coolest level in the game.
And still only a miniscule fraction of how cool the Daedalus chapter was in NG2.
 

CyberEvil

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And still only a miniscule fraction of how cool the Daedalus chapter was in NG2.

Ah, but the Daedalus was confined to only one ship and didn't feature one of the coolest (and most criminally overlooked) cameos in series history. Also, something about laying waste to an entire fleet of warships strikes a chord with me.
 

Brute

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Ah, but the Daedalus was confined to only one ship and didn't feature one of the coolest (and most criminally overlooked) cameos in series history. Also, something about laying waste to an entire fleet of warships strikes a chord with me.
Meh. For me, Daedalus still takes the cake for several reasons. First, Standing Tall and Fighting Soul are some of the coolest video game music tracks I've ever heard, whereas I can't even recall what music played during the fleet other than: "it was boring." Second, Daedalus was full of tac. ninjas (humanoid enemies w/ out incendiary shurikens) which meant I was free to experiment and try to look as cool as possible in almost every fight, whereas the fleet had those annoying jetpack guys that force me to use the bow, weird camera angles, alchemists, etc. Third, you destroy the giant airplane-fortress with a sword and arrows! In the NG3, the actual ships are usually destroyed by fighter jets or missles or w/e that that cane dude is organizing, not by you. You're just destroying turrets. That's it. Fourth, the sky/outside sections are way more impressive to me than the water. And finally, hearing "Ryu is fucking our shit up!" on the loudspeakers was such an awesome feeling.

I was sold on NG2 before I even beat the first level, but it wasn't until Daedalus that I realized I was playing one of my favorite games of all time.

So for me personally, Daedalus > Anything in NG3
 

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It's all going to come down to personal preference, of course. I love everything having to do with the Daedalus (including the epic way the level ends...that cutscene is sick) but Day 7 trumps it in my opinion. The level design in NG2 was the best in the series though.
 
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