For those that thought this would be a chance to play a Ninja Gaiden that wasn't too hard, stay a far away as possible. Yaiba isn't worth losing a controller or your sanity over.
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z2014
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z
2014 Koei Tecmo Games50Mediocre
Playtime
ShortTypically 8 hours
Playable on
- Steam DeckVerified
- Steam MachineVerified
Available on
- $29.99
Game modes
Details
- Launch
- March 18, 2014
- Developer
- Spark Unlimited
- Publisher
- Koei Tecmo Games
Overview
Step into a living comic book in this new take on the Ninja Gaiden series. Brandishing his ninja sword and the mecha weapons in his cyber arm, Yaiba slaughters zombies with brutal, over-the-top abandon. Will you slice enemies to pieces, crush them with Yaiba's cyborg arm or just rip off a zombie’s arms to use as nunchucks?
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Reception
Press43
Players60
BadWorthwhile- Metacritic43from 46 reviews
- OpenCritic42from 11 reviews
With the amount of great action games on the market there is simply no reason that you should give Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z a try. It is a shoddily made, awful mess.
everything in Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z shoves the player away
Yaiba succeeds admirably because it does what so few intentionally "so bad it's good" games do: It makes everything work.
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z sullies the name of the franchise. It fails both on a gameplay level and on a comedic level, and really doesn't offer anything worthy of its price tag.