hi every1 im new!!!!!!! holds up fork (of horriplation) my name is sheogorath but u can call me t3h D@3dRik pRiN¢3 of m@dn3$$!!!! lol...as u can see im very random!!!! thats why i summoned u, 2 meet random ppl like me_... im 1000000000000000000000000000 years old (im mature for my age tho!!) i like to eat cheese w my boyfreind haskill (im gay if you dont like it deal with it) its our favorite food!!!!!! bcuz its SOOOO random!!!!!! hes random 2 of course but i want 2 meet more random subjects =) like they say the more the merrier!!!! lol…neways i hope 2 derange alot of freinds here so give me lots of your body partses!!!! CHEESE 4 EVERY1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <--- me bein random again _^ hehe…toodles!!!!!

love and sweetrolls,
t3h D@3dRik pRiN¢3 of m@dn3$$

Ugly in both body and spirit, but that's not important - what IS important is that the opening of this game sees you fighting in an illegal bare-knuckle match against a guy called Handsome Bob. Handsome Bob looks like the guy Brad Pitt fights in an illegal bare-knuckle match at the end of Snatch. And they pull the Snatch freeze-frame name cards for him (and every other character). Well, Snatch is a good movie, stealing from good movies is what games do all the time, so what? I'll tell you what. Handsome Bob is the name of Tom Hardy's character in RockNRolla which came out two years later. GUY RITCHIE HAS PLAYED THIS GAME AND STOLE IN KIND

Very different to what I expected - I went in thinking it would function effectively the same as DMC but it's the polar opposite. Attacking is a commitment and there's no reason or reward for doing endless combos (which aren't really possible regardless) - the mechanics demand that you finish every fight as quickly and efficiently as possible. In that sense it's a pretty good ninja game, and it also goes a long way to making it feel like an actual successor to the originals.
It has the problems that games of this era and this kind tend to have - there's some jank, and the camera is as much an enemy as anything else on screen - but when it works it really works and it's so stylish. You also just cannot go wrong with the modern-day ninja game, it's an inherently hilarious and cool genre. Boys cutting demons in half as they run up a skyscraper in the rain to keep their boss fight appointment with an evil wizard on top of a flying pagoda above the Empire State Building and other such nonsense. It's always good!