I honestly can't tell you. I never had an NES (Gasp). The story, so far as I have played, has Ryu starting at a waterfall and infiltrating a ninja training base at the top of a mountain. Seems his old mentor lives there or something. Guy is fucking BUFF. Course, you have to go through a lot of lil ninjas to face him. Learn the importance of blocking. That comes up big in this game. Block like I never blocked before. Somethings you simply cannot dodge.
Anyways, after facing your mentor, which was all just a big ole challenge. Kind of weird to me. Kill like 50 of his students, whip his ass, and then you sit down and talk. oookay. Lil ninja girl comes running in. She is apparently from DOA. I think 4 people, maybe 5 in this game will end up on next DOA game. Ryu for sure, ninja girl, maybe his mentor, Angela, and maybe a fiend.
Anyways, ninja girl says Ryu's village is burning. Mentor dude tells him to be careful. Teaches him some tricks *like many games, tricks and new techniques come along the way*. Ryu goes down to the village and faces a bunch of samurai dudes. It's the magic ones that pissed me off. Throwing energy blasts and then sneaking up to poke their sais in you. Again, I learned blocking is the only way to deal with those asses.
You learn a lot of new things, like running along walls, double flips, things that don't have names but look cool.
It comes down to battling a Giant Samurai on a horse, accompanied by the magic guys who can teleport anywhere. I hate that. Beating him opens up that awesome scene I mentioned earlier. The main enemy without a face. I think the guy is basically all energy inside of armor. It was a game, but I felt intimidated, kind of scared, definitely in awe.
Ryu... dies? But he lives. Wants revenge. Takes the first flight to Vigoor, which I guess, is like a wild version of Tibet. Goes on a blimp. Fights more weird dudes. Soldiers
Arrives in Vigoor, and faces soldiers, and ninjas. Blocking! Must block! These bastards have explosive shuriken. It hurts. Three of them or four at a time, slashing all at once? No turn taking... just slashing. Where is the honor? Ouchie.
Survive long enough, and you meet Angela. She is might bet a computer generated image, but she wears tight leather in all the right places and has large tits. Face is like a good Heather Graham. Acts about the same. Looking for her sister, who is apparently evil. You meet her sister later.
Game turns it up a notch. So far it was ninjas, samurai, and soldiers. Bats too. What do they all have in common? They were human, or animals. Now we suddenly face three fiends. Basically demons. Big boys too. After that, comes their big tentacled brother (who ate Angela). Don't worry, killing him means saving her.
So now it's demons. Can't get worse, right? wrong. I was in the monastery. What game is complete without a monastery? And I needed to do something. Don't know what. And it required killing things. Large wasps. That in turn led to the rise of zombies. 12 foot zombies. Slow, but strong. Not very handsome either. Great, now we have the undead.
Apparently, i got the holy grail somewhere, and I had to so something with it. I remember seeing an alter. So I put it there. Nothing else I could do. Then I realized why there was that giant (and I mean GIANT dinasaur skeleton) just lying around. Sucker might have been a good 200 feet + from head to tail, and when awakened, he was not very sociable.
Cut to the chase. Many kills later, I find Angela's Twin Sister. Only she doesn't look so hot anymore. For a picture of her, visit the official website for the game and look up fiends. This bitch is HARD.
In gaming, we look for the attacks on patterns of the enemy characters, trying to exploit weakness. You know, a tail or eye slit. I think this girl is vulnerable all over, but she is fast, and she has enough attacks to make me feel bad. Also, she is 12 feet tall. She gave me a serious case of whoopass.
To answer your question. THis is something different. But all three NES games are in Ninja Gaiden.
