Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z
The folks over at Team Ninja sought to bring the intensity of Ninja Gaiden once again, but with a new “edge.” Riding on the coattails of the wacky and gory style of the last generation of games, Team Ninja gave Ninja Gaiden a complete makeover, opting for a more “hip” type of game.
That’s not to say it didn’t look cool, because some of the animations in some cutscenes were outright stellar, but the actual contents of the game were nauseatingly rife with zombies, awkward jokes, and curse words. Many games can make this work, like House of the Dead: Overkill, but games like Yaiba are so blatantly trying way too hard to achieve that level of edginess by cramming dialogue with dick jokes.
Seriously, one of its trailers is probably the most cringe-worthy video game trailers ever spawned, complete with titular character Yaiba saying, “Take a suck…” in an attempt to sound badass and mean. Yeah, we don’t know what that means either.
