Ninja Gaiden Master Collection announced
Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection Finally Brings the Series Back.
Team Ninja’s Ninja Gaiden trilogy — the modern incarnation that stars master ninja Ryu Hayabusa — is coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC (via Steam), and Xbox One on June 10. Publisher Koei Tecmo revealed the Ninja Gaiden collection during a Nintendo Direct presentation on Wednesday.
Ninja Gaiden Sigma was originally released in 2007 for PlayStation 3.
It is an enhanced port of Ninja Gaiden Black, which is itself an improved version of Ninja Gaiden and it incorporates many of the gameplay features found in Ninja Gaiden Black. This game, and its sequels, are known for being notoriously hard, much like the original Ninja Gaiden games.
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 was developed in the same vein as Ninja Gaiden Sigma in so much as it is an enhanced port of Ninja Gaiden II. It was released in 2009 for PlayStation 3 and in 2013 for the PlayStation Vita, although it was released on the latter as Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus. Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge was released three years later in 2012 as an enhanced port of Ninja Gaiden 3.
Koei Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden was inspired by the NES-era action-platformer series of the same name. The first Ninja Gaiden came to consoles in 1988, the same year an arcade beat-’em-up, also named Ninja Gaiden, was released. Two more Ninja Gaiden games were released for NES: Ninja Gaiden 2: The Dark Sword of Chaos (1990) and Ninja Gaiden 3: The Ancient Ship of Doom (1991).
