Ninja Garden Deuce Options

[Crushinator]

Demo impressions:

• HOLY FUCK AWESOME. The speed of the game is a lot higher than NG.
• You slide to the side instead of rolling to dodge now, and its a shitload slicker.
• There's no more loading when you transition into new rooms, Ryu just kicks the door open RE4 Leon style and goes in busting heads.
• There's also no lag/loading when you go into menus, and you can use the D-pad to switch melee, range, ninpo and items on the fly without hitting start.
• The ninpo is a lot more potent, you can actually aim and target multiple guys now, it goes to kinda an over the shoulder view while Ryu casts it so you can aim.
• The demo starts on Acolyte difficulty, which is equivalent to ninja dog i guess? Its pretty easy, but the enemies still have a lot of HP. Even an ultimate technique isn't guaranteed to kill them in 1 hit!
• Speaking of ult. technique, it seems like you only need 1 yellow orb to charge it fully now. Makes it easier to chain combos.
• The flying swallow can bounce between targets now, so you can hit multiple guys before touching the ground.
• You have a "decimation technique" where if you press Y near an enemy that has been dismembered, you'll excecute him with a stylized finishing move. Good for taking out the gimped stragglers as they can still kill you when they are missing limbs.
• You can shoot the bow while in midair and you can also charge the arrow up for MASSIVE damage by holding down B.
• You can lose permanent segments of your healthbar that are unrecoverable, but special items bring it back. Think like the wounded damage in MGS3.
• The save statues now heal your life ONCE when you first touch them, after that they only save so you can't exploit them.

Demo goes up on the US marketplace 2 am tonight. You can use a japanese XBL account to download it from the JP marketplace if you want it now though There's also an image of the demo you can burn to a DVD and play from your xbox if you can find it online. No mod required, just a regular DVDR works.