![]() Quite a bit more elaborate than the Save the Princess plots of the day, isn't it? Irene hesitates, and Ryu takes her radio and tells Foster the next time they meet, it will be as enemies. After the battle, Foster radios Irene and orders her to assassinate Ryu and take the statues. Ryu bravely fights the demon, sealing it once more. but he's too late, for Jaquio has released the demon from the statues! ![]() Ryu gets the better of Jaquio in battle, and in desperation, Jaquio launches a magic bolt at Ryu, but his father comes to his senses, intercepts the bolt, and dies. as well as Ryu's father, who, while not dead, is under Jaquio's mind control. Undaunted, Ryu fights his way to the top of the fortress, where he again encounters Jaquio and Irene. Jaquio's an old hand at villainy, however, and simply absconds with the statues and the girl - but not before sending Ryu hurtling down a trapdoor to the catacombs below. Jaquio reveals he has the second Demon Statue already, and demands Ryu's statue in exchange for Irene's life Ryu, being new at the whole hero thing, complies. Air-dropped into the jungles of Brazil, he makes his way to Jaquio's fortress, where he finds Jaquio has Irene at gunpoint. Foster orders Ryu to take out Jaquio Ryu, remembering his oath to Smith, complies. Foster reveals that Irene is one of their agents, and that she is tracking down a man known as Jaquio, who seeks to release the powerful demon sealed in the statues. ![]() However, Ryu is captured by the CIA and brought before A. Ryu vows to carry on his work, protecting the Demon Statues. Ryu gives chase, and recaptures the statue, but returns to find Smith dying. ![]() As Ryu and Smith talk, the statue is stolen by another ninja. He meets with Smith, who identifies the statue as one of the Demon Statues, a pair of Artifacts of Doom he and Joe discovered and vowed to protect. Ryu is puzzled by this, but presses onward. He awakens in a prison cell, where the woman (Irene Lew) frees him and gives him a mysterious, grotesque statue. After battling a large man with an axe in a bar, he is subdued by a woman with a tranquilizer gun. Believing his father dead, Ryu goes to America to carry out this request. In the first game, Ryu receives a letter from his father Joe Hayabusa (renamed Ken Hayabusa in the original localization), saying that should he not return, Ryu is to journey to America and contact a man named Walter Smith. Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom (1991).Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos (1990).The Mega Drive version, which was a beat-'em-up similar to the arcade game, was never released, but was leaked in the form of a pirated version that was still in an unfinished state. The Game Gear version had the widest release of these versions, being available in North America, Europe and Japan (where it was released under the Ninja Gaiden banner instead of the usual Ninja Ryƫkenden), while the Sega Master System version was available exclusively in Europe. Rather than being ports of the previous Tecmo versions, Sega produced three different games that were unique to each platform. There was also a set of licensed versions produced by Sega for their consoles in 1992. Since then, Ninja Gaiden has become Team Ninja's other major franchise, leading to even further sequels and spinoffs. However, Ryu's presence in Tecmo's Dead or Alive fighting game series helped keep the series alive within the public's consciousness, leading to a revival in 2004 for the Xbox by DOA developer Team Ninja simply titled Ninja Gaiden. The NES version would spawn two sequels, a Game Boy prequel, a couple of stand-alone versions for other platforms and an OVA set after the events of the NES trilogy before Tecmo discontinued the series after the release of the Ninja Gaiden Trilogy compilation for the Super NES in 1995. The series dates back to 1988 with two simultaneously developed games under the same title: an arcade version that was a side-scrolling Beat 'em Up in the vein of Double Dragon, and a more popular console version for the Nintendo Entertainment System, a 2D action platformer notable for being one of the earliest action games to feature cinematic sequences between stages. Ninja Gaiden, titled Ninja Ryƫkenden ("Ninja Dragon Sword Story") in Japanese is an action game series produced by Tecmo (now Koei Tecmo) centering around Ryu Hayabusa, a Ninja from the Dragon Clan, who gets involved with government conspiracies, kicks loads of ass and slaughters legions of supernatural beings along the way. The ninja way knows neither good nor evil.
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