Ninja Blade
PAL territories Xbox 360 cover
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| Developer(s) | FromSoftware |
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| Publisher(s) |
Microsoft Game Studios
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| Producer(s) | Masanori Takeuchi |
| Designer(s) | Kazuhiro Hamatani Keiji Nakaoka |
| Composer(s) |
Norihiko Hibino Yoshitaka Suzuki Takahiro Izutani Takahide Ayuzawa |
| Engine | Havok |
| Platform(s) | Xbox 360 Microsoft Windows |
| Release date(s) |
Xbox 360
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| Genre(s) | Action, hack and slash |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 68/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | C– |
| Eurogamer | 7/10 |
| Famitsu | 32/40 |
| GamePro |  |
| GameSpot | 7.5/10 |
| GameTrailers | 5.9/10 |
| GameZone | 6/10 |
| IGN | 6.5/10 |
| X-Play | 4/5 |
Ninja Blade (ニンジャブレイド Ninjabureido?) is an action game developed by FromSoftware for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in 2009.
The player plays as a modern-day ninja, using a katana, twin swords and broad sword as the main weapon to the hostile creatures. Combat system is similar to Ninja Gaiden or Devil May Cry. A chi bar is used up when "ninja vision" or ninjutsu is used. The gameplay is highly cinematic, relying on quick time events to finish missions; after attacking a boss until the health bar is empty, the player must perform a finishing move, called the todome.
In 2015, a small village was attacked by unknown creatures and the survivors were moved to a research facility where they underwent examination. While at the research facility, the survivors began to show symptoms of necrotizing fasciitis, and it was found out they were infected by a strange type of hookworm parasite, which was classified as "Alpha-worm". Conventional medicine had no effect on the patients and the worms deformed the victims, but the infection also increased the strength and resilience of the patients. The infected eventually broke free and attacked the researchers and, due to a fear of an outbreak, the military assaulted the facility and destroyed all traces of the infected. To prevent panic, governments of the world kept the Alpha-worms secret. The G.U.I.D.E (Global United Infestation Detection and Elimination) force was formed by Agent Michael Wilson, recruiting elite operatives from around the world. Eventually, after a massive outbreak of Alpha-worm infestation takes over the city of Tokyo, an elite ninja team including the young Ken Ogawa, and led by his father Kanbe, is sent to deal with the situation.
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