The original Ninja Gaiden (well, not the original original on the NES) released in 2004 for the first Xbox (not the Xbox One, though the series has made its way onto that console as well). Two console generations later (three if you are lucky enough to have, and play on, a PS5), a remaster of a port that was itself a pseudo-remaster has arrived for the PlayStation 4, alongside its two sequels/remasters/ports. Confused" Don?t be ? all you need to know is that our Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection PS4 review is here to clear up if you should drop the money to buy this bundle of classic action games.
Ninja Gaiden Master Collection PS4 Review ? A Bit Shinier
All three Ninja Gaiden games are intact in the collection: Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Ninja Gaiden II Sigma, and Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor?s Edge. They run in 4K resolution at 60 frames per second on the PS4 Pro and PS5. The performance is consistent no matter how many enemies are thrown at the player, and things remain buttery smooth at all times. Load times have also improved compared to the original releases, though this probably has more to do with today?s modern hard/solid state drives simply being much faster now than they were over ten years ago. The original game is 17 years old, and the source material is certainly showing its age in more ways than one. Cutscenes don?t appear to have been touched up at all, and are incredibly blocky, especially when upscaled to a 4K screen, though the original master files for the pre-rend...