{"id":135343,"date":"2025-10-21T05:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/135343\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T05:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:01:08","slug":"ninja-gaiden-4-revives-series-with-kinetic-carnage-clumsy-platforming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/135343\/","title":{"rendered":"Ninja Gaiden 4 revives series with kinetic carnage, clumsy platforming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of the rebirth of Joe Musashi and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/life\/2025\/08\/25\/digital\/shinobi-art-of-vengeance-review-reboot-sega\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sega\u2019s Shinobi series<\/a>, yet another famed ninja is back from the dead: Ryu Hayabusa returns with an all-new adventure in Ninja Gaiden 4, the first mainline game in the series since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen years is an eternity in the video game world, though, so while this new entry is an enjoyable romp of high-speed combat and extreme spectacle on its own, Ninja Gaiden 4 also marks a new direction for the series that might take some getting used to for purists.<\/p>\n<p>Released on Oct. 21 as a joint venture between longtime series developer Team Ninja (part of Koei Tecmo) and Osaka-based PlatinumGames, Ninja Gaiden 4 sees the masked face of the franchise share the spotlight with a new protagonist: Yakumo, a young prodigy and descendant of the Dark Dragon, the archnemesis seemingly vanquished by Ryu earlier in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hot on the heels of the rebirth of Joe Musashi and Sega\u2019s Shinobi series, yet another famed ninja&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,19,17,80792,80791,82,3880],"class_list":{"0":"post-135343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-koei-tecmo","12":"tag-ninja-gaiden","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-video-games"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}