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NG 2 also has it so enemies dismembered bodies don't disappear. I've always thought the coolest thing about NG 2 is looking at the aftermath of a hardfought ambush that you struggled in and admiring your work. Not like you picked the fight but satisfying to see end result and also thinking what it'd be like to follow the trail of Ryu on his missions.

I wished that mastercollection would mix best of the two versions. Graphics of sigma 2 with physics and gameplay of NG 2

Ninja gaiden 2 will always be the OG and the best version hands down

I remember playing the original on the 360 when I was a teenager and thinking that it was so intense with all the blood everywhere and limbs laying on the floor. Ngl I wish they would've kept it it seems cooler, maybe more "realistic" that way.

The toned down violence and lower enemy count kinda makes sigma the lesser of the two in my opinion

Not sure if someone pointed it out, but the original, besides the blood, was the easyness of cutting limbs and finishers. Made combat very fluid and rewarding, even in Master Ninja. In sigma, too many hits are needed. More enemies-less health > less enemies-more health

I do not know why my comment was deleted AGAIN. NG2 is infinitely better than Sigma 2 for many reasons - No overblown bloom, No blur, Itagaki vision of hardcore gore - Blood textures, Delimbing system, massively higher count of enemies to keep the ultra fast paced high speed combat system. Even pause menu and move counter is red showcasing how brutal the game is, weapon upgrades are left to user to deal with unlike Sigma2 where they are given to you, levels cut out from Sigma2, the master collection ported PSVita game - Sigma2+ which is why the main menus for both Sigma and Sigma2 are exactly like PSVita but they didn't add that gore which PSVita release had, I think this is due to Switch garbage release, That console is only fit for remasters at poor framerate and quality so they didn't bother PS3 version and it needs some work too more than Vita probably, and they dumped this just to get console money. Still KT fanboys on steam defend this POS. Horrible. Then Master collection also removed boob physics from the whole game in Sigma2 not just sixaxis jiggle system, they censored even that. KT did an awful trash work, they do not care about PC at all so they stamped the bare bone release with 1st update they added res options and other bugs but it cannot hold a candle to Ninja Gaiden II from Xbox 360. Just watch Iconoclast, ShowR, TheGodFatherdictator, JTM all of these guys have NG2 videos just see how much potential the NG2 has in playing it and mastering it, Ryu Hayabusa is the fastest known killing machine that I know of. Only Vergil can rival him maybe Raiden from MGR but Bayonetta, Kratos cannot beat Ryu's intense action, this game is ULTRA fast and KT is so awful that they lied saying code lost BS drama esp when the releases of the NGB, NGII and NGS, NGS2 are just a year apart. Absolutely shameless KT. Now only way to experience this is either get Xbox One X or Series X (this one gets cutscenes to 60FPS from 30FPS) and looks glorious at high frame rate. OR wait for Xenia to emulate this like NGB Xemu.

Combining the two and updating it's performance would've been a smart business move.

Sigma 2 graphics and content (including the Plus version) NG2 gameplay, enemy count, more blood and gore That's all it need to make the best version of Ninja Gaiden 2.

I played the regular Ninja Gaiden 2 now I'm playing Sigma 2 I don't think it's that bad like everybody makes it out to be

I've also noticed that in Sigma 2, Ryu always has shurikens equipped and bound to the circle button and ranged weapon (bow or cannon) was equipped to your R2 button for aiming with L2. However watching gameplays in NG2, your ranged weapon is seperated and cannot equip both shurikens and the bow like NG2. I prefer NGS2 because of how versatile shurikens are to keep the combat flowing and cancel certain weapon combo strings as well as using the bow mid air after a flying swallow at the same time.

Everything's so sharp and crisp in NG2 with the x enhanced, the lighting and reflections are good as well. while sigma 2 is legit bloom vomit to probably hide the imperfections?? although texture in sigma 2 is better in some areas. Again, NG2 was released in 2008 and still holds up, it was really ahead of its time. Man, If Itagaki stayed, we could have possibly gotten an NGB 2 xD

I personally enjoy the original version best. NG to me is supposed to be a difficult, skill based combat game. Sima nerfed too much and the added sections to little to help. What is the point of the big Buddha statute you fight? I’m happy to have the Master Collection and I hope Koei Tecmo can make new ones, it’s just not the same without Itagaki.

You should've included 2 other differences. 1. Enemies got increased HP. 2. Enemies deal more damage.

Again I am torn between the two there are aspects of both that I like. The opening title sequence in Sigma is cool wish they kept the pan over Tokyo for the chapter read. Once again with the lighting some areas were better in the older game. The part with the statue is cool.

Sigma 2 I honestly can’t complain. It’s the not getting Black part that ruined it for me

The toned down violence does suck, but for me its just the lower amount of enemies that really bothers me.

Prefería más ninja gaiden 2 original de xbox 360 sin la sensura

Is Sigma 2 you can lock on honestly makes it kind of easier to hit the enemies I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing your arrows don't charge anymore I think the the fiends and the soldiers are more easier to take out IU saptu playing different weapons in the regular version of Ninja Gaiden 2 in Sigma I just use whatever weapon I feel like using it's like there's no strategy that's the only thing I don't like

Thank you for the comparison! :)

Sigma has way less enemies than NG2..you can see the HUGE difference…I prefer NG2 100 times.

8:41 Epic Dragon Ninja

One thing I'd like to know is why sigma had less blood and replaced it with purple smoke? Was it a PS3 issue with the CPU/GPU or was it something else?

I'm currently playing through both of these games on xbox series x. I played NG2 to death back in the day, and never really got to try the Sigma version. So far... there are aspects of both games that I prefer over the other. That said, I dont think at this point in my playthrough that Sigma 2 is as bad as alot of the fanbase makes it out to be. It definitely has some quality of life improvements atleast.

I kind of miss picking out certain weapons that I need to use on certain enemies you don't need to do that in Sigma that kind of sucks though

I hope the modding community just mods vanilla ninja gaiden 2 combat into the sigma 2 available in the master collection.

One thing I really hate in Sigma when you get your full upgrade for your health it uses it right away I forget the name of it I used to like holding on to those until I really need them but when you grab one and upgrade your help right away I hate that I think it's called Silver health bar yes it uses it right away you can't hold on to it

There is some things that changed I do hate the fact that you can only upgrade one time prestige but the upside to that you can save your money

With NG releasing on game pass I went back to the series and immediately noticed something was off. They toned down so much for sigma and it is beyond easy to play from what I remember, on top of them giving you free upgrades instead of earning them with money, not even halfway through the game and I have over 150,000 essence that I can't even spend on healing items because it's so damn easy. I also really don't understand the weird censoring of blood and dismemberment, I mean a big part of NG3 story is that Ryu Gored so many people that he got cursed or whatever, so why even bother to censor it? Not like there's a younger audience they're trying to appeal to with the game still being M rated. The devs can't help themselves giving every girl in game HHH boobs, but God forbid a blade causes someone to bleed, that's just too much.

i will never understand their reasoning for removing red blood in Sigma 2, snice sigma 1 has red blood in it. So why the change?

For me it’s the lack of projectile weapons, some enemies in the original were pointless and bothersome, and I also liked how they gave a little more moves to u in the beginning, but a lot of enemies should have still been in the game, the giant Buddha was pointless to me, the Statue of Liberty was cool, but what I really didint like was that you couldn’t start the game over with all of your items and weapons etc

Best one was ninja gaiden sigma 2 plus on ps vita by far

If you can, and are able. Please play the original versions of ninja gaiden, because graphics isn’t all that makes up a games😢

Even though I like NGB much more than NG2... NG2 is still a great game. But since the Master Collection released recently I was able to see how awful Sigma2 is compared to the XBox-original. Much fewer enemy hordes, while pushing the difficulty artificially by increasing their damage-output so much that there are many, many one-shot attacks on MN. I'm currently at the start of the Venice chapters on Master Ninja. So far the most annoying oneshots (at full health) are the magician grabs, the descents of the golden dragon fiends in chapters 3 and 4 and the Izuna-like drops by the two bird-tengus in the Momiji-chapter. There's so much bullshit in Sigma2, it's astounding. Biggest dissappointment on Mentor so far for me was the famous battle against multiple Spider-Ninja-bosses + loads of incendiary shuriken ninjas in Chapter 11 in Hayabusa village in the original. In Sigma 2 you just slay 2 Spider Ninja bosses and that's it. Sigma 2 is really pathetic compared to the original.

The difficulty difference is crazy!!! On Acylote In NG2 I died at least 100 times before I beat the game but in NG Sigma 2 I beat the game while only dying twice.

Thanks for that video. I'm surprised, the 360 version really looked worse. Playing it on Switch and I'm pretty happy with that. The Sigma version definitely has its improvements to the original. Even if the gore is less. But at least they added blood

sad. ninja gaiden 1 and 2 was the last pc port of a game i waited a lot and then i thought my collection will be complete. but i rather just boot up the x360 version still

Really makes no sense why sigma turned down the violence, anyways still a fun game and they fixed a few things that I didn’t like about the og version both wins for me

Wish we had a middle version.Og ng2 with its violence body count but with less off screen exploding shuriken and some bosses(water dragon,gigamesh)reworked a bit.Neither version is perfect.I prefer the original but some parts are so annoying that it makes me want to play the other version of that parts...

The original is more for hardcore players while Sigma is catered towards newer or casual players. That's the only way I see it.

I knew I wasn’t trippin when I loaded up the master collection 😭 I was looking for the gore it once had and someone told me I must have been trippin that it was probably never like that 😂

They really overdid the bloom in Sigma, to the point where lighter colors look way too bright. Look at Irene in both versions, in NGII she looks fine but in Sigma 2 it looks as if she's emitting her own light. Also, at around 8:38, you can see the shiny glass windows in NGII, but in Sigma 2 they look much more flat. I can pick apart the graphics all day, but what's even worse is what happened to the gameplay. At first I assumed the things like the statue boss fight and the emptier parts of the building were part of the original NGII because there was criticism of the first Ninja Gaiden being too hard, but now I can see that these changes only affected Sigma 2, and that the original NGII was more in line with NG/NGB. I'll need to seek out the Xbox 360 NGII, it's clearly the superior version.

El sigma tiene mejor iluminación y ambientación que el original además de tener mas contenido extra, pero igual se extraña el gore y la dificultad. Sin embargo veo lógico el nerf en la dificultad, el juego estaba muy difícil para nuevos jugadores, algo parecido paso con DMC3, si jugaron la primera versión de DMC3 era brutal (los enemigos te deleteaban en normal y hasta en modo facil) y eso era algo que a mi me gustaba. Luego sacaron una segunda versión nerfeando la dificultad porque muchos se quedaron atascados en el juego original jajaja

Not only does the original look better. It feels better. I'm only playing sigma 2 bc it's free for game pass

I feel like a mod that makes the sigma games more like black and 2 will be the only way I would purchase the collection. They were so good as they were.

As a huge fan of gory media it pains me to see that purple mist. I can't for the life of me get this games mods working

You guys are missing the most important part, they removed the jiggle physics in sigma 2 😠😠😠

The blur in the background in sigma 2 is annoying I don't like blur in games this is another thing I don't like other then less gore and less enemies

OG NG2 is MUCH better. Not cause blood, but IA, fight in the water, better IA and real challenge. Pure art of blood. A lot points are different. Sigma 2 has exclusive content, the same for NG2: Tunnel boss, 2 dragons fight, G.Gold Dragon and specific things.

Excellent comparison, a shame that Sigma could not be the same or better as the Xbox version was. More comparison of other games would be great, TY

I remember playing original NG 2 on the 360

ng is super fun but i haven’t noticed too much of a difference in ngs except the blood color and like 3 finishers

In sigma 2 her transparent caged bird outfit looks like glass at one point because of the BLOOM.

Is there a mod to make the PC version more like the original???

Sigma is the bad copy... and then... but what the hell are those purple stink clouds????

I know that this is a little old video but of a few days do of this month but really I like more ninja gaiden 2 on Xbox 360 because in that version is more bloody without that blue light replace but ninja gaiden sigma 2 Ryu hayabuza has green eyes instead black eyes

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 has better graphics, but the original is uncensored and in some areas there are more deadly enemies than in Sigma and vice versa. What also changes is the extra content of the Sigma.

After playing enchanced NG2 on Xbox One X this PS4 NG2 Sigma (ported from PS Vita) is so awfuly bad. Today I played and it's abomination. For PS Vita it was awesome (for a handheld system) but for PS4 this version is laughable. Original is 100x better (gore).

It’s hilarious how Sigma 1 actually has more blood and gore even compared with the original version, but Sigma 2 feels like the complete opposite, less blood, less gore, and even easier, a huge downgrade, I’m not sure who to blame here, the creator for throwing the og code to garbage bc of entitled reasons, or the developers of Sigma 2 for making this unnecessary downgrade

The Sigmas let's us fire arrows in the air giving us additional combo possibilities. Blood and gore doesn't particularly impress me, the action does. NG2 the enemies are easier but there's more of them, Sigma 2 there are less enenies but they are all around more lethal. They are graphically similar but Sigma is slightly better. NG2 is a better show piece if you want to show off ultra violence, my preference is Sigma 2 on the PS3 for the online play, now I play it on PC cause i don't own a console.

Why did you compare Acolytle to Warrior? The difference is staggering anyway in some parts, but this is not a fair comparison. Both have 4 difficulties IIRC

Ninja Gaiden 2 Xbox 360 got more enemies + blood I remember master ninja was very tough every chapter Sigma 2 got less enemies

Two had blood and more dlc and the windmill shuriken, sigma 2 had balanced, new playable characters, extra stages and most of all CO OP.

The Sigma ports don’t even exist to me. NGB and NGII on my Series X are all I need

PS3 was my preferred console but I think NG2 is the better version once I picked up an Xbox 360

The thing I do really like about sigma 2 is that they did reduce the enemy count. Having 20 ninjas on screen all at once throwing shit at you on mentor isn’t fun lol. Sigma was fun but more balanced and took out a lot of the unbalance

It's difficult to call it. Esthetically they both have their plus points. Unless you can't live without the gore factor of no 2 then Sigma looks just as good.

You might as well just play NG2 through Xbox backwards compatibility. It has higher resolution through auto HDR and just looks better than sigma 2 on the master collection IMO

Its Interesting that so many people mentioning the Brutality of NG2, i personally like the optical changes of Sigma Much more. The Lesser Blood has absolutlely no effekt on me.

Don’t understand why they took out the blood in sigma games

why they cut out the tests of valor in sigma 2? i haven't see any comment mentioning that detail

i find the harder enemies pretty good. i hate when difficulty is based on clusterfucking you.

Not only does Sigma 2 have less enemies but it was made on a different, SLOWER engine with sloggier gameplay and feedback overall. Just play the original 360 release on Xbox One X and call it a day. The Sigma 2 black mod simply isn't a substitute for the original game. It's still on the slower engine.

NG2 has better contrasts..its brighter but also darker... Sigma 2 has too much bloom..but has better textures in some small details overall the gameplay of 2 is just better...more enemies...doing more attacks...more limbs..more blood.....i loved the feeling of just leaving a combat area a bloody mess in 2...

2 was better than Sigma IMO. Wish I could get it on PS consoles

NG2 vs Sigma is pick your poison. Neither are properly balanced or have good pacing. Limbs and bodied also stay in Sigma. They just added purple mist and removed limb wounds. There is still plenty of blood. You can just mod it out. And you can make NG2 Sigma into Black bia Cheat Engine. First game, Black or Sigma don't really matter since both are perfect. 2 is far from it. Still fun

🔥NINJA GAIDEN BLACK ON XBOX 360 FOR ME IS THE BEST. ❤

where i can daownload NG2 vanilla on pc

NG2 was my favorite of the series and everything I enjoyed about it they removed in sigma. This was the deciding factor for me to pass on the collection.

How you can execute Izuna drop at the first battle ?

idk how someone could say sigma 2 looks better when vanilla has clearer normal mapping and less bloom going on.

Does anyone know if sigma2 fixed the glitch from NG2 that has infinite spawn of underwater jellyfish?

Sigma 2 was easier than NG 2

the statue boss seems copy n paste from the bone dragon in ng1 ...under the monastery ....replace his hands with the claws and the tailattack

NG II without gore its not fun.

the original version looks better in some ways, but nothing much, they don't change almost anything, if you play Sigma you won't miss anything.

they ruined ng1 and ng2 with their "gameplay improvements"

Is it the sigma 2 plus or sigma 2 Bc mastercollection offered the sigma plus version not even sigma

Honestly the only thing that looks better in Sigma 2 are Ryu’s eyes no homo.

You know what kinda sucks about ninja gaiden sigma 1 and 2? There is no new game plus mode. Sure you might get a neat weapon or two but games like this and dmc is what makes me wanna replay it.

I'll be honest, I'll never understand what people think is better about the first game, lol. The sigma games are so much better. If anything, they could've improved them even further, especially in difficulty.

Xbox's NG2 sacrificed A LOT of lighting reflection and many parts look bland and out of place.

There is alot missing from sigma 2. Not just gore and more bad guys. But also all the video billboards are either blank or have static effects. Very noticeable on stage 3. I really don't like stage 2 in the day time either on sigma. It looks alot better on ng2 at night. Prefer the cutscenes and audio in the original, as it's really quiet in some cutscenes on sigma, plus they're censored. Even the title screen and menus are better on ng2. But new characters to play and bosses. So....?

I only have one thing to say: the player who says that ninja gaiden sigma 2 is easy compared to ninja gaiden 2, would not survive 2 seconds in an ultimate ninja tag mission of ninja gaiden sigma 2 ps3.

og NG 2 even had breast physics ?? Damn!!

Yes there's a few things I don't like about Sigma too but I feel like it's still a good game though it's not as bad like people makes it out to be

I love Odyssey

So is the only difference just nerfed enemies and gore, no extra content like the first game

Costumes definitely Sigma better. But gore is totally I prefer OG NG II