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* [[Author's Saving Throw]]: To say that fan reception of ''Razor's Edge'' is much more positive than the original version of ''Ninja Gaiden III3'' is an [[Understatement]].

* [[Contested Sequel]]: Yosuke Hayashi's drastically different vision for ''Ninja Gaiden III3'' let many fans skeptical to say the least. Some fans think it is still a fun [[Action Game]] in its own right, if not on par with the first two games. Others prefer to pretend it never existed. Interestingly, Hayashi was already involved in [[Metroid: Other M|another]] [[Contested Sequel]]. ''Razor's Edge'' is unanimously considered an improvement, but it remains this in its own right, since some feel it saved the game, while some others feel that it was still a bad game regardless of the improvements.

** Alchemists in ''Ninja Gaiden III3'' has a [[Ground Pound]]-like maneuver that, while blockable, breaks guard and is hard to dodge most of the time. Furthermore, they're fast, agile, hurl homing "alchemy projectiles", block and evade often and frequently erect an "alchemy armor" of sorts that requires breaking it first before actual damage can be dealt, which light attacks from Ryu's weapons won't usually do; they also have a grab attack that not only slowly drains [[Hit Points]], but the ki gauge as well. Finally, in ''Razor's Edge'', the timing to perform a "Steel-on-Bone" [[Counter Attack]] is so exceptionally narrow compared to other humanoid enemies in the game that players will often opt out to dismember them instead, allowing an "Obliteration Technique" to finish them off.

** Chimera in the later parts of ''Ninja Gaiden III3'' are essentially faster, more evasive Incendiary Kunai ninjas, with the only saving grace is they don't have projectiles. Like alchemists, they too block occasionally and might get a bead on escaping out of players' attack combos more often than not. The problem with these Chimera comes if they're dismembered: doing so, and they initiate an unblockable [[Suicide Attack]], homing straight for Ryu, forcing players to prioritize on dismembered Chimera lest they risk a chunk of health getting taken away. Fortunately, it's easy to note if a suicide-Chimera will begin its strike as they start sparking bright colors; additionally, if they don't reach Ryu in time, the suicide-Chimera will wind up exploding and doesn't have the effects of an [[Action Bomb]] would.

* [[Fanon Discontinuity]]: The original ''Ninja Gaiden III3'' is usually ignored, and ''Razor's Edge'' is considered by most the "real" version of the third game. And that's without considering those who didn't even like ''Razor's Edge''.

* [[It's Easy, So It Sucks]]: ''Ninja Gaiden 3'' is a far cry from its punishing predecessors. NoIt wonderwould take it''Razor's beingEdge'' to ratchet the difficulty back up to normal, but does keep the easier "Hero" mode as a play-style that can be selected at criticallyany savaged!time.

* [[Memetic Mutation]]:* "Just a girl. Get out of here!"

* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: Although not a big fan favourite to begin with, it's amazing how much Sonia in ''Ninja Gaiden II'' can make you miss Rachel. Depending on how you see it, may or may not be rectified with ''Ninja Gaiden Sigma II2''.

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* [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]]: Someone watching the plots of the NES series today will find them narmy and a bit overdone with their "three plot twists per second", but at the timetrilogy theyback werethen was considered a big leap forward for videogamevideo game story-telling by having cut-scenes and fully-sentenced dialogue, coming all together for a coherent storytellingplot.

** Murai in the Xbox ''Ninja Gaiden '' deserves a special mention for being not only the first boss of the game, but being so [["Wake-Up Call" Boss|goddamn hard to start with]].

* [[That One Level]]:* The infamous 6-2 in the first NES game. 6-1 and 6-3 are both extremely difficult as well, but 6-2 takes the cake for cheap deaths and one spot where you seemingly have to exploit a flaw in the programming to get past. If you die even once on the final boss, you're forced to redo the ''entire stage at 6-1 again''.

** The "Path of Zarkhan" chapter in the Xbox ''Ninja Gaiden''.: Notnot that it's particularly harder than previous chapters, but you spend most of the level swimming back and forth to solve a puzzle, and after that, you must go through a very long and boring swimming sequence through areas previously visited, but now submerged. ''Ninja Gaiden Sigma'' removed that puzzle and made the level more straightforward, but you still have to swim a lot.

** The [[Elevator Action Sequence]] in ''Ninja Gaiden Sigma II2'' for Rachel's chapter, mainly because of [[Camera Screw]] issues and also because [[Drop the Hammer|Rachel's melee weapon]] isn't very adapted to fight in narrow spaces. Of course, [[It Got Worse|it gets worse]] at higher difficulties where the upgraded flare fiends are [[Demonic Spiders]] and deal ''a lot'' of damage -... often [[One-Hit Kill|One Hit Kills]] in Master Ninja. Furthermore, a fully-charged Ultimate Technique is no longer a guaranteed [[One-Hit Kill]] on Master Ninja difficulty.

** Ayane's chapter is infamously the hardest one in ''Ninja Gaiden Sigma II2'', and has plunged many a player into an abyss of despair in Master Ninja. Prepare to see the [[Game Over]] screen ''a lot'' with her.

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: In ''Ninja Gaiden Sigma II2'', you play a Japanese man who literally ''fights the Statue of Liberty''. Granted, you were fighting a statue of ''Buddha'' two stages prior (presumably if the series ever goes to Rio de Janeiro, we'll fight Jesus).

* [[Villain Decay]]: The [[Four Is Death|Malice Four]] ([[The Brute|Barbarian]], [[Rings of Death|Bomberhead]], [[Knife Nut|Basaquer]], and [[Shock and Awe|Bloody Malth]]) become ordinary [[Mooks]] throughout the stages in ''The Dark Sword of Chaos'' and can be killed with a few hits. Granted, they're located on platforms where [[Demonic Spiders|they'll most likely throw you into a pit]], but [[Degraded Boss|they were major bosses]] in the first game. Bloody Malth was even the one who {{spoiler|[[You Killed My Father|defeated Ryu's father]]}}.