Ninja Combat Arcade Archives Neo Geo Playthrough all playable characters shown on PlayStation 4

The 1990 Neo Geo arcade title Ninja Combat is this longplay, playthrough, walkthrough, gameplay and guide video. An early title for SNK's system and one us here at RG are long time fans of. Developed by Alpha Denshi Corporation who later shorten their name to just ADK. Most people reading this wont realise, but this is a follow up to Alpha Denshi earlier 1989 game Gang Wars only changing the warring gangs for Ninjas.

Both games were directed by Tsutomu Maruyama and are scrolling beat'em ups, but Ninja Combat uses a lot more projectiles in the combat. The difficulty leaves a lot to be desired as well, with the game getting very hard in the later stages and feel very unfair at points. The final boss is insane, with you getting stun locked at set points and his collision is just crazy, it's not clear the range of his sprite and where you will be damaged on screen. This is not the greatest game in the genre, but one I've always always enjoyed. It's got the fairly standard use of super moves and weapons to pick up and use.

What made Ninja Combat stand out from a lot of other titles in arcade was the fact you unlocked extra characters as you played through the game. There are three to unlock and you get to swap character after every stage. Something also no other game in the genre lets you do, certainly not in the arcade. Sadly ADK didn't actually make any more scrolling beat'em up after this instead making the rather so, so World Heroes series, so we never saw a direct sequel. However, Ninja Commando was a part follow up to Time Soldiers and Ninja Combat.

Time Stamp & Chapter Details:
00:00 Game Details, Intro & How to Play
01:13 Stage 1 as Joe
04:46 Stage 2 as Musashi
08:40 Stage 3 as Kagerow
13:34 Stage 4 as Gembu
17:47 Stage 5 as Joe
22:46 Stage 6 as Joe
31:07 Stage 7 as Joe
35:31 Final Boss
40:41 Ending & Credits

Also known as: ニンジャコンバット (Japan) ACA NeoGeo Ninja Combat

Release: 2018 (Arcade 1990)
Developer: ADK Corporation / 株式会社エーデイーケイ (Emulation by Hamster)
Publisher: Hamster / ハムスター
Genre: Scrolling Beat'em Up
Players: 1 - 2
Version Shown: PAL
Format: PlayStation 4 / プレイステーション4 (PS4)

Ninja Combat is available on Nintendo Switch 1 & 2, PlayStation 4 & 5 and Xbox One & Series. Also on phones which support, iOS & Android

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Footage is captured directly from a PlayStation 4 via HDMI for all games, using an Elgato Pro HD60 capture card. Upscaled to UHD 4K to improve the video bit rate, watch in HD or UHD for best video playback on YouTube.

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