13 Best Ninja Games & Samurai Games of All Time

through the years there have been some really great samurai slash ninja games and we wanted to talk about some of our favorites hi folks it's falcon and today on game ranks 13 of the best samurai slash ninja games out there quick disclaimer dynasty warriors is based on the chinese dynasty and not samurais or ninjas so we're not talking about that in this video starting off at number 13 is samurai warriors 4 which was the 10th anniversary of the samurai warriors series came out in 2014 it's a hack and slash it is very much like dynasty warriors this is as close as we get in the list might i add samurai warriors 4 actually got a lot closer to the dynasty warriors formula than the previous game though particularly in the way that it does the story now if you're interested in samurai and want to play a dynasty warriors type game it's kind of an obvious one it was first out on uh playstation 3 but then did come out on playstation 4. so it's still something you can play if you want it is definitely a worthwhile game it was the highest rated entry in the entire series and uh well the playstation 4 version had some updates that made it better at number 12 is origami which is a kind of underrated game in my opinion it's not that it really got panned or anything but it really never got a lot of attention it was a game that came out on pretty much everything back in 2016. it's an action adventure stealth game with like a massive amount of style there's a lot of great abilities in it too there's like teleportation that you charge by standing in shadows because he uses shadow energy or shadow essence i can't exactly remember what it's called i just remember that it's a ton of fun and in all honesty it's probably one of the best stealth games of the most recent console generation frankly it also came out on switch in 2019 so if you're looking to play it probably the easiest way to do it because you can take it anywhere there's also a dlc prequel which is pretty cool honestly just like an all-around amazing game you should play it because not enough people did at number 11 is mark of the ninja a side-scrolling action stealth game that is really fluid and fast in all honesty as far as 2d stealth i don't think you're going to do better than this game it's so ninja feeling like it's literally about moving around quickly getting behind things getting into things using a grappling hook it's just a game that really takes its design elements and makes them into something that i would call greater than the sum of its parts because i think you could describe it and it would sound like a lot of games but it really is unique and incredibly fun mark of the ninja is one you gotta play is out on pretty much everything it originally came out in 2012 it got remastered for pretty much everything do it at number 10 is naruto to buruto shinobi striker basically the point is you create your own ninja and you play in teams of four against other players online it looks very different from a lot of naruto games in that the backgrounds are very cartoonish and really the type of game it's not action adventure it's basically a fighting game it is not the most advanced fighting game you're ever going to play however it is an incredibly fun game and it is unique in some ways it vaguely reminds me of if power stone were much bigger like in scale but not entirely it's incredibly fun though give it a shot it's out on pretty much everything at number nine is tenku stealth assassin which is a third person action adventure stealth game series which we've actually seen a couple of entries to over the years the first being stealth assassins the second being shadow assassins the latter of which was actually developed by from software which i think is very interesting the first game i can remember playing the hell out of because it was one of the better looking games which is funny when you look back on it now but the second was a really interesting take on the type of formula it established you can actually kind of see some of the fact that sakura is a bit of a descendant of tenku in some ways in that that series has some bearing of influence over the formula they used in that game little harder to play these though shadow assassins was a wii game and a psp game at number eight is shadow tactics blades of the shogun which i think is possibly one of the coolest ideas on this list it's a stealth based real-time tactics game set in the ido period of japan it's very much like desperados if you've ever played that and you have a set of heroes with different skills that you sort of have to apply to different situations it's i mean a really good game and like i said probably one of the more innovative ideas on this list not that that automatically makes it better than every other game it's not necessarily that but it's certainly something unique and i love desperados so i'm sort of partial to the type of gameplay this uses it just applies it to the sort of samurai idea incredibly well at number seven is bushido blade now bushido blade was actually a fighting game it was a squaresoft attempt at sort of creating a new fighting game franchise now they did make two of them bushido blade and bushido blade two and they had a very unique damage system which did lots of different things based on where you hit somebody it had a lot of sword play there is actually a fair amount of exploration which is not something that you normally see in a fighting game and it took a few risks with the gameplay injecting some stuff that you just don't normally see in fighting games that i think both made it a very interesting and good game and also made it hard for it to succeed because it was a bit different i would say that's not a bad thing in this game's case and if you have the ability to go back to the playstation and give it a spin i think you'll see exactly what i mean it's a pretty innovative fighting game and number six is the ninja gaiden series uh we're specifically talking about the new version of it not the old nes game the new version is a hack and slash which took a fairly like cavalier attempt at the first one and then revamped the combat system in the second which allowed dismemberment this game is significantly less about stealth than almost any other game on this list you are a powerful ninja and you don't care if you're seen there is some wild crap that goes down when you're seeing two and like i said it involves literally dismembering your enemies it's also known for being a really gory game but that's not really the reason to play it it's just kinda cool and number five is neo and neo2 a pair of games that let's just go ahead and say has established a very good souls-like series that does a lot to give itself its own identity which is very good the first one was a bit more specific about its protagonist the second one let you actually make your own protagonist and the second one functioned as kind of a prequel for the most part but some of it actually was post the first game story the second was obviously bigger in scope as it tends to be with sequels in truth neo2 builds on everything that the original does and kind of doesn't mess up any of the stuff that it does right it's exactly what you want out of this kind of a game and i'm really hoping and looking forward to if they make neo three personally at number four is onimusha a game that arose out of the idea of making sengoku biohazard which would have been a resident evil game set in the sengoku period in a ninja house with swords and shrukens and all of that to me that's like a super interesting idea and it kind of panned out i would say that onimush is a bit more of a hack and slash than resident evil but as a series it definitely ended up being a worthwhile one there's a lot of different titles in it they remastered it for ps4 recently it was one they originally started to work on for playstation and eventually moved to playstation 2. it spanned every generation of consoles since then and it's not hard to see why who doesn't want a game where you play as a samurai fighting demons at number three is way of the samurai an old ps2 game it's of the action-adventure nature as are many on this list it did have a couple of sequels but i think the most notable is probably the original personally the cool thing about it is that you can radically alter exactly how the story goes down probably a lot more so than a lot of other games in this era although it does culminate in six endings which isn't massive like a silent hill game can have that many endings still it was definitely a very high quality title for the time it was really a good looking game like looking back on it also it just had really fun combat sometimes that seemed really silly partly because of the music which by the way is pretty much always great anyways i very fondly remember with the samurai i wish they would port that to current consoles and number two is sakura shadows die twice which is i've mentioned it already talking about tenku really just a fantastic entry into the sort of soulsborne genre which incorporates a lot of tenku oriented ideas not to the point where it remakes the formula entirely but it does also give you this sort of rhythmic fighting that is very different but also not so foreign that it's bizarre or anything it's just a unique from software title in that it tries a lot of different things while not really seeming to be alien in any way it's also a gorgeous game that really does a lot with its visuals and a lot of people consider it to be one of the if not the masterpiece of from software i'm not sure if i count myself among those but they do exist for sure and they're loud and finally at number one is ghost of tsushima which i mean what else can you really say about this game this is really just a phenomenal game one of the biggest like most beautiful open worlds i've ever seen it emulates the look and feel of samurai films it gives you a lot of different options as to how to play i particularly like pulling some stealth in it and we'd be remiss if we didn't mention that they have actually announced there's a new add-on that's going to give co-op to players who enjoy this game which is in my opinion just a phenomenal development it is a specific co-op experience with class-based development of the combat system there's both story and wave based survival missions honestly i think it's gonna be really cool i'm looking forward to it a lot obviously the main game itself is phenomenal and i'm excited to play any add-on to it especially a free co-op add-on you don't get that kind of announcement too often we also have a couple of bonus games for you first one is going way back to 1991 legend of the mystical ninja which is kind of a really goofy action platformer that honestly i wish there were more games like next is genji dawn of the samurai which was a playstation 2 game a hack and slash with a couple of different characters with different abilities and statistics next is for honor it's basically a 3d fighting game and honestly the game itself is a ton of fun and finally metal gear rising revengeance which is probably the only mention of like a technological samurai game but it's really hard to call it anything other than that he's very much of sort of ninja samurai and you're using a ninja sword to ninja sort people in half and max and and you know the like it's a metal gear game it's also insane in the way every metal gear game is insane that's all we've got did you play any of these games let us know what you thought of them if you liked this video click like if you're not subscribed now's a great time to do so we upload brand new videos every day of the week and the best way to see them first is a courses subscription so click subscribe don't forget to click the notification bell and as always thank you very much for watching this video i'm falcon you can follow me on 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Length: 12min 19sec (739 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 17 2020