{"id":1365049,"date":"2025-10-21T08:05:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/dont-let-anyone-tell-you-youre-not-skilled-enough-to-enjoy-ninja-gaiden-4-im-near-incompetent-yet-having-an-absolute-blast-with-xboxs-hack-n-slash"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:05:28","slug":"dont-let-anyone-tell-you-youre-not-skilled-enough-to-enjoy-ninja-gaiden-4-im-near-incompetent-yet-having-an-absolute-blast-with-xboxs-hack-n-slash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/dont-let-anyone-tell-you-youre-not-skilled-enough-to-enjoy-ninja-gaiden-4-im-near-incompetent-yet-having-an-absolute-blast-with-xboxs-hack-n-slash\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t let anyone tell you you&#8217;re not skilled enough to enjoy Ninja Gaiden 4 &#8211; I&#8217;m near-incompetent yet having an absolute blast with Xbox&#8217;s hack &#8216;n&#8217; slash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/dont-let-anyone-tell-you-youre-not-skilled-enough-to-enjoy-ninja-gaiden-4-im-near-incompetent-yet-having-an-absolute-blast-with-xboxs-hack-n-slash.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>I have been known to get &#8220;well into&#8221; games, but I can never predict what they&#8217;ll be. For example, I played so much of PS Vita\/PS3 arcade racing game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/motorstorm\">MotorStorm<\/a>: RC that it was part of my personality for a month or so, and I&#8217;d negatively judge people who weren&#8217;t spending every waking moment knocking milliseconds off their best Time Trials. I have that obsessive trait in me, then, but at other times I just enjoy the feeling of a game, the vibes, the essence of having a great time. This is my relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/ninja-gaiden\">Ninja Gaiden<\/a>. No doubt some people will go all-in on Ninja Gaiden 4, a game that practically begs to be mastered and used as a showcase of skill, but I&#8217;ve always seen the series as less of a test of ability I don&#8217;t have and more as a finely-tuned piece of violent escapism. What I&#8217;m saying is, you don&#8217;t need to be a ninja to enjoy Ninja Gaiden 4, and this entry lends itself to that philosophy more easily than those that came before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/dont-let-anyone-tell-you-youre-not-skilled-enough-to-enjoy-ninja-gaiden-4-im-near-incompetent-yet-having-an-absolute-blast-with-xboxs-hack-n-slash\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/dont-let-anyone-tell-you-youre-not-skilled-enough-to-enjoy-ninja-gaiden-4-im-near-incompetent-yet-having-an-absolute-blast-with-xboxs-hack-n-slash\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been known to get &#8220;well into&#8221; games, but I can never predict what they&#8217;ll be. For example, I played so much of PS Vita\/PS3 arcade racing game MotorStorm: RC that it was part of my personality for a month or so, and I&#8217;d negatively judge people who weren&#8217;t spending every waking moment knocking milliseconds off their best Time Trials. I have that obsessive trait in me, then, but at other times I just enjoy the feeling of a game, the vibes, the essence of having a great time. This is my relationship with Ninja Gaiden. No doubt some people will go all-in on Ninja Gaiden 4, a game that practically begs to be mastered and used as a showcase of skill, but I&#8217;ve&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/dont-let-anyone-tell-you-youre-not-skilled-enough-to-enjoy-ninja-gaiden-4-im-near-incompetent-yet-having-an-absolute-blast-with-xboxs-hack-n-slash\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1365050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[259,6881,553,16174,59,2312,45,54,1412,3987,649,4616],"class_list":["post-1365049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-action-adventure","tag-hackslash","tag-koei-tecmo","tag-ninja-gaiden-4","tag-pc","tag-platinumgames","tag-ps5","tag-single-player","tag-team-ninja","tag-third-person","tag-xbox-game-studios","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Don&#039;t let anyone tell you you&#039;re not skilled enough to enjoy Ninja Gaiden 4 - I&#039;m near-incompetent yet having an absolute blast with Xbox&#039;s hack &#039;n&#039; slash | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I have been known to get &quot;well into&quot; games, but I can never predict what they&#039;ll be. 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