Mods or cheats for extra costumes?

[Deathjester]

I played the original ninja gaiden and remember it having costumes you could unlock by finishing the game on different difficulties, is there a way to unlock them from the get go?

Also i don't remember this game being this easy, did they nerf the difficulty?

[xr ඞ]

They didn't nerf the difficulty in this, as far as I know.

You can unlock the next difficulty if you beat Doku in Chapter 2 (i.e. if you play on Hard, you'll unlock Very Hard and so on), but I'm not sure if you unlock any costumes that way.

There's a trainer and a list of hex values (so you can add any item you want to your character) on Nexus Mods if you wish to play with a specific costume right away.

[Deathjester]

Originally posted by XR ඞ:

They didn't nerf the difficulty in this, as far as I know.

You can unlock the next difficulty of you beat Doku in chapter 2 (i.e. if you play on Hard, you'll unlock Very Hard and so on), but I'm not sure if you unlock any costumes this way.

There's a trainer and a list of hex values (so you can add any item you want to your character) on Nexus Mods if you wish to play with a specific costume right away.

Thanks for the answer.

I'm almost 100% certain they nerfed the difficulty however, i remember playing the original on xbox and having some serious trouble with the first boss, now 15 years later i finished the whole level without dying once.

[J Jonoh Jamson]

You probably remember how to play after overcoming that steep learning curve that makes playing normal difficulty for the 1st time hard, so now normal difficulty is actually normal to you.

[Deathjester]

Originally posted by J Jonoh Jamson:

You probably remember how to play after overcoming that steep learning curve that makes playing normal difficulty for the 1st time hard, so now normal difficulty is actually normal to you.

Nope, just looked it over on the internet, the difficulty was nerfed. In the original you took more damage, there were MUCH FEWER items, enemies were tougher and items were different: like the Kitetsu that sapped your health when you used it, the bow couldn't be shot mid air and running on water was nigh impossible. Those are the things i remember myself.

[J Jonoh Jamson]

I remember probably dying something like 30 times trying to beat Murai first time, and then second playthrough I beat chapter 1 without dying, same now years later playing this Sigma version, so seems the same difficulty to me. Maybe Sigma version is easier, I don't know, though Sigma 2 is definitely easier than NG2.

Never found the original version harder, there was water running but you had to tap the jump button and there wasn't those floating mermaid fiends, so I don't think it was harder. Nor the Kitetsu sapping life, it just played like Shinobi where you had to keep attacking to gain back life, and the life drain can be cancelled out with armlet of tranquillity. Only not being able to jump and shoot the bow might make it harder, but I also never had problems with the bow sections since I cheese a lot of it by hiding behind the arrow boxes and shooting the tanks and choppers.

[SenSx]

You can also unlock all difficulties and costume by getting the gold medals on survival missions.
Thet are earnt in survival by killing 100 ennemies, that's all.

- First row (weapon mastery) unlocks all difficulties and costumes.

- Second row (velocity) unlocks all trials (I don't know what it is and what it means >< )

- Third unlocks all hair styles for Rachel (and not her costumes strangely)

You can use a trainer if you want to make it easy (We Mod with infinite health, god mod, or one hit kill for example).

It seems we still have to finish the game in normal and hard to get all Rachel's costumes.
I don't know if completing hard mode unlocks both.
If you know any other way thanks for telling me.

There are also the mission modes that unlock new kind of gauntlets that can be equiped with the other ones you unlock in the main game.

[Barry Goldwater's Tortured Soul]

The history of the game is Ninja Gaiden came out for Xbox, and then 2 free DLC packs that came out later, tweaking aspects of the game. Team Ninja, in their wisdom, packaged the whole thing together and made more additions and tweaks, called it Ninja Gaiden Black - that's the game you remember playing. It is considered the "perfect, final" version of the game, by the game's creator (and fans).

Then, for the PS3, they made some changes and graphical improvements to NGB and called it Ninja Gaiden Sigma. The game you bought on Steam is a set of new "remasters," updated versions of those PS3 games. Sigma did reduce the enemy count, lowered damage taken, all the things you complained about. What I always notice is that they add a LOT more save points, which just by itself makes the game easier. It got an interesting but unnecessary graphics boost, added a few fights/bosses, and made Rachel a playable character for several stages, and with her own challenge missions.

I've heard rumors that there may actually be a mod that turns Sigma into Black. If that proves true, I would definitely pick up this game... The real shame is that in keeping with asinine corporate practices, you can no longer play NGB on Xbox Game Pass - the only versions available now are these monstrosities. So you need to have something backwards compatible to 360 and a disc.

[SenSx]

The Steam version of Ninja Gaiden Sigma is the Vita versions with more content (new mission mode, and new enhancements gear).
I don't know how much balance is tweaked compare to the black version, and I did not know about ennemy count.
But I don't think it makes the game really worse, since it is still very hard and comes with many improvements.

I cannot say the same for Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2.
I'm not even talking about the lack of blood and gore, but the game itself was butchered.
Even the gore and balance mod to fix this won't be enough.
Just stay away and try to pick an Xbox for playing the vanilla version even if it's not flawless...