Ninja Gaiden Master Collection - Nintendo Switch

Despite the remasters changing nothing, and being based on the inferior versions of the original games, the innate quality of Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 shines through in this surprisingly enjoyable compilation.

The Ninja Gaiden collection revisits the series in a spectacular 4K upgrade!

Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection PS4 review . Arguably the progenitor of the absolutely nails hard third person actioner template, Ninja Gaiden fell off the face of the earth after Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge , was released on PlayStation 3 back in the dark times of 2012. Now nearly a decade later, Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja have applied ample spit and polish to all three Ninja Gaiden games, remastering and re-releasing them in the forebodingly named Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection for the current generation of PlayStation gamers to enjoy. Thus, two things are immediately apparent. The first is that, for the most part, these games have aged pretty darn well (especially the first two). The second thing is that I’m old now (as opposed to just getting older when these games originally came out) and my reaction time has degenerated accordingly, making me trepidatious about how I would fare against the series legendary difficulty level.