Oniken: Unstoppable Edition Reviews

[h1]ℕ𝕠𝕨 𝕀'𝕞 𝕘𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕓𝕝𝕖, 𝕟𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕙 𝕧𝕚𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝕠𝕗 ℕ𝕚𝕟𝕛𝕒 𝔾𝕒𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕟 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℕ𝔼𝕊, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕀 𝕗𝕖𝕖𝕝 𝕒 𝕝𝕠𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕣𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕓𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕝𝕖𝕕 𝕦𝕡 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕝𝕠𝕝 [/h1] Finally, a game that makes you feel so MACHO that you can hit your PR in the gym right after finishing it; the good thing is that, if you blazed through Ninja Gaiden like I did, you'd finish it in two hours lol. It would seem that the devs were in love with Ninja Gaiden as the whole game is based around the idea that enemies can literally push you into pits of doom. Oniken pits you against the Oniken, as you play mercenary rambo-looking warrior Zaku, who inflitrates the Oniken base in hopes of destroying the main core and saving humanity. The game is in full glorious 8-bit, with a soundtrack as nostalgic as it is terrifying as it reminded me of the nightmarish Ninja Gaiden that I spent the good part of my childhood raging throughout lol. Now, Zaku gets a bunch of power-ups and he gets a quite useless diagonal grenade if you hit UP+attack; also, some jumps have to be pixel-perfect... and if that doesn't remind you of Ninja Gaiden, I don't know what will. Oniken gets a [b]9/10[/b]... and that's not fault of its own, it's just 9 because the game terrified me at first, before I realized it's just too dumbed down for this generation; it is made with love for Ninja Gaiden but difficulty-wise, I thought I was playing a Kirby game... but that again is because I'm a Ninja Gaiden veteran myself!! Still, the game was too short and too easy haha! But it's such a power trip that I recommend everybody to play it.

While not bad in any way there are so many other games that pay homage to this era of 8-bit action platformers that do a much better job in all areas. Most notably is probably the absolutely astonishing The Messenger.