The original Ninja Gaiden 2 featured 14 total chapters, while Black offers 17. You get three new chapters, each with a different playable female character. You play as Rachel from

This guide is based on a Normal difficulty playthrough of Ninja Gaiden 2 Black. The freshly shadow-dropped remaster of popular action game Ninja Gaiden 2 is causing some hubbub online about the game's bloated file size.

Team Ninja has been quick to update Ninja Gaiden 2 Black and has fixed one of the remaster's biggest issues so far.

This week, Digital Foundry has been back at it, testing out the recent Ninja Gaiden 2 Black remaster that shadow dropped onto Xbox Game Pass last month. In short, DF says that this new version of the Xbox 360 classic "isn't perfect - but it's the best version yet", which we'll absolutely take.

Not the exact remaster some were hoping for, but Ninja Gaiden Black 2 is still an action game with few equals.

The remake released as part of a concentrated effort from the Japanese publisher to put Ninja Gaiden back in the limelight. Later this year, a full-blown sequel named Ninja Gaiden 4 will also launch on the PS5, with development already 70-80% complete.

Ninja Gaiden 2 Black is available now, offering up a stunning Unreal 5 character action game. Here's how it holds up to Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 and the original.

If you haven't already given this latest version of Ninja Gaiden 2 a go, you can purchase it from the Microsoft Store or download it on Xbox Game Pass. As for the fourth entry, it's targeting a Fall 2025 release and has apparently been in the pipeline for quite some time now.

The Ninja Gaiden 2 Black remaster in Unreal Engine 5, isn't the "definitive" edition KOEI Tecmo wants us to believe.

Say what you will about Ninja Gaiden 2, the game commits to its ridiculous over-the-top action tone. I never grew up with Ninja Gaiden. The original games came before my time, and the rebooted franchise was synonymous with the Xbox 360,

Black is a remaster done right and is evidence of why the original was one of the best in the genre for its time.