Ninja Gaiden 4 review: Team Ninja and Platinum bring new blood to franchise

The upside of this character-action-game genetic modification is a great-playing, highly challenging, and viscerally intoxicating new Ninja Gaiden game — and quite possibly the closest thing that we’ll ever get to a Metal Gear Rising Revengeance sequel. And, honestly, after 2012’s Ninja Gaiden 3, anything is a step up for Team Ninja’s franchise.