Hands On: Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound - A Slick, Bloody Return To The Series' 2D Roots

Slice 'n' dice.

It’s been a long time since we were last graced with a proper 2D Ninja Gaiden game, so you can imagine our shock when Dotemu revealed Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, a brand-new side-scrolling action title from Blasphemous developer The Game Kitchen, currently scheduled to launch in Summer 2025.

We recently went hands-on with the game in a generous 90-minute demo that took us through the prologue section, a tutorial, and the game’s opening levels. Now, the good news is that this is a remarkable evolution of that classic NES gameplay, leaning heavily into fast-paced traversal, a seemingly unending wave of expendable enemies and vicious boss characters. The bad news? Well… we had to stop playing eventually.

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