Part 28: Ninja Gaiden II - Chapter 12

Ryu Hayabusa descends into the Underworld, where we have rematches with old bosses while spending way too much time talking about how fucking wack the 1986 Transformers movie actually was.


Fiends

Red Dragon Spawn
A successor to the Red Dinos from the first Ninja Gaiden, these things now have wings instead of arms, and despite them trying to be menacing I can't help but find them to be somewhat doofy looking. They still hit as hard as their predecessors though, not really staggering for anything when they wind up for an attack, and the wings give them the ability to hover just out of reach much like the Winged Vangelfs. Though the most disappointing aspect of this enemy, more than anything, is that the first encounter you face them in is their last. Something about them that they weren't given much of a priority when the game was clearly being rushed in its final stages, and even the Sigma version axes these things entirely. Such a shame.


Marionnette Cyborg
These mechanical fiends are quite cool, and are not called Widows as I somehow believed they were called when recording the commentary for this update (sometimes it's hard to find anything regarding official names for enemies in this series). With 3 arachnid like legs and two hits attached to the same body, it's an odd design to say the least. But that oddness lends itself to many of its attack animations, and it follows a similar rule to the enemies we encountered in Chapter 7, where they will explode upon death and it will hurt you if you don't block it.