Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 794 EAN: 9780761552116 ISBN: 0761552111 Label: Prima Games Manufacturer: Prima Games Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: September 20, 2005 Publisher: Prima Games Release Date: September 20, 2005 Sales Rank: 735925 Studio: Prima Games
• Maps and walkthrough with item and weapon locations • Crucial strategy for defeating every enemy and boss • Tips for victory in all 46 missions in Master Ninja mode • Training section detailing essential moves, techniques, and weapons • Secret weapons and armlets revealed
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - It's a map, that's about it
This game guide from Prima is nothing more than a glorified map. There are no strategies at all, and only very basic (sometimes inaccurate) strategies for the bosses. An example of the innacuracies would be their advice to defeat Lesser Alma. The guide tells you to use Flying Swallow. Unfortunately, Ninja Gaiden Black was retooled to be more challenging, and just about every boss has been tweaked so that the Flying Swallow move is MUCH LESS EFFECTIVE than in the original game.
There is no breakdown of the general foes you come across (various types ninja, fiends, soldiers, etc.) or their strengths and weaknesses.
For instance, how do you effectively combat the black ninjas? The guide says, "Slice them to ribbons!" Gee...that's great advice. How about some tactics to help me "slice them to ribbons"?
If you just want a map to tell you where to go, then get this book. If you are looking for a real guide with combat strategies to help you become proficient at the game, search the internet. There are free online tutorials that are 20x more helpful and accurate than this "guide".
Rating: - Almost useless.
I can't help but agree with most of the reviews on this page; this guide is nearly useless. The Prima (the leader in half-assing every guide they've ever gotten their hands on) guide "walks" us through a game where chest locations are off and inaccurate, enemies don't appear in the right spots, the data on the Fiend Challenges is basically: "kill the guys that um... you know, attack... uh yeah." There's misspellings in a few cases and grammatical errors. Also keep in mind: their boss strategies aren't crucial to your survival, I bearly used 'em. The only slightly useful piece of this guide is the Golden Scarabs. One note on that, once you find the 50th GO BACK AND TURN THEM IN. I made the mistake of not trudging back to town due to being anxious about beating the game. In summery: don't buy this unless you really need feel you need a very small amount of visual support. You're better off on your own.
Rating: - totally useless
unless you are a complete newbie at ninja gaiden, this guide is worthless. full of empty space and pictures with very little information. the worst offense? "ALL ITEM LOCATIONS" in huge print on the cover. But, as i discovered, this guide doesn't show item locations for level other than normal!! The guide has pretty much no discussion of strategy for weapons, even omitting strats for some weapons ( like kitetsu ) because they are "secret". terribly uninformed and underresearched, this guide is a greivious offense to an amazing game.
Rating: - very good
im very happy to have this book thanks and the timing was perfect
Rating: - Not very good
This is good for just a general guide. It provides little information on the boss fights in the game and little on tips on how to beat them. I used this and a Free game FAQ walkthrough while playing (and am still playing by the way), and the walkthrough had loads of information on item locations and how to defeat Bosses and other enemies as well. I don't regret buying this guide as it has had some benefits, but unless you have money to burn, I would get a free walkthrough and use that.
- It's a map, that's about it
- totally useless
- very good 
