Ninja Gaiden 2 Black Gets Much-Requested Additions & Modes This Week

Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja have unleashed a big update for its “new” action game Ninja Gaiden 2 Black.

The remaster, which is as close as you can get to the original Ninja Gaiden 2 for Xbox 360, has a new patch that introduces the following:

New Game+, which lets you carry over weapon and Ninpo magic in the previous playthrough.
Photo Mode.
The option to hide projectile weapons they are carried on the player’s back.
Enemy count raised and enemy HP lowered in certain levels:
- Lowered the HP of enemies in Ch. 8, “City of the Fallen Goddess”
- Lowered the HP of enemies in Ch. 11, “Night in the City of Water”
- Raised the number of enemies in Ch. 13, “The Temple of Sacrifice”
- Raised the number of enemies in Ch. 14, “A Tempered Gravestone”
- Raised the damage dealt by some of Ayane’s attacks.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed control issues that occurred when playing at over 120 FPS or while under high computing load.
- Fixed an issue where controllers would not vibrate based on computing load or FPS settings.
- Fixed bugs that caused the player to go out of bounds during certain chapters.
- Fixed bugs that made it impossible to progress during certain chapters.
- Fixed a bug which caused the game to crash during long play sessions.

For more on Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, check out our segment on BFM 89.9.