Games like Mega Man, Contra, and Ninja Gaiden felt unbeatable even for a kid with endless amounts of free time to beat my head against them. Home console games were still following the design philosophy of the arcade,

Ninja Gaiden Ragebound from developer The Game Kitchen is a spin-off of a classic series aiming to bring a fun old-school feel to modern times.

Still, it’s hard to imagine Ninja Gaiden nowadays as anything other than a fast-paced, brutally difficult 3D action experience. Yet that’s precisely what the developers behind the Blasphemous franchise,