Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z – ‘Bloody Beginnings’ Developer Diary Ep1
Team Ninja and Tecmo Koei have released the first episode of a developer diary series for Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z entitled “Bloody Beginnings”. We hear from the developers themselves, revealing some behind the scenes details on the importance of working as a team to deliver the best game Ninja Gaiden experience possible.
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z will release for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on February 28th across Europe and March 4th in North America.
Today Team Ninja kicks off the four part Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z developer diary series detailing the conception, tools and madding plight of the twisted cyber ninja known only as “Yaiba”. In the premiere episode “Bloody Beginnings”, Team Ninja, Comcept and Spark Unlimited all share their thoughts on the collaboration between the three development teams and how the creative fusion of each team’s strengths has melded both Japanese and Western game styles to create something truly unique. Commentary includes perspectives from Executive Producer, Yosuke Hayashi and Producer, Kohei Shibata (Team Ninja), Conceptor, Keiji Inafune and Producer Shinsaku Ohara (comcept), Lead Game Designer, Cory Davis and Lead Gameplay Engineer, George Mawle (Spark).
In Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z, players will battle fierce zombies as Yaiba, a cyborg ninja who will do anything to get revenge and stay alive. Cleaved in two, he is brought back to life with cyber-technology. Brandishing his ninja sword and the mecha weapons in his cyber arm, he slaughters zombies with brutal, over-the-top abandon. Step into a stylized living comic book where stunning graphics depict a world gone mad. Hordes of undead can only be stopped by Yaiba’s willingness to use any means necessary to get the job done. Will he kill by turning his cyber arm into a razor chainsaw for slicing up undead—or just rip off an opponent’s arms to use as zombie nunchucks? Both possibilities fill Yaiba’s heart with twisted laughter in this upcoming collaboration between famed developers Team Ninja and comcept’s Keiji Inafune.