Remember Yaiba? Well it turns out that it is part of a brand new Ninja Gaiden spin-off called Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z.



It's developed by Team Ninja (Ninja Gaiden, some shit Metroid game, Dead or Alive and some shit DoA spin offs) in collabaration with Spark (some meh PSP CoD game, the crappy Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, the crappy Legendary and the pointless Lost Planet 3) with direction from Keiji Inafune (Dead Rising, Mega Man, Resident Evil & Chip 'N Dale which shits on all of those games).

You play Yaiba and your quest is to murder central NG character Ryu, Haybasha...for some reason.

There is no expected release date, no platforms confirmed and only this previously released trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-388MLwcmA

It looks neat, hopefully Spark aren't that involved with the project.

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/09/19/yaiba-ninja-gaiden-z-a-partnership-between-keiji-inafunes-comc/

 

So we've got one developer which has gone severely downhill recently, one developer who has always been bad, and one developer whose been out of the saddle for a bit.

Eh. Plus it follows the whole "with zombies!" trend which is getting a bit stale.

 

Well in Spark's defense Lost Planet 3 might not be as bad as the previous two games in the series, Team Ninja's games are usually good but if DoA 5 is crap the studio is probably going to go even further downhill.

 

Not to mention Metroid Other M and Ninja Gaiden 3. Something is wrong at Team Ninja.

I just don't know why Inafune would team with these studios. He's Keiji Inafune, he could probably get a bunch of better developers to work with him.

 

Well, Team Ninja gameplay mechanics tend to be rather solid. Presentation/direction is iffy at times. Though with Other M presentation wasn't their fault.
Can't comment on Spark.

Maybe all they need is the direction of Inafune for something decent or even good.

 

In the case of that it was more like Star Fox was put into dinosaurs

 

It looks like madworld for the wii.