rick_alverado posted...
Yeah, with the limited lives and continues in the North American version of Ninja Gaiden 3, I had to train myself to be able to get up to the first infinite life trick without any game overs, from there I would max out my lives (unfortunately that was only 9, compared to the over 100 in Ninja Gaiden 1), then get to the next infinite life trick (hopefully without any game overs, but that was more iffy), and then from there get to the end of the game to actually beat it. Gameplay wise I actually found it easier than the first two games, but those limited continues meant I couldn't just get good enough at each individual stage to slowly progress, I had to actually master the bulk of the game.
I actually learned that the limited continues in the western version was because of game rentals. Japan has never allowed game rentals. It's illegal there I think. They were mad that Americans would rent instead of buy, beat the game and move on. So they tried to make it very hard to beat that game in 3 days or whatever. By making it much harder than in Japan