Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection (2021) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection

The “Ninja Gaiden” series is respected and beloved across the entire gaming world, and has sold 6.8 million units in total. In this collection, the three titles from the series which are included are: NINJA…

77 9 June 2021 ESRB M

What Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection is

Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection is an adventure game developed by Team NINJA and released in 2021. It was published by Koei Tecmo. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The “Ninja Gaiden” series is respected and beloved across the entire gaming world, and has sold 6.8 million units in total. In this collection, the three titles from the series which are included are: NINJA GAIDEN Sigma (released in 2007), NINJA GAIDEN Sigma 2 (released in 2009), and NINJA GAIDEN 3: Razor’s Edge (released in 2012). Become the ultimate ninja and defeat deadly enemies!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Ninja Gaiden series

Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection is the 42nd of 51 entries we hold in the Ninja Gaiden series. It arrived 2 years after Arcade Archives: Ninja Gaiden. The next entry was Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection Deluxe Edition in 2021. Its critic score of 77 is almost exactly the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Ninja Gaiden at 93.

See all 51 Ninja Gaiden games in release order →

How it was received

Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection launched on 9 June 2021, within three weeks of Biomutant, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Biomutant, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer