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Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus

Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus is a port of Ninja Gaiden Sigma. Like Ninja Gaiden Black's "Ninja Dog" mode, Sigma Plus features an easier difficulty called "Hero" mode, making it more accessible to casual gamers. It…

78 22 February 2012

Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus is an adventure developed by Team NINJA, released 22 February 2012 on PlayStation Vita.

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What Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus is

Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus is an adventure game developed by Team NINJA and released in 2012. It was published by Koei Tecmo. It is available on PlayStation Vita only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus is a port of Ninja Gaiden Sigma. Like Ninja Gaiden Black's "Ninja Dog" mode, Sigma Plus features an easier difficulty called "Hero" mode, making it more accessible to casual gamers. It also takes advantage of the additional features that the Vita offers, including gyroscopic first-person aiming (by tilting the PlayStation Vita, the player can adjust the camera angle in first-person viewing modes), back touchpad controls (tapping symbols using the rear touchpad will allow Ryu to boost the power of his Ninpo), and touch screen controls (players can go into first-person mode by tapping the touch screen). In addition, Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus offers new sets of…
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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 Sigma Plus is the 32nd of 51 entries we hold in the Ninja Gaiden series. It arrived 2 years after Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2: Premium Box. The next entry was Ninja Gaiden 3 in 2012. Its critic score of 78 is 3 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Ninja Gaiden at 93.

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How it was received

Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus launched on 22 February 2012, within three weeks of Mass Effect 3, Journey, Crusader Kings II and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Crusader Kings II, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward.

Cheats and codes

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When did Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus come out?
Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus was released on 22 February 2012 for PlayStation Vita.

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