I was quite looking forward to playing this game on the DS and after playing it now for a while I am not disappointed. The touch screen only controls was either going to make or break this game and I was rather skeptical about it but after a couple of minutes of play you get used to it and its quite intuitive actually. To attack enemies you simply slash across them with the stylus. To jump you simply flick the stylus up across the screen and to attack on the way down you just slash down again. To throw stars you just tap the screen where you want to throw them.
The visuals are very impressive for a DS game and it moves very fast as well. This game has definitely lived up to my expectations and I am really having fun with it. I have never played a Ninja Gaiden game before this but now I might just check out it's big brother Ninja Gaiden 2 when it's released on the 360 later this year.
