Ninja Gaiden: Rachel the Huntress

Ninja Gaiden: Rachel the Huntress is an action adventure hack and slash video game developed by Team Ninja and published by Koei Tecmo. Released on multiple platforms such as the Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Windows platforms through Steam. The game is a 'Female Spin-Off' of the series, staring Rachel, a fiend hunter from the Holy Vigoor Empire who was introduced in Ninja Gaiden (2004). All with revamped gameplay from previous titles.

Description
An another story of the Ninja Gaiden series. Follow the eyes of Rachel, the beautiful and cursed fiend hunter who is on a mission to hunt down and rid the fiends of the Holy Vigoor Empire. With superhuman strength and arsenal of weapons, the hunter shall put these skills to good use in order to stop a devastating plan to turn all humans into fiends.

Story
The game takes plays during or after Ninja Gaiden 3. Even after the defeat of the Greater Fiend, Rachel is continuing her duties as a fiend hunter in Manhattan. However, there several reports of increase of fiend activity occuring all around the city, no explanation was given for this sudden rise. Even when hunting and eliminating the fiends, the increase can be overwhelming.

There are reports of a new Vigoor Emperor taking over the Holy Vigoor Empire, making the increase in military forces and conducting experiments to create new types of fiends, even turning the humans they captured into fiends as part of their experiments. This source was leaked by CIA agent, who has gone missing during their mission to spy on the Holy Vigoor Empire. Thankfully the information was recovered by Rachel, after she infiltrated one of the base camps that where hiding fiend experiments. It is said that the Holy Vigoor Empire are intending to convert every single human into a fiend in order to create a utopia.

With her new goal reveal and thanks to the assisstance of Irene Law, Rachel sets out to eliminate these demons and fiends and put an end to the Vigoor Emperor's plans for domination of the human realm. This journey will also give more context and details of Rachel's backstory and her connection to the Vigoorian origins.

Gameplay
Rachel's gameplay carries over from when she was playable in the titles she appears. Basic weapons are the two melee attack buttons, a projectile attack button, a jump button and block button that are all controled with a gamepad. Another thing is if you block at the right time, you can perform a parry that reflects your enemies' attacks, leaving you a chance to counterattack. There are several special attacks Rachel can perform with certain command inputs, though they have to be unlocked by leveling up. There are also a scoring point, the earning of karma points depends on how well you perform in stages. They can convert the results into how much currency you gain from, which you can use to purchase new weapons, outfits and extra stuff. There are numerous weapons that can cause advantages and disadvantages that vary your stats.

In the beginning of the game you start off with low stats, but as you progress and level up, you gain more abilities and buffs from playing through stages. You can also gain more powerups by completing certain missions and achievements throughout the stages. Their is also a Magic Arts meter, like the one from the previous Ninja Gaiden series. If the meter is enough, you can perform several Magical Arts, similar to Ninpo arts. Rachel can perform numerous abilities with her Magical Arts such as the Blades of Oroborous and Magic of the Raging Aphrodite. You can obtain several Essences in the game to also power you up. They are colored globes that can be used for healing, stat buffs, increase currency and inflict special effects.

The gameplay is of course in third-person view, as you venture through 3D stages as you control Rachel while fighting off hoards of enemies. There are also interactions in stages that are in several regions with areas linked together. Such as using an action input to use the grappling hook to maneuver to higher areas. Action inputs are also used in different paths, such as acrobatic, stealth, observation and other obstacles that you may come across. There are also statues that can be found in safe areas, where the player can save their progress.

Story Mode
The story played through as the fiend hunter Rachel, on a journey to eliminate the fiends from the entire city.

New Game
Start the whole story from the beginning to experience the start of the adventure. Unsaved progress will be lost however.

Load Game
Load from a previous save point to where you started in the story.

Mission Mode
A mode where you complete several different tasks in order to unlock several stuff. Including: Weapons, Costumes and Gallery Art.

Survival
A endless gauntlet where you fight numerous waves amount of enemies that spawn until you are unable to no longer fight. The score will be rated depending on how long you last and how many enemies you killed.

Gallery
A bonus where you can view various artwork, cutscenes, concepts, music and more. Several of these features can be unlocked in various ways.

Options
A mode where you can change certain settings in the game that will affect the gameplay. Change things such as Sound, Brightness, Graphics, Controls and more

Characters
The main protagonist of the game. She is a half-fiend, half-human Fiend Hunter who occasionally accompanies and helps Ryu in his adventures. Rachel is displayed as a tragic heroine, due to the cursed blood in her veins, which has Rachel's life goal being to hunt down and destroy all demons in existence.
 * Rachel

She is an agent of the CIA's Secret Auxiliary Unit, working under the codename "Sea Swallow". Irene was able to get the information into a trustful source in the hands of Rachel. She offers her assistance to fight againts the fiends, and defeat the mysterious new Vigoor Emperor.
 * Irene Law

Trivia

 * The artwork used for the wiki called Rachel: Huntress was made by DarkOverlord1296 on Deviantart.
 * Link to Source:https://www.deviantart.com/darkoverlord1296/art/RACHEL-Huntress-815699302