Ninja Gaiden Trilogy
Sent in by Jordan M. Davis
The endings of the games are the same as they were in the original
NES versions. However, for some strange reason, Tecmo decided to
leave out the credits that were present in the NES games. So players
are actually robbed of a decent music track and a recap of all the
good cinemas, and are given no idea of who the games creators were.
A GAME OVER screen is all that awaits you after the following:
Ninja Gaiden
Having defeated Jaquio, Ryu rushes back to his dying father. His father
reveals that his life is almost over, decrees Ryu a man, and tells him
that his "destiny was tied to the demon statue." He then orders Ryu to
take the female secret agent and escape. Ryu screams for his father
as the scene fades to black. Jaquio's Amazon Ruins palace crumbles
to the ground with earth-shattering force and fiery explosions. Ryu,
now unmasked, and the secret agent are standing on a jungle cliff,
when the agent receives a page through a small transmitter from
lead agent Foster. Foster orders her to snatch the demon statues,
kill Ryu and escape. Confused, the agent quickly questions this order,
when Ryu snatches away the transmitter and lays into Foster. He
comes to the realization that Foster's plan all along had been to gain
the demonic power for himself. Ryu claims that he gets two kinds of
payment--the first he has already received, and the second is Foster
himself. Ryu throws the throws the transmitter off the cliff carrying
the protesting Foster's voice away. The secret agent turns to him and
asks what the payment is that he has already received. He replies,
"she's standing right in front of me." They kiss, and the secret agent
reveals her name to be Irene Lew. The watch the sunset quietly and
the game ends.
Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos
After Jaquio is defeated for the second time, the Dark Sword of
Chaos develops deep cracks and then shatters. The demon gate
shudders, closes, and disappears. Ryu grabs a dead Irene and escapes
the now violently-shaking tower. A night scene is shown with the
Chaos tower breaking up and falling in a mass heap to the ground. Ryu,
now unmasked (with a much different looking face than the first game),
cries in disbelief and claims that nothing he did, including killing the
demons mattered, now that she is gone. Suddenly, Ryu's dragon sword
begins to flash with mystic power. Surprised, Ryu watches his sword
flash more brightly, rise up, and compact itself into a brilliant ball of
light. Believing his sword gone, Ryu looks back down at Irene and rests
his head on her still shoulder and remains silent. Then, the ball of light
that was once the Dragon sword settles above Irene's chest/heart/breast
and flashes brightly, then is gone. Suddenly, Irene opens her eyes! The
Dragon Sword restored her to life. Ryu claims, "It's a miracle!" Irene
says she felt as though she has a awoken from a long dream. Ryu consoles
her and says that everything is now over, and that they have their lives
ahead of them. The scene fades out as the couple looks out over the
sparkling night ocean. A shooting star passes overhead. But what did
happen to the Dragon Sword? How did Ryu get it back in the 3rd game?
I guess some questions just don't have answers...
Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom
After Ryu kills the super-mutant Clancy, Irene watches from a
cliff overlooking the Castle Rock Fortress in disbelief as the giant
Warship shudders, sinks in the sky, and explodes! Before it hits
critical though, Ryu is teleported out via an energy field and
rematerializes in the sky and drops to the ground besides Irene.
Caught in the explosion, the Castle Rock Fortress also crashes rather
abruptly to the ground. Instead of a love scene found in the previous
two endings, we then see Ryu and Irene reflecting about life. Irene
doesn't understand why people develop and follow through with evil
plans until they are destroyed. Ryu responds by saying that humans
are always striving to achieve. They then watch the sunrise in the
final scene of the Ninja Gaiden legacy. Not exactly the ending I would
expect for a reunion of two people where one was thought to be
murdered. But maybe that's the way of the ninja.