
Following Kanbe's trail, Ken chases and defeats an Arachne creature, however Kanbe and fellow team member Kuroh, having been infected by King Worms, slaughter the entire unit. Military intelligence forms a containment task force called GUIDE (Global United Infestation Detection and Elimination), recruiting operatives from around the world.įour years later, a GUIDE ninja team, including the young Ken Ogawa and led by his father Kanbe, is dispatched to Tokyo to contain a massive Alpha-worm outbreak.


To prevent an outbreak, the military raid the quarantine zone and exterminate the infected, while the incident is covered up by the government. In 2011, the inhabitants of a small Northern African village are infected by an unknown hookworm parasite, classified as "Alpha-worm", which alters its hosts' bodies and minds while increasing their strength and resilience. The gameplay is highly cinematic, relying on quick time events to finish missions after attacking a boss until the health bar is empty, the player must perform a finishing move, called the todome. A chi bar is used up when "ninja vision" or ninjutsu is used. Combat system is similar to Ninja Gaiden or Devil May Cry. The player plays as a modern-day ninja, using a katana, twin swords and broad sword as the main weapon to the hostile creatures.

Ninja Blade ( ニンジャブレイド Ninja Bureido) is an action game developed by FromSoftware for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in 2009.
