Team Ninja says more about bringing in original Ninja Gaiden writer for Ninja Gaiden 3

"I came up with sort of the concept, and I had some ideas of what I wanted to do with the game, and the direction I wanted to take it in, and we wanted to make sort of a new [main character] Ryu Hayabusa, and present him in a new way. And so we reached out to the writer for the original NES Ninja Gaiden -- Masato Kato -- and brought him back into the Ninja Gaiden world. And just going back and forth with him, brainstorming ideas, a lot of things like that -- that's how the story came together." - Game director Yosuke Hayashi


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