Actually you unlock higher difficulties from the get go if you cleared OG NG before and have a savefile.
When does it get hard? Emulating it and at ch7 right now and the hardest moments were all just bad platforming
Souls players grind souls and then think they "got good"
No one actually played OG Ninja Gaiden so it's a myth
You have to start from normal in every version of NG1 and work your way to MN.
I did and I still play it with hurricane 1 patch.
What this guy said.
Of course it will take a bunch of deaths but it's not much harder.
The main difference is that in DS you are playing passively 90% of the time, (reacting to what your enemy does) while in NG you NEED to play aggressively/proactively as well as passively.
Alma is a bitch but she is doable
>jump the dive bomb
>run away from her throw
>roll pretty much everything else
>you can Flying Swallow her during the startup of a lot of her moves but NEVER do it otherwise
not to mention
>ryu clones
>fiend challenges spawn more enemies
>items are more expensive
>item capacities are lowered
>item placements are remixed
>scarab rewards are remixed
NGB difficulty scaling is top tier, I still go back to Very Hard from time to time since it's still decently challenging and it's fun to fight against different enemies.
Yeah and Earth is flat
If you beat Doku in chapter 2 of Sigma version, you unlock next difficulty
DMCucks are so fucking casual it's pathetic.