Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship Of Doom's soundtrack is Incredible and it has so many great tunes, but the first game still beats it in terms of music. As for the game itself, it's a decent game with so many things I hate about it. The first, being the crappy story with one of my most hated things in any story ever, doppelgangers. If your gonna impersonate Ryu Hayabusa, just make sure that the real one isn't out there and alive doing whatever he wants. That and the game has the same ending like the last two which ended with the sun rising with Ryu and Irene watching from a distance. Also like the last two games, it has anime as hell cutscenes which look great, so at least the horrible story is presented nicely, so that's all that matters. As for the game itself, it's alright. The stages range from hard and challenging to absolutely insane with enemies everywhere with little room to dodge them. Speaking of which, I hate every enemy in this game because they're placed in the most irritating spots in video game history. On top of that, all enemies now do 2-3 bars of damage and some of them, do 5 bars of damage. Anyways, back to the stages. Like the second game, Ninja Gaiden III has stage hazards such as a rain stage, a lava stage with rising fire, a sand stage, a section in stage 7 where you have to rush to the other side with the Resistance pushing you back, and so on. On top of hard stages, the game's checkpoints are brutal and the game has LIMITED CONTINUES which are a "great" edition to a game that's hard as hell. Like the first two games, Ninja Gaiden III has the same weapons expect this time, we now have the art of the vacuum wave which is pretty useful in some stages. Unfortunately, the Shadow Clones from Ninja Gaiden II have been removed. As for the bosses, they're extremely easy with the only hard one being the final boss... somewhat. Overall, Ninja Gaiden III is a mixed bag with good stages, a great soundtrack, a horrible story, brutal check points with LIMITED CONTINUES, easy bosses, annoying enemies, and fun weapons. Ironically, it's the most expensive of the three and it now goes for 110-150 bucks, so good luck getting a physical copy of it.
Soundtrack: 7.5/10.
Game: 5.7/10.
Note: I've covered these games on my YouTube Channel, so if you want to see my full reviews on these games, you can go to my channel and watch them.