12 Games With Awful Save/Checkpoint Systems

Ninja Gaiden

Though the 3D Ninja Gaiden titles were tough? The old-school titles were truly unforgiving. Ninja Gaiden 1 offered unlimited continues but you would go back to the very start of the level you died in. However, this didn’t apply to the final Act. Consisting of five stages, dying to any of the bosses in the fourth or fifth stage sends you back to the first. Considering these are the toughest stages in the game, any mistake in the home stretch could be costly.