Reception
Ryu Hayabusa has been an extremely popular character, especially among similar ninja-type characters. He was nominated for the Nintendo Power Awards '89 and '91 in the category Best Character (Best Hero). In 2008, The Age ranked him as tenth best character on the Xbox series of consoles. In 2009, GameSpot featured Ryu as one of the 64 characters in the Greatest Game Hero poll, in which he has won against The Nameless One and Sackboy, but ultimately lost to Duke Nukem. In 2010, readers of the Japanese magazine Famitsu voted Ryu into 43rd place in a poll for the best video game character of all time. Empire also included him on their list of the 50 greatest video game characters, adding: "This is a man not to be messed with, and his honour, grace, and iconic image as the superlative gaming ninja, he'll never be forgotten." In 2011, UGO.com included him in their list of 11 video game characters who need their own live-action movies. In 2012, GamesRadar ranked this "particularly brutal good guy, but a good guy nonetheless" as 26th "most memorable, influential, and badass" protagonist in games.
Ryu has been ranked as number one top video game ninja character ever by numerous publications, including on the lists compiled by CrunchGear (in 2008), Unreality (in 2009), GamePro (who also commented that Ryu "has the most fearsome arsenal of weapons we’ve ever seen in a video game") and ScrewAttack (both in 2010), and machinima.com (in 2011). In 2008, when readers of IGN voted on which of the two ninja would win in a "Hero Showdown" between him and Joe Musashi of Sega's Shinobi series, Ryu won with 82% of the votes. That same year, IGN included him on the list of characters that should be included in a hypothetical ultimate fighting game as "few videogame heroes make killing look easier or more stylish than Ryu Hayabusa" and "all other ninja seem lame by comparison". In 2011, Cheat Code Central wrote: "he's been ranked number one on more top ninja lists than one can count, and he tops this list, too."
In addition, he was featured by Virgin Media on the list of top ten video game ninja heroes in all media, as well as unusually ranked as second on list of top ten gaming ninja characters by 1UP.com in 2004. In 2008, GamesRadar included him among the top video game assassins in the category "ninja" even as they have "never known Ryu to specifically take on assassination jobs". In 2009, GameDaily listed the "badass ninja" in their top 25 video game archetypes, using Ryu as an example, and featured him among the "gaming's greatest patriots" of Japan. In 2010, Nintendo Power listed Ryu as one of the best ninja characters on Nintendo consoles; he was also featured among the top ten ninjas for PlayStation consoles by PLAY in 2011, and ranked as the second swiftest ninja by Complex in 2012. In 2012, Complex listed him among the characters they would like to see in the next Soulcalibur game, stating that "we've had our fun going ninjitsu crazy with Taki and Natsu, but now it's time for Tecmo's ninja to enter the fray."
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