So I am playing this game on Mentor right now to get the costumes that come with it. After playing as Momiji and Rachel I get to the level where I have to play as Ayane and I have come to the conclusion that all the annyoing parts of this game are when you are someone other than Ryu. If feels like anyone other than rachel isnt the competent of a character. Momiji's attacks are quite powerful but her combos and to slow from hit to hit. I was trying for an hour to beat the two tengu bosses because I was an idiot and skipped the shop so I only had 1 herb and zero Ninpo. Rachels wasn't to bad because her weapon it good at getting limbs off.
 
Anyne's level on the other hand.... god, for someone who slices a dude about 20 times before finishing her combo she sure dose no damage to them. It took me 3 of her mock Izuna drop combos to kill one higher class ninja where with ryu it only takes one with a level 2 dragon sword. The game seems super unbalanced when I am fighting as someone other than Ryu...
 
Anyone else have this same problem? I think I want to try and get the golden health bar for completeing the game on master ninja but going through the parts where I am not Ryu seem like hell to me.

Yeah! finishing Master Ninja mode was hard for me during the parts im not playing as Ryu. :(

Oatmeal face didn't work on Sigma and thought what they added to Sigma made his game shittier. He's correct.