Worst ninja ever...

So he's the "worst" ninja because he straight-up kicks people's asses without first hiding in fear to ambush them later? And lol btw if you have even played this game, you would know on "Day 1" of the game...one of the instructions was to sneak up (i.e. moving the left stick slightly to walk as opposed to run) to an unsuspecting soldier to dice him from behind...not that you needed to in order to proceed. There's your "sneaky" ninja trait in just the first day of the game.

The issue is Hayabusa does not NEED to hide and plan how he's going to massacre. He's a super ninja who fights from low to mid meta enemies to mid to high meta bosses. If he was a regular one, then yes, he would get slaughtered the way he fights.

But either way people would prefer Ryu Hayabusa over a Solid Snake-like ninja.

Why would you post this on the forum of the NG that has the main character do the most of what you're talking about? You were better off making this in the NG1 or 2 forum. Hayabusa does a lot of sneaking around and ambushing while airborne in this installment. You've just not played the game enough (or at all) to know enough of what you're talking about. Also that's not what being a ninja's all about; not even half of it, and this is fiction where said ninjas are of a dragon god bloodline casting insane magic and doing things not possible in real life. No one cares here if Hayabusa isn't Tenchu. The NG series is and will always be more popular; not to mention this is a troll topic.