Games Radar interviewed Ninja Gaiden Sigma’s producer, Yosuke Hayashi and associate producer Andrew Szymanski to get the team’s thoughts on the game and it’s competition. Yeah, they get some interesting answers.

I’ll just say this: Team Ninja is cocky as hell. Sure, Ninja Gaiden is a great game. But basically, Sigma is a re-hash of the Xbox 1 game with better graphics, tweaked gameplay (we hear it’s even harder than Ninja Gaiden Black), and new characters. Doesn’t make it game of the year, in my book.

So what did Team Ninja have to say about their competition?

We don’t really have any competitors right now. When our game comes out, it’s going to be the undisputed king of action games. We have a lot of games behind us that are gonna try to play catch-up, but nothing right in front of us that we could call a competitor. I think that Ninja Gaiden Sigma is gonna set the bar that games that come after are going to be compared to.

Riiiiiight. Because God of War 2 isn’t a terrific action game.

When asked about DMC4, here’s what they had to say:

I have seen Devil May Cry 4, but it’s basically a totally different philosophy from what we do. If you look at their trailer that they have online, you’ll see that none of the enemies attack you. None of the enemies attack whatsoever. That’s a game where the enemies only exist to provide a target for all of your combos, and they don’t really do anything else. For us, we’re a combat-action game; our enemies are alive, they think, they attack you, and if you don’t actively defend yourself, you’re going to die really quick. So it’s a basic difference in philosophy. We’re an action game, they’re kind of a “let’s see how stylishly we can show off these combos and get a high score” kind of thing. So if the people playing think that’s stylish, then more power to them.

Someone should tell Team Ninja that shitting on other games isn’t going to sell more copies of Ninja Gaiden Sigma.