Rachel (Ninja Gaiden)

Rachel (レイチェル) is fictional character from the Ninja Gaiden series of video games by Team Ninja and Tecmo, introduced in Ninja Gaiden in 2004, where she is a sidekick type non-playable character. Rachel is playable in Ninja Gaiden Sigma and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, as well as in Musou Orochi 2 Special and Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate.

Appearances


Rachel is a fiend hunter whom the protagonist Ryu Hayabusa meets in the Holy Vigoor Empire, where she is on a mission to destroy the fiends, as well as find her missing sister, Alma, who has become a Greater Fiend. Rachel wields the Great Hammer, a powerful weapon designed to eliminate fiends.

In Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate, her first fighting game appearance, Rachel is a heayweight power-type fighter of a weight class is similar to that of Leon's and her fighting style is reminiscent of Spartan-458's in Dead or Alive 4.

Rachel also appears in Musou Orochi 2 Special and in the smart phone action card game Hyakuman-nin no Ninja Gaiden. A 1/6 scale PVC figure of Rachel was released by Kotobukiya in 2006.

Reception
Rachel was included on many lists of the sexiest female characters in video games. She topped the countdown of "gamer babes" by GameTrailers in 2007, ranked third on the list of top "video game chicks" by ActionTrip that same year, and was included among the top nine "video game vixens" by Maxim in 2009. MSN had her featured in their 2008 lists of "the best-looking game characters with perfect figures" and most remarkable heroines in video games.

Rachel was also ranked as the 23rd "hottest game babe" by GameDaily in 2008, as well as the 11th "hottest" video game character by Complex in 2012. Fakt showcased her among some of the sexiest "babes of computer games [sic]" in 2009, and PLAY ranked her as sixth top "hottest" blonde in games in 2010; in 2011, UGO.com ranked her as one of the top 25 "hot ninja girls" in all media.

Her bust was chosen by GamesRadar as one of 2007's best of the year, also placing third and 17th on the lists of top breasts in video game history as compiled by Gamikaze in 2010 and GameFront in 2011, respectively; Rachel also shared with Ninja Gaiden's Ayane the seventh place on the list of "most incredible chests" by Joystick Division in 2011. In addition, NBC News included her outfit among the five most preposterous getups in games.