The Best Ultimate Ninja in the Series
Nowadays, the main problem with anime-based games is that they only appeal to a particular audience, the one that purchases everything that is thrown at them, regardless of its content and quality. Naruto has been a series that suffered from this problem, with several games presenting a below-average quality. Fortunately, that's not the case of this game, which partially solves the problem.
Soon after watching the introduction sequence, you'll gain access to the main menu. Apart from featuring the usual options that every fighting titles presents us, most of your time will be spent on the RPG and Hero modes.
The interesting RPG Mode allows you to control Uzumaki Naruto, the series' main character, while he faces a storyline that could have been taken from the show itself. With a simple storyline that takes no more than six hours to complete, a player will have three different side quests to complete, all of which unlock bonus content. However, the main characteristic is that you will be controlling this character in a small 3D world, which you're free to explore, not that it has much to explore... eventually, you'll get into battles and while some of them use the classical interface seen in the "Narutimate Hero" games, others are held in pure 3D, with the same quality as the rest of the world. Those battles are generally boring and predictable, making you stick to the attacking button and using Rasengan as soon as possible, which is deemed harder if you think about the camera. Sure, you can control it by using the right stick, but the default view is usually bad and constantly adjusting it breaks the gameplay.
In fact, those battles are possibly the worst part of this mode. Sure, you can throw some shuriken at your enemies, but such action doesn't even harm them, providing you with the interesting battle strategy of constantly sticking to the same combo, followed by Rasengan attacks, when possible. Besides, since the game doesn't feature any kind of random battles, it is easy to predict when you'll be fighting your next one, which becomes too boring after a while, with you facing the very same set of enemies for several times. Sure, there are two different boss battles found in this mode, but they can be won by relying on the same strategy that you used in every other one, provided you heal at proper times.
Items are also available on this mode, with predictable results. You'll only need the ones who increase your current HP, with any other ones being hardly required. You'll find some money and orbs while exploring this small world, and since those are transferred to use on the other modes, they are probably more important than anything you'll get from this mode.
After acquiring some orbs, you're free to visit the Hero Mode. There, you'll be revisiting the storyline of the Naruto series, with orbs being required to proceed. Divided onto four different arcs, you get to see the main events that occurred in the series, apart from facing the same epic battles that you could see in the actual show, always fighting in an interface that resembles the ones from the "Narutimate Hero" games. There, some cut scenes are shown in the 3D and others with mere static images, always featuring voices that sound exactly like the ones from the show.
As had told you earlier, I still like the main campaign where there are 3D battles against the forces of evil but still, if you want action, you can still go for the versus mode.Vollständige Rezension lesen
