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This game is ok. In some ways great the level of detail & the story on a whole is insanely long & in depth.
Normally I would recommend this game & in a way if the below doesn’t bother you should but these issues were too much for me to be honest.
Firstly there’s the menu at first I thought the supersampling & vsync were the only graphical options only 1/4 of the way in did I actually find an additional options menu hidden at the start that doesn’t appear until 5 seconds later. Why you’d put it there is beyond me & why not in the other options menu?
Then there’s dialogue I love dialogue, but asking me to continuously press A to go to the next part is annoying & tiring especially when in other scenes you’ve got voices & lines that play all the way through without me having to press A why didn’t you just do that for everything?
The roads with the shop were a kinda cool idea but fell short in what was actually possible.
The shops confusing words like ATK or NUMB ATK sure is attack but specifically what is ATK damage per hit? Ninjutsu damage? LIKE EXPLAIN!
Secret Actions this one had me puzzled I read there’s an indicator & when you are in the right position the action occurs so I thought the indicator was a rador with the white outline pointing to the place I need to be in nope. Turns out it was an icon hinting at what to use ability wise but it doesn’t tell you so you have to guess. Btw I couldn’t find any info on what each icon mean & it’s pretty difficult to look at an icons when the AI is chasing & spamming you with shurikan.
There’s also the fact that there’s just no labelling anywhere in this game e.g. how do I use a rasengan? How do I use amaterasu? What buttons? I’m told there’s a basic one on the loading screen but newsflash can’t read loading pages with an ssd lol.
And so every fight was at first just figuring out how players worked & what jutsu they used.
I eventually learned by trial and error it’s Y & then your attack button for me it’s X & double Y + X for ultimate but still where’s the tutorial for that? Also where’s the chakara dash what is a chakara dash?
Another thing that annoyed the hell out of me is that some characters ultimate jutsu requires the player to be grabbed right in front of you others can hit from a distance while others are just stupidly slow/clunky or seem to phase through character's cough cough shikamaru.
To be honest naruto was the only one that felt solid in all animations.

In some cases naruto has sage mode others he’s normal & his ultimate keeps changing which confused me am I able to switch forms kinda like dragon ball z? Doesn’t look like it the only way is to be at low health.

By far the thing that annoyed me the most & made me unable to recommend this game is the sheer ridiculous AI & battles at the end. Lets start with the 5 kage final stage fight you’re in the air attacking at first it’s ok but at the final stage it’s ridiculous not because it’s hard but because I CANNOT SEE A DAMN THING! My screen is just littered with fireballs to the point where I can’t see my own player it’s not hard it’s just ridiculous & stupid. What also annoyed me was that some battles had multiple stages and so you’d start the next stage with health from how you ended the previous stage which again isn’t a problem it isn’t hard it’s just annoying & stupid because if I had known I wouldn’t have played recklessly having fun experimenting & seeing low health forms for each character. Both the 5 kage fight & Naruto final battles have multiple stages where you’re not told when you get health back & when you don’t like I said it isn’t hard I can just go back & add health elixirs problem solved it just the fact you wasted my time trying to be clever with this stupid dumb trick. For these devs it seems like to them tricks & difficulty = fun. If I wanted that I’d have played Tekken.

What makes this worse is the save system you can’t save when you want & so going having to go back because you didn’t know your hp carried over meant doing other battles again.

All in all this game story wise is amazing although not everything was canon the expansion of emotion was amazing but a lot of dumb things in this game made me pretty annoyed I won’t lie. Oh and last thing just like the 5 kage fight the tailed beast fight is just as bad it’s not hard it’s not difficult it’s simply the fact I CANNOT SEE A DAMN THING HALF THE TIME!
What also sets me off is the power scaling you have AI with infinite substitutions & an extra health bar while you only have 2 make it make sense? Then there’s the attacks e.g the 9 tails itself had the most pathetic attacks I’ve seen slow & clunky bar the tailed beast bomb which you can rarely use since it takes forever to get chakara.
But what also sets me off is the fact damage makes zero sense in this game naruto in the end has a tailed beast bomb as his ultimate jutsu but it does less damage than other characters/abilities like rasen shurikan or the tsuchikage or kakashis mangekyo sharingan it’s the most powerful jutsu to exist at that point in time & other players do more damage? Make it make sense. Saskues thunder clap does little damage but chojis ultimate does way more or shikamarus when it’s way more powerful also why does it use chakara!!?? Its nothing supposed to.
Lastly its the stupid jinchuriki fight with bee being useless its you vs 6 others what makes this fight ridiculous is the basic targeting system can’t keep up. Visual spam everywhere I can’t see a thing between bubbles, lava rocks, smoke to substitutions again it’s not hard I JUST CANT SEE! and my player doesn’t target who I want. What also makes it annoying is when each jinchuriki does their special animation I CANT SEE & I’m STILL VULNERABLE TO ATTACKS!? WHY? Why does it zoome away from me & if it is zoomed WHY AM I VULNERABLE WHEN I CANNOT SEE ME OR THE OTHERS ATTACKING ME?
My god you can tell the game was made by greats devs but designed by morons with simple thinking.

First off I'd like to say that this is one of my favorite STORM games. I used to play it a lot when I was a wee lad back when it came out on the Xbox 360. Having to replay it after all these years didn't feel like a chore at all, and this is mainly due to the fact that this game has the most fleshed out and enjoyable Ultimate Adventure mode out of all the STORM games in my opinion. It continues where STORM 2 left off and ends during the 4th Great Shinobi War. The story is recorded in a thing called the Ninja Timeline, where you can choose to retroactively go back and replay missions and key moments as you see fit. During exploration you can find collectibles scattered along many locations which will unlock key moments from Part 1/Early Shippuden which you can play as well. I wasn't a huge fan of the game exclusive ending but what can you do when the ending of it wasn't present in the anime at the time. Everything feels like an upgrade from the previous iteration, be it the combat, overall movement, inclusion of secret actions and fantastic boss battles although the traversal during the story is still a bit sluggish but it still feels better than having to backtrack back and forth like STORM 2. All in all, it's a must play for any Naruto/STORM fan or anyone looking for a fun arena fighter with a great story.