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Ninjas Abound in Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations

I see they're taking after Rocky, the original ninja.

Dec. 21 2011

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I really like these games ever since Ultimate Ninja Storm. Cyberconnect2 are very good at making Naruto look amazing and impressive, much more so than either the comic or the anime. Looking forward to how Asura's Wrath turns out as well.

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@OriginalGman: This game features all the characters from before and after the time skip wherein they aged all the characters a few years and started a fresh plot line so it has both "generations" represented.

In a nutshell it means a huge group of dead and kid characters get to fight alongside the current roster.

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@TheJappernaut:

Are you seriously questioning Naruto's popularity? It's huge. Ridiculously huge. Not quite as big as One Piece, but pretty damn big.

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@DiGiTaL_SiN: I don't know Naruto's sexy technique would be extra effective on a grown up Naruto. Such is the weakness of a pervert growing in strength

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Edited By neckface

Yessss! Over an hour of precious anime?! I'm throwing my cash just everywhere in the hopes that some of it lands in the till at my local game store so the game can land at my feet and lay anime eggs in my eyes and mind! Hooray!

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shits mad anime

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I'm always impressed by the graphics and wish they weren't in such a terrible fighting game. I think the Gamecube games actually have the best fighting system. The 360 one is decent but there is stuff about it that's just straight up broken and ultra janky.

What I do wish is that someone would take all of the assets from these games and revamp stuff like Spiderman Cartoon Maker with it.

@McGhee said:

I still don't understand why they insist on constantly making Naruto into sub-par fighting games instead of something more interesting like an open world sand box game with Ninja Gaiden-like combat.

That's not really what the series is about. If they wanted to really capture the tone it'd be like Monster Hunter where squads of 4 people have to team up and use actual strategies and tactics to take out opponents who are generally waaaaaaaaaaay stronger than they are with the occasional 1 vs 1 battle that gets epically out of control. The series isn't really 1 vs 1000s like Ninja Gaiden.

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@hupla said:

Does this game still qualify as "Anime; FOR JERKS!"?

Did you know that this phrase was originally uttered by Jeff Gerstmann when presenting an exclusive trailer Gamespot had for a new Naruto game? It's true.

If anything, in Jeff's mind this is the one exception.

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They'll definitely play this game back at my campus! Actually, that's a good thing.

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Edited By pakattak

Man, I haven't liked Naruto in yeaaaars, but the Ninja Storm series are pretty enough and button mashy enough that I may have to pick this one up.

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holy shit this game is pretty. some of the best in-game animation i've seen.

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I know it's a trailer... and this is the power of marketing... and I'm totally gonna stop playing this after 2 weeks like all of my other fighting games... but... that looks pretty good and this might be the first naruto game that I get... is that bad?

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Never played this series but that looks awesome! XD

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Edited By MeatSim

I guess Ninja's gave up on the whole being stealthy thing.

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I am unironically excited about this game.

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Edited By Solh0und

I just recently played through UNS 2's story mode. While the battles were good, the side quests were meh in my opinion. I hope the battles in this are really good.

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Edited By holycrapitsadam

The Ninja Storm games are awesome and this one has more characters than ever before. It looks awesome. I can't wait.

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@McGhee said:

I still don't understand why they insist on constantly making Naruto into sub-par fighting games instead of something more interesting like an open world sand box game with Ninja Gaiden-like combat.

They were almost there with Rise of A Ninja and Broken Bond (the main 1p mode was an action-adventure game with cutaways to one-on-one fighting). I like those games (finished both) and I hated the anime, but nooo we had to get more of these.

Look at that title: Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations. Jesus H. Christ-sama, that just about sums it up well. These games and this anime have dragged on this goddamned long.

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Edited By falconpunch

This looks awesome... but they wont cover it.

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Edited By Calavero

Haven't followed Naruto in years but I loved UNS2, hopefully this ends up being just as great.