Above average...
posted by MatthewS (TULSA, OK) Jan 20, 2009
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This game was alright, and had one or two improvements on the original. For instance, you no longer had to time out their health in order to pass the pre-requisites for defeating your opponent. On this one even if they have no health, if you miss with your special, you can just beat them up some more to get more chakra and try again. A vast improvement over the first, where if you didn't time out their health, and make sure they didn't block your attack, you might get it, that is if your special hits and everything else. Too many variables to have to re-fight the battle over for.
The storyline in this game is alright, it could be original or follow one of the movies, can't say since I didn't watch the Naruto movies. However, the storyline I believe to be much shorter than the previous. It seemed like the story was over by time I started, the only thing that made it slow was some of the irritatingly hard missions. Kurenai is too slow and Asuma is too powerful for as quick as he is! Anyway, the storyline was all right, but it didn't quite seem to finish up, I even searched for perhaps some unlockable storymode chapters online, but I didn't find any. It seems like the ending was thrown together more than thought out.
The battles did get a bit more interesting in this one, but they screwed this fact up by limiting what all you could do. I do like the one player missions on this game, however the guard rate of most characters is far too high. The fact they removed any traces of mini-games was a sad event too, I found myself most hooked training the Rasengan, as irritating as getting perfect timing was not to get a lame score. Regardless, while the battles were improved, such as the tag duel's double special, and so on. Seems like an unfair trade to give up so many other things that honestly I looked forward to from the first game, just to find it lacking compared to it's first.
For it's good qualities, as well as things it lacks.
6 - Above Average
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