Anyone try Ubisoft Montreal's latest, Naruto?
Saturday, November 10th, 2007 - 4:13pm
The key points of the review boils down to this.
*GTA world exploration with missions from the villagers.
*Virtual Fighter lite fighting
*Prince of Persia lite platforming
*Really good animation
*It's actually fun
*It's actually a good anime game. Almost unheard of.
*Japanese voices are DLC! Free!
*Extra characters are also free DLC.
*Multiplayer fighting over live with Online Tournaments.
*The show clips look meh in HD.
*Won't non-fans. They specifically mention rent before you buy.
*Fans will like it if they are caught up in the story via show or manga.
*Those who are not caught up in the story will find the exposition too brief.
It's in my gamefly queue but it hasn't shipped.
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Sounds like a good rental. I went through a Naruto phase, so I'm excited to eventually play this game. Unfortunately, I'm still 360-less.
Did he turn into a woman Bugs Bunny style near the middle of the Gametrailers review?
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I'm no big fan of the series, and haven't read much of it, but one of his "transformations" is disguise himself as a hot chick to throw off the hentai pursuers. Nosebleeds play hell with fighting technique.
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The bullet points from Edwin's post recap my experience so far with this one. Having seen the first bunch of shows, I don't really pay attention to the exposition but anyone who hasn't the show should be lost. Good fun and a shockingly good anime based game, but I'd suggest a rental at best for non-Naruto fans.
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I'm a massive DBZ fan but never really know anything about Naruto, I might have to rent this or something to try it out.
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I'm reviewing this currently and my god, it is actually fun. I have never seen the anime (and intend to keep avoiding it), but as a game setting and cast, it's great stuff. It looks great and plays well, and is pretty funny, to boot.
Three things against it:
1) english dub. It's not beyond redemption, but pretty irritating regardless. Luckily can be avoided with the free Japanese voices as DLC (they say, I haven't tried it yet)
2) the moving about is a little clunky. There are like invisible force fields keeping you from touching most places that are not plain walls - they don't have a proper physics/collision detection system in place. As long as you don't fight against it, it's fine - just a little jarring when everything looks so splendid
3) the fighting is pretty demanding. I have had to practice and was initially baffled to be beaten over and over again. It is pretty satisfying one you get it right, though. I think this is a good thing for hardcore Naruto fans, but may be a little much for young kids (and adults past their prime)
Based on one day's gaming, I would say one of the better action adventures in quite a while, certainly something I'd be happy to buy as a Christmas present for a Naruto fan.
Now, as I'm not an anime consumer, what's with the characters dropping logs when clobbered?
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Glad to hear it's fun. It's a planned rental sometime in the future.
In the show one of the first moves a ninja learns is how to clone themself/make a decoy. The decoys look and act like the character until they're hit, when they go poof and reveal that it's actually a log. It gets overused.
I stopped watching about 9 months ago, which was a few months longer than I should have watched. But the first season was really good - after that, brief flashes of "cool!" in a pool of crap. From what I understand the game is based on the first season/story arc.
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Title: Naruto Rise Of A Ninja
Content: Japanese Voices
Price: Free
Availability: Not available in India, Japan, Korea
Size: 59.65 MB
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I'm guessing/assuming that it includes subtitles or subtitles are available by default for the hearing impaired. As much as I prefer the original voice acting my Japanese is awful.
Although I did see the Naruto movie in Japan when it came out. Not a good movie, but kind of fun to go to a Japanese movie theater and be the only white guy, and the only people over 18 there without kids. Bad movie though.
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Yeah it has subtitles. Which come on-screen in an irritating wavey sort of manner.
Actually, pretty rare lately that a game doesn't have subtitles. I often play with the sound turned way down and English not being my native language, it's something I notice.
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I don't frequent Destructiod but I happened to come across a review of Naruto there as well.
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