Naruto Shippuuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 review

This week I'll be reviewing Naruto Shippuuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2. Ninja Storm 2 is a fighting game based off the manga "Naruto" by Masashi Kishimoto. The story takes place when Naruto and Jiraiya return to the Hidden Leaf village after the three years of training, and ends with Pain's evasion of Konoha.

             The controls are the same as in the first game. I really wished that they would have fixed with because the fighting and interacting with the world in storymode can get confusing due to the button layout. It if not horriable but it does take some time to get used to them.

             The adventure mode during story was mostly the same except for the villages. They were not three demisional like in the first. I didn’t like this because I really enjoyed running around the village in the first game. The villages in Ninja storm are just one path with only a few side roads branching off to get to a shop, which really limits the explorability a lot.         

             Some imporvement that I did enjoy where the amount of characters there are, online play, and flash back they put in storymode. There are a total of 42 playable characters in Ninja Storm 2 which gives a wide varity of fighting styles. The online mode if very fun since now I can play against my friends unlike the first game which only had a offline verses mode. The flash backs they use in story mode are very intersting since they use parts of the anime to show them.

Some things I didn’t like about it were the difference between it and the anime. The game left out things that happened in that anime and I think of the reason some were left out is so they could keep a teen raiting on it, but leaving of fights like Kankurō vs. Sasori and Pain vs. Konohamaru.

Over all it is a very good fighting games and an extremely great Naruto game. I’d give it a 9 out of 10.