From what I know, if you've played the demo, the "campaign" pretty much plays out like that, with anime cutscenes thrown into the mix. It's just fight after fight.
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Naruto Shippuden UNS: Generations |OT| Why is Shizune support only?
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From what I know, if you've played the demo, the "campaign" pretty much plays out like that, with anime cutscenes thrown into the mix. It's just fight after fight.
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Dedication Through Light
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What is Danzo's ultimate jutsu?
Dedication Through Light
Member
No, that ought to just be a costume/outfit, plus that is his ultimate goal and would happen when the series nears ends I think.
Eww, I'd rather not have those USK logos.
I've preordered from a third party on Amazon UK
Killer Bee Rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YdHffg9gvg&feature=youtu.be
Madara story intro and Free battle with Second Hokage(spoiler alert just in case).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mEQOvbsUtY&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YdHffg9gvg&feature=youtu.be
Madara story intro and Free battle with Second Hokage(spoiler alert just in case).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mEQOvbsUtY&feature=youtu.be
I finished playing through this last night (in one sitting pretty much cause I was loving it) the SP campaign was about 11hrs or so with some tough battles, but most were easy. The damage modifiers the AI gets can be a little crazy (+80%), but nothing was impossible.
I really really like the lack of QTE and boss fights. It makes the game feel like a really nice focused fighting game. The pace of the fights is smooth and fast, with no butonmashy cutscenes getting in the way. Cutscenes are handled like SF4 and SFXT, so theres nothing to prolonged.
I've played all the CC2 Naruto games, and this is definitely my favorite. It feels like a refined version of everything from the beginning up until a nice set up (if they choose to do another with this style, I hope they do). With the assists and more focused pace, the game feels like a speedy mix of a melee mvc3 with the smoothest animation I've ever seen in a fighting game. No doubt, this game has the prettiest animation I've ever seen. It's not that its amazingly better than the previous versions, but now that all of the gameplay is based on responses from the button presses and not predetermined whatever, it just flows so naturally well.
The anime cutscenes are clean and nice for the most part (some look off). They go through a lot of content through a lot of perspectives, so some may not like how some big moments are brief while others are touched on multiple times. I also really liked some of the other stories, and all of them having intro/outro cutscenes plus full dialogue was really nice. The are 3 in particular that are really cool fanservice stories that I'm sure some people have been looking forward to seeing.
I wasn't expecting more than just a rehash with some new characters, and its like they took out all the stuff I didnt want and finally made a fighting game that captures the pace and feel of the anime perfectly.
I guess I am alone in being happy that they didnt put any QTE in it at all. its what I always wanted and now I finally have it. It'll be interesting to see how it holds up as far as online goes, but SP and training mode took me away from SFXT and SC5. good job cc2!!!!
all the characters are unlocked through SP. I actually like the story mode a lot this time versus the other games. Seeing all the different perspectives is a really good idea.
I really really like the lack of QTE and boss fights. It makes the game feel like a really nice focused fighting game. The pace of the fights is smooth and fast, with no butonmashy cutscenes getting in the way. Cutscenes are handled like SF4 and SFXT, so theres nothing to prolonged.
I've played all the CC2 Naruto games, and this is definitely my favorite. It feels like a refined version of everything from the beginning up until a nice set up (if they choose to do another with this style, I hope they do). With the assists and more focused pace, the game feels like a speedy mix of a melee mvc3 with the smoothest animation I've ever seen in a fighting game. No doubt, this game has the prettiest animation I've ever seen. It's not that its amazingly better than the previous versions, but now that all of the gameplay is based on responses from the button presses and not predetermined whatever, it just flows so naturally well.
The anime cutscenes are clean and nice for the most part (some look off). They go through a lot of content through a lot of perspectives, so some may not like how some big moments are brief while others are touched on multiple times. I also really liked some of the other stories, and all of them having intro/outro cutscenes plus full dialogue was really nice. The are 3 in particular that are really cool fanservice stories that I'm sure some people have been looking forward to seeing.
I wasn't expecting more than just a rehash with some new characters, and its like they took out all the stuff I didnt want and finally made a fighting game that captures the pace and feel of the anime perfectly.
I guess I am alone in being happy that they didnt put any QTE in it at all. its what I always wanted and now I finally have it. It'll be interesting to see how it holds up as far as online goes, but SP and training mode took me away from SFXT and SC5. good job cc2!!!!
all the characters are unlocked through SP. I actually like the story mode a lot this time versus the other games. Seeing all the different perspectives is a really good idea.
TheApatheticOne
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Thanks for spending the time to write that. Im definitely looking forward to this (although I have my fingers in Asura's Wrath, SSX, and SFXTekken... NOT ENOUGH TIME!). I enjoyed the first well enough, but absolutely loved UNS2 although I didnt mess with the online multi.
Dedication Through Light
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Well I think for some of my favorite characters I like their pre time skip versions a bit more, like Kiba (ultimate jutsu better), and Shino's is better as well.
I hate that you keep getting things before me
.Buying two of these tomorrow, one for my bro and one for me.
Nice wrtiteup! I am excite!!
Panajev2001a
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The game got worse and worse with each iteration for me (because the adventure part got less and less important in the game)... even though it kept adding characters, kept progressing in the story, and upgraded the fighting engine.
Without an adventure mode the game is really not that appealing to me. There is the anime and manga for the story and I am not interested in a pure fighter while I would have liked a game with both aspects in. UNS 1 had SO much promise.
Panajev2001a
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Host Samurai
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The lack of 3 in the title made me think that this is just a quick cash in to hold fans of the off until the manga is done with the current arc. The lack of QTE bosses and adventure mode just confirmed this.
I'm with ya bro. Did you play the demo? Nothing to go crazy over.
Host Samurai
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Yeah I was expecting a nice boss battle in the demo like they did with UNS2 and we got nothing but a regular exibaton match. The game plays as good as ever but no adventure or special boss battles make it seem like its just a tide over title till the proper UNS 3 comes out.
Or a way of fixing the online to get some sort of community momemtum for UNS3. We won't see that game till the manga ends tho. So maybe next year. I agree the fighting is still dope but boss battles were a nice climax to each chapter. Wasn't a fan of the adventure mode- fight after fight is a "better" solution but not the best.
Wait for bomba price!
Dedication Through Light
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I want to hear the english va's for the other kages, no one has it yet?
Dedication Through Light
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Remove the QTE's and massive boss fights and its higher than Storm 1 and 2, thats shocking. Unless people really disliked going around the village and world much.
The demo's purpose was (for some reason) to only show the new canceling system.
Arrgh the install time on this thing is monstrous.
Different people have different opinions, that's shocking.
I'm cautiously optimistic about this one. I want to bite because of the alternate story stuff.
I hated it. I like fighting games. I've watched the anime, so the only draw of story mode was seeing the epic battles.
This, along with the changes in the combat system, will probably make this game my favorite in the series.
Edit: Awesome. Unlocked 20 characters for having save data from the first two games!
YESSSSSSS!
Ultimadrago
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*slowly turns head to person next to me...turns it back towards computer screen*
Panajev2001a
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It was not perfect, but I think it was worth improving it rather than turning the series into a pure fighter.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Sigh... I am sorry if it sounds like a personal message against you (it really is not) , but things like this make me think about a trend I see in some movies recently too... dialogue, plot development, background, adventure, discovery, etc... are all worthless... the only thing important is action.
They're not worthless. I've been reading and watching Naruto for 10 years. I've seen and read all of it and have no interest in sitting through a really bad adventure mode just for the sake of there being one. If I wanted an adventure game, or any of those things, I would get them in another way (books, movies, etc). This is a fighting game and that's what I want.
The adventure modes in 1 and 2 were tedious and boring. They got in the way of doing what I wanted, which is fighting. Sucks for people who like adventure mode. But, you know, if that's important to you...don't buy this game. Or better yet, buy an adventure game that's actually good at having adventure.
I'm with you Panajev, is really disappointing. Instead of building over that they are just cutting it and loosing the potencial. Lack of final bosses, added to the short Oujis make this game much less interesting for me. I have more than enough fighting games to play, what I want for this is an anime flavoured combat game with some of the extra craziness CyberConnect2 tends to put (I guess it´s a drawback of running two projects at the same time).
I will probably pass on this or buy on sale.
The adventure mode was kind of boring. But I always hoped that it would be improved in future games.
I care way more about the QTE finishes though. Those were really cool.
I'm not a fan of the anime though (I just played the last two because I'm a CC2 fan). So I don't know how valid my opinions are.
I was looking forward to this because I liked UNS2. But if it's just fighting, and I'm not a fan of the anime, I'm not sure there is much for me here.
I care way more about the QTE finishes though. Those were really cool.
I'm not a fan of the anime though (I just played the last two because I'm a CC2 fan). So I don't know how valid my opinions are.
I was looking forward to this because I liked UNS2. But if it's just fighting, and I'm not a fan of the anime, I'm not sure there is much for me here.
Conrad Link
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Just shows how everyone is different I guess.
I find just fighting games completely boring and played out now, I'll be sick of it quickly. I would much prefer to have an awesome adventure mode to run around and explore a world I already really love from the show. Not saying the Ninja Storm games provided this (far from it), just my personal wishing.
Always comes back to this but, I guess I'll never get over the Ubisoft Xbox 360 games it seems, such fun.
Mix up the adventuring with fights still obviously and the cool CS battles and you'd have me drooling.
Unless they want to give me a new Smash Bros. type one, then I'm allllllllllllllllllll for it!
I find just fighting games completely boring and played out now, I'll be sick of it quickly. I would much prefer to have an awesome adventure mode to run around and explore a world I already really love from the show. Not saying the Ninja Storm games provided this (far from it), just my personal wishing.
Always comes back to this but, I guess I'll never get over the Ubisoft Xbox 360 games it seems, such fun.
Mix up the adventuring with fights still obviously and the cool CS battles and you'd have me drooling.
Unless they want to give me a new Smash Bros. type one, then I'm allllllllllllllllllll for it!
NoirVisage
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its actually not as bad as i was afraid it would be, i'm not missing the adventure mode but i do miss the BOSS BATTLES, its like Asuras wrath sucked some of the awesome out of CC2..i still miss the Sound 4..a HUGE missed opportunity for a story mode of Shikamaru's team against the sound 5.. B-Fly Choji would have been Glorious... but then again i also wanted the demon bro's and Dosu's team..they each represented growth.
I hate that you keep getting things before me
Buying two of these tomorrow, one for my bro and one for me.
Nice wrtiteup! I am excite!!
haha its one of the few perks of my area.
You get ps3 version? I'm thinking of resubbing my xbl....
I already mentioned this in my impressions, but no QTEs and boss fights = PERFECT NARUTO GAME
NoirVisage
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For YOU, but overall, thats factually wrong, i'd agree if you said:
"PERFECT NARUTO FIGHTING GAME"..
not everyone is into online versus, and not all naruto fans are fighting game fans..
if it wasn't for the Single player free play mode, i wouldn't recommend this game to non-fighting game fans, the Boss battles are what made UNS1/2 fun to play despite the tedious adventure modes.
Opinions can't be facts. Either one would be wrong if you say fact. But it's true for doc and me. For example, I'm playing the first story and about to skip this stupid anime cutscene that looks like filler episodes.
I wouldn't recommend this to non-fighting game fans, either. It is a fighting game, afterall.
Doc: Yep, ps3. we shall play. Uchihas and Haku > whoever you want to use, unless it's haku or uchihas.
I wouldn't recommend this to non-fighting game fans, either. It is a fighting game, afterall.
I was speaking for myself, not everyone obviously. Also I was only speaking of the offline content, I haven't played online yet.
I've played all minus 2 of the naruto games on consoles, and I dont need to run around leaf village collecting coins anymore. Seeing all the villages of that scope would be nice sure, but I'd rather have them focus on the meat of any naruto game (the combat mechanics/animation).
What made UNS1/2 fun was the combat, not gimmicky boss battles. I'm buying a game for the gameplay. If I want interactive cutscenes I'll play Asuras Wrath (which is good, I'm not hating).
I love and play old fighting games all the time, but there is always room to improve. I'm surprised to see people missing QTEs though, really surprised. I don't know why you think the combat has never been that great, when its already based on a good system from the ps2 games.
They made changes to projectile and countering, the assists feel better and more useful, the pacing of the fights is great (for me, perfect even). I brought it to work and the controls plus imagery immediately pushed aside SFxT and SC5.
Nawp, hated them aside from how awesome they looked. Always wanted a game I could pick up and play doing cool looking shit with my favorite anime characters. So happy I don't have to bother with some horrible, tacked on adventure mode to progress through the game now. What makes the game for me is that it is based on a manga I like. The improvements to the battle system in this make it a lot better.
I mostly enjoyed the UNS games for the graphics and boss battles.
I like fighting games a lot, but never found the combat engine in these games all that compelling. The adventure mode was pretty ass though. The ubisoft naruto games did it much better, though they got a bit repetitive.
Also this never occurred to me until now, why the hell was ubisoft making naruto games?
I like fighting games a lot, but never found the combat engine in these games all that compelling. The adventure mode was pretty ass though. The ubisoft naruto games did it much better, though they got a bit repetitive.
Also this never occurred to me until now, why the hell was ubisoft making naruto games?