I'll start by saying that I am a Naruto fan and that coolness of seeing favourite characters and attacks plays into my impressions of this.
This demo has blown me away.
The demo comprises on a one on one versus fight and you can choose to play as Naruto or Kakashi. With your main character you have support characters that can be summoned by L1 or R1. These will help by performing set attacks. For example Sasuke will jump in and use his fire jutsu to attack before jumping back out. It's a lot like Marvel vs Capcom 2.
The fights take place in arenas that give you plenty of room to run and jump in so instead of side stepping around opponents ala Soul Calibur, your characters are running and jumping all over the place. The camera does a fantastic job of moving with the characters and is way more dynamic than normal beat em ups.
There are a lot of fighting mechanics to learn and no tutorial in the demo. There is a basic attack, shurikens and chakra attacks. Basic attacks are just button mashing combos. Each character's characteristics come through in these. With Naruto's basic attack a shadow clone appears and helps with the combo. This looks great and provides nice personality for the fighters.
The chakra attacks require the use of the chakra bar and button combinations. When you trigger a jutsu using your chakra a special attack happens which plays out like a QTE except it doesn't suck balls. A list of button presses appears in the bottom corner of the screen and you are supposed to press as many as possible as the attack winds up. The more you press the better the attack. If you press none or very few, your opponent can escape the attack.
There are also items like ramen and parachute kunai that are accessed by the d pad.
The game also looks fantastic. It has the very thin black outline problem that some cell shaded games have and it can make the edges look a bit jagged but otherwise it looks great.
I urge any fighting game fans to check it out if they can, even if you don't like Naruto.
With this and Ubi's sequel it's a great year to be a gaming Naruto fan.
This demo has blown me away.
The demo comprises on a one on one versus fight and you can choose to play as Naruto or Kakashi. With your main character you have support characters that can be summoned by L1 or R1. These will help by performing set attacks. For example Sasuke will jump in and use his fire jutsu to attack before jumping back out. It's a lot like Marvel vs Capcom 2.
The fights take place in arenas that give you plenty of room to run and jump in so instead of side stepping around opponents ala Soul Calibur, your characters are running and jumping all over the place. The camera does a fantastic job of moving with the characters and is way more dynamic than normal beat em ups.
There are a lot of fighting mechanics to learn and no tutorial in the demo. There is a basic attack, shurikens and chakra attacks. Basic attacks are just button mashing combos. Each character's characteristics come through in these. With Naruto's basic attack a shadow clone appears and helps with the combo. This looks great and provides nice personality for the fighters.
The chakra attacks require the use of the chakra bar and button combinations. When you trigger a jutsu using your chakra a special attack happens which plays out like a QTE except it doesn't suck balls. A list of button presses appears in the bottom corner of the screen and you are supposed to press as many as possible as the attack winds up. The more you press the better the attack. If you press none or very few, your opponent can escape the attack.
There are also items like ramen and parachute kunai that are accessed by the d pad.
The game also looks fantastic. It has the very thin black outline problem that some cell shaded games have and it can make the edges look a bit jagged but otherwise it looks great.
I urge any fighting game fans to check it out if they can, even if you don't like Naruto.
With this and Ubi's sequel it's a great year to be a gaming Naruto fan.
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