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| Summary: I'm not a fan of the series, but I still love this game
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To begin, I know very little about the anime series that this game is based on. I think I've only seen the first four episodes, so I'm not so famliar with the storyline and I don't know the names of the characters. Despite this, I thoroughly love playing this game. It has so much going for it. The gameplay is involved, fast-paced and addictive, the cel-shaded anime style characters are well-crafted and posess unique abilities that make the fighting interesting, and the backgrounds are both interactive and beautiful.
Going through the story mode was a chore, for the most part, because you have to keep pressing O to get through the dialogue, which there is a lot of, and there are only four mini games that you are forced to play over and over. Of course it was fun when I was faced with a battle. Towards the end, the enemies get extremely challenging to beat, which is a good thing, and upon completing story mode, you are rewarded with more characters to challenge your friends with. After you unlock all the characters, you will probably not want to have to go through the story mode again. There are other unlockables which you can get by earning points through story mode and through fighting the computer, but these are mostly to appeal to fans of the anime series.
The fighting system is what makes this game so enjoyable. It involves a few important strategic elements, the use of ninja tools, which can be acquired by hitting part of the environment, teleporting from the foreground to the back ground and vice versa, building up chakra to enable a special move, and a very fun mid-air exchange of blows that can inflict a lot of damage on the player who does not counter-attack in time. The levels provide their own unique circumstances, such as cliffs you can fall off of, higher platforms you can jump to, and lower platforms you can retreat to temporarily before the enemy catches up to you. Each character has their own fighting style to compliment the standard punch, kick and throw/swing a weapon. There's a guy who can drop a giant frog on you and fights in a quirky manner, there's a guy who is made of bugs and throws bugs at you, there's a girl who can generate her own ninja tools, there's a fat kid who can somersault into you, tazmanian-devil style, there's the tall sensei who fights in the classic ninja style... The characters definitely factor into the replayability of the game, and they are very stylishly designed, thanks to the anime series, I am sure.
As a straight fighter, I highly recommend this game, despite the tedious story mode. It is extremely fun if you have someone to battle against. If I was a fan of the series, I would not be disappointed with this one bit. If a sequel was to come out with more characters and not much else, I would import it in a heartbeat. The option to turn off the BGM would be nice, too.
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