NARUTO SHIPPUDEN: Ultimate Ninja STORM 4

Very good game. If you want to relive the story of part of Shippuden series and playing it, instead of going back to watch it. This is the best play. Combat is fluid as always.

If you grew up watching Naruto, this game is basically fan service in the best way possible. The story mode hits all the big moments and actually makes them feel cinematic instead of just throwing fights at you. This is also, by far, the best out of all the Storm games. I actually played this back on release on Xbox in 2016 before I even knew Naruto Shippuden was a thing. I had only watched OG Naruto on Netflix, and at the time American Netflix didn’t even have Shippuden. I was also too young to really understand social media well enough to realize there was more to the story out there, but I digress. Even though the game ended up spoiling Tobi’s identity for me, it honestly enhanced my experience watching Shippuden later. I remember eagerly waiting to understand what Sasuke’s purple eye was and what “Reanimated” meant, and why so many characters had it under their names. Combat is flashy, easy to pick up, and just fun to mess around with, especially with how many characters and abilities there are. The gameplay loop is still incredibly fun even today, and I love the interactive voice lines between certain character matchups and their ultimate attacks. Sadly, the only things holding it back are the lack of Boruto-era characters (since Connections exists now) and the fact that parts of the story mode are literally a slideshow. Long story short, for a 10-year-old game, it still holds up extremely well.

A pretty fun and good game from a single-player and story perspective, but in multiplayer it's just boring and there are a maximum of 3 characters relevant to this game community.