Awakenings, which can pop up as a late-battle gambit, will allow your character to fight with a huge summon in their place. Of course, Ninjutsu moves are back too hold the triangle button to charge your Jutsu, then smash square and triangle simultaneously to unleash a powerful blow. As before, your basic moves remain the same: combos that can be executed using the circle button, leaping strides that help you dodge or catch up to your foe with and an instant evasive maneuver that places you behind the enemy.
No, this is as flashy and ridiculous as a fighting game gets, a series of high-speed battles that crackle and pop with eye-catching special effects. There’s way too much going on to ensure any sort of pitch-perfect fairness, but that’s unlikely to turn off the sort of players who enjoy games like this in the first place. That’s not to say this is the most balanced or technically-accomplished fighting game you’ll ever play far from it. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 takes the stereotype of the “lazy licensed game” and impales it with a sword the size of a house. I’m willing to bet that - for those who don’t already enjoy the story - there’s enough in the meat of the fighting game here to make overlooking the gloomy narrative well worth it. I quickly grew tired of the repetitive, heavy-handed dialogue, which mostly consists of villains telling the heroes to give up and the heroes refusing Naruto pretty much sums it up in one battle when he says “You need to give up …trying to get us to give up!”
Sure, it’s cool to see old rivalries finally come to a head and tragic villains find redemption at last, but what a cheerless exercise on the way there. Unlike the story’s earlier scenarios, the balance between comedy and action has tilted almost entirely toward the latter naturally, that’s because there are a lot of dramatic ends to tie up, but a lot of the charm seems to have been sucked out of the characters’ interactions with each other. I’ll leave out the plot description this time, but suffice it to say that - if you haven’t been following the series all this way - you’re going to be surprised by just how dark and somber this chapter is.
That means a final confrontation with antagonists like Madara and Tobi, and, well, a bunch of spoiler-heavy developments that I’d hate to be responsible for divulging. So yes, Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 ’s story mode brings the narrative through the finale of Part II of the manga (known as Shippuden, the second anime series, as far as the TV side of things is concerned).
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