No, this is not your daily lulz. Im serious.


Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2, of which I recently got my hands on, at, of all places, a traditional African Wedding at my house.

Besides the point, lets talk the game.

On the plus side, the presentation captures a sort of comic feel, and the cell shading helps with that, the voice acting, if anything as annoying, and the fighting in the game is well done, face paced, and you can get some sort of pride when you're pulling off some sort of special Jutsu.

On the negative side, the cell shading can get a little eye-straining at times when the fights get fast, because then it looks like moving blocks. Some of the actions, such as teleportation, can happen when you don't want them too, and getting back to where you where can be a pain in the a**, the American Voice acting was present, and the special moves button press timing/analog stick circling/button mashing minigames can get a little annoying after the third or forth time.
And the A.I. can pull a slingshot out of nowhere, often surprising and destroying you when it's health is low.

But, if you can get past that, All of your favorite Naruto Characters are there, there are little balance issues with the ones I got to play with(utterly Pwnd Sasuke with Sakura one time), and it's easy to get into, a little hard to master.


Overall, if you ever considered liking Naruto, you might want to check this out, hopefully they'll fix some things in Ultimate Ninja 3...oh what the hell.

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2, garners a nice and fighty 7.8.