Seeking various missions, reliving past fights, and performing fetch quests for NPC, all again pay great homages to the incredibly extensive lore. Post-story content, which is found in Adventure mode, brings back the aforementioned sandbox style from before. Ultimate to shame, as so many featured characters have such unique abilities, although the balancing between fighters perhaps isn't so well tuned as in the latter.
The gargantuan roster of over 120 characters puts Super Smash Bros. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 Road to Boruto has a control scheme that is really easy to pick up and play that is accessible for anyone who has never played a fighting game before.Įach character on the roster has a set of unique moves, which again pay fabulous fanservice to the source material, all equipped with their special finishing moves which can be activated in a very cinematic fashion. The Naruto instalments have been great for beginners to jump in and play, with no overly complicated button inputs to pull off moves, although there is a reverent online community who would beg to differ. In an ordinary fight players can choose up to three characters for their team, and these can be switched out throughout the battle, or even be used as support to help intervene and break up on going chain attacks by the opposition. The fighting style between the four games has evolved piece by piece, but has now been fully refined and honed in Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 Road to Boruto, which takes the 3D arena fighter genre to the its best.
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The voice-over is also available in Japanese and English, and is featured throughout fights, cut-scenes and in adventure mode, all delivered to the high standard and level that previous games in the series have set.
Part of the Naruto universe is the incredible score that go hand-in-hand with famous fighters and characters, unfortunately, the one area that Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 Road to Boruto is perhaps not as true to itself is in the audio department, as it is missing the original soundtrack from the anime, but the music that does replace it feels well-suited and attempts to replicate the original style, but it still brings down the authenticity a tad. Cyber Connect 2 did a fantastic job of making this look as close to the real deal as possible, and has translated this to Switch in a manor that needs rapturous applause.
Despite its different approach, the story itself, including voice acting and art style, all pay absolute fanservice to the anime that it is based on. Instead Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 Road to Boruto plays out in a rather linear fashion, with cut-scenes now shown in a story book style rather than using the in-game engine. This time the story is played out through selected branching icons on a menu select screen, rather than the sandbox style of its predecessor.ĭivisive as it may be, this choice does cut out a lot of the backtracking and running around that felt like padding in the previous title, and is now separated into Adventure mode. Picking up where the story left off in Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3, this runs from the start of the 4th Great Ninja War and beyond. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 Road to Boruto is a port of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One title that includes the expansion DLC, Road to Boruto as part of the standard package, and at the high price that it retails for it should be expected.