Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm 1, 2, and 3 Leap to PS4 Next Month

This was kept quiet wasn't it! You would have thought something like this may have been leaked or had rumours surrounding it.

I've never been a massive naruto fan apart from a 360 game which I really liked. Are these games the flying fighting games or actual story based?

@Turniplord They're the 3D arena battle ones, basically fighting games. They all have story modes, though.

4 is a really good anime brawler, in my opinion.

(Review plug: https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps4/naruto_shippuden_ultimate_ninja_storm_4)

@ShogunRok I'll have a look at your review. I've just pre-ordered on amazon but I'll cancel if I change my mind - it's only 45 quid for the 4 of them in the steelbook with the bonus anime - in America it's 80 dollars - hopefully our version is the same and not got items missing like they sometimes do.

Can't wait! These games are great!
CyberConnect2 are legit. That's a massive amount of content in one package.

I know they're fighting games, but do they cover the story of the entire anime?

@renankj Yep, they all cover specific parts if I remember right.

Bah, August is packed for me when it comes to game purchases. Been interested in these games for a while though and always enjoyed the demos.

I picked up NUNS2 like 2 years ago, mostly because of where it was in terms of story - covering Pain and the Akatsuki arc, you know? Toonami was just getting back into Naruto and they're only now just finishing up that stuff. Seemed like a good game to jump into then. Unfortunately, Ninja Storm 2 is terrible.

For real, something about that Substitution Jutsu (or as I call it, "Ninja Log Dodge") really sucks until UNS3 or Revolution. The timing on it is... well its random. It just doesn't work most of the time, probably to prevent spamming, but its a stupid way of doing it that CC2 abandoned with 3 or Revolution when they figured out a better way to do it. As a result, the fighting in it just feels kind of awful. A lot of dial-a-combos, and pacing that amounts to "I'm doing my combo, okay now you do your combo, okay now me again" since you can't break it up effectively. Unless you count frantically mashing on the counter button, hoping it will actually activate, as something to do while getting hit. It still wasn't that hard, but it was just very unsatisfying.

I really don't see why you'd go back to the original games. They play worse, they feature worse rosters, they look worse (not that they will ever look bad. Until Guilty Gear Revelator, CC2 had the best looking cel-shaded games on the market right here)... its all bad. And in terms of breezing through the Naruto Shippuden story, its got a boring story/adventure mode anyway (most areas are just hand-drawn or pre-rendered backgrounds with cinematic camera angles, like an old-school survival horror title, and all you can interact with are things to pick up). Not to mention, its truncated as heck, cutting out all sorts of "mini arcs" (UNS2 doesn't feature Sora at all for instance; the artificial Jinjuriki who can sort of transform into/summon a Ninetails like Naruto. And how he leads that one group of Shinobi to an assault on the Konoha Village?
Its a cool chunk of episodes & story... completely ignored. That arc takes place... like right in there too. It should've been 40% of the way through the story mode or something. They also skip over the Three Tails' arc entirely)

I really don't know who this is for. At least if you pick it up you can get UNS4 + Boruto. So really, I guess the trilogy is just a bonus for picking up the newest one now? That still doesn't change the fact that the oldest ones kinda blow to actually PLAY in retrospect.

Never played any of this game so if it's cheap I'll may go for it.

@ShogunRok Nice, thanks! =)

Haven't played the rest but Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 was pretty good. The only thing I didn't like was them using still images taken from the anime for the game's cutscenes.