The music files vary in price anywhere from 5000-10000 Ryo (the game's currency).

(Answers on a postcard, please.Having a problem with the intense hide and seek does anyone know where the 3 children are. Its longevity isn't assured, but the immediacy and fluidity of Ninja Tornado Fight makes for an entertaining diversion in-between this season's more time-consuming endeavors.ДЄnd hey, if you spend enough time with it, maybe you'll even learn what a Shippuden is. The game is at its best with a friend, perhaps someone turned off by the long-term learning required by more complex fighting games. You're not likely to go back to the campaign once you've unlocked all the characters (a fairly quick process if you avoid the tedious sidequests), and the introduction of online play is most welcome, even if it's rudimentary and in desperate need of a proper lobby. If the developers at Cyberconnect 2 had more confidence in their fighting system, they might not have put it inside a bad JRPG from the '90s. Unlike Ubisoft Montreal's pair of Naruto games, there's no platforming and no real exploration - just laborious running between trigger points. Aside from collecting ingredients and buying in-battle items, you're running a straightforward gauntlet of dialog boxes and go-there-and-fight-whatshisface directives. I say 'blanks,' because as nice as the 2D, pre-rendered artwork is, there's nothing to do in Naruto's world. The single-player 'Ultimate Adventure' mode does an acceptable job of compressing and retelling Naruto's Shippuden arc thus far, but fails to fill in the blanks between fights. These are slavishly devoted to recreating critical encounters from the anime (Sakura's battle against Sasori's puppets is a real standout), but your perfunctory participation doesn't elevate them beyond the notoriously drawn-out show.

The 'interactive cartoon' label is especially apropos for many of the game's boss fights, most of which devolve into visually spectacular. I'd be inclined to say the vibrant color and attention to detail makes Ninja Tornado Fight feel like an interactive cartoon, but I can't think of many cartoons that look quite this good. A lack of anti-aliasing hurts the character models, but the spirited animation and gorgeous, over-the-top anime effects make rewards out of even the weakest attacks. The frenzied battles revel in a disregard for realism, brought to life with some of the best cel-shaded art I've seen in a game. It's not the deepest set of rules, but there's a good breadth of strategies (and, admittedly, some obvious points of imbalance) across the 40+ playable characters. You can call up to two partner characters into battle, where they'll occupy your enemy or briefly defend you, or you can expend smaller amounts of chakra to enhance your projectiles or provide a burst of speed. Battles boil down to exciting surgical strikes, interrupting your opponent's charging while generating distance enough for you to build up your own meter. There's a liberating freedom of movement in Ninja Tornado Fight's large arenas, and dodging projectiles and keeping your distance from your nemesis is vital while you build up chakra. In order to perform devastating special attacks, you need to charge up your chakra (magic) bar first - but you need to stand still for that. There's an interesting wrinkle in blocking, with a well-timed pull of the trigger allowing you to teleport out of your opponent's combo and follow up from behind, but the real challenge lies in interrupting the other player's rhythm. For instance, there's only one melee attack button, and pushing it repeatedly will deliver an impressive string of punches, kicks and fireballs with minimal mental expenditure. %Gallery-97853% Ninja Tornado Fight's appeal lies in its simplicity, though it could be seen as shallowness in comparison to more technical fighters. Just pretend it's called Ninja Tornado Fight. Fans tuned in to keywords like chakra, Rasengan and Orochimaru will be more invested in the story, and everyone else will find some way to survive a fighting game without being ensconced in the narrative. If you manage to get past the cover (featuring Naruto and his friend-turned-rival Sasuke, by the way), you'll find an energetic and accessible adventure that respectfully harnesses its source material, without locking out newcomers. Oh, and there's a '2' in the title, so now I can't follow because I don't know what happened in Gibberish 1.

' Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja: Storm 2,' with its awkward colon placement, speaks to fans of the serialized manga and its long-running anime adaptation so fluently, it sounds like gibberish to anyone else.

There's only one staunch barrier to entry with this game, and it's right on the front of the box.

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