NARUTO ULTIMATE NINJA STORM GENERATIONS REVIEW

Received the game yesterday because it was preordered and I defeated Story Mode already, today. Short playing time if you're only playing Story Mode. It's 11 'tales' you can play through:

The Tale Of Young Naruto
The Tale of Naruto Uzumaki (Shippuden)
The Tale of Sasuke Uchiha (Shippuden)
The Tale of Zabuza and Haku
The Tale of Jiraiya the Gallant
The Tale of Itachi Uchiha
The Tale of Kakashi Hatake
The Tale of Gaara
The Tale of Minato Namikaze
The Tale of Madara Uchiha (Tobi)
The Tale of Killer Bee (have to defeat Tobi's storyline to unlock)

Your choice with who to start with, I started with Young Naruto. The game play is easier yet harder at the same time. My problem with it is that you cannot Ninja Dash to your enemy, you literally just have to walk/run towards them in Story Mode although it's not much better in Free Fighting Mode. Now Substitution jutsu is a thousand times easier and sets up your battles to look awesome but it is so easy to get around people's Ultimate Jutsu which isn't welcomed if you're the one trying to use it. I also dislike the distance in this game, when you you Substitution jutsu, sometimes you appear close to them but other times you end up so far away from them and it hard to close the gap especially when fighting Deidara and Tobi. I don't know what they were thinking when they programmed that in. It sucks but the overall battle is pretty if you can pull off some wicked combos. Sasuke and Killer Bees are beasts in this game, their taijutsu are damn near impossible to block or substitute so be weary of that, they have some long, heavy hitting combos which get annoying real quick.

Another problem with this game is the repetition of some of the battles, for some reason they thought it was fun to have Sasuke and Itachi fight one another 5 times throughout the game, it gets boring but the other fights are pretty cool. You can play as and against Tobi when he had the handcuffs as weapons, Tobi is one hard motherfucker to beat but it is possible.

The anime scenes however are awesome although the dubbing is atrocious. Seriously the words do not match the mouth 80% of the time, given the time they had with this game, this is no excuse for that. I WANT TO BREAK VIC MIGNONA'S JAW SO HE CANNOT VOICE ACT FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS! Not only does he fail as Nagato but he also voices Obito which just does not fit. SOMEONE GET HIM THE FUCK OFF THIS SHOW! Tobi's voice has changed from Ulitmate Ninja 2, both as his childish personality and "Madara" personality. His new "Madara" voice makes him sound like he's 100, its deep but its also graveling, like the guy is chewing on rocks. Actually, he sounds a lot like Kakuzu which doesn't fit either. I prefer Nolan North as Tobi's "Madara's" personality, that guy had a cool voice. Also, only Gaara had good voice acting in this game which he is voiced by Liam O'Brien. A problem I have with the Shippuden cast is that all their characters still sound the same. This is a one in a million show where the characters grow and get older yet they still sound like they're 12, except for Gaara here. His voice is much deeper because Mr. O'Brien probably realized that his character is now 17 years old and and is a respectable leader and not a 12 year old psychopath anymore. I salute you Mr. O'Brien, I salute you.

For Free Fighting, there are several modes such as single or team battle, Survive, Tournement and the return of Training Mode which is awesome since the gameplay is slightly different. I haven't spent much time here except to test try Hashirama Senju because I'm a Madara Uchiha fan. Fuck you and your wood jutsu.

There are more collectibles here and you get to buy titles, yay. I defeated all 11 Storyline but that just doesn't get you half the collectibles. Not by a long shot which made me feel as if I played Story Mode for no freaking reason. Story Mode however is good for ryo. Anyone else notice that Zetsu is yet again forgotten in this game? Poor Zetsu.

All in all, it is a fun game to play and the anime scenes that haven't come out in English yet are very good so I give this game 4 stars. I spent $59 on this game, I'm keeping it for that reason alone. You can defeat this game in a day.

tell me your experience with the game and if you are stuck on a battle in story mode.

New Naruto Game

As a Christmas gift to myself, I just pre-ordered Naruto Shippuuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations from Amazon.com. I should get it March 30th. Can't wait. AKATSUKI FOREVER. Oooo looks like I'll get the game on March 16th instead, yay.

MADARA LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CHAPTER: 559 PAGE: 15
KABUTO HAD RESSURECTED MADARA UCHIHA WHO NOW STANDS ON THE BATTLEFIELD WITH GAARA AND NARUTO. SO WHO IS THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK? I think its Izuna (Madara's younger brother) or still is Madara himself, using some freaky jutsu that only he can do. Still, Madara said something about Nagato, know how would a dead, EDO TENSEI Madara even know him, hmmmm? Seems like Tobi hasn't been at home asleep waiting for them to bring the fight to him like I thought since he's on the move with his Six Paths of Pain.

is it odd that even "dead" I still think Madara is hot?

Edo Tensei Madara: (looks down) Who are you people? Where's Hashirama?
Edo Tensei Shinobi: Uh.....yeah like 80-something years have passed and Hashirama Senju died a long time ago.
Edo Tensei Madara: Oh. I can become Hokage now! Someone fetch me an Uchiha clan member.
Naruto: There's Sasuke, there's an Edo Tensei Itachi and some dude masquerading as you who has Sharingan.
Edo Tensei Madara: And what of Danzo Shimura?
Naruto: Yeah your descendant Sasuke killed him.
Edo Tensei Madara: Oh. Good for him. You - other Edo Tensei ninja, bring me to Izuna, it seems our plan has worked yet I diagreed to using this jutsu. It's an abomination.
Naruto: That was Kabuto's doing.
Edo Tensei Madara: Who?
Naruto: Ahhhhhhh.....keep still so I can kick your ass.

(Naruto tries to attack Madara who dodges)

Edo Tensei Madara: Oh my god, Kyuubi!(grabs Naruto and pets his head) Did you miss me? Aww people have been mistreating my pet.
Kyuubi: Hello Madara and no I did not miss you.
Edo Tensei Madara: I'm taking you out of there.
Kyuubi: YOU ARE MY MASTER!
Naruto: WHAT THE HELL? KYUUBI, DON'T PICK HIM OVER ME!

You know what's weird? Is that this Edo Tensei Madara has normal Sharingan, didn't Madara create the Eternal Mangekyo? Why is he barely drawn with it? The same with Tobi, if Tobi is truly Madara if he succeeded in separating his soul from his body somehow, his body died and was able to be called back with Edo Tensei with a fraction 5% of his soul. Making both Tobi and ET really him, yet now it seems that someone else has really been dragging his good name through the mud. Then again.....Itachi believed that this was the real Madara. Kabuto and Zetsu obviously doesn't. Zetsu still calls him Tobi. Yet Tobi wanted a ressurection jutsu that the Rinnegan possessed when Nagato had it. Maybe he used that jutsu on his dead body and managed to bring himself back somehow. Especially since Edo Tensei Madara seems to know Nagato, called him a brat. That's mean, yet he seems to be against the use of Edo Tensei - Impure World Ressurection Jutsu.

If this Edo Tensei Madara is the real Madara, how does he know of Nagato? Hmmm hint hint hint hint, I think that's a big hint. What if ET Madara and Tobi are both Madara somehow. Or the only outcome I want to accept is that Tobi is Izuna and that the two of them had this planned a long time ago. Or maybe he isn't really Edo Tensei, maybe this is the use of another jutsu.

The plot thickens.

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Inspired by the Uchiha Clan

"Sasuke's Song"

Once upon a clear and pale moon
I lived a happy quiet life among the leaves but I had no idea, the shadows they cast would silently swallow me up one day

So I lived and learned to love
So I lived and learned to hate
So I lived having pride ~ became an inferior egomaniac

to my surroundings I was only one, to me - vengeance have replaced everything
My friends and the beautiful love that could be
I burn my bridges proudly
I am the KING of my own life and of my own death
I have fangs that bite and mine are so much deadlier than the likes of you and your views or ways
I am one again with what I lost and I push pain to the brink of its own demise
The shadows of the leaves that I never noticed before have shaped me into who I am

So I live for power
So I live for my undeniable truth
So I live to prove my ways are far better than you

You already know, I am far more than willing to burn this whole world to the ground
Just to allow everyone to have a little taste that is my pain
And I call it purification of the Uchiha Clan

words by Kyoshiro Elric

*the words are meant to represent different phases of Sasuke's life*

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You thought you were so right but I knew you were so wrong
You thought you had eternal insight and called all of your petty views 'reality' and once upon a clear and pale moon, I once believed in you (Sasuke)

now we're all dancing with the devil who continously fuel the flames of a seemingly justified hatred I can only wish that people stop the destruction, the manifestation of what their actions have wrought and see the blood and enemy for what and who they are

Ourselves

I take my life to set you free but betrayal is ingrained so deeply that even my most warmhearted feelings seem feeble and futile in comparison, it pains me to the brink of my death, what we have become (Itachi)

I hate myself more than you and I love you above everyone else but you called me a traitor when I'm the only real loyal one here and all that I have sacrificed has gone in vain

Now......I just don't need it anymore, forgiveness, shame or honor I am just myself

I will not accept defeat until I am sure of victory or at least we will leave carnage in our wake young one, believe me this is how legends are made, this is how we shall live and this is how we extract our revenge (Madara)

vengeance for the Uchiha Clan

WE WILLINGLY BURN THIS WHOLE WORLD DOWN

words by Kyoshiro Elric

*this one doesn't have a title but more interestingly, I tried to write it in Sasuke, Itachi and Madara's POV.
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Understanding the Uchiha and Uzumaki Clans

The Uchiha Clan
Madara - Izuna = brothers
Itachi - Sasuke = brothers
Obito Uchiha = Black Sheep of the Uchiha Clan, died at a young age, gave his Left Sharingan to Kakashi, Right side of his body was completely crushed, is he really dead?
Shisui Uchiha = Strongest Genjutsu wielder Killed by Itachi
Tobi - A mysterious man masquerading as Madara Uchiha
Madara Uchiha Former Leader of the Uchiha Clan, his body was never found, technically still alive????
Izuna Gave his eyes to his older brother Madara thus creating the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, suspicious Death
Obito was a proud member of the Uchiha Clan but developed Sharingan late, his body was crushed under a boulder then covered completely by heavy stones. It is unclear if his body was ever recovered
Shisui was older than Itachi and was Itachi's best friend, his left eye had been taken by Danzo prior to asking Itachi to kill him. Itachi took his right eye and placed it inside a crow in which he gives to Naruto many years later
Itachi is a child prodigy who purposely died in front of his younger brother Sasuke with the help of an unknown illness and Kisame Hoshigaki, he gave to Sasuke the ability to use Amaterasu and his Mangekyo Sharingan but only in his left eye
Sasuke the youngest of the Uchiha Clan has now taken both of Itachi's eyes creating the second only known Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan
Tobi is a mysterious man who claims to be the legendary Madara Uchiha but it unclear if he really is who he say he is, his body is that of a Zetsu Clone and he has not yet used his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, there is slight evidence that he can turn off/on his Sharingan at all, he has stolen Nagato's Rinnegan and now has it in his left eye
Kakashi Hatake is the only Non-Uchiha to still have and use a Sharingan and even awakened the Mangekyo state. The Sharingan was given to him by his fellow comrade Obito Uchiha. He taught Sasuke both how to properly use his Sharingan and the Chidori. Sasuke had remade the Chidori into his own jutsu making it deadlier than Kakashi's.
Madara had fought countless battles with The First Hokage and was never afraid of him, The First Hokage cannot be revived. Tobi had fought and lost to the Fourth Hokage who cannot be revived. Tobi never technically fought Kushina Uzumaki who can be revived. Its safe to say that Madara has no one to be afraid of. Tobi however may not be Madara since he was easily blackmailed by Kabuto. However there are several worthy ninja who he may thought might not be possible to bring back even using Edo Tensei.
Edo Tensei was a jutsu created by the Second Hokage and was used by Orochimaru and is claimed to be perfected by Kabuto Yakushi. Using a living person as a medium, the person is sacrificed as a vessel to call forth a soul from the dead.
Ninja who's souls cannot be called back: First Hokage, Second Hokage, Third Hokage, Fourth Hokage. Everyone else can.

The only 2 ninja who shouldn't be able to be revived are: Jiraiya because his body is lost under water and Kisame Hoshigaki who committed suicide by having his own sharks eat him.
To awaken the 10-Tailed Beast, all 9 are needed however Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze sealed half of the 9-Tailed Fox's power with him when he used The Demon Dead Seal which makes his soul untouchable unless that Jutsu can be defeated, the true power of the Kyuubi will never return thus making the revival of the 10-Tailed Beast impossible but only if the 100% power of the Kyuubi is indeed needed for such a feat.

Several ninja and even the Kyuubi has recognized Tobi to be Madara Uchiha, but his brother Izuna was said to be evenly matched with him, still Madara had to be a bit more powerful to had been made the Leader of the Uchiha Clan. This Tobi person is trying too hard to convince everyone that he is Madara and he refused to act openly while Itachi was alive. Why would Madara be afraid to act while his descendant Itachi was alive? And why would Madara have an entire collection of Sharingan when he has Eternal Mangekyo? Who's death would have been so secretive that he thought it would be impossible to ressurect? How come Zetsu is still calling him Tobi if he is really Madara? These are questions that helps destroy Tobi's wild claims that he is Madara Uchiha, the Legendary ninja. Whoever Tobi is, he has ample knowledge of Konoha, The Sage of 6 Paths and the Uchiha Clan and he is using Madara's name to manipulate other ninja such as Yahiko, Nagato, Kisame and Sasuke. However it can be Madara's soul residing within the Zetsu clone, but even if it is, who is he surprised by and what happened to his real body?

The Uzumaki Clan
Kushina Uzumaki - female member, has a peculiar strong chakra capable of withstanding the full brunt of the 9-Tails
Mito Uzumaki - female member, the first Jinchuuriki of the 9-Tailed Fox
Nagato Uzumaki - A descendant of the Uzumaki Clan, said to be the reincarnation of the Sage of 6 Paths
Naruto Uzumaki - the current 9-Tailed Jinchuuriki, a young ninja capable of surpassing not only the Fourth Hokage but everyone in the Uchiha Clan as well and is the only true living member of the Uzumaki Clan.
According to Kushina Uzumaki, the Uzumaki Clan were distant blood relatives of the Senju Clan which the 1st and 2nd Hokages were members of and according to Tobi/Madara the Uchiha and Senju were descended from the Sage of 6 Paths but eventually split into the 2 respective clans.

Senju Clan
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Uchiha Clan Uzumaki Clan

There is no evidence that suggests the mixing of the Uchiha and Uzumaki clans to make them definate relatives. So for now they are all distant relations. However Mito Uzumaki the first 9-Tailed Jinchuuriki who became that by seizing control of the fox during the 1st Hokages' battle with Madara, was his wife, bringing the relation of the Senju and Uzumaki to the forefront and making it closer. Still they are overly distant relatives of the Uchiha who were thought to have been descended from the Hyuuga Clan. (As told by Kakashi during the Chuunin Exams)
Kushina Uzumaki who inherited the 9-Tails from elder member Mito eventually married Minato Namikaze who became the Fourth Hokage, said to be the strongest of all the Hokages and their offspring is Naruto Uzumaki who strangely has his mother's maiden name rather than his father's last name. Kushina's power is actually unknown. However she had revealed the strengths of the Uzumaki Clan as to be extremely long lives and fierce jutsu sealing powers that went unrivaled by any other ninja. Perhaps she could have sealed Madara/Tobi's power and him himself if she had been giving a fair chance to fight him.
Naruto has a strong bond with Sasuke, even going as far as calling and considering him as an (older) brother. He wants to save Sasuke from himself no matter what it takes as he knows that there is still good within him somewhere. Even if Sasuke fervently denies it. His power is unrivaled as of now and he only gets stronger. Although he did not defeat his cousin Nagato, Nagato caught a conscience after speaking with him and brought back everyone he had killed in Konoha using Pain (Yahiko) as a vessel. That's what ended his life.
Nagato has been brought back to life by Kabuto's Edo Tensei and he has revived fully to his former glory before Hanzo the Salamander burned up his legs. Thus the true reincarnation of the Sage of 6 Paths have been revived. Yet he and Naruto don't know they are related it seems. Nagato unforunately is under Kabuto's control as Kabuto's plans are to steal the 8-Tails and 9-Tails right from under Tobi/Madara however Itachi was also revived and is no longer under Kabuto's control. He is helping to save not only himself but the 8 & 9-Tails as well from Nagato. Perhaps he will be able to save Nagato too and the four of them can destroy Kabuto and Tobi and save Sasuke.
Even if Sasuke is saved, who is going to trust him after this?

Sage of 6 Paths
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Senju Clan Uchiha Clan
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Uzumaki Clan

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