Saturday, March 3, 2012

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations - Demo

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations - Demo

Here it is: A taste of Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations, which will be abbreviated as NUNS Generations from here on out. Like with Sonic Generations, we have Modern Naruto meeting up with Classic Naruto. According to this cutscene, each Naruto has gathered a bunch of his friends and foes from his own point in his life and are about to engage in war. Is it me, or does Classic Naruto's face look weird in the closeup? I'm sure that if this was what actually happened in the series rather than the war initiated by Kabuto and Tobi (more on the latter later), then there'd be groaning all over the place, as opposed to just groaning in America. (Naruto's still doing strong. Strong enough for its spin-off, starring Rock Lee, to replace Bleach on TV.) This time, we're given an option to have the voices in Japanese and in English. (The NUNS 2 demo was available only in English in the west.) Interestingly, the voices are set to Japanese by default. I'm sure you could go to one of ! hundreds of other YouTube uploaders to see the demo in Japanese, and also due to consistency with my coverage of NUNS 2, I'm going to set the NUNS Generations demo to English. Next up are the controls. If you've watched NUNS 2, then this is all familiar ground: B is attack in general, Y is chakra-related stuff, A is jump or dash (depending on the context), and X is shuriken. The bumper shoulder buttons call on the assists, and each character has some items they can use mid-battle with the D-Pad. The ...





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