Naruto Ninjastorm 4 Road to Boruto an arena-fighting game from over a few years back which involves characters from the Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, and a few from Boruto fighting each other in single or three-on-three matches in various sized arenas.
I've been playing a lot of Elden Ring so I haven't had the chance to play Ninjastorm in a while but it's kind of like riding a bike but I definitley can't ride/play as fast as I used to haha
To warm up, I decided to set up a fight with a computer set to the game's hardest difficulty which unfortunately does not prepare you whatsoever for the skilled players online.
In this battle, I picked Fourth-Hokage Minato, Frog Sage Naruto, and Boruto for my team and picked Zombie Itachi, Five Summit Sasuke, and Sarada for the computer's team to make it a family versus family fight since it's grandad-dad-son with my team and brother-father-daughter for the other side.
Here are the controls:
- Move with L3 (left analog stick)
- Switch characters in team battle with R3 (right analog stick)
- Block with R2 button.
- Dodge/substitute with L2 which temporarily uses up one of five substitution sections of your yellow bar.
- Charge up your chakra by holding the triangle button to fill up your blue bar
- Use various power up or power down or extra ninja star items with the directional pad
- Melee attack with the O/circle-button
- Jump or double jump with the X-button
- Throw ninja stars with the square button
- Throw charged ninja stars by pressing triangle and then square
- Charge dash toward your opponent with triangle and then the "x" button
- Brake or cancel a charge dash by hitting block/R2
- Activate regular jutsu with triangle and circle
- Activate ultimate jutsu by hitting triangle twice and then circle
- Activate team ultimate jutsu by hitting triangle three times and then circle
- Activate split second counter with R2 and circle but be warned this temporarily shortens your chakra bar.
- Back or side step by double tapping the "x" button while holding the L3, or left analog stick, in a specific direction
- Temporarily bring in a teammate for an attack with L1 or R1 which afteward makes them temporarily unavailable
I think that's most of the controls -- feel free to let me know if I missed one haha
I've been keeping up with the Boruto anime & manga and while Naruto isn't as popular since it's conclusion I do think that Boruto has been rather lackluster lately but I'm not sure if the original creator is that involved anymore. I'll have to look that up.
Anyway, I wanted to play some Naruto and see some cool characters that I grew up with ... which is why I'll probably be getting those Nickeledeon and Warner Bros super-smash lookalike games soon too haha
I annhiliate the computer in the first match without switching characters.
Then I destroy them again with a team ultimate jutsu and win again in the second.
I like Minato and Itachi for their speed and how cool their moves both look.
I haven't gotten around to playing the more recent Dragon Ball Z fighting games but Ninjastorm is definitely one of my all time favorite fighting games and I'd like to play more if it didn't make my hands so sore, especially in online play due to how fast and crafy online players can be haha
Hope you enjoyed these battles.
Last time I posted a Ninjastorm 4 fight it was in Hive Gaming but I thought I'd try Anime Realm just in case there were in any Naruto fans lol
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