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By Charlie Wacholz
Updated: Nov 21, 2023 1:32 am
Posted: Nov 17, 2023 9:29 pm
Like the four Ultimate Ninja Storm games before it, Naruto x Boruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections is a comprehensive ode to the world and characters created by Masashi Kishimoto. Its immense cast of playable characters, each with exceptionally well-animated movesets, and a heaping handful of maps ripped straight from the anime with loving detail look better than ever before. But no level of source material accuracy can save this absolute mammoth of a game from hollow single-player content and a stale combat system that hasn’t meaningfully changed in fifteen years.
Combos flow like a watered-down version of Devil May Cry or Bayonetta; you can add variations to your moves, but most of the time you’ll be pressing the single attack button until your combo ends with a flashy finisher – unless you’re quick enough to cancel it into a special move or a dash before rinsing and repeating. Combo finishers usually end by launching your opponent across the map into the ground, putting them out of reach from a follow-up dash. This is where the real game begins: you’ll need to master and understand the ebb and flow of blocking, attacking, grabbing, and moving to get up close and personal so you can lock your opponent into yet another devastating flurry of blows.
Most of the characters in these games are (unsurprisingly) ninjas, which means they’re highly agile and each have three magic abilities to show off in the heat of battle. Just about anything goes here: Kiba teams up with his trusty pooch Akamaru to rush down and drill his opponents into a pulp, Kisame shoots shark-shaped water bombs from a safe distance, and Raikage Ay slams with thunderous force, creating a massive shockwave. But the drawback of that shared ninja DNA is that, aside from the stray puppet user like Chiyo or Sasori, most characters draw their movesets from the same small pool – albeit with different coats of paint.
Most characters draw their movesets from the same small pool.
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With 130 playable characters (though many of them are duplicates of main characters, with one or more extra variations of the same person taking up a lot of real estate), choosing a character based on their playstyle is less important than choosing a character you like from the show. That roster sounds impressive, but it actually feels barren as a fan, with only a few characters from Boruto, most of whom are just grown-up versions of other playable fighters. For something that’s billed as a definitive celebration of the whole series, Ninja Storm Connections falls disappointingly short.
Playstyles are generally so similar too that you could swap most characters’ voice lines and models with another and not see a huge difference. That said, using each character to their fullest potential takes a lot of savvy resource management and patient play, which is where Ninja Storm games shine. Using these special techniques consumes chakra, the Naruto series’ life-granting spiritual essence. On top of that, you’ll also need to keep an eye on your substitution gauge, which allows your character to escape any combo or attack at the push of a button. But you only have four substitutions at your disposal, and using multiple will cause your gauge to refill very slowly. This all adds some extra sauce to the otherwise one-note combat as players dash and jump all over its 3D arenas.
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Ninja Storm Connections seeks to further streamline the series’ combat for people who want a more forgiving fighting system by adding in the Simple control mode. By pressing a single button, your character will control itself, deciding when to dash, use special moves, and execute combos, leaving you to simply move and block. It’s great for people who love the show but aren’t into fighting games, but not something that will ever match up to an experienced player. It’s also highly customizable, allowing you to select what’s automated and what isn’t.
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 refines the gameplay to the absolute best of the series and offers a large roster of playable characters. Unfortunately, it squanders all of that potential with a short and poorly presented campaign fought against buggy AI, a forgettable Adventure Mode and online matches that are plagued with connectivity pr...
Read the full Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 review.
Reducing the History Mode down to dialogue sequences with random fights was bad enough in the last Ninja Storm game, but Connections adds insult to injury by passing up the opportunity to retell Boruto’s story in order to spend time on a middling side adventure instead. Part of the Special Story mode is set within ‘Ninja Heroes,’ a fictional, in-universe video game based on the characters and events of Naruto, and that’s where things really go off the rails. It’s an online multiplayer game where Boruto and all of his friends gather to hang out; think Fortnite if it featured skins based on war heroes instead of Master Chief and Chun-Li, but for this fictional world.
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Ninja Heroes is quickly revealed to be a Trojan Horse that’s part of a greater plan to take over the world, but there’s just nothing interesting about it until the characters leave this digital space and realize something’s amiss. It’s about as silly as it sounds, and mostly just acts as an excuse to toss loads of purposeless fights at you for a large chunk of this story. In fact, there’s even a section that tries to make fun of how unapproachable and content-dense some MMOs can be by throwing a long series of fights at you, but the joke misses its mark and inadvertently becomes the very thing that it sets out to make fun of. Part of what makes the fights in other Ninja Storm story modes so fun is re-living the dramatic character moments that bookend these same fights in the anime and manga. Playing a bad fictional video game that doesn’t have a story as a part of real life video game’s paper-thin story mode is about as dry as you’d expect.
Naruto x Boruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections may have the biggest roster and flashiest graphics in the series, but its unenthusiastic re-telling of the source material in what should be a celebration of Naruto, Shippuden, and Boruto falls flat. Even when it’s fun and nostalgic, there’s almost nothing here to make me seek it out over past entrie...
21 hours ago · Boruto Uzumaki (Karma Progression) joins the fighting game roster in Naruto x Boruto Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections on September 26, 2024, holding the power of the Otsutsuki! Plus, discover the ...
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Naruto x Boruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections is the seventh instalment of the Ultimate Ninja Storm series developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Namco-Bandai games for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam.
Sep 19, 2024 · NARUTO X BORUTO Ultimate Ninja STORM CONNECTIONS DLC Pack 5 ・Playable Character: Boruto Uzumaki (Karma Progression) ・Costume: Boruto Uzumaki (with Horn) ・Combination Secret Technique Apocalypse (Sasuke Uchiha + Madara Uchiha + Indra Otsutsuki) ・Additional Matching Voices (12) ・Ninja Info Card Images (5) *Season passes that include these items are also available. Please be careful of ...
Nov 17, 2023 · More than 130 beloved characters will engage in powerful ninja battles! In addition to the previous series, the new characters include the brothers who started legendary ninja clans, Ashura and Indra Otsutsuki as well as characters from BORUTO, such as Boruto Uzumaki (Karma), Kawaki and Jigen.
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Feb 23, 2023 · NARUTO X BORUTO Ultimate Ninja STORM CONNECTIONS features the biggest roster of playable characters in the series' history. With over 130 characters to choose from, you can create your own dream team and battle it out against your friend.
