Rise of a Ninja Vs Ultimate Ninja Storm

Ok before I start this post, I would like to say I do not like my 360 more than my PS3 or my PS3 more than my 360, I think they are both great systems and they both have their share of problems. I mean, just because I have to pay for Xbox Live doesn't mean I don't think Xbox Live is awesome, and just because my PS3 takes sometimes (literally) hours to find a match when playing online doesn't mean I still don't play my PS3 online. So, please do not think I am a fanboy for either side, just because I think one of these games is way better then the other one doesn't mean I like that system more, ok now that I said that I hope to get alot less hate mail.

Alright, this post is going to sort of be my opinion on which game is better, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm (for the PS3) or Naruto: Rise of a Ninja (for the Xbox 360). First of all, Storm does have some really fancy graphics, but in my opinion I really don't like them, they look to... real... well... a better way to explain it would be like this, when Naruto's jaw moves around like he is in a mix of the Dreamcast version of Sonic Adventure and an old Godzilla movie, I sort of get a little creeped out. I would like next generation anime game graphics to look like Dragon Ball Raging Blast since those kind of graphics actually look like the anime, on Storm they just kind of look like they tried waaaaay to hard and totally went overboard with it. The graphics in Rise of a Ninja aren't exactly amazing, they just seem like the standard for a next generation anime game, so it doesn't really knock the game down a peg, but the graphics aren't so beautiful that you would buy the game to just look at it. In my opinion I think the Storm development team just took the free roaming story mode from Rise of a Ninja and then tweaked it to make it less "free", a bit less fun, forced you to do side missions in order to continue the story, then added their own fighting system. Oh, and let's talk about the fighting, you see, in regular Ultimate Ninja games, the fighting is the highlight of the game, but in Storm all you do is press the attack button over and over again and you will win every fight, and then once your friends learn this, the whole fight is pretty much decided by whoever hits the other person first. I practically proved this when my friend gave his 3 or 4 year old brother the controller and he beat me with a perfect 10 times in a row even though he had no idea how to play. In Rise of a Ninja the fighting system isn't really something to brag about, it's better than Storm's and it is pretty fun with friends but there is always something wrong with the substitution jutsu whenever I am playing, I know I pressed the button at the right second but sometimes it just doesn't want to let me do substitution. Oh and the difficulty curve of Rise of a Ninja, jeez, I remember one of the very first enemies in the game being able to practically get a perfect on me, then when I use a jutsu on him he blocks the whole damn thing (in Rise of a Ninja, a Jutsu will only do damage if you do a series of quick time events, and if your enemy presses the button before you, then he dodges), and I'm not talking about a boss or something, this was a straight up common enemy I ran into on either my first or second mission after becoming a Genin. Ok, so let's say some nice things about Storm, well, first of all they did a great job testing for glitches, I didn't find a single one, but in Rise of a Ninja... ugh... I run into glitches all the time, several of which freeze my game. Also, in Storm, to perform a jutsu you have to actually hit your enemy, which kind of makes sense, but in Rise of a Ninja you do the opposite of charging at your opponent and waiting until he has a second of weakness, you see in Rise of a Ninja you run into a corner press the button combination and hope your opponent doesn't hit you with a kunai. Anyway, overall, I say go with Rise of a Ninja since adventuring around Konoha doesn't get boring until hours of gameplay, but in Storm it gets pretty boring quickly, let's hope that Storm 2 is going to be better than the first, because so far it looks pretty badass.

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Accel 3 VS Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3 (and other stuff)

Ok, I am sooo sorry that this post is late I really apologies for that, I was actually planning on getting it to you way earlier than this but some stuff came up and... It's a long story but I promise not to make a habit out of it.

Anyway This is going to be my view on the whole Accel 3 VS Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3. Now let me start off by saying that I will actually be buying both games, Accel 3 for Christmas and Ultimate Ninja Heroes with my own money whenever it comes out. Now people keep saying that they will be cutting the game for the American version and everyone is complaining about that. What they are going to do is have the story go up to Hidan and Kakuzu and still have team Hebi and Kakashi Chronicles but they will most likely cut out every path or body of Pein or whatever you call it, Konan, and Sage Mode Jiraiya. It hasn't been confirmed that they will cut them out but I am pretty sure. Also the people who keep complaining need to stop and realize that we are lucky and should thank CC2 that we actually get the story all the way up to Hidan and Kakuzu, and that we get team Hebi, and that we get the Kakashi Chronicles characters. As far as I know every other feature is still in the game so it's not that much to complain about. Plus, we should also think of ourselves as lucky for getting this game at all. Also, I think it's a really good plus for people who don't know Japanese that Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3 is in English, and for me my friends are more likely to get Heroes 3 so I can actually play multiplayer with them. Err... that's all I have to say... but since this post took so long I don't want people to feel like they waited longer for something not as good so I will move onto another topic!

Ok something else... Oh about that Live Action Gantz movie, I have a small bit of news that I forgot to put in the original post, apparently the person playing Kato in the movie will be the same actor who played L in the Live Action Death Note movies so that's a plus. Oh Viewtiful Joe fans who liked the anime (like me) head over to Rightstuf.com because the Viewtiful Joe DVDs are only TWO DOLLARS!!! forget whatever other stuff is on sale I bought the whole series of Viewtiful Joe (plus a Viewtiful Joe action figure) for only $18!!! What are you doing still reading this, this isn't product placement I'm just saying that I just bought them and the anime is way more awesome than I remember and now I'm replaying all of the games like crazy. Uhhh... What else... I seriously have nothing else to talk about and I really want to get this post out so people don't think I forgot or something. Anyway sorry about this lame post I will try to do something like a list for my next post to make up for this.

Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3

Well since the game was released early and by some shipping error Gamestop got a "pre-order only" limited edition version of Revolution 3 that wasn't pre-ordered by anyone so I got my hands on it. I have yet to watch the movie yet but I played the hell out of the game unlocking everything in the game on Sunday with 11 hours of gameplay and over 900 total matches. Well let me start out by saying something alot of people want to know, what Wifi is like, and yea it's a bit laggy but hey I like it and it's not like it's unplayable. Ok let me get all of the flaws with this game out of the way first so I can end on a positive note about the awesome stuff, ok so if you bought Revolution 2 you remember that the story mode was rediculously hard right? Ok this story mode is shorter but somehow it's at least twice as hard if not three times harder than Revolution 2's story... Oh and if you play the game and you get stuck on that Sasori vs Kankuro mission then you are gonna HATE the Kyubi Naruto vs Deidara mission. One other thing I found a bit tedious about the game was that #1, you only start of with like 2 gameplay modes (not including story mode) and you have to buy the rest, I understand buying Kumite mode and the 2 player versions of modes like survival (oh and 2 player survival is awesome) but having to unlock mission mode? Really? And for 20,000 Ryo? When you make about 500-700 ryo per match (unless your playing 2 player survival, in which case 600-1,500 ryo) then 20,000 is sort of a stretch, oh and did I mention that mission mode is needed to unlock certain characters like Hidan, Kakuzu, and Anbu Kakashi. Also since you make so little in single player modes I highly recomend that you spend your money wisely by just buying survival mode and mission mode first, and if you have a friend to play then buy 2 player survival and get as far as you can because 2 player survival grinding is the best grinding in the game. Oh and as a warning you have to beat story mode on a difficulty above 1 to get like more than half the roster, and it has been proven that beating story mode on difficulty 4 damage 4 doesn't get you ANYTHING! Just throwin that out there... Well anyway unlocking the last two characters was a bit of a hassle but after a combination of having over 700 battles (918 to be exact) and buying eveything everything in the shop (and yes in that order so you should just try buying everything in the shop) I got Bando and after getting 20% mission completion for everyone and like 40% or 60% mission completion for Kakashi with his S rank mission complete I retried his S rank mission and it was Anbu Kakashi instead of Guy, so after beating him (he was sooooo easy) I got him in the shop. Wow this has become like a tip section or even a guide, I didn't expect to type this much.

Naruto Shippuden Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 Full Roster

Did I not talk about this already? really? wow... well a while ago the full roster was leaked by Gametrailers and blah... blah... blah... if your reading this you probably just want to see the picture of the full roster...




There you go...

Okay let's comment on characters not in EX3 and why this game will be more awesome.

1. Bando: I sure hope they fix him, but since TOMY has already done so much to make this game soooo awesome that I wouldn't even mind if they didn't... I just hope people don't overuse him online...

2. Kagura: Refer to Bando

3 & 4. Towa and Komachi: I liked both of these characters and will enjoy playing as them again.

5. Anko: YES! THANK YOU TOMY! Japan got her in GNT4 and I am glad we get her here.

6. An... Anbu Kakashi?!?!?: Wow, TOMY... all I can say is... Thank you... and... just wow, I hope he doesn't suck... but I'm sure he won't.

Oh yeah and since Hidan, Kakuzu, Sai, Yamato, and Sasuke are in the game I feel the need to find TOMY studios and just thanking them in person.

I know this game will be freakin awesome and for the people thinking there will be five more secret characters all I have to say is this, We already got so much stop asking for more, and THAT BAR IS THE HANDYCAP OPTION!!! IF YOU ACTUALLY WATCH THE VIDEO OF THE ROSTER LEAK THEN YOU WOULD NOTICE THAT AFTER THEY SELECT THEIR CHARACTERS ALL OF THE CHARACTER PORTRAITS DULL OUT AND THE BAR BRIGHTENS WITH A GIANT ARROW POINTING TO IT SAYING HANDYCAP SELECT... Sorry that was rude, I guess we can all dream, there is that a better answer?