GameFocus: "First off, I have to make myself clear on something: I am not a fan of Naruto. Don’t get me wrong! I don’t hate the series at all, I just don’t have much interest in it. I watched a few episodes of the anime, but it wasn’t my thing. However, I have played a Naruto game or two in my time and they weren’t too bad. So, I figured I would approach this game with complete neutrality since after all, a brand does not make or break a game. As such, I went into this game with the intent to see it the same way I would see any other game without attachment to its brand and review it as such."
"We see great spinoffs all the time in video games. Wario, for instance was a spinoff character from Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins where he played a villain. From there Wario has starred in his own series that shadowed Mario's portable outings for quite a while. Then there are cases the spinoff was never called for like Sub-Zero Mythologies."
The Naruto franchise has good games; it may be hard to fathom, but there are a few (with a stress on the word few) great games based on the popular Shonen Jump series. Naruto Shippuden Dragon Blade Chronicles is not one of them
Japan's substitute for a Clash of Ninja release last year. What a shame it turned out so poorly. There's potential for a Naruto action/adventure game (as shown by some others in the franchise) but apparently this one didn't turn out so well.
That score hurts. "Believe it!" >_____<
GamingExcellence - Naruto isn't always trying to bring back rogue ninjas to his village or avoiding organizations trying to rip out the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox that is inside him. Sometimes, he just has to save the world from being destroyed by giant elemental dragons.