Naruto: Ninja Council 3 seems like it should be a better game than it is. It starts from a perfectly solid design idea -- it's a side-scrolling action fighting game, like Smash Brothers flattened into a sprite-based 2D world. There's a ton of single-player missions, a four-player party mode, and 20-odd characters to pick and choose from, including some characters from the Naruto cartoons who haven't yet made it into any American videogames.
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