Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4

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8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 560 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 71 out of 560
  3. Negative: 47 out of 560
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  1. ravenned
    Feb 19, 2016
    7
    The story mode is okay, with slightly too much button mashing. Good cast of characters, but it doesn't make a difference really. The mechanics between characters are too similar. The old ninja storms used to have fewer characters, but with greatly differing mechanics. Some jutsus used to sacrifice hp for more damage, or apply buffs or debuffs. Now they just do a standard amount of damage,The story mode is okay, with slightly too much button mashing. Good cast of characters, but it doesn't make a difference really. The mechanics between characters are too similar. The old ninja storms used to have fewer characters, but with greatly differing mechanics. Some jutsus used to sacrifice hp for more damage, or apply buffs or debuffs. Now they just do a standard amount of damage, with animation being the only difference. I'd much rather have a smaller cast and better movesets. Still artwork is great, but somehow the animation looks kinda shoddy. Music and voice acting are awesome. Would say its not worth it's price tag, but is fun despite its flaws.… Expand
  2. AlkaVirus
    Feb 9, 2016
    7
    More of an upgrade to the last game than a new game on its own. The new naruto game continues where the story left off with great animated fighting scenes, a new and improved fighting system and support switching system, but it does not feel like a new game. Only minor elements were changed, leaving much left to want afterwards. Much of the challenge from the last game was lost, in itsMore of an upgrade to the last game than a new game on its own. The new naruto game continues where the story left off with great animated fighting scenes, a new and improved fighting system and support switching system, but it does not feel like a new game. Only minor elements were changed, leaving much left to want afterwards. Much of the challenge from the last game was lost, in its place the game feels lacking by the time you finish the great story mode. The adventure mode feels like a chore, and is very unrewarding. Everything else, while was good, felt dated and recycled. Including the lack of many new characters (only the newer madara, naruto, sasuke, and a few other new characters were added.) The rest of the characters were simply recycled. I was hoping for new team ultimate combos, or more fun game modes to play around in.

    In general, however, one may argue that the storm series is very good as it is and doesn't need much change. The game-play is always fun and the animations are brilliant. Combat is very smooth and responsive. Hopefully additional downloadable content would make this game even better than it already is.    … Expand
  3. Slevin310
    Feb 25, 2016
    7
    Maybe 3D environment fighting games aren't my thing. I played the older Ninja Storm games and I enjoyed them because their mechanics still maintained a level of skill you'd need to be good at the game While I'm a huge fan of Naruto, I'm also a hardcore fan of fighting games. It seems with each sequel they keep adding more over the top flashy mechanics and it's ruining the competitiveMaybe 3D environment fighting games aren't my thing. I played the older Ninja Storm games and I enjoyed them because their mechanics still maintained a level of skill you'd need to be good at the game While I'm a huge fan of Naruto, I'm also a hardcore fan of fighting games. It seems with each sequel they keep adding more over the top flashy mechanics and it's ruining the competitive fighting game nature the older games had. Don't get me wrong, the extremely over the top transformations and hidden ultimate ninjutsu stuff looks great for a Naruto game. But for a competitive fighting game? I just can't get around it.

    On top of that the Substitution Jutsu used to take up a LOT of chakra. For good reason too, you were only supposed to use it for emergencies when you're about to get laid down with a massive combo. If you used it up too much chakra then you were out of luck. You're supposed to rely on your guard and evasion to stay out of devastating combos. But the Substitution Jutsu can be spammed like crazy in this game with plenty of chakra to spare. You just see logs of wood all over the place now.

    As a Naruto game, it's fun and addictive (the animation is beautiful). But as a fighting game? It has some design flaws. If they want to have crazy ninjutsu battles why not just make an RPG? Keeping the nature of a fighting game doesn't seem to be the main focus so, why not.

    Oh and lastly... aren't we sick of quick time events? Why not just let us enjoy the beautiful animation on top of the awesome fighting scene rather than have us scouting out where that next prompt will be. It certainly doesn't help when they make the quick time prompts hard to see. I can't tell if some of these prompts are for quick time events or just part of the animation.    … Expand
  4. DPtdryste
    Jun 10, 2016
    7
    I'm rating this game as a high 7. 3 things:

    -My review is for the single player experience only. -I only recommend this game to fans of Naruto. -I didn't play multiplayer, local or online. So the thing I like most about the Ninja Storm games is that I can experience the story, rather than reading the comics and watching the episodes. I don't have the time to be doing all that, so    I'm rating this game as a high 7. 3 things:

    -My review is for the single player experience only.
    -I only recommend this game to fans of Naruto.
    -I didn't play multiplayer, local or online.

    So the thing I like most about the Ninja Storm games is that I can experience the story, rather than reading the comics and watching the episodes. I don't have the time to be doing all that, so this was great. Although I would say I maybe missed some cool stuff by doing so, I like skipping the fillers and all the talking. I rate the story of this game as okay-to-occasionally-great. I was happy to see how a series that I was emotionally invested in as a high schooler ended, and it was nice. Occasionally some of the sappier moments made me roll my eyes, since I'm 25 years old now, but the story really has its moments! Also, something I found funny which is probably in most anime shows, everyone that always seems defeated always seems to have more power left over. It's all very funny. Also, the scale of some of the battles is cool. The narrative isn't top notch by any means, but if you already care about the Naruto series, that will make it better.

    Combat is fun-ish. Some of the more frustrating elements of the story mode is that you can't adjust the difficulty, so you are kinda wrecking everyone until maybe the last one or two fights. I beat NS3 on Hard and I occasionally had intense fights in the story mode that took more than just a few tries. I probably died maybe twice at most before succeeding in the hardest of fights here. One of the things I will say are AWESOME though are the quicktime events, special moves, grabs and the ninjutsu endings of some combos. They end in stunning visuals, and this is definitely the best part of the game. After I beat the story I pretty much just went to training and tried out most characters special moves.

    Adventure mode, probably the most disappointing aspect. I really felt no urge to continue to this mode because of all the menu filler and running around and stuff. Maybe I'm just impatient, but if you're going to have a story mode and multiplayer, and you want to fill in a third mode, maybe make the third mode flow faster? This is a fighting game, ain't nobody got time to be running around skipping everyone's dialogue with post-main-story-ending filler. I will probably come back to this mode and see if I was wrong about it, but yeah, I didn't really feel compelled to complete tasks in the post-conflict world of Naruto after the stakes seemed so high in Story mode.

    Menus + loading: probably small gripes, but the menus and loading screens are slightly longer than I would like. No one interaction with the User Interface and waiting for the screen to load takes up much time, but after a while with the game I started wondering how much of my time was spent not playing or watching cool cutscenes PLUS how much time was spent running around and in the menus in Adventure mode. Was it 5%? 10%? 15%? Idk, but it was enough to make me think about it.

    Conclusion: You're coming here for the cutscenes, and to finish the story. That's the best part of the game. I don't have an opinion on multiplayer because I don't play online, and my friends don't really play video games, so if you like the combat this game got better for you than me! I enjoyed the combat sometimes, but was really pissed I couldn't change the difficulty during story mode. I gotta come back to Adventure mode. But yeah, if you have already played the really great games your respective console has to offer and need something to play while something you are waiting for comes out AND you are already a Naruto fan AND you don't mind paying the $45-50 this sorta new game still costs, I'd recommend it. If you are short on cash and/or are deciding on this game and some other AND ESPECIALLY IF YOU ALREADY FINISHED THE SERIES/STORY, I'd take a look at something else. Again, my favorite parts were the scenes and visuals, but if I already knew what awesome jutsus our heroes and villains used in the last arc of the series I don't know if I would enjoy the game the way that I did, as a vector to finishing the series.

    Thanks for reading, guys and gals.    … Expand
  5. kimimaru4411
    Mar 4, 2016
    6
    As a fan of Naruto and fighting games, this game has brought me many amazing fights both online and offline and is currently one of the most beautiful and interesting fighting games out there.
    So as an independent fighting game I would give it a solid 9/10 which is amazing.
    However, naruto storm 4 isn't just a fighting game, its an RPG game of sorts, even though the RPG isn't linked to    As a fan of Naruto and fighting games, this game has brought me many amazing fights both online and offline and is currently one of the most beautiful and interesting fighting games out there.
    So as an independent fighting game I would give it a solid 9/10 which is amazing.
    However, naruto storm 4 isn't just a fighting game, its an RPG game of sorts, even though the RPG isn't linked to canon story, and it has a storyline mode similar to other naruto storm games.
    With regards to the storyline, some interesting new visuals have been added to boss battles, giving them more flare and a better overall look. However, I found most boss battles very strangely put together in terms of oscillating difficulty levels between very easy and slightly difficult, and the easiness of some boss battles during the 1v1 segments was a bit disappointing. The button input segments were pretty impressive, and featured great visuals.
    The normal storyline battles which made up most of the game however, did not seem so interesting...
    The normal action packed 1v1 battles were sandwiched between 2d image cutscenes which were quite boring and a general put off from all the action in battles.
    The 3D story cutscenes were very scarce, existing only in more quantity near the later part of the storyline, and in general seemed only slightly better visually than the cutscenes present in naruto storm 3, which was also a bit disappointing.
    The mob battle segments were also very strange. I recall playing through the mob battle between kid obito and kakashi and a hoard of ninja, and found that if i stood still during the battle, the enemies simply would not attack me, which is a very poor conception of AI and makes the battle way too easy. This particular mob battle had no camera lock on or even the ability to switch camera focus, so it was very disorienting.
    The major let down for me in this storyline is the absence of cohesion between certain battles in what concerns difficulty and also presentation, since the story constantly switches between 3D cutscenes and 2d slideshows and combines mob battles that are way too easy with 1v1 battles with ok difficulty.
    I also thought personally, as a big naruto fan, that some parts of the game were actually up to standard with the Perfect Storm people were expecting, but most of time was so subpar. For example, the last boss battle between naruto and sasuke brought tears to my eyes, and was incredible in many ways and about 10x better than any other boss battle in the game. I also to some extent thought that hashirama vs madara was a very impressive battle and got me pumped for more.
    With regards to the adventure mode, at first it seemed like it would combine the best elements from storm 1 and 2's RPG, but then it turned out to be quite unsatisfying.
    The worst thing about adventure mode is its length. I easily cleared the main adventure events in 3hours max , and was left with sidequests such as: walk 30000 steps or break 30 crates... It wasn't very memorable overall.
    This mode tried to include naruto storm 1's 3D appearance of the village, but gave the player no mobility whatsoever (which was the main aspect of storm 1's rpg) other than walking slowly and running. It also cut naruto storm 2's main rpg feature which was the large 2d world exploration and created only checkpoints to certain battle stages or 2d areas already created in previous storm games.
    To me, the fact that only some of the aspects of this game are similar to what we would expect from a next gen naruto storm game are why I give it a 6 in rating.
    The story mode and rpg mode are overall both less engaging and less interesting than those in storm 2 and 3.
    The gameplay is outstanding however, and a couple boss battles were also amazing in comparison to other storm games, but there were not many boss battles, and not enough 3D content to surpass the previous installments in terms of story.
    Thank you for reading.    … Expand
  6. lucasmatiussi
    Mar 11, 2016
    7
    Gostei do jogo , ele é muito bom tem gráficos incríveis o amaterasu agora é roxo o que é muito bom , mais o jogo tem bugs , eu achei um enquanto estava testando o jogo , quando comprei o jogo ,coloquei o jogo testei o Naruto Kurama , fiz o Ultimate Jutsu e a tela ficou preta , reiniciei e deu tudo certo , mas acho que o jogo deve ter mais melhorias , eles prometeram um jogo para curtimosGostei do jogo , ele é muito bom tem gráficos incríveis o amaterasu agora é roxo o que é muito bom , mais o jogo tem bugs , eu achei um enquanto estava testando o jogo , quando comprei o jogo ,coloquei o jogo testei o Naruto Kurama , fiz o Ultimate Jutsu e a tela ficou preta , reiniciei e deu tudo certo , mas acho que o jogo deve ter mais melhorias , eles prometeram um jogo para curtimos por bastante tempo , zerei ele em 2 dias e o online não é muito bom.… Expand
  7. NihiRagnarK
    Apr 12, 2016
    6
    Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 is somehow the worst in the series.

    There are too much slideshows in the main storyline rather than animation/CG and a very tedious Adventure mode (which I would definitely not play if not for the trophy). It gives the impression that the single player part is poorly made and BANDAI is out of budget on this game Apart from that, the game is good. This one    Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 is somehow the worst in the series.

    There are too much slideshows in the main storyline rather than animation/CG and a very tedious Adventure mode (which I would definitely not play if not for the trophy). It gives the impression that the single player part is poorly made and BANDAI is out of budget on this game

    Apart from that, the game is good. This one introduces a very fantastic character-changing system and has every character you can think of. It is really a good ending for the series.    … Expand
  8. Artoriaswolf
    Sep 18, 2017
    7
    Good conclusion for a series,good characters,and amazing visual effects but poorly gameplay, egual moves and some characters are weaker than others
  9. Henriquez94
    Jun 6, 2018
    7
    Esta opinion es de un fan del manga Naruto, vi su manga completo, vi el anime (Menos el relleno), y disfrute del primer juego de naruto para la version de PS2, la cual me encanto.
    Lo que me encanta de estos titulos esque cada juego comprende una parte importante de la historia del manga, se agradece, ya que comprende una buena parte, muy pegado a lo ocurrido al manga, hay cosas que no    Esta opinion es de un fan del manga Naruto, vi su manga completo, vi el anime (Menos el relleno), y disfrute del primer juego de naruto para la version de PS2, la cual me encanto.
    Lo que me encanta de estos titulos esque cada juego comprende una parte importante de la historia del manga, se agradece, ya que comprende una buena parte, muy pegado a lo ocurrido al manga, hay cosas que no pero entiendo que es por motivo de gameplay.
    La jugabilidad es buena, no innova pero es muy fiel a lo presentado en sus versiones anteriores.
    La banda sonora, muy buena, lo pudieron hacer mejor, pero es aceptable.
    Contenido secundario, pues se quedaron cortos, creo que pudieron agregar mas.
    La historia esta dividida en capitulos, y LO QUE MAS DETESTE DE ESTE JUEGO FUERON LAS CINEMATICAS, que decepcion mas enorme, las cinematicas no se pueden llamar ni cinematicas a eso, fueron imagenes con transiciones, asi de grave, ni siquiera se esforzaron en agregar imagenes del anime, tan siquiera, pero no fueron unas imagenes con transicion y subtitulos.
    Mi nota era muchisimo mas baja, pero debo ser lo mas objetivo y creo que si eres un fan de la saga este juego te gustara ya que se apega muchisimo al manga, el gameplay es bueno fiel a sus entregas atras, puedes jugar online y es bueno, batas grupales.
    Lo malo, como dije las cinematicas, el contenido secundario y DLC.
    Vale la pena jugarlo, si eres fan, sino eres fan no, encontraras mejores titulos.

    Saludos.    … Expand
  10. thesl1pknotguy
    Jan 18, 2019
    6
    The graphics are amazing combat solid and story presentation works however that's where it all ends on good. the lip syncing has always been a issue to plague the storm series some of the characters are insanely broken. it took around a year to add in the spectator mode and made endless go from 4 back to 8. the online community is 60% 40% cancerous adventure mode it a hollow husk of whatThe graphics are amazing combat solid and story presentation works however that's where it all ends on good. the lip syncing has always been a issue to plague the storm series some of the characters are insanely broken. it took around a year to add in the spectator mode and made endless go from 4 back to 8. the online community is 60% 40% cancerous adventure mode it a hollow husk of what storm 1's free roam and the sad factor is not every character or awakening is properly shown. in conclusion all flash zero substance all i can say.… Expand
  11. Jonasluas
    Jun 20, 2020
    7
    El modo historia es basicamente el anime resumido lo bueno y entretenido es el modo aventura muchos coleccionables muchas misiones primarias y secundarias entretenido para jugar solo o con amigos
  12. JeanMarcos_
    May 7, 2021
    5
    It's a nice game in the overall, but, knowing we already had incredibly good games like "Naruto Ultimate Ninja 5" this game doesn't seems to be more than a generic fight game with anime characters, also, the cutscenes are just static screenshots, kinda ridiculous.
  13. DevilSurvivor
    Nov 19, 2021
    5
    The only thing this game has going for it are the graphics and the huge cast of characters, which in a way, makes it the best one to play if all you care is playing with all the characters.

    However, everything about it has been made in a lazier, less passionate way, and you can tell that it was a purely greedy reason to split the war arc into two different games. Whereas Storm 3 had    The only thing this game has going for it are the graphics and the huge cast of characters, which in a way, makes it the best one to play if all you care is playing with all the characters.

    However, everything about it has been made in a lazier, less passionate way, and you can tell that it was a purely greedy reason to split the war arc into two different games. Whereas Storm 3 had impeccable cutscenes, both pre-rendered and in-engine, this one fails to live up to the standards of quality that 3 brought forward. Not only that, but the actual source material story at this point is more boring than the one found on Storm 2 and 3, so instead of making up for that with groundbreaking boss fights and cutscenes, they instead decided to follow the same path as Kishimoto by half-assing almost everything. Every ultimate jutsu is the same "build up a super giant attack that explodes in a bunch of different textures", there's nothing unique, fun or interesting anymore, and most of the boss fights were converted into these stupid "dodge the red line attack until you can counter" set-pieces.

    A big avoid if you're playing it as a fan of the manga. Only buy this if it's super cheap and if you want to try out all the different characters and play against friends.    … Expand
  14. Emerald3ME
    Mar 24, 2023
    6
    Shallow gameplay systems propped up by a stellar IP and animations. Also the story mode is pretty good as well.
  15. F3T1W
    Aug 21, 2021
    7
    Amazing completion of the saga, followed for all 13 years, with 3 PS, the boss of the battle is on top, the maximum number of various characters
  16. Jdotdeedot
    Jul 6, 2022
    7
    The best naruto game i've played so far. The gameplay is extremely fun but i'm not a huge fan of some of the controls personally. I'm not the biggest of the story it tells because i'm not a huge fan of the naruto shippuden anime. The online is fine but it's pretty dead nowadays which is fine but it'll be more active if there was more variety to it. The best thing about ninja storm 4The best naruto game i've played so far. The gameplay is extremely fun but i'm not a huge fan of some of the controls personally. I'm not the biggest of the story it tells because i'm not a huge fan of the naruto shippuden anime. The online is fine but it's pretty dead nowadays which is fine but it'll be more active if there was more variety to it. The best thing about ninja storm 4 definitely have to be the visuals, they are SO impressive here. But yea that's basically it.… Expand
  17. AlexPhrase
    Dec 5, 2022
    7
    Not a bad game by any means but it didn't have that flow that the other ninja storm games had I'd give it an eight but Ninja Storm one (which I still have to beat) will take that spot.
  18. aaronnmp96
    Jan 31, 2023
    5
    If it has more characters but the Gameplay does not change much compared to the previous ones, very little original
  19. HeitorCampos
    Mar 13, 2023
    6
    It´s not really good, feels very lazy in a lot of important ways. But I do have a soft spot for it for getting me to fall in love with the anime and manga again.

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 60 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 46 out of 60
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 60
  3. Negative: 0 out of 60
  1. Hobby Consolas
    May 31, 2016
    88
    Naruto fans have a new challenge to overcome if they want to become the best ninja and watch the end of the series.
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  2. Worth Playing
    May 26, 2016
    70
    Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 is an average but reasonable send-off to the franchise.
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  3. CD-Action
    May 1, 2016
    80
    UNS4 will delight the fans of the series (i.e. with tons of playable characters that come with unique techniques) and leave everyone else wandering what the hell is going on. However everyone will admit that the scope of some fights is astonishing. [04/2016, p.51]
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