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Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3

Heroes with a flame spell, Ninja Storm!!!

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  For many aeons humanity hath pondered existence and it's meaning, sending many of it's greatest minds such as Archimedes, Stephen Hawking, Galileo even Monty Python to search for an answer, some have gotten close but not a single soul has found the answer so far. 

  Nor have they found at the answer to questions to equally important questions such as “Which are better, Ninjas or Pirates?”, “Why can't I turn into a giant mutant octopus warrior”, “Is Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 any good?” or more importantly “Why haven't I turned over all my possessions to Calum, who is obviously more suited to hoarding my beloved valuables?”.

But worry not child for I have the power to enlighten you and use it I shall not, although the answers to these questions are as follows:

1. Ninjas are better, pirates have been reduced to fat sweaty nerds living in their parent's basement, jerking to 2D women and lurking across murky websites full of NSFW content.
2. You can't transform into a giant mutant octopus warrior? This is what separates me from you filthy peasants, I've doing it since I was 6 months old. But don't worry however because with this game you can.(pssst.... this is a game review,)
3. This comes later....
4. You are a tight git with no sense of charity but hopefully you will come to your senses sometime after reading this review, Mr.Scrooge.

Power Rangers: Ninja storm~, is a ninja fighting game in which you have to play from a range of ninja characters and fight ninja battles to the ninja death. These ninjas have a variety of ninja tools at their ninja disposal such as ninja sealing tags, ninja smoke bombs and ninja bubble blowers. They also have cool ninja jutsus* that range from blast smalls balls of light to turning into a spiky ninja ball and smashing the ninja ground beneath like some sort of ninja hedgehog.

They also have a blue meter which measures their “not magic” chakra, which allows to pull crazy stunts like turning into a giant mutant OCTOPUS warrior!!!**

Unlike the blocking found in most fighting games, in Ultimate Lumberjack Storm Tres you instead ninja tele-port leaving a block of ninja wood in your ninja wake.

*jutsues, jutsoup, Jutsi?

** I said you could, didn't I?

Furthermore, there are awakenings that transforms your ninja character into a awesome superior not-so ninja form and ultimate jutsu finishers accompanied with unique animations and cut-scenes for that special extra touch ninja badass-ery.

That is a squid. Also wrong game.

The art style will obviously have to look cartoon-ish as it is based of an anime/manga series so not much can be said there, the ninja stages have a fair amount of ninja variety ranging from ninja forests to ninja swamps to ninja temples to ninja villages although I do find the villages a little lacking in life ninjas. The ninja graphics themselves are nice and smooth as a ninja but to be honest fighting games aren't made for excellent graphics, they're generally more about the game-play ninjas.

The soundtrack is pretty damn cool and atmospheric, which is very important I find in fighting games as it sets the mood for the battle. The sound effects themselves are wholly suitable for the artistic style of the game, although some people may find all the grunting off putting.

If you let yourself get swept away in all this over the top mega-ninja action then your gonna have a good time, whether it be knock seven ninjas bells out of noobs online or engaging in some crazy ninja boss battle against a giant flaming fox boss in the story mode.

You've most probably noticed the lack of a mention about a plot so far, (if you haven't skip this paragraph since it was a very descriptive piece of text worthy of the Oscars) that is because I didn't play the story mode and to be honest if I did play it, I most probably wouldn't understand much of it unless I have had prior knowledge of this series before. This is fine, much like other franchise based games, the game is not supposed to teach me all about naruto, that is what the anime is for, it's target audience are naruto fans. So this review is mostly about Ultimate Ninja Storm not as a naruto game but as a fighting game and as a fighting game it plays very well.

All in all I'd have to say that this game is worth the £20 price tag (varies), if not for the ninjas story then for the crazy ninjas fun you'll be getting by beating the crap out of ninja scrubs with your fancy ninja moves before turning into a crazy octopus monster and wiping the floor with the remains of his ninja honor.

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As for my favourite character, I suppose you could call him the BEES KNEES!!!
Hueh, heh, heh, heh.

~ I'm not kidding it is real: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTQBDLGJgjE