let me start by saying that I am in no way and anime or manga fan, I find the majority of it to be extremely cliché and unoriginal. I don't read the books, I don't watch the shows, and I don't play the games... usually. So my friend bought the latest naruto fighting game for the PS3 and despite my better judgement, I played a little.

Many parts were as I expected, lots of pre-rendered special attacks, graphics that could have been from the PS1, and enough quick time events to give yahtzee a case of shingles. There were however, several gameplay features that I found refreshingly original and interesting. The open environment, variety of long range weapons, and significant variation in the different characters fighting styles.

Anyway, I've only played a bit, but I was curious about your guys' opinions. good, bad, original, knockoff ect...

Frankly I dont think I'm a very good judge because I don't play allot of these games (naruto, butokai...) So I cant tell if these features are original or just copying an older game.

I thought Ninja storms graphics look brilliant, and was surprisingly good.

Thank GOD. I thought this was gonna be some ninja fanboy thread.

Why oh why are all the guys that fit into the 'geek' stereotype, obsessed with ninjas!?

Anyway, to answer your question, I played the Naruto game, and I hate Naruto, and anime too. But I found the game a lot of fun, if I ignored what it actually was.

They wear orange because they aren't REAL.

As little as I like Naruto, and double that for the average Naruto fan-boy, I've played a little of a few Naruto games and was forced to admit that they tend to be better than they've any right to be. I still can't stand the characters and don't care about the story, but the games are sort of fun.

I wouldn't say they're startling original or deep, but they aren't bad.

And that's the only time I will ever use "Naruto" and "isn't bad" in the same post.

As to why he wears orange, I couldn't say. Not sure how what he does qualifies as ninjutsu, either. But I guess a fake ninja can wear any stupid color he wants.

What about the actually question in the title? Why the hell is a ninja whereing orange? If they were in the desert i might could understand but from what i have seen their in a freakin jungle. Its like painting a bullseye on yourself while running around yelling "hit me kill me pleeeeaassse."

I confess, I'm a 32-year-old Naruto fan. At least I can carry it off with a little more grace and civilty than your average American elementary school student - I hope.

First off, Naruto's mythos is a pretty far out there. These guys are wielding some pretty wacky powers, separated from Dragonball Z-esque power accumulation perhaps by a thin layer of finesse required to pull off their "jutsu." Suffice to say, you're able to summon a stream of water out of the ground and fill it with piranha before siccing it on your enemy (actually happened) the fact you're wearing orange is probably the least of your concerns.

Second, Naruto himself is a bit of a brash knucklehead who scarcely cares if anyone sees him coming. He's got a bit of Popeye in him that he's the type to stand up for what's right even if he gets pummeled for it. [Most of the episodes have people learning to admire this rather suicidal quality of his.]

I'm not sure this needs to be in gaming discussion. There are Naruto games, sure, but this is probably better of off-topic.

Because hey were hunting and they dont want to get shot and so they forgot to take off that suit

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As for "Why is the Ninja wearing orange", why is the PLUMBER wearing orange?! Why is the fighting robot with the cannon on his arm all blue?[/quote]

wow. I didnt realize the title of my post would garner this much response. As to why I chose it, I just find it slightly odd that a ninja, someone who traditionally uses stealth, would insist on wearing the most attention grabbing color he could find. I mean seriously, he looks like he just broke out of a correctional facility!

Jumpman:
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As for "Why is the Ninja wearing orange", why is the PLUMBER wearing orange?! Why is the fighting robot with the cannon on his arm all blue?[/quote]

wow. I didnt realize the title of my post would garner this much response. As to why I chose it, I just find it slightly odd that a ninja, someone who traditionally uses stealth, would insist on wearing the most attention grabbing color he could find. I mean seriously, he looks like he just broke out of a correctional facility!

Oh come on, are you seriously trying to implement the stereotype that Ninjas are all stealth and black on a Naruto game? Come on, grow some eyes man, and just let it eXpAnD...dude.

But who reallys cares? Plumbers usually wear dirty overalls with no specific color, robots are usually clunky and gray, why must you stereotype the poor ninja?

if every ninja wears black from head to toe how do you identify characters?

Naruto at least wears something with black in Shippuuden. The only character in Naruto who is close to a ninja is Kakashi and even he is weird.

Anyway I played the game and I liked it. Sure I would rather play Tekken (my least favourite fighting franchise) than this but it's decent.

Also I don't understand your problem with the graphics. They are very good and very close to the anime.

Its not that the graphics were really bad, its just that this stylized, cell shaded style uses a fraction of the PS3's capabilities. I thought the rational for paying five hundred bucks for a system was the superior graphics. Playing Naruto on a PS3 is like buying the worlds fastest car but only driving it in school zones.

My understanding of authentic ninjas is that they were really little more than peasants who offered to do jobs too dirty for the Samurai to touch. However, that's not the whole story, some Ninja ended up serving as everything from diplomats to high ranked government officials.

Reading a bit of the wikipedia right now (for what good that does) Ninja may have been a counterculture to the Samurai. Because the ruling Samurai class wrote the history books, they may have largely exaggerated the concept of ninja as being little more than hired thugs who handled matters too dishonorable for decent folk to deal with. Apparently many Ninja may have been descended from (my heroes) Buddhists escaping religious persecution of the imperials in the 7th century.

But, yes, they didn't always wear black - that's a popular urban legend. They probably would dress in relatively typical garb, perhaps masquerading as peasants or roaming military men, as it would allow them to move about undetected more effectively than wearing an outfit that would easily identify them as a ninja. If ninjas really were a counterculture movement in Feudal Japan, they probably spent a lot of time trying to avoid being executed.

Jumpman:
Its not that the graphics were really bad, its just that this stylized, cell shaded style uses a fraction of the PS3's capabilities. I thought the rational for paying five hundred bucks for a system was the superior graphics. Playing Naruto on a PS3 is like buying the worlds fastest car but only driving it in school zones.

If you have the world's fastet car you can't drive with it anywhere at full speed anyway because it's not allowed.

The graphics in this Naruto game should look like in the anime and that is what they do.

And graphics don't have to use everything a system got just to be pretty.

Maybe he only attacks at sunset?

Otherwise, haven't played the game, can't really comment. But I did hear from someone (not a massive Naruto fan) that they found the graphics compellingly lovely.

Ninja Storm is an amazing game. I'm not a fan of any "anime" based games, as I've never played one that was good except Ninja Storm.

MAYBE Orphen from way back on the PSX.

But Ninja Storm was good.

Though.....I'll always label Tenchu as my favorite ninja series (and Shinobi 3 for the Sega Genesis as my favorite ninja game) xD

I am a Naruto fan and can name every member of Akatsuki and the name of the first Hokage. The Ultimate Ninja series was alright I thought. It was like Smash Bros. with Naruto characters. Not as good of course but not absolutely terrible.

For games based of animes and mangas it does its job perfectly.

The series used hand seals, you use button sequeinces.

The voice acting is similar (if not the same) as the translated show.

All in all it did its job, It got its fans to buy the game, and actully gave them a reasonalble experiense.

Interms of being dressed orange i would have to say its a type of atypical camoflage.

Orange is some thing that is difficult to concentrait on, also hwo is goign to take the short kid dressed in orange seriously. theyll asume hes handicap or some thing, ignore him and end up with limbs missing the next second its pure genious!!

Lazzi:
Interms of being dressed orange i would have to say its a type of atypical camoflage.

Orange is some thing that is difficult to concentrait on, also hwo is goign to take the short kid dressed in orange seriously. theyll asume hes handicap or some thing, ignore him and end up with limbs missing the next second its pure genious!!

just like stealing a handicap placcard for your car, then mowing down old ladies :D brilliant!

If you have the world's fastet car you can't drive with it anywhere at full speed anyway because it's not allowed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn

It's actually a test of their ninja abilities.

See, dark grey, black, dark blue, anyone can ninje wearing them. It takes a really good ninja to pull it off wearing road cone orange.

Do you really need to care about stealth given the powers alot of ninja have in Naruto? I know the orange is pretty nonsensical from a night infiltration standpoint, but still they don't really need to care. It's like complaining that Force Unleashed is not all about sabre combat when you are effectively a god compared to everyone other than your Jedi counterparts. Would you even need a light sabre if you can pull a battleship out of the sky?

The orange part, hes hunting with dick chenye and wants to make sure that dick dosnt think hes a bird

Onmi:
Because the Mangaka is a freaking idiot who hamhands his own Mythos?

He's also drawing it in black and white, so it doesn't matter.