You'll often find yourself trying to accomplish the same tasks over and over, except you'll be fighting off stronger enemies in each progressing scenario. However, about halfway through, the different levels all begin to run together. The missions are varied enough at the beginning: deliver some goods to a neighboring village, prevent an assassination, and so on. The game is broken up into dozens of missions, each one revealing a little more of the plot. Uzumaki Chronicles excels in several areas: combat, story, difficulty, and overall gameplay. With the help of his ninja comrades, Naruto faces down deadly enemies and insurmountable obstacles in his mission to save Konoha. Eventually, our hero discovers a secret plot to destroy the ninja village of Konoha and sets out to stop it.
As the game progresses, Naruto handles everything from delivery missions and reconnaissance to prisoner transportations. In Uzumaki Chronicles, the star of the show, Naruto Uzumaki, is assigned to carry out various missions for his ninja village. As the fourth stateside console title in the series, Uzumaki Chronicles continues the upward curve with a fun, entertaining story and surprisingly complex combat system. The modified North American release is well polished, and everything from the story to the presentation is seamless to the average gamer. Thankfully, the development team at Cavia gave Uzumaki Chronicles the high-class treatment. This means that Uzumaki Chronicles not only got edited for spoiler content, but the original story was also drastically changed.
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As any hardcore fan knows, the original Japanese manga and anime series are chronologically far ahead of the American version on Cartoon Network's Toonami. Unlike several other anime series introduced to American gamers (like Ghost in the Shell and Mobile Suit Gundam), Naruto has inspired a wholly decent collection of video games. Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles is one of many video games to cash in on the Japanese-anime gravy train.