I always knew I had my fair share of shitty games lying around. I have Dragon's Lair and the infamous LJN X-Men on NES and Big Rigs on PC (you just can't not want to play that thing, come on). But there's one I never hear about, one that I only just realized is bad.
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3.
1. One attack button. Now, Smash Brothers does this well. This game? Hell no. You like combos? Well, you get them. Mash this button and you've got a combo, woo hoo. No variations on the attacks except a few directions. They all end up doing pretty much the same thing, though, except forward, which pushes your enemy away from you and does less damage.
2. Few defense options in the air. This game is pretty smash brothers like. Most of your time is spent in the air. Your only option is a quick teleport behind the enemy done by pressing the guard buttons (yeah, both R2 and L2 guard. No difference, just wasted controller space), as far as I know.
3. Projectiles that suck. The square button is dedicated to items. Almost all of them suck. They're easy to dodge or do little damage besides.
4. The ultimate attack system is really shitty. You start it and there's a freaking button-mash/stick-spin/button-pattern mini-game which determines the attack damage or whether it hits at all. Some of them seem to be easier to lose than others, but there's no pattern to it; Sasuke's ult gives him a transformation and increased attack and apparently is really forgiving while Hiruzen's ult does damage and nothing else while still being more forgiving for the player being hit.
5. The main single player mode is a tedious adventure game that tells you where all of your objectives are that has finicky controls; the writing is trite, the characterization even worse than the manga (hinata shy! naruto bull-headed! sasuke 2edgy! shino bugs! ino egotistical!), not much to be enjoyed. It's required to get a lot of the characters. Woo.
6. Special attacks suck. Every character has two. Some of them are overpowered and some are useless. Rock Lee has two close-up hard-to-hit jutsu while Hinata has a heal (!!) and a 4-second invincible shield/attack (!!!!!). The characters usually don't make up for these deficiencies.
7. Main character is still unlikeable. This was kinda solved after the early parts of the series... but this only covers them. Oy.
8. I like street fighter better.
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