As a past/current owner of the best Naruto:GNT game in this series (Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 4). All I can say is to try it, the developers seem to get lazy nowadays creating GNT Games that match GNT4's level. I'd play it over Rev. 2 any day but it just seems like there's no one caring when it comes to the GNT Series on accounts to development. The character roster is solid, and provides most of the characters that have appeared so far. Some haven't been added which is a disappointment, like Ino for example. My biggest complaint would be most of the characters you had in the first series of GNT have almost the same moveset, and not everyone has new special attacks either. There are some balancing issues, when it comes to the new "Senzai Ninriki" element, which gives players new powers when they reach Critical Mode. This mainly comes up when the feature restores health. It may do it to fast and may cause frustration, you can turn the feature off if you want to though. The amount of stages along with their music is also solid, the tunes fit well but there is no song that seems adrenaline pumping. The story is boring for the most part, maze running and countless waves of enemies attacking you. It also holds true to having the basic modes from past games. If your a loner in gaming like me and have just AI to play with, the AI falls short in difficulty, they lack a feeling of smarts/style and never use in-game transformations when they have it as an option, so far I've only seen the Past version of Naruto transform. There's the basic extra's like Sound tests but that's been here for awhile. I enjoy playing EX3 though because I'm a sucker for it's game play, I just can't stop playing it even though the combo system has been weakened slightly. The game play will be the only reason I play this game, so if your planning on importing this from Japan or own sometime in the future. Find a way to try it out, but give yourself some time to play to see if you like it or not.
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