The best portable Naruto game, but is it enough?

User Rating: 7.5 | Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 2: The Phantom Fortress PSP
"Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 2 - The Phantom Fortress" is a converted version of the PS2 game "Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2", but this time it comes with an unique story mode. Enough introduction, let's talk about the game!

UNH 2 has the already familiar UN mechanics (forget UNS here), graphics and gameplay. Hell, it even has the same soundtrack (with a few exceptions) from UN2! You ask: "Is that a bad thing?" No, it's not, but it's not perfect either. UNH2 contains competent cell-shading for PSP and a HUGE (and I mean it) story mode. The story mode is sometime between "Sasuke Retrieval" Arc (Part I) and "Rescue Gaara" arc (Part II: Shippuden) and is semmingly about a haunted castle called "Mugenjo" summoned by Kabuto, at Orochimaru's order in the heart of Konoha. Naruto & Co. will try to prevent Orochimaru's plans to destroy Konoha with his plans.

The story mode consists of climbing 100 floors in the Mugenjo and you experience the story with Naruto's eyes. The story, no matter how much "Narutard" you are, it will eventually get boring, much due to the empty spaces of the Mugenjo castle, which you have to fill up with scrolls that can contain Battles, Tree Climbing, Riddles (questions about the Naruto Universe), Shadow Clone, and others. If you manage to pass this boredom, the story mode is actually interesting to fill up the interest of the Naruto fans.

The most boring thing about the story mode is not the empty rooms of Mugenjo. The thing is, after you manage to climb 100 floors and manage to pass through the story mode, you find out that you have just unlocked ANOTHER story mode that clears the holes from the previous story mode, but this time around you see the story from Jiraiya's eyes and you have to descend 30 floors. That's right, descend. You'll find out why if you play it.

Anyways, the game isn't just made from the story modes. It has the VS mode and the Heroes mode, in which you play as a team chosen by yourself from the game's roster, which is actually good for a single 1.8 GB UMD.
As you do battles and progress in the story modes, you gain points, instead of ryos. Those points allow you to go to a game mode that has a "Chibi" Naruto walking in Konoha that captures scrolls that allows you to unlock movies, songs, etc.

For those who don't like the English dubs (who does?), UNH 2 allows you to change the voices to Japanese.
In conclusion, UNH 2 is a decent Ultimate Ninja game for PSP that will not dissapoint Naruto fans and is a must-have if you're a fan from the Ultimate Ninja series and if you can't get enough of Naruto.