Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations

Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations
(ナルト- 疾風伝ナルティメットストームジェネレーション, Naruto Shippūden: Narutimetto Sutōmu Generation)
Video game info
Playable on	Xbox 360, PlayStation 3
Series	Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
Previous	Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2
Next	Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3
Release Date
Japanese	February 23, 2012
English	March 13, 2012
Debut
Jutsu Avalanche Dance Black Secret Technique Manipulated Flame Scorpion Play Chain Pull Chain Rope Chained Heaven Charging Bullet Chidori Sharp Spear: Heaven Step Circle Wild Dance Contract Seal Daytime Tiger Earth Cutter Earth Release: Added-Weight Rock Technique Earth Release: Bullet Rock Technique Earth Release: Rising Rock Technique Earth Release: Rock Droop Ice Technique Earth Release: Rock Hammer Technique Earth Release: Rock Shuriken Earth Release: Rock-Tatami Technique Exploding Tree Spear Falling Chain Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique: First Step Flying Attack Flying Thunder God: Sequential Steps Frog Kata: Frog Throw Frog Kata: Heaven Return Frog Kata: Roaring Attack Fūma Shuriken Shadow Clone Giant Swing Great Snake Binding Gunbai Fanned Wind Heaven Cutter Heaven and Earth Exploding Funeral Heaven-Bending Bomb Assault Heel Falling Attack Ice Release: Ice Peak Crumbling Ice Release: Icicle Combo Ice Release: Icicle Swallow Iron Claw Lava Release: Dissolving Exploding Acid Lava Release: Melting Apparition Technique: Flowing Crest Lava Release: Quicklime Congealing Technique Leaf Rock-Destroying Rise Lightning Release: Lightning Illusion Flash of Lightning Pillar Mind Puppet Switch Cursed Seal Technique New Naruto Uzumaki Combo Nine-Tails Chakra Mode Overwhelm: Rasengan Owl Drop Parasite Clone Pinching Rage: Rasengan Power Bomb Rasengan: Hail Rasengan: Parachute Root Explosive Entombment Rotating Funeral Sage Art: Many Ultra-Big Ball Spiralling Serial Spheres Sand Prison Spear Attack Secret Ingredient Severed Land Shadow Clone Elite Bullet Shadow Clone Roundhouse Kick Snake Mouth Poison Mist Technique Stealth Snake Hand Summoning: Nine-Tails Susanoo: Attack Susanoo: Crush Susanoo: Slash Susanoo: Smash Sword of Kusanagi: Hawk Flash Tailed Beast Flash Bullet Thrusting Shark Torn Castle Very Hiden: Venomous Insect Venom Water Clone Combo Water Release: Azure Dragon Palm Water Release: Drizzle Water Release: Droplet Spear Water Release: Four Sharks Rain Water Release: Great Shark Bullet Technique Water Release: Running Water Spear Water Release: Running Water Whip Water Release: Surfing Strike Water Release: Torrent Bullet Water Release: Water Dragon Biting Explosion Water Release: Water Lock Technique Water Release: Water Shark Wild Sphere Technique Water Release: Water Trumpet Whirling Snake Tail White Light Blade Whole Body One Shot Wild Boar Spin Wind Release: Vacuum Gale: Single Wood Release: Firmament Splinter Wood Release: Great Forest Crumbling Wood Release: Great Tree Crumbling Attack Wood Release: Great Tree Roaring Nativity Wood Release: Wooden Spear Heavenly Tear
Tools Cleaver Sword Gama-chan Gunbai Sealing Arm Braces Umbrella

Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations is the sequel to Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2. It was released on March 30th 2012 in Europe, March 13th in North America, and February 23rd in Japan for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and supports worldwide online matches. The game starts from the beginning of Naruto, from Prologue — Land of Waves, all the way to the battles at the Five Kage Summit arc, and also includes anime cutscenes from the Fourth Shinobi World War: Countdown.

Gameplay

Naruto, in his Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, as depicted in the game.

While carrying several elements seen in previous entries, the game shows several new features and changes. The battle system has been modified for smoother gameplay.

The game now implements a new status metre that limits the amount of Body Replacement Techniques that can be performed up to only 4 times maximum; while using it is less about timing and more about personal decision, spamming it can result in the metre recovering much slower which still rewards conservation of the metre and avoiding as much damage as possible altogether. With this in mind, players can now more effectively deplete the escape resources of their opponents to now fully commit to offence, unlike the low-resource-cost-issue of the prior Body Replacement mechanic. Likewise, the recovery speed of the gauge also is determined by how much damage a character is taking, with all forms of regeneration resetting upon a Body Replacement being used and regenerating once more after a certain amount of time passes.

This game alone also introduces many other intricate mechanics, such as:

• Cancelling both neutral/close-range attacks and tilt/mid-range attacks into a neutral jump (which is buffered until the end of the chosen attacking animation), allowing characters to cancel into air actions such as jumping attacks and jumping ninja tool throws, especially when tapped to perform them as low to the ground as possible.
  • However, the old ninja dash cancel still exists when input the same way.
• Cancelling both neutral/close-range attacks and tilt/mid-range attacks into a ninja move by combining a direction with a single jump button tap (which due to the ninja move as mentioned to be triggered only when in an airborne state, effectively allows characters to perform this as close to the ground as possible). Like the neutral jump cancel, it too can be buffered until the end of the chosen attack animation. Ninja move cancelling to the side within close range of the foe automatically makes the user circle around the opposition.
  • Characters such as Minato and Danzō with projectile-based tilt moves can make use of this to loop their tilt moves and ninja move cancels into each other for continuous zoning (as ninja moves can already be cancelled into mid-range attacks/tilt attacks).
  • Said ninja move cancel with the prior ability to cancel into grabs since the first instalment now allows most attacks to be indirectly-cancelled into grabs for mixups (or on some characters' string inputs with enough hitstun, to indirectly combo into grabs likewise).
    • The prior option to cancel any ninja move into a ninja tool throw (chakra-version as well), mid-ranged attacks as aforementioned, U1s/Jutsus and U2s/Ultimates allows for the ninja move cancel to also double as a fake-out/frame-trap. This can also be used mid-attack to be able to cancel a ninja move into either one of these states in order to perform a Body Replacement Technique if hit (as like in the first game, if hit during a ninja move, the users' Body Replacements cannot be registered).
  • Even then, cancelling close-range attacks and mid-range attacks with these mechanics varies for each character due to the nature of their strings in general during offence and/or blockstrings due to as aforementioned, the cancels buffering at the end of the chosen animation.
• A new midair chakra dash is added that can cover vertical angles (though a "perfect" version can be performed where it has less drawbacks via being aimed at either a 0 degree or 180 degree angle). Mastering this is essential to low-aerial approaches to setup for grounded juggles or landing-lag frame-traps.
  • If a character is already in midair, then the grounded character's grounded Chakra Dash is automatically converted into an airborne one to chase after them.
  • Ninja moving in certain directions can also convert into air chakra dashes likewise instead of grounded ones.
• Cancelling a close-range attack/neutral string input into any type of Chakra Dash, dubbed as the Spark Cancel as a yellow lightning flash appears around the character. However, Spark Cancels cost a bit more chakra compared to default Chakra Dashes.
  • However, this cannot be performed on tilt/mid-range attacks. Spark Cancels though, can be performed on midair strings to at least briefly re-enable midair actions or midair string extensions.
• Cancelling a grounded Chakra Dash into a block/guard, which possesses some endlag as they effectively have a braking animation for it. However, the said endlag is partially cancel-able some actions such as a into a chakra tool throw which is useful as a mixup for some situations.
• More characters, especially from Part 1, gained the ability to naturally cancel their tilt/mid-range attacks into neutral string/close-range attack inputs compared in Storm 2.
• Some characters now selectable alternate versions of their U1s/Jutsu (and/or their U2s/Ultimate Jutsu) when selected with the R1/RB button on the character select screen.
• More D-Pad ninja items are added, but only a few are actually applied as defaults to characters.
  • The Frenzy Pill, where you take more damage in exchange for super armor.
  • The Cohesion Tag (also dubbed as a "Team Pill"), which makes your support metre recover quicker.
  • The Dummy Tag (also dubbed as a "Sub Pill"), which increases the overall regeneration rate of the Body Replacement Gauge.
  • The Sleep Pill, which when hitting someone with this causes the victim to fall asleep. This item is not part of any characters' default item set.
  • The Chakra Seal Tag, which causes the victim to be unable to use or charge chakra. This item is not part of any characters' default item set.
  • The Chakra Suction Tag, which saps the victim's chakra and gives it to the user. This item is not part of any characters' default item set.
• Supports somehow act much quicker when called during an attack string.

Because of these new cancel mechanics (especially with the jump cancel and ninja move cancel in mind), the game's higher levels of play has higher enforcement of ground-to-low-air approaches and movement option cancels for a more movement-heavy-based neutral. Short-hop movement is now even more vital than before in order to zone properly with tool throws while on the move. These specific cancels have all remained as mainstay mechanics in later Storm games, albeit with specific tweaks in each title.

The story mode is divided between both Part I focusing mainly on Naruto, Gaara and both Zabuza and Haku's stories, and with Part II (respectively featuring the younger and older incarnations from the series' characters). Even then, they are now mainly divided by specific characters this time around as opposed to a standard overarching story.

The role-playing game elements from Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2's story mode were removed in favour of consecutive battles, thus reducing the time spent during the mode. Although it mainly focuses on Naruto Uzumaki's adventures for 2 stories and Sasuke Uchiha's for 1, the rest are featured as new sidestories lead by supporting characters such as Minato Namikaze and Itachi Uchiha that will expand their backgrounds.

While the game covers both Part I and Part II, all of the characters created for the original episodes will be playable. New animated cutscenes will be used for the story mode. With 72 playable characters and 15 supports, the game includes the other current Kage introduced in Part II, as well as Kakashi Hatake's team during his childhood via mixing in elements of Kakashi Gaiden. Few characters appear assisting such as Fū and Torune who are teamed up with the aforementioned Danzō Shimura.

New stages with purple barriers also now exist, which are stages from the first Storm game with new properties, albeit the said purple barriers act as walls which can allow for easy wall-splats (which some characters can easily abuse for huge damage rack-ups).

Development

Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations was first announced by Namco Bandai Games in late June from 2011 in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump, promising the return of Part I characters, most notably Zabuza Momochi and Haku in response to their popularity within fans. With the addition of these characters, the staff comments the game will have a wider variety of battles than the previous game. The initial gameplay was modified during November 2011 to further balance the fights. The game's official website opened shortly afterwards. Producer Yusuke Sasaki commented the staff wanted to give combat a greater focus than its prequels. The term "Generations" was used, standing for "the ultimate ninja battle that crosses generations". The game is meant to satisfy the gamers' wishes and interests regarding the series according to Hiroshi Matsuyama, the president of CyberConnect2. Matsuyama also commented the story mode is different from Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, with Part II meant to have a different impact in the gamers. Studio Pierrot, the developer of the Naruto and Naruto: Shippūden anime series, aided CyberConnect2 in the making of new storylines to be featured in the game, resulting in new 60 minutes of created animation. On January 3, the demo release date was announced in the Jump Magazine. It was officially released January 24, 2012 on the Japanese PlayStation Store only. It contains 3 battles which are fighting Sasuke, Pain, and Tobi. The North American demo was released on the PlayStation Store on February 21st and on the Xbox Live Marketplace on February 28th with the same three battles, but with the option to choose between English and Japanese voices.

In November 2011, Namco Bandai announced the game would be released in Japan on February 23, 2012. Pre-orders will included a CD soundtrack from the game and the prequels, Ultimate Ninja Storm and Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, under the title of "Ultimate Ninja Storm Best Sound" (ナルティメットストームBestSound?) composed by Chikayo Fukuda. Additionally, during following dates, the game was announced to be released in North America and Europe in March 13, 2012 and March 30, 2012, respectively, also by Namco Bandai. Like the Japanese version, the European port will include a CD soundtrack, promoting "the first official rap single of Killer B". Namco Bandai Europe also announced a card edition including 50 cards a poster with words from Masashi Kishimoto and 8 cards for online. The card edition was never released in the UK but those who pre-ordered the Card edition on Zavvi.com as it was a exclusive to Zavvi.com would recieve an "alternative bundle" packed with a A3 Poster, 2 booster packs and a starter pack with the video game. But the actual card edition was still released in other parts of Europe.

Anime Cutscenes

The anime cutscenes for the story mode of the game were produced by Studio Pierrot who are in charge of the anime. They worked very closely with CyberConnect2 to create new content that is considered anime canon (unless they contradict either it or the manga) with totally new scenes and new interpretations for the old ones with major or minor changes. The whole can be seen as an exclusive sixty-minutes OVA, each segment narrated except for the Tale of Killer B, which is more along the line of a music video than a storyline.

• Tale of Naruto Uzumaki (2 cutscenes — 1, 2): Narrated by Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Tale of Sasuke Uchiha (2 cutscenes — 3, 4): Narrated by Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Tale of young Naruto Uzumaki (2 cutscenes — 5, 6): Narrated by Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Tale of Jiraiya (2 cutscenes — 7, 8): Narrated by Jiraiya.
• Tale of Itachi Uchiha (2 cutscenes — 9, 10): Narrated by Tobi.
• Tale of Zabuza Momochi and Haku (2 cutscenes — 11, 12): Narrated by Kakashi Hatake.
• Tale of Minato Namikaze (2 cutscenes — 13, 14): Narrated by Minato Namikaze.
• Tale of Kakashi Hatake (2 cutscenes — 15, 16): Narrated by Kakashi Hatake.
• Tale of Gaara (2 cutscenes — 17, 18): Narrated by Gaara.
• Tale of Madara Uchiha (2 cutscenes — 19, 20): Narrated by Tobi.
• Tale of Killer B (5 cutscenes — 21, 22, 23, 24, 25): Recited by Killer B.

Differences/Changes

Some anime cutscenes of the game differ from the original anime scenes. Not only are the scenes changed, but also the colouring and lighting of some of the techniques are also lightly changed. For all cutscenes, there are rarely any blood and no amputation.

Tale of young Naruto Uzumaki

• In the first cutscene, instead of painting graffiti on the stone faces, Naruto paints his own face next to the Hokage faces.
• In the final cutscene, When Naruto and Sasuke have their final battle they yell out each other's names. In the anime, they yell their technique's names.

Tale of Jiraiya

• In the second cutscene, Fukasaku and Shima are not present when Jiraiya faces the Six Paths of Pain.

Tale of Zabuza Momochi and Haku

• In the first cutscene, Kakashi uses Lightning Cutter twice instead of once when trying to kill Zabuza, Zabuza being protected by Haku.
• In the first cutscene, Naruto and Sasuke use kunai to defend against Haku's Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals instead of Shadow Clone Technique by Naruto and Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique by Sasuke.
• In the second cutscene, Zabuza's death is changed from being impaled by various weapons from Gatō's men to being beaten to death.

Tale of Minato Namikaze

• In the first cutscene, Kurama's chakra tempts Naruto to release it during his battle with Pain rather than the fox controlling him. As Naruto is launching several punches, they all miss instead of hitting Minato.
• In both cutscenes, the background of where Minato talked with Naruto is an aurora like colour.
• In the second cutscene, Minato does not restore the Nine-Tails seal.

Tale of Gaara

• In the first cutscene, instead of Gaara protecting Sasuke from A's attack, he protects A from Sasuke's Amaterasu.
• In both cutscenes, Gaara battles Sasuke one on one, with only Kankurō and Temari around him.
• In both cutscenes, the bones of Sasuke's Susanoo are white.

Playable Characters

Character	Awakening Mode(s)	Additional Outfit(s)
Naruto Uzumaki	One-Tailed Form, Four-Tailed Form	Playable in Part I and Part II versions
Sage Naruto	Six-Tailed Form
Naruto Uzumaki	Nine-Tails Chakra Mode
Sakura Haruno	Maiden's Anger Mode, Herculean Mode	Playable in Part I and Part II versions
Sai	Fast Writing Mode
Sasuke Uchiha	Curse Mark Mode, Sharingan	Playable in Part I and Part II versions, playable with Chūnin Exams outfit, Playable in Hebi and Black Costume in Part II
Sasuke Uchiha (Taka)	Mangekyō Sharingan Mode
Sasuke Uchiha (Susanoo)	Susano'o Mode
Karin	Angry Mode, Attracted Mode (against Sasuke)
Suigetsu Hōzuki	Water Arm Mode
Jūgo	Curse Mark Mode
Shikamaru Nara	Shadow Imitation Mode, Strategy Mode	Playable in Part I and Part II versions
Ino Yamanaka	Covered with Flowers Mode, Hundred Scattered Flowers Mode	Playable in Part I and Part II versions
Chōji Akimichi	Expansion Mode, Berserker Rage Mode	Playable in Part I and Part II versions
Kiba Inuzuka	Fang Mode, Food Pills Mode	Playable in Part I and Part II versions
Shino Aburame	Beetle Mode	Playable in Part I and Part II versions
Hinata Hyūga	Byakugan Mode, Twin Lion Fists Mode	Playable in Part I and Part II versions
Gaara	Brutal Sand Mode, Kazekage Mode	Playable in Part I and Part II versions
Temari	Wind Covered Mode, Heavenly Fan Dance Mode	Playable in Part I and Part II versions
Kankurō	Salamander Mode, Puppet Dance Mode	Playable in Part I and Part II versions
Rock Lee	Eight Gates Mode	Playable in Part I and Part II versions
Neji Hyūga	Byakugan Mode	Playable in Part I and Part II versions
Tenten	Ninja Tool Summon Mode, Ninja Tool Mode	Playable in Part I and Part II versions
Kakashi Hatake	Sharingan Mode
Young Kakashi	White Light Blade Mode
Obito Uchiha	Sharingan Mode
Yamato	Wood Style Mode
Might Guy	Eight Gates Mode
Asuma Sarutobi	Flying Swallow Mode
Hashirama Senju	Wood Release Ninjutsu Mode
Tobirama Senju	Water Release Ninjutsu Mode
Hiruzen Sarutobi	Hokage Mode
Minato Namikaze	Yellow Flash Mode	Playable with Flak Jacket and Hokage costume
Jiraiya	Sage Mode
Orochimaru	White Snake Mode
Tsunade	Herculean Mode
Chiyo	Chikamatsu Ten Puppets Mode
A (Fourth Raikage)	Raikage Mode
Killer B	Full Eight-Tails Mode
Mei Terumī	Mizukage Mode
Ōnoki	Tsuchikage Mode
Pain	God Mode
Konan	Angel Mode
Itachi Uchiha	Tsukuyomi Mode, Susano'o Mode
Kisame Hoshigaki	Samehada Fusion Mode
Hidan	Jashin Ritual Mode
Kakuzu	Shinzo Mode
Deidara	C2 Dragon Mode
Sasori	Human Puppet Mode
Tobi	Sharingan Mode	Playable as the Masked Man
Kabuto Yakushi	Chakra Scalpel Mode, Snake Mode	Playable with Snake Cloak
Kimimaro	Curse Mark Mode
Zabuza Momochi	Demon Mode
Haku	Ice Mode
Danzō Shimura	Released Seal Mode

Support-Only Characters

• Kurenai Yūhi
• Shizune
• Anko Mitarashi
• Darui
• C
• Chōjūrō
• Ao
• Kurotsuchi
• Akatsuchi
• Sakon and Ukon
• Tayuya
• Kidōmaru
• Jirōbō
• Fū Yamanaka
• Torune Aburame

Teams

Parenthesis indicates what are the members of the teams:

• A–B Combo (Killer B and A)
• Aburame clan (Shino and Torune)
• Adamantine Power (Tsunade and Hashirama)
• Aiming for Sasuke (Sakura, Ino, and Karin)
• Akatsuki (three Akatsuki members)
• All Boys (Sai and Sasuke)
• Animal Lovers (Jūgo, Kiba, and Shizune)
• Apprenticeship Aspiration (Part I Sakura and Tsunade)
• Artists (Deidara and Sasori)
• "Best Friends" (Naruto and Sasuke)
• Blade Masters (Suigetsu and Zabuza)
• Bonds of Love (Asuma and Kurenai)
• Boys on the Battlefield (Young Kakashi, Minato, and Obito)
• Brotherly Love (Sasuke and Itachi)
• Byakugan Users (Neji, Hinata, and Ao)
• Camp Friends (Jūgo and Kimimaro)
• Children of Prophecy (Naruto and Pain)
• Chubby (Chōji, Akatsuchi, and Jirōbō)
• Chūnin Exam Supervisors (Shikamaru and Temari)
• Curse Mark (any combination involving Sasuke, Jūgo, Anko, and Sound Five members)
• Cursed Ties (Orochimaru and Anko)
• Dangerous Characters (Itachi and Kisame)
• Duo of Fate (Minato and Masked Man)
• Eat or be Eaten (Killer B and Kisame)
• Eternal Friends (Shikamaru and Chōji)
• Eternal Rivals (Guy and Kakashi)
• Fastest in History (Minato and A)
• From Anbu Black Ops (Kakashi, Yamato, and Itachi)
• Genes of the First Hokage (Hashirama, Yamato, and Danzō)
• Generations (Naruto and Part I Naruto)
• God and Angel (Pain and Konan)
• Grandmother and Grandchild (Sasori and Chiyo)
• Gusty Master and Student (Part I Naruto and Jiraiya)
• Five Kage Summit (any combination involving Gaara, A, Danzō, Mei, and Ōnoki)
• Foundation Members (any combination involving Danzō, Sai, Fū, and Torune)
• Hebi (Sasuke and/or other Hebi members)
• Hidden Cloud Ninja (any combination involving A, Killer B, Darui, and C)
• Hidden Mist Natives (any combination involving Mei, Suigetsu, Kisame, Zabuza, Haku, Chōjūrō, and Ao)
• Hidden Rain Master and Student (Jiraiya, Pain, and Konan)
• Hidden Rock Natives (any combination involving Ōnoki, Deidara, Akatsuchi, and Kurotsuchi)
• Hokage & Aid (Tsunade and Shizune)
• Hot-Blooded Master and Student (Lee and Guy)
• The Hyūga Clan (Neji and Hinata)
• Immortal Duo (Kakuzu and Hidan)
• Inherited Necklace (Naruto, Tsunade, and Hashirama)
• Inherited Will (Shikamaru and Asuma)
• Ino–Shika–Chō (Shikamaru, Ino, and Chōji)
• Jinchūriki (Naruto, Gaara, and Killer B)
• Jiraiya's Apprentices (any combination involving Naruto, Minato, Pain, and Konan)
• Junior and Senior (Tobi and Deidara)
• Kazekage's Group (Three Sand Siblings)
• Leaf Chūnin (three of the Konoha 11 other than Naruto, Sasuke, Neji, Obito, and Part I Chūnin Shikamaru)
• Leaf Genin (Naruto and two of the Konoha 11 other than Part I Chūnin Shikamaru)
• Leaf Higher-Ups (any combination involving Kakashi, Yamato, Danzō, Tsunade, Guy, Asuma, Jiraiya, Hiruzen, Tobirama, Hashirama, Minato, and Shizune)
• Leaf Jōnin (any combination involving Neji, Minato, Kakashi, Yamato, Guy, Asuma, Kurenai, and Shizune)
• Leaf Peers (Naruto, and/or Sai, and two of the Konoha 11)
• Leaf Sensei (any combination involving Kakashi, Guy, Asuma, and Kurenai)
• Leaf's Light and Shadow (Hiruzen and Danzō)
• Legendary Guts (Naruto, Jiraiya, and Minato)
• The Legendary Sannin (all three Sannin)
• Like Cats and Dogs (Karin and Suigetsu)
• Love Triangle (Part I versions of Sasuke, Sakura, and Ino)
• Make-Out Comrades (Kakashi and Jiraiya)
• Mangekyō Sharingan (Taka Sasuke, Itachi, and Kakashi)
• Masked Ninja (Tobi or Masked Man, Kakuzu, and Haku)
• Mature Women (any combination involving Tsunade, Kurenai, Anko, Shizune, Mei, and Konan)
• Medical Specialists (any combination involving Sakura, Tsunade or Shizune, and Kabuto)
• Mist Assassins (Zabuza and Haku)
• Mist Ninja Swords (any combination involving Suigetsu, Kisame, Zabuza, and Chōjūrō)
• Mizukage's Group (Mei, Chōjūrō, and Ao)
• Monster Strength (Sakura and Tsunade)
• Mutual Respect (Jiraiya and Minato)
• My Son's Enemy!? (Kakashi and Chiyo)
• New Hokage's Group (Danzō, Fū, and Torune)
• New Jutsu Development Team (Naruto, Kakashi, and Yamato)
• Nostalgic Team Kakashi (Kakashi and two Part I Team Seven members)
• Odd Beast and Scourge (Guy and Kisame)
• Old Friends (Jiraiya and Tsunade)
• Ones of Wind Nature (Naruto and Asuma)
• Orochimaru Band (any combination involving Orochimaru, Kabuto, Sasuke, Karin, Jūgo, Suigetsu, and Sound Five members)
• Parent & Child (Naruto and Minato)
• Past Hokages (Any combination involving Hashirama, Tobirama, Hiruzen, Minato, Tsunade, and Danzō)
• Powerful Tag Team (Sakura and Chiyo)
• Puppet Masters (Sasori, Kankurō, and Chiyo)
• Raikage's Group (A, Darui, and C)
• Reanimation's Vessel (Part I Sasuke and Kimimaro)
• Reliable Allies (Part I Kiba and Part I Kankurō)
• Rivals in Love (Sakura and Ino)
• Sages (Sage Naruto and Jiraiya)
• The Three Sand Siblings (all three members)
• Sarutobi Clan (Asuma and Hiruzen)
• Sasuke Rescue Mission (any combination of the Part I versions of Naruto, Chūnin Shikamaru, Chōji, Neji, and Kiba)
• Secret Lovers (Naruto and Hinata)
• Senju Siblings (Hashirama and Tobirama)
• Shadow Women (Tsunade and Mei)
• Sharingan (any combination involving Sasuke, Kakashi, Danzō, Itachi, and Obito)
• Snake and Tactician (Orochimaru and Kabuto)
• Snake Cell (Orochimaru, Sasuke, and Snake Cloak Kabuto)
• Snake Masters (Orochimaru, Anko, and Snake Cloak Kabuto)
• The Sound Ninja Five (Kimimaro and two of the Sound Four)
• Spectacle Ninja (any combination involving Killer B, Karin, Kabuto, Shino, and Chōjūrō)
• Sublime Art (Itachi and Deidara)
• Sweet Tooth Duo (Temari and Anko)
• Taka (Taka Sasuke and other Taka members)
• Taka and Hebi (Sasuke and Orochimaru)
• Team Asuma (Asuma and two members of Ino–Shika–Chō)
• Team Guy (Team Guy members)
• Team Hiruzen (Hiruzen and two of the Sannin)
• Team Kakashi (all three Team Kakashi members)
• Team New Kakashi (any combination involving Naruto, Sakura, Sai, and Yamato)
• Team Kurenai (Team Kurenai members)
• Team Seven (three Team Seven members)
• Team 7 Captains (Kakashi and Yamato)
• The Two, Grown up (Sage Naruto and Taka Sasuke)
• Those Steeped in Darkness (Orochimaru, Sasuke, and Kabuto)
• Those Who Know Loneliness (Naruto and Gaara)
• The Truth of the Uchiha (Taka Sasuke and Tobi)
• Tsuchikge's Group (Ōnoki, Akatsuchi, and Kurotsuchi)
• Tsunade and Pupil (Tsunade, Sakura, and Shizune)
• Uchiha Clan (any combination involving Sasuke, Part I Sasuke, Itachi, and Obito)
• Utterly Gusty Master and Student (Naruto and Jiraiya)
• Whiskered Warriors (any combination involving Hiruzen, Asuma, Killer B, A, and Ōnoki)
• Worthy Past Opponents (Young Kakashi and Obito)
• Yamanaka Clan (Ino and Fū)

Playable Stages

• Konohagakure (Part I, Normal, Destroyed, Ruined)
• Training Field (Day, Evening)
• Grassy Waves Prairie
• Forest of Death
• Forest of Quiet Movement (Day, Evening, Night)
• Konohagakure Forest (Day, Evening)
• Five Kage Summit Venue
• Great Naruto Bridge
• Orochimaru's Hideout (Normal, Destroyed)
• Akatsuki Hideout
• The Uchiha Hideout (Normal, Destroyed)
• Forest of Dead Trees
• Amegakure (Upper, Lower)
• Chūnin Exams Stadium
• Chūnin Exams Preliminary Arena
• Lookout Tower
• Valley of the End (Clear Weather, Rainy Weather)
• Bridge in the Land of Iron
• Snowfield
• Storm Cloud Ravine
• Madara's Hideout
• Site of Planetary Devastation
• Five-Seal Barrier Cliff
• Sunagakure Gate
• Sunagakure
• Mount Myōboku
• Inn Town

Trophies/Achievements

Trophies/Achievements	Condition	Trophy Type	Gamerscore
Tale of Naruto Uzumaki complete	Completed Tale of Naruto Uzumaki.	Bronze	15G
Tale of Sasuke Uchiha complete	Completed Tale of Sasuke Uchiha.	Bronze	15G
Tale of Young Naruto complete	Completed Tale of Young Naruto.	Bronze	15G
Substitution Jutsu Master	Substitution Jutsu collected: 80%	Bronze	15G
Ninja Info Card Collector	Ninja Info Card images collected: 50%	Bronze	5G
Ninja Tool Master	Ninja Tools collected: 80%	Bronze	15G
Image Master	Images collected: 80%	Bronze	15G
Ultimate Jutsu Movie Master	Ultimate Jutsu scenes collected: 80%	Bronze	15G
First S Rank!	You've earned your first S rank in a battle.	Bronze	5G
Introductory Stage Survivor!	You've completed all of Introductory Survival.	Bronze	15G
Beginner Survivor!	You've completed all of Beginner Survival.	Bronze	15G
Intermediate Survivor!	You've completed all of Intermediate Survival.	Bronze	15G
Advanced Survivor!	You've completed all of Advanced Survival.	Bronze	15G
10 Down	You've defeated 10 opponents in Ultimate Survival.	Silver	30G
Team Seven Tournament Champ!	You've completed the Team Seven Tournament.	Bronze	15G
Sand Genin Tournament Champ!	You've completed the Sand Genin Tournament.	Bronze	15G
Boy's Life Tournament Champ!	You've completed the Boy's Life Tournament.	Bronze	15G
New Team Seven Tournament Champ!	You've Completed the New Team Seven Tournament.	Bronze	15G
Leaf Chunin Tournament Champ!	You've completed the Leaf Chunin Tournament.	Bronze	15G
Ultimate Ninja Tournament Champ!	You've completed the Ultimate Ninja Tournament.	Bronze	15G
Leaf Higher-Up Tournament Champ!	You've completed the Leaf Higher-Up Tournament.	Bronze	15G
Shippuden Tournament Champ!	You've completed the Shippuden Tournament.	Bronze	15G
Peerless Ninja Tournament Champ!	You've completed the Peerless Ninja Tournament.	Bronze	15G
Akatsuki Tournament Champ!	You've completed the Akatsuki Tournament.	Bronze	15G
Five Kage Tournament Champ!	You've completed the Five Kage Tournament.	Bronze	15G
First Shopping!	You've done your first shopping.	Bronze	5G
First Ninja Tool Edit!	You've edited a ninja tool set for the first time.	Bronze	5G
Wealthy Ninja	You've earned a total of 1,000,000 Ryo.	Silver	50G
I'm the greatest ninja!	You've acquired all trophies./You've unlocked all achievements.	Platinum	0G

Secret Trophies/Achievements

Tale of Minato Namikaze complete	Completed Tale of Minato Namikaze.	Bronze	15G
Tale of Itachi Uchiha complete	Completed Tale of Itachi Uchiha.	Bronze	15G
Tale of Madara Uchiha complete	Completed Tale of Madara Uchiha.	Bronze	15G
Tale of Zabuza and Haku complete	Completed Tale of Zabuza and Haku.	Bronze	15G
Tale of Jiraiya complete	Completed Tale of Jiraiya.	Bronze	15G
Tale of Gaara complete	Completed Tale of Gaara.	Bronze	15G
Tale of Kakashi Hatake complete	Completed Tale of Kakashi Hatake.	Bronze	15G
Tale of Killer Bee complete	Completed Tale of Killer Bee.	Bronze	15G
Card Collection Master	Ninja Info Card images collected: 80%	Gold	100G
Alias Master	Titles collected: 80%	Gold	100G
Gimme a Hand!	You can now use all support characters.	Bronze	5G
Master Survivor!	You've completed all of Survival Mode.	Silver	30G
Five Kage Summit	All Kage at the Five Kage Summit can now be used.	Bronze	5G
Past Hokages	You can now use all past Hokages.	Bronze	5G
Younger Version	You can use all characters of the Young Version.	Bronze	15G
Shippuden	You can use all the characters from Shippuden.	Bronze	15G
Game Master!	You've played for a total of over 30 hours.	Bronze	30G
Ninja Lover!	You've used all leader characters.	Gold	50G
Ultimate Ninja Gathering	You can now use all characters.	Silver	50G
Tournament Champ!	You've completed all Challenge Tournaments.	Silver	30G

Glitches

• There is a glitch that allows the player to go out of bounds. When a player using the air combo in the Chūnin Exams Preliminary Arena cancels and re-does the technique many times, they can go upstairs.
• There is another glitch that allows the player to go out of bounds. If a player uses Orochimaru and hits the opponent with his technique in the Lookout Tower where the corner is made with the wall and the purple boundary, Orochimaru will end up going out of bounds and able to walk inside of the wall.
• There is another glitch that involves Kakuzu and Hidan. If you select either Kakuzu or Hidan's "Attack" support type and in the match and cause a "Strike Back" with either character, their voices will be switched (Kakuzu having Hidan's voice and Hidan having Kakuzu's voice).
• There is currently a bug that allows the user to utilise support-only characters in Training Mode, the characters being limited to their support attack and chakra shuriken techniques.
  • Through this bug it is revealed that Darui was possibly going to be playable, based on a unique default item inventory the other support-only characters lack. This was confirmed with the announcement of Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3.
• A notable glitch discovered in this game is the "parry" mechanic, occurring when certain actions are performed the exact frame that a hitbox should have collided with the user (yet the attack's properties such as damage and hitstun does not properly register on the user). The known parry animations so far within 1 frame are:
  • Chakra Dash.
  • Air Chakra Dash.
  • Jump or short hop.
  • Ninja Move.
  • Ninja Dash.
  • Any U1/Jutsu.
  • Some U2s/Ultimate Jutsu may trigger this as well, but some have more invulnerability frames than others.

However, one notable glitch that exists is the Hollow Step, which is cancelling into a directional jump instead of a neutral jump or ninja move off of a close-range attack string input (and is possible in all later Storm games afterwards).

While it is a handy unintentionally-discovered bug/mechanic for being able to close in on a foe in order to mitigate the pushback of one's attacks (either on hit or during blockstrings) as well as to retreat from offence if needed or to flank the foe, it needs to be performed by moving the control stick part-way in-between the threshold of a neutral jump or a ninja move cancel without triggering either as the deadzone to trigger a proper Hollow Step on one's thumbstick is notably very small.

With this in mind, both the neutral jump and Hollow Step cancels allow for characters with strong ninja tool throws or solid air string inputs to convert from ground-to-low air-to-ground again (especially to punish landing lag from airborne hitstun or to extend blockstrings).

However, this is due two analog deadzones that are used in-game for the left thumbstick. In Story Mode, the "walk" deadzone/analog is used for the walking animation (by part-way tilting just enough), which is soft-disabled in battles. In both Story Mode and battle modes, there is a "run" deadzone/analog (by full-tilting) used for the running animation.

Because characters in-battle do not allow a walking animation, the "walk" dead zone doesn't openly move the character or change animations. Because jumping is an action you can perform in both Story Mode and battle modes, it works for both analog ranges. However, the ninja move cancel is battle-only (meaning it only uses the "run" deadzone). Because of this, one can trigger the aforementioned directional jump cancel ("Hollow Step") out of a close-range attack input because the game is tricked into thinking the character is "walking" when said character isn't truly moving.

Trivia

• There is an interesting fact about the Lookout Tower stage. If a player successfully does a combo that sends the opponent flying (for example, Part I Naruto's forward/back combo) and it's directed at the purple boundary wall, the opponent will crash into the wall, stay there for several seconds, and then fall from the wall hit. If this happens, the opponent takes extra damage from hitting the wall. This is currently the only stage known where this can happen.
• The North American/UK versions of the game incorrectly credits Brian Donovan as Tsunade's English voice actor in the intro sequence (Donovan is actually the voice actor for Rock Lee), as well as Nolan North for "Madara's" voice actor in Naruto and Sasuke's tale (Nolan North voiced "Madara" in Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, while he is voiced by Neil Kaplan in this game).
• Strangely in the tale of Madara Uchiha, the player does not actually play as either Madara or Tobi. Instead, the other Akatsuki members are playable in this tale with Madara only appearing in opening cutscene while Tobi narrates the events and appears in the epilogue cutscene.
• In the tale of Kakashi Hatake, Kakashi reveals that the bell test he used on Team 7 mirrored the training that he and the rest of Team Minato endured under their teacher. One change, however, is that Rin and Obito worked together to fight Minato.
• If one looks at the Substitution/Body Replacement item "Naruto's Answer Sheet" long enough, it will appear to spin in the opposite direction for a while then change back to its original rotation direction.
• When young Hinata uses her Ultimate Jutsu on young Naruto, she becomes embarrassed when she sees that she's on top of Naruto and jumps farther away than usual. A similar event will happen if Karin uses her Ultimate Jutsu on any Shippuden version of Sasuke, where instead of mocking the opponent for being sloppy, she runs to his side and glances obsessively over him before backing up.
• It was confirmed that the game shipped over 1 million copies around the world.
• In Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, Kakashi's Mangekyō Sharingan is facing the wrong way but it was fixed in this game.
• Within in the competitive scene, the Snowfield stage is unique in that it is the only stage that seems to possess both curved walls and corners, making it a staple stage in competitive play ever since.
• The specific version of Naruto only in this game with the Sage Art: Many Ultra-Big Ball Spiralling Serial Spheres attack as his Ultimate Jutsu/U2 is the only one who can perform directional air strings when he activates his Nine-Tails Chakra Mode.
• Part 1 Shino is so far the only character who is able to cancel his midair string inputs into a chakra tool throw in this game.
• The AI is able to somehow perform a backwards ninja move upon recovering from a Body Replacement Technique, which is an action that is impossible for the player.

External Links

• Official Japanese Website