Road To Boruto is a successful expansion that provides more of what fans of the Ultimate Ninja Storm series love.
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Given the premium pricing of this installment – which just about matches up with the level of content – you’d have hoped for everything that involves the movie to be included. It seems to make very little sense, apart from the niggling feeling that Bandai Namco may still be holding them back for yet more lucrative DLC. The expansion isn’t without its annoyances though, key amongst them being the omission from the playable character roster of the two main antagonists, Kinshiki Ōtsutsuki and his master, Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki. Of course, CyberConnect2’s winning formula has been in place for years now, and fans probably just want more of the same. This is largely the same as the previous Ninja Storm titles, and the new generation of ninja do little to make it feel all that new. The story continues to be told through a mixture of stills from the Shippuden anime and the Boruto movie, while the in-engine animated cutscenes bring the whole thing to life, successfully merging the action packed gameplay and engaging storytelling.Īs with Ninja Storm 4, gameplay mainly revolves around moving through the free-roaming locations such as the Hidden Leaf Village, while engaging in side quests and the main story chapters which generally pull you into one of the game’s flashy battles.
On the other hand, if you lapped up all that side story content in the main game then you will find a great deal to love here since upon completion of the expansion campaign scenario, many more unique events and additional quests become available adding on a good few extra hours onto Road to Boruto’s duration in the process.Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 remains one of the most visually impressive fighting games out there, and the Road To Boruto is no different, utterly capturing the look and feel of the anime. Essentially then, if you’re not invested Road to Boruto’s selection of side-quests, nailing S-ranks and extracurricular activities (and to be fair, there is a decent amount of it), than the question of value all of a sudden becomes a deeply pertinent one when that $19.99 price tag is staring you in the face. Indeed on its own, the entire story campaign is able to be completed in just a couple of hours. In Road to Boruto, if you don’t touch that content than the longevity of the expansion shortens dramatically. This is a problem because in Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 proper, the adventure mode was an entirely optional extra mode that you could engage with in addition to the main story campaign, so folks who didn’t fancy all the filler busywork which that mode embraced could sidestep it entirely if they wanted and still get a decent amount of game for their buck. Simply put, you’ll be spending most of your time smashing up boxes, buying extra stuff for the in-game collectible gallery and doing a series of largely pointless and simplistic side-quests that just aren’t consistently satisfying enough to stand on their own. Speaking of which, those who have put any amount of time into the base game’s adventure mode, will find what exists in between Road to Boruto’s bombastic fights and cutscenes to be dreadfully familiar. Happily too, Road to Boruto retains the keen sense of exaggerated spectacle and anime style that the Ultimate Ninja Storm series has embraced for years now, with the new content brilliantly matching the presentation of the movie upon which it is based. Where things get especially interesting, is in how we get to witness the rather poor relationship that Boruto has with his famous father, with Naruto being far too busy to give his son any time, it leaves the younger Uzumaki feeling resentful and angry thus creating an intriguing plot point going forward.
Set many years after the events of Kaguya’s defeat at the hands of forever best buds Naruto and Sasuke, Road to Boruto takes us back to shinobi school as we witness the new trio prepare and train for the Chunin exam that will set them on the course to being true ninja, while a more insidious and large scale threat brews in the background. Of that new group, Road to Boruto centres around the children of the Naruto series most iconic figures, with Boruto Uzumaki, Sarada Uchiha and mysterious newcomer Mitsuki in particular being the focus of this new story.
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