Great stand up from the prequel. The original story they start story mode with was pretty good and the area was beautiful.
But story mode has 2 flaws: First is the combat, all you do is square and wait the enemies to die, its boring a feels like a waste of time. Second is the story length, this story ends very premature and makes no sense why they decided to end it where it ends, feels like a incomplete game.

Side content is where you revive the classic naruto story. You collect gems in story mode so you can use them to unlock scenarios, scenarios sometimes are still images, cutscenes and fights. Not the best mode but its good enough because of the fights and characters you unlock.

This game has alot of collectibles and if not the best collectibles in any Naruto game (together with the sequel). You can check special moves in any character and you have alot of figures to see, its a nice simple touch and makes it worth take a look in all of them.

They cut 2 characters from the last game but its ok, they were more of skins than anything but still would be cool if they keept them. This game has such a good character selection screen, this may be nostalgia but there is something about it i just love.

Be ready cause the soundtrack is actually good, mainly the training stage bgm, that's a banger.

I dreamed of this game when i was a kid. I grew up, finally played and realized its a step down. This game isn't really a direct sequel to Ultimate Ninja 5 but takes the name so i will consider it.

Story mode is horrible. The only good thing is you can choose any character you unlocked. But the side-scrolling story mode doesn't work. Its repetitive and annoying.

Combat its basically the same as Ultimate Ninja 5 but with less moves. The special combos the character can do together is very cool but Ultimate Ninja 5 also did it.

The only good reason i see for playing this game its to try the new characters in the Ultimate Ninja system and new stages. They have an interesting and unique roster in this game but you don't really have much content to play with if not for free mode and left out stages of story mode.

Only if this game was not a psp exclusive and builded up on the ultimate Ninja 5 steps it would be the perfect naruto game in that era. In the minimum this game should've had more content.

Honestly pretty good game. I will consider this game a musou.

Story mode was good. You had alot to do and unlock.

Character roster was also good, characters felt different and could be equipped with cards that would change their skills and such. Having the possibility to customize a character gameplay is always a nice touch for replayability.

Huge replayability with alot of side content

Conclusion, i don't really have alot of bad things to say. If i had to pick something would be the repetitiveness and empty stages.

This game was the dream game when i was a kid.
Now im an adult and i still have fun with it. The battle is fun, sometimes clunky, but you get used to it and really can take advantage of it.

The Roster is pretty good for the time, it had every major character from the last Grand Battle games except 3 (Aokiji, Hina and Foxy)

This game Story mode is called Adventure mode and its fun for what it is. You start with one member and go from island to island doing missions and progressing the seas.

Meanwhile, while you overcome the challenges of the islands, you will expand you crew and have more character to play with.

When you get to a island you can either have a Battle, mini game or just some dialogue. Thoose Battles and mini games may have a task for you to complete, if you complete that task while defeating the stage you will be rewarded with new support characters, outfits and items that upgrade your stats (you also unlock them in the gallery). This task's helps the game feel challenging more than it is.
Completing stages also rewards you character with xp, for every lvl you get a stat point to upgrade the character stats as you will.

You then can unlock more 4 adventure campaigns which has their own captain. Although this is were the game starts to get a bit too repetitive.

This game dialogue can be completed ignored, its a completely poor telling of the One Piece Story. The dialogue is minimal , bad and cringe. Some characters have the name changed and horrible voice acting.

In conclusion, its a good One Piece game for fans. Decent roster, ok combat system and honestly great graphics and models.
This game has a charm to it and its worth to check it out. With all the characters, stages, adventure campaigns and difficulty curve there dozens if not hundreds of hours of play.

At the time i wanted a DS so i could play this game. Never got a ds but could get hands on the game.

This game has a lot of content and everything looks good. Sprites are wonderful and stages looks great.

Since its in japanese i could never take full advantage of this game. This game has a lot of text and so it really holds me back even with translations guides.
The older i got the more i see how clunky the battle system is, i have so much difficulty having fun in longs period of time.

This game could be WAY more better if the combat system wasn't so slow and i could understand the language.