this one is still a little pink in the middle. while i feel the story mode generally and battle system have improved from the last one, the "master battle" system is god awful and they make you do wayyyy too much of that instead of the actually good combat, and as nice as the story mode here is the fact it is only half an arc with such a sudden ending is really disappointing along with the fact so many characters are just utterly missing from the world map because their shippuden designs hadn't dropped yet, it's really noticeable and disappointing. maybe they should waited like .. the tiniest bit more. other than that i had fun.

oh and hero mode is a total snooze