I feel bad for anyone who had this game as their first JRPG, it's fuckin' awful. Did a 10 year old write the dialogue? It shifts from innuendo and american food jokes to melodrama in an instant. The combat sucks because half the characters are worthless and the bosses are poorly designed, the difficulty of them is often either 0 or 100 depending on if you place your party members in a specific spot, a binary choice isn't strategy. The voice acting is horrible and whoever had the great idea of having characters repeat a voice line EVERY time you cast a spell in a JRPG needs to be shot.

Street Fighter 6: Doesn't have Gold Ship and Special Week
God of Rock: Doesn't have Gold Ship and Special Week
Mortal Kombat 1: Has an Omni-Man voiced by JK Simmons BUT UNFORTUNATELY it still don't got Gold Ship and Special Week
NASB 2: Doesn't have Gold Ship and Week
Pocket Bravery: Doesn't have Gold Ship and Special Week
Tekken 8: Doesn't have Gold Ship and Special Week
UNI 2: Doesn't have Gold Ship and Special Week
Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising: Has Gold Ship and Special Week


I think we all know what the real fighting game of the year is. See you on December 12 2024 Geoff Keighley.

i can't take this anymore. i will NOT finish this garbage excuse of a game. it's a straight hallway with no interesting story, no interesting characters except for MAYBE lightning, and the worst gameplay the franchise has ever seen, i haven't had the need to stop using auto battle for 16 hours straight, it's just a waste of time. ''oh but the graphics are so good'' I DO NOT CARE!!!! I CAN PLAY GOOD GAMES THAT ALSO HAPPEN TO HAVE GOOD GRAPHICS!!! IF I WANTED TO SEE PEOPLE THAT LOOK REAL I WOULD GO OUT OF MY FUCKING HOUSE! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

A disgrace to the Naruto Storm Legacy.
It fails as a Naruto game, and it fails as a video game.

A £50+ pounds scam game that features Ai-generated voice acting.

I don't know if this will be a straight 10 for anybody, but the aesthetics and themes of this game appealed perfectly to my tastes. When an auteur like Sakaguchi throws his passions in with the talents of Takehiko Inoue and Kiyoshi Shigematsu, whatever that blender churns out is bound to be fascinating. And this is pretty fascinating for a JRPG. If you've heard anyone talk about this game you know what the basic premise is, and the short stories scattered throughout the game really hone in on those themes of immortality and the importance of life's transcience. I've seen a critique often that this game has interesting setup but ultimately falls into usual JRPG trope, which it totally does. But as someone who's used to that drama I will say that for a JRPG it's still massively solid and the backdrop of the stories is not only welcome but carves out some necessary depth to the characters, even Ming's story towards the end does a great job of this. The game still has a memorable antagonist with always clear and dire stakes, great expansion and alteration of the world as you progress, it hits all those JRPG story beats as masterfully as Sakaguchi and the team have been doing them since Final Fantasy 4.

The visuals being a sort of steampunk-Greece spin on the graphical style of Final Fantasy X, and they also lifted that game's punchy and strategic battle system. Rings and enemy types add another layer to think about, and the formation of the party actually matters for once. The game is littered with treasures and collectibles, I only missed about 3 of the Seeds but other than that I felt pretty maxed out on equipment and abilities by the end of my 60-hour run. Includes beating the superboss that feels unfair until you counter with your own game-breaking magic, which feels so rewarding when you've just been playing the game thoroughly. There's no grinding here, just an extremely tight and satisfying experience I'm glad I finally got to play after years of missing out because of my lack of xbox. Mistwalker doesn't miss no matter what budget they're working with.