Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker Review (CantedPear)
I decided to ignore the negative reviews as a fan and give it a shot because i love Naruto games.
That being said, I highly recommend NOT buying this game unless you intend on buying every DLC so you can just META build your ninja. You can still have fun, but don't expect to keep up with peoples DLC jutsu builds that YouTube built for them. There is no story or linear progression through missions. The single player content is extremely dull and time consuming for zero reason and the "boss" encounters/Missions consist of them spamming AoE nukes almost entirely back to back and then running across the map to repeat the process. The single/Co-op content isn't difficult, its designed to to just overwhelm through numbers instead of providing a challenge and pushing your combat to the next level. 20 shadow clones taking turns spamming kunai everytime you start a combo while 5 jump you isn't challenging....its boring and repetitive after it happens in mission after mission. The movement leaves a LOT, and i mean A LOT, to be desired. It feels great watching your team split up and swarm an enemy in team based content and looks dope, but during pvp combat the movement is just sluggish and heavily reliant upon jump dash spamming which still feels sluggish and just lacks the feel of Naruto that the other games had. If you've played the storm series and the other Naruto games leading up to this then you have an idea of how the movement and combat COULD, and honestly SHOULD, feel in this game. The game tosses you into an unstoppable credits roll after you make your first rank up and throws you back to the title screen. Not a big issue but an inconvenience that was entirely unnecessary and interrupted game-play. The online combat is entertaining and the pvp modes fit the style of the game.....when you're not being swarmed by people who run what the most popular YouTube video told them to run. Online play is fun, when you're not fighting the same builds every single match.
The ability to create and fight as a ninja of your own design is an amazing concept but unfortunately this game, just as expected with any online competitive game these days, has been ruined by YouTube META-gamers and stripped of any originality.