4/27/09 01:08 am
Yo! Yo! Yo! It's your friendly neighborhood Dragon, the one and only Jayme.. back from months of idleness to leave you good folks a post.. the time away from me must've been painful but here I am!
Now I am here to write down some ideas but first let's get a few things straight.. yes, I like Naruto (the manga not the anime), I also own, have played, and beaten both Rise of a Ninja and The Broken Bond so in a way this will be a mini-review...
When I first played Rise of a Ninja, i'll be honest I thought it was good.. for like the first 5 minutes then the game just went downhill. This game is nothing more than a glorified fighter with coins and 'mini-games' thrown throughout the village... and missions that only give you points to strengthen your character. Throughout this game, you master 3 jutsu.. Chakra Concentration, Shadow Clone Jutsu, and Sexy Jutsu... now I can see the first two being decent in a battle but the Sexy Jutsu becomes useless in battle after getting it. I strongly believe it was put in as nothing more than fanservice to the male fans out there. Now don't get me wrong the fighting was good in this game but the story like with most anime-based games was completely butchered and even the downloadable Japanese voices didn't help. The story was also too much like the anime for my tastes, it stuck to it only adding in random side-quests during certain points. I believe this game should've been classified as a fighter instead of an RPG.
I played Broken Bond not long after it was released. Again the story was butchered and stuck too closely to the anime for it to be to my liking. The fighting was improved from the first one but like the first one, it should've been classifed as a fighter instead of an RPG. One thing I did like was the fact that all those annoying side-quests were removed. You can have multiple characters at the same time which makes up for the lack of jutsu available to you.
Now I have this idea for an AU (Alternate Universe) Naruto game that would take place around the time of the beginning of the game. All the characters from the series would still exist except there would be differences, such as the Uchiha clan wasn't completely wiped out... and a few other things.
Now this game couldn't necessarily be called "Naruto" because the main character is not Naruto or any other character from the series. At the beginning of this game you're taken to a character creator. It would start off by allowing you to pick your age, gender, and overall appearance. You'd also be able to choose your bloodline/family (which is why I said the Uchiha clan wasn't COMPLETELY wiped out..) or your sealed beast (one or the other not both), your village, starting stats (are you really strong, fast, or good with chakra? maybe you're a balanced person...), clothing (which can be bought and changed throughout the game).
After you create the character, you start out as an academy student in whatever village you chose and you either fail or pass based on your decision. You complete missions and based on your decisions throughout the game you can become the Kage of your village and wage war with other countries and villages either getting wiped off the map or becoming the most dominant village on the planet or if you choose the other path you'd become the most dangerous Missing-Nin possibly joining up with akatsuki.. the biggest things wouldn't change such as current Kage, Akatsuki members, the 3 Sannin, etc, etc.
The game is still being worked out in my head but I thought i'd place down the basic idea while it was still fresh..