Narutimate Accel really impressed me. I cleared the story RPG Mode just when I got this ( I really wanted to use Itachi). I also got all 6 customizable jutsus. I have yet to get all the Hero Fragments for Yondaime (Fourth Hokage) though. The story in RPG Mode was pretty easy to get through, although I found some parts in the Training Arc (part 1 of the story) to be a little tricky. But when you get to the Shippuuden Arc (part 2), that's when it gets easy. And the best part,is the Versus mode, there is a lot of characters to choose from! If you have a Narutimate Hero 3 save file on your Memory Card, you'll unlock a majority of the characters (except for Deidara, Itachi, Sasori, Kisame, Chiyo, and Yondaime). You'll have to clear the story in RPG mode for the first 5 and get all the Hero Fragments and clear Hero mode for Yondaime. And if you don't have a NH3 save, you'll have to clear Hero Mode for those characters as well. All in all, this was a great sequel to the Narutimate Hero series, it was well worth it, can't wait for the next one! Thanks to NCSX and UPS for getting this to me!
This was a really awesome game and sequel to the Gekitou Ninja Taisen series, even though 4's a little better, this introduced my favorite character, Itachi, in the GNT games! Alot better than Clash of Ninja 1 & 2 (GNT 1 and 2), the characters have two specials (except for Kiba's dog, Akamaru, and Kankuro's puppet, Karasu/Crow), there are more stages to battle on, and the graphics are improved from the first 2 CoN/GNT games. Depending on which character you use, activating the two specials are different, for example, down + Y won't work for activating Naruto's Kyuubi/Nine Tailed fox chakra until his health is critical, but it will work for Itachi's down Y counter special, he doesn't have to have his health in critical to use that. This was a pretty good fighting game to have for Gamecube, and is worth importing. Since Gamecube is now close to being dead and with the Wii taking over, you would have to import this and GNT4, since it is unlikely to come to the US and since they will be releasing a Naruto Wii game that is similar to GNT EX in Japan, but made for the people who watch the English dub anime.
