YMMV / Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2

• Awesome Music:
  • Plenty, such as Orochimaru Base theme, The Battle of the Sand, The Leaf village crater, and so much more.
  • White Hot Battle at the Summit is probably the ultimate crowner for the soundtrack.
  • Then there's also He Who Howls and Rages.
• Demonic Spiders: Deidara, you face him multiple times (either in story or cursed doll form), and is frustratingly annoying to fight compared to any of the other characters, due to his moveset largely involving spamming homing explosive creatures, which persist for a long time, in comparison to other characters moves, also his moves invold jumping in the air alot meaning he usually jumps up and out of the way of your moves by accident.
• Game-Breaker:
  • The Rasengan and Chidori. For a fourth or so of your quickly recharging chakra bar, you can quickly go through shuriken, chakra shuriken, any item, chakra dashes, and comboing for good damage. And a short cutscene plays after you make contact, so no substituting after the first hit. In other words, if you try anything that's not guaranteed to hit anywhere near a user of either of these jutsus, you're going to get hit. If you finally do hit the enemy, they can just substitute and use it immediately. Few things in the game can be canceled into that are both quick enough to hit the enemy before they hit you and will not be beaten by the Rasengan/Chidori's ridiculous priority.
  • This is why Sage Naruto is the most played character in the game online. His version of Rasengan, Rasengan Barrage, is even faster than a normal Rasengan or Chidori and is perhaps the fastest jutsu in the game. His Ultimate Jutsu, a thrown Futon: Rasenshuriken, cuts through almost everything in the game and curves slightly. His chakra shuriken is not one, but two Fuma Shuriken that beat other chakra shuriken and deal good damage for shuriken. His grab, which also have cutscenes, sends out a clone that, like most grabs, have ridiculous priority; if you do hit him, you still might be grabbed. Oh yeah, if by some display of serious skill or sheer luck, you get his health down low enough, he can activate his Awakening. His awakening is his Six-Tailed Mini-Kyuubi form. He hits hard. His jutsu is now the Chakra Gun Volley. Three rapid fire guard-breaking chakra shots that can hit you while you're on the ground. It easily can be timed to hit you as soon as you get back on your feet. Good luck.
  • Sage Naruto may be the most obvious, but there are plenty other gamebreakers in the game itself, to the point it utterly imbalances the game. The short list includes Kirin!Sasuke, Itachi, Deidara, Minato, Kiba, Hinata, Pain, Konan, Sasori, Shikamaru...
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: Naruto and Hinata's "Secret Lovers" title, which freaked out quite a lot of shippers back in the day. The epilogue of the manga reveals that they are Happily Married with two children, and the Canon movie The Last: Naruto the Movie shows how they fell in love and became the main Official Couple. The instances of Ship Tease between Ino and Sai in the game also become this for the same reason.
• Memetic Mutation: The Chair in the Uchiha Hideout. It has its own fanbase on GameFAQs.
  • Said chair is now a breakable obstacle in 3.
• Narm:
  • Sometimes the drama loses its essence when the characters just stand perfectly still. Also Juugo's dialogue and the translations of him saying 'Crush Cruuuushhh CRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSH'.
  • The scene where Deidara yells to Sasuke "That's what I hate about you! Both you brothers!" loses it's impact in the English dub due to the lackluster delivery of the voice actor.
  • The onomatopoeias when characters are crying can ruin the drama.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Suck at button mashing? Have fun with 4-Tailed Naruto's and Orochimaru's Eight-Headed Serpents Wave Motion Guns in the Press X to Not Die sequences.
• That One Boss:
  • Kakazu and the final phase of the Pain battle. Kakazu's third form is held in one place, but that place can't be reached by any ground attacks, and trying to close in leaves you open to get punished by his extremely damaging attacks, he also has a Wave-Motion Gun that's really hard to dodge.
  • As for Pain, in the final phase of his fight, Naruto's used up all of his chakra and has lost Sage Mode, returning him to the most basic Naruto. Pain, meanwhile, has infinite chakra and is in awakening, which gives him increased damage and infinite chances for substitutions.
• That One Sidequest: Averted deliberately with the hide-and-seek sidequest being made much easier from the first game. Then there's Grandpa Gen sidequest, which is difficult due to the Computer being a cheating bastard.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Hinata's ultimate Tear Jerker moment and one of the most memorable moments in the entire canon series—the scene where she tries to save Naruto from Pain and sincerely confesses her love for him in the process—gets reduced to an almost blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment. In fact, Hinata doesn't even get to finish her love confession!

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