Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles 2

Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles 2 is an action, adventure, 3D fighting, platform video game created by Namco Bandai Games and published by Sony for the PlayStation 2 on November 16, 2006 in Japan and September 7, 2007 in North America. It was a sequel to Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) A good, original story, revolving around a clan of puppet masters, which is a style of combat that was mostly underutilized in the main series, outside of Kankuro and Sasori.
 * 2) All of the recurring characters are well written and kept in character.
 * 3) The villains, despite being one dimensional, are still fun and interesting.
 * 4) Really fun combat with each character possessing many of their abilities from the anime and manga.
 * 5) The combat implements strategy to a certain extent, because it promotes not always bum-rushing in, but keeping an eye on your chakra supply and only using chakra techniques when you have to.
 * 6) This was technically the first Naruto game in which the battles were done in 3D, even before Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, the first Naruto: Ultimate Ninja game that was done in 3D, which was the main Naruto video game series.
 * 7) The music is really good.
 * 8) In general, Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles 2 was a massive improvement from the first game in the series, Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles, which was incredibly boring, tedious, and just not fun.
 * 9) Good controls.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The graphics are lacking.
 * 2) The game could have used more checkpoints because if you die when you're traveling from one point to another you have to start all over again.
 * 3) Also connected to the previous bad quality, it can take a really, sometimes frustratingly, long time to get from one location to another.
 * 4) Phoned in voice acting.
 * 5) While the controls are good in most cases, they can be rather flawed during platform segments. It's almost like the platform segments were thrown in at the last second.

Reception
Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles 2 was pretty well received by critics but VERY well received by Naruto fans.