Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm (Series)

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, known in Japan as Naruto: Narutimate Storm (ナルティメットストーム, Naruto: Narutimetto Sutōmu) is a series of fighting games based on the manga series Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto.

List of games

 * Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm
 * Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2
 * Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations
 * Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3
 * Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution
 * Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4

Gameplay
The games retain many of the gameplay elements from earlier installments of the Ultimate Ninja series. However, Ultimate Ninja Storm allows players to fight in three-dimensional environments, as opposed to the two-dimensional planes in previous game

Plot
Storm 1, 2, 3 and 4 follow the storyline of the anime. Generations does not have a story mode while Revolution has a brand-new story featuring Mecha Naruto

Overall

 * 1) The games do a good job at staying faithful to both the manga and anime series, by featuring a lot of memorable characters from the franchise, Recreating lots of iconic moments from the anime, and having a story that keeps being faithful to the franchise.
 * 2) Extremely awesome fighting system that gave birth to many arena fighters, including several Dragon Ball games, Jump Force, some of the modern Tekken games and many more.
 * 3) The character roster is excellent. While the first game only has the characters from the part 1 of Naruto and the second game only has the Shippuden characters, Generations and the rest of the games after it let you play as characters from both series, which was awesome. Storm 4 even let you play as the characters from Boruto in a later DLC pack. There were even some unexpected characters, like Hello Kitty Sakura, Lars from Tekken and Naruto wearing Goku's outfit.
 * 4) Extremely fun and satisfying game play that combines many Naruto elements and elements from modern fighting games together perfectly.
 * 5) All of the games have extremely tight controls during fighting sections.
 * 6) The games even have a open-world section where you can explore Konoha and the surrounding territories, making you feel like you were really in the world of Naruto. You can spend hours exploring this huge world, getting lost and seeing all the familiar locations from the anime and manga series.
 * 7) Excellent story mode that is extremely faithful to the anime series. It captures many important moments perfectly, like Naruto first summoning Gamabunta, Naruto fighting against Gaara, the final battle of Naruto vs Sasuke, Jiraiya vs Pain, finding Sasuke, etc. Heck, you can even skip the anime and just play these games, as you will have the same experience. Some people even call the ending in Storm 4 better than the actual ending in the anime. To keep things fresh, the story mode even features some cool elements, like boss fights, Quicktime events and minigames.
 * 8) The games feature tons of replay value as well.
 * 9) The characters all feel balanced, and depending on what type of character you play as it will be different. All of the characters have unique movesets and none of them feel like clones of each other.
 * 10) Extremely great graphics for a licensed-based game. Heck, the graphics even look better than graphics from a ton of modern games that came out this year!
 * 11) All of the games have a excellent soundtrack that sounds like it came straight out of the anime series. Some of the songs may even make you cry and some will pump up your blood.
 * 12) These games proved that not all licensed-based games are shovelware or pure trash, as these games are far better than most licensed-based games.
 * 13) Excellent voice acting in both English and Japanese. The voice actors from the show reprise their roles here, including Maile Flannagan, Yuri Lowenthal, Crispin Freeman and more.
 * 14) Awesome cutscenes that feel like they came straight out of a movie. Heck, some people wish there could be a Naruto movie using these cutscenes.
 * 15) Each game continues to improve on the last game, with the exception of Revolution.
 * 16) Depending on what character you pick, the characters will actually interact with each other before the fight, sometimes even being references to the anime series, with that addition, it is also featured at the end of the fights.

Storm 1

 * 1) Great music during battles.
 * 2) Great graphics, especially during the battles and the FMV videos.
 * 3) This was, thankfully, the last Naruto game to retell the story of the manga post time-skip.
 * 4) This is the first Naruto game in the Ultimate Ninja series of games which has full 3D fighting, all of the ones previous were 2D fighting games with 3D rendered graphics.
 * 5) A decent roster.  It consists of 25 playable characters.
 * 6) Tons of side content and unlockables to keep you occupied.
 * 7) A great story which follows almost every major canon arc in the Naruto anime and manga faithfully.
 * 8) Great voice acting in both Japanese and English.

Storm 2

 * 1) The story mode is excellent, as it tells the second half of the Naruto story, from when Naruto returns to Konoha up until the fight with Pain. The story mode even features tons of awesome boss fights and Quicktime events to keep things fresh.
 * 2) Great voice acting in both Japanese and English.
 * 3) Lars from Tekken is a playable character, which was a huge surprise for Tekken fans.
 * 4) The combat system is improved.
 * 5) The game finally adds online mode, something that wasn't in the first game
 * 6) Introduces the support types, which can depend on what support character you choose.

Generations

 * 1) Brings back the characters from the original Naruto series, along with some characters that weren't in the first game, like Zabuza and Haku.
 * 2) The extra Killer Bee rap is hilarious.
 * 3) While it does remove the story mode, it does feature new side stories featuring fan-favorite characters like Madara and Zabuza. The anime cutscenes are excellent and very underrated.
 * 4) The game improves on the fighting system by adding tons of new features that fans loved, like substitutions and guards.
 * 5) The game even includes a exclusive Naruto trading card inside marked copies.

Storm 3

 * 1) It brought back the excellent story mode. The story mode continues from where Storm 2 left off, as it now follows the 5 Kage Summit arc up to the fight between Naruto and Obito.
 * 2) The combat system is improved even more, making for a more pleasant experience.
 * 3) A update titled Full Burst was added later on, this update includes a extra story and more playable characters. The story follows Sasuke teaming up with Itachi to take down Sage Mode Kabuto.
 * 4) It introduces the Awakening Mode, which gives the ninjas unique abilities when their health is low.
 * 5) Introduces Mob Battles, which is a mode similar to the Dynasty Warriors series, where characters must take on hordes of enemies.
 * 6) A costume featuring Naruto dressed up as Goku was featured, which was an awesome surprise to Dragon Ball Z fans.
 * 7) A special edition trading card was included with the game.

Revolution

 * 1) This game introduces the awesome character Mecha Naruto, who sadly didn't appear much after this game.
 * 2) While it doesn't continue the story, it does have brand new side stories. One of them shows how the Akatsuki was formed, another is of Itachi and Shisui's relationship and the last is about Kushina.
 * 3) Introduces some fan-favorite characters, including Iruka, Konohamaru, Kushina and Shisui.
 * 4) The extra movie sunny side up battle is extremely hilarious and fun.
 * 5) It introduced some awesome new mechanics, like team ultimates and sidestepping.

Storm 4

 * 1) Excellent story mode that covers the end of the Great Ninja War. The story mode animated the end of Naruto before the anime.
 * 2) Really beautiful graphics.
 * 3) The soundtrack is awesome.
 * 4) Over 100 characters to choose from. Almost every major character from the anime series is playable.
 * 5) The combat is excellent and really fun.
 * 6) The game introduced team switching. You can now swap between characters in the game.
 * 7) Really tight and responsive controls.
 * 8) Tons of replay value.
 * 9) In 2017, a expansion called Road To Boruto was added. This mode covers the Boruto movie and adds the Boruto characters.
 * 10) There is also a side mode called Adventure mode, where you can explore Konoha.
 * 11) The game added characters that were never playable in a Naruto game before, such as Kaguya, Zetsu and Boruto.
 * 12) You can recreate almost every major battle in the Naruto series in this game.
 * 13) There are some unique team specials. Some never even showed up in the anime.
 * 14) The game has tons of content and fanservice.
 * 15) Several modes people hated from Storm Revolution were removed, such as the types and the Ninja World Tournament.
 * 16) Great voice acting in both Japanese and English.
 * 17) The game was a great deal, only costing $30 when it first came out.
 * 18) The combat has been improved from the previous Storm games.
 * 19) You can now play online against other players all over the world.
 * 20) Most of the characters are balanced and are very unique.

Overall

 * 1) While the characters all feel balanced, some of them can be overpowered. Their ultimate attacks are usually too powerful and it can create unfair difficulty.
 * 2) While Storm 1,2,3 and 4 has actual cutscenes in the story mode, Storm Generations and Revolution use the anime cutscenes, which is off-putting.
 * 3) In all of the games, the netcode isn't good

Storm 1

 * 1) While the roster is decent, it's still a downgrade from the previous.  Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja 5 had 62 playable characters, Naruto Shippuden:  Ultimate Ninja 4 had 52 playable characters, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 had 42 playable characters, and Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 had 32 playable characters, (33 in the Japanese version), which means that this game had the second least amount of playable characters in the series at the time, just above Naruto: Ultimate Ninja, which only had 12 playable characters, and that was just because of how soon into the story that it was released.
 * 2) The graphics were good in most cases, but the in-game cutscenes when you're just randomly roaming around the village are still lacking graphically.
 * 3) The Zabuza arc wasn't featured at all in the story mode, it just skips straight to the Chunin Exams arc.
 * 4) The combat system hasn't aged very well.

Storm 2

 * 1) The part 1 characters aren't featured at all for some reason.
 * 2) Killer Bee only makes a small appearance.
 * 3) It removed some things that were in the first game, like wall fighting and jutsu clashes.

Generations

 * 1) Story mode was removed, which angered some people who were excited to keep playing the story mode.

Storm 3

 * 1) Removed some combo routes

Revolution

 * 1) The combat system was even worse than before, thanks to the new types, which made all characters feel unfinished.
 * 2) The Ninja World Tournament mode, while decent, isn't as fun as the regular fighting mode.
 * 3) The story, while also decent, is a huge step down from Storm 3's story mode.
 * 4) Free roam is very limited, you can only go from place to place.
 * 5) It also added some things that people did not like, such as giant ultimates.

Storm 4

 * 1) The Adventure Mode, while decent, can be boring
 * 2) Some of the characters are underpowered and overpowered.
 * 3) The Switch version has never been released physically outside of Asia.

Reception
The games received extremely positive reviews from both Naruto fans and critics alike.