Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm (Walk-through/Tips & Tricks)- Prologue & Chapter 1

Here it is! I was originally going to upload just the prologue on Wednesday, but I decided that it would be better to upload two chapters per week, so I also played through chapter 1. Before I get started, I'd like to explain a few things before hand. The most important thing is, I don't have any kind of capture software for my PS3, so all of the pictures are taken with my phone. That being said, it took me a while to find the right spot to take a picture from, so the pictures from the Prologue are pretty bad, but you can still see what you need to. The second thing is that these walk-through videos have no specific upload schedule, but I will post one every week. Note: If you see a random circle of light on the picture, that was because my flash wasn't off. I apologize for the bad photography.

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The game opens up with the Nine tales destroying the leaf and the story with that. Since this in writing, I'm not going to describe the cut-scenes. If you're reading this, chances are you've either played the game, watched the show, or read the manga, and to those of you who haven't: check out Naruto shippuden (http://kissanime.com/G/376969?l=http%3a%2f%2fkissanime.com%2fAnime%2fNaruto-Shippuuden). 

The first thing that you get to do is choose your path. I always pick legend so, there may be times when I don't show both tabs. This time however, I wanted to show the difference. The top picture shows the options for hero or legend. The challenge for legend is to take out the masked man (Shown in the middle) and the challenge for Hero is to stop the nine tails (Shown at the bottom).

Fight the Masked Man

Protect the Village

As I said before, I always pick Legend. When that happens, you get thrown into a battle with the masked man who Minato believes is Madara Uchiha. 

The masked man isn't invisible, I just happened to take this photo while he was using a teleportation jutsu.

When you take his health down low enough, the battle ends and you switch characters. You then switch to fighting against the nine tales as the Third Hokage: Hiruzen Sarutobi. 

This is the fight screen. I decided that It would be good to include these rather than try to take a picture mid-battle.

You jump from rooftop to rooftop dodging the Nine Tails' atacks and attacking when your team mates tell you that the Nine Tails is weakened. You have one support attack that summons a group of leaf ninja all using fireball jutsu.

Reducing the health of the Nine Tails to certain points triggers support from some of the older Leaf Ninja. Namely, Shikaku Nara, Choza Akamichi, and Iniochi Yamanaka. The photo right above this is a rush photo of Shikaku Nara. The photos below this are the closing cutscenes from when you call on Inoichi.

As is customary for Naruto games, the battle cutscenes have button sequences. Each succesful sequence gives you a certain number of stars. Earning ten stars will fill up one big star up top. When you fill up all the big stars, you get to watch a bonus clip.

 Or in this case, earning all of the stars gave me this awesome super fire jutsu.

When you finish a battle, this is the screen that you see. It shows you if you completed he bonus objectives, which as you can see, I completed. Don't be fooled. This is probably one of the easiest fights in the entire series.

After succesfully pushing the NIne Tails out of the leaf village, you then go back to fighting as Minato. 

If you got the star in the last cutscene, You'll see Minato use a contract seal on the Masked Man to remove the Nine Tails from his control. 

This next part is super important!!!! Not actually, but you get to see something cool. I'm not 100% sure of the exact way to unlock this, but I think that if you use the ninja dash and get the first hit in on this part of the fight, you unlock a special clip of Manato using the Flying Raijin Level 2 (As seen below)

Everything was moving super fast, so I barely had time to take a picture of this, but if you notice, it says secret factor. I'll have to try to get more secret factors in later boss battles, but for now, this is the only one I unlocked.

After beating the Masked Man to a pulp, I decided to finish the fight with style.

The big circle on the left is a rasengan. If you are unaware of what this is, it's the 4th Hokage's final jutsu: The yellow flash. Not my favorite Minato jutsu, but it definitely has style.

The picture below is probably the worst of them all. I was trying to take a picture of Minato using the Reaper Death seal on the nine tails, but the flash from my camera ruined it.

Reaper Death Seal

Here's my battle completion screen.

This is the screen that you get when you finish a main boss battle. It gives you the overall score from your fights and just tells you how well you did. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so don't be surprised by all of the S-Ranks. I do fights 2 or 3 times in order to unlock everything.

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Chapter 1

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When chapter one starts, the story jumps ahead in time to Naruto. You do a bit of walking around and you do a non-story mission. I didn't take any pictures of that because it's not really important. After that, Kiba kind of drops out of nowhere and informs you that Danzo has become Hokage and that he has declared Sasuke Uchiha a rogue ninja. Of course, Naruto is angry about this and he tries to go speak to Danzo. Kakashi tells him that he needs to calm down and Naruto goes to his home. You sit through a short thought scene from Naruto and then you set out to speak to Danzo. On your way to the Hokage's mansion, you get stopped by Captain Yamato. That is the first fight of the chapter.

This is super easy so, yeah. Yamato is easy to beat. 

Like I said, Yamato is easy to beat, so I beat him in one shot. He's really slow, so it's easy to combo him. Finish him with Ultimate Jutsu for a free bonus S-rank.

After you beat Yamato, Kakashi shows up and talks to Naruto. He explains that Danzo left for the Five Kage Summit in the land of Iron. He also explains that the reason Sasuke was declared a rogue ninja was because he attacked the 8-tails jinchuriki who happens to be the brother of the Raikage. Naruto heads out with Kakashi and Yamato to convince the Raikage to forgive Sasuke. When Naruto runs into the Raikage, the Raikage talks bad about Sasuke and as a result, Naruto wants to fight him.

 When fighting the Raikage, save your substitutions for when he actually combos you. With the right timing, you can dodge his ninjutsu and final jutsu. Rasengan works pretty well against him as well.

This actually took me one try. Usually I get caught by his combos. And get an A or B-rank.

After you fight the Raikage, He pretty much leaves without a scratch even if you win. This is just part of the story. Right after that, you meet someone who claims to be Madara Uchiha and you fight him as well.

Trick to beating Madara? Use a lot of ninjutsu. Then, when he's used up all of his subsitutions, crush him with an endless combo.

Madara tells Naruto the truth about Itachi and explains to him why Sasuke doesn't want anything to do with the leaf. After Madara disappears, you switch characters to Sasuke. As Sasuke, your main objective is to raid the Five Kage summit venue and kill Danzo/ However, as soon as you enter the building, the Raikage intercepts you and you have to fight him. 

Fighting the Raikage is pretty easy. Use the Inferno style to keep him off of your back and attack using your supports. Then, when you have full support gauge (Flaming thing behind your health bar), triple tap the Triangle button (Y button if you are on Xbox) and then hit the attack button right after in order to do team ultimate jutsu. It almost never misses and the only thing that they can do is block.

Don't let this fool you. Right after you fight the Raikage, you have to fight Kazekage Gaara.

As a boss-level character, Gaara is pretty solid. Three bars of health, High defensive abilities, good support. The best choice would be to hit him with both of your supports first so that you have a support drive. Then, combo him and your teammates will join in as well. Again, team Ultimate Jutsu is always nice.

So, once you beat Gaara, you see a short cut-scene of Sasuke using the Susano'o. I didn't think to take a picture of it, but you see his Susano'o later in the game, so I'll get it then. After that, you go into one of the coolest things that has ever been in a Naruto game before. You get a choice between Hero and Legend.

So, I always choose legend, but I'm showing both options in case you just want to shoot through the early parts. Karin is your support for this section and you'll definitely need her.

Upon choosing Legend, you get to do a really cool free-roam/maze style fight. You get the basic fighting HUD, but you have full control over where you move. In this way, you have to fight through 40 enemies using your basic melee, your range attacks, and your ninjutsu. There's a couple guys in this bunch that you get to finish off with a cool Susano'o + Chidori combo. When you're done, it should look like this:

Getting S-Rank is super easy on this part, so it should only take one try.

At the end of the corridor you fight through, you trigger a cut-scene where Sasuke kind of just shows up in the Five Kage meeting room. Of course, Danzo runs away. While you are chasing Danzo, you run into Mei Terumi-The Mizukage (By far the most oversexualized character in the entirety of the naruto series). 

 Here it is, the last battle of chapter 1. Mei Terumi vs. Sasuke Uchiha. Beating Mei is not easy because she is pretty strong. If you can dodge her combos, she can't counter combo you right away, which gives you an advantage.

This is just a cool shot that I happened to get. Sasuke just says: "get out of the way".

And that's the end of Chapter 1. I know. I screwed up on the last battle, but I was way too tired to retry it so I just let it be. Most of the time, you should be able to get S on this chapter. It's pretty easy. I just got an A because I got careless against the Mizukage. 

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So, that's the walk-through of the Prologue and Chapter 1. I meant for this to be up yesterday, but I got distracted by Horror anime... I'll do a post about those sometime. Aside from that, Chapters 2 & 3 will be up by next saturday (Probably earlier). It usually depends on my mood. I've been busy with schoolwork most of the week, so I haven't been in the mood to write this, but as far as I can tell, next week will be light, so I'm going to play through chapter 2 on Monday, 3 on Tuesday, and start writing my walk-through Wednesday or Thursday. I hope this helps in some way. If not, I hope you enjoyed reading my commentary and laughing at my bad photography. I might be posting another part of DayZ funny moments soon, so keep an eye out for that. Added to those things, I want to make a post talking about Psycho-pass 2 and Log Horizon 2. I've been waiting a while for both of them, so it's exciting to see that second seasons are coming out. That's all that I have to say. 

Thanks for reading and come back again please!

-K.G.