Aloha everyone.  Noneatencookie is back and ready for action!  This is my latest story, Invisible.  Invisible is a recounting of the finally days of Sakumo Hatake’s life, with it ending with his suicide.  This will hopefully be made up of ten to fourteen posts.  Anyways, I hope you enjoy.

Invisible

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As silence spread over the village of Konoha, a lone man stood awake, thinking about the mission he had finished.  Having been away from the village for days, he was happy to watch the stars from his little apartment.  He was also happy to see his son, an up and coming shinobi excelling in his ninja studies.  As he continued to watch the stars a young boy walked into his room.

“Father?  Is that you?” the child asked, looking at his feet.

“Yes, Kakashi.  I am home.” the man said with a slight smile.

Kakashi looked up towards his father, grinning from ear to ear.  He ran to the man, longing for his embrace.  It had been so long since he had been held by his father.

Sakumo held out his open arms, waiting for Kakashi’s sprint to them.  He caught him in his arms.  Still smiling, he instinctively asked, “How is your mother?”  Whenever he returned from a mission, he asked his son how the love of his life, the mother of his child, was doing.

Kakashi’s grin turned into a large frown.  ”She’s still sick.  The Fourth and a medic-nin checked in on us yesterday, to see how mother was feeling and to see what I was up to.  The medic told him that she was still sick and that he condition had worsen.”

Sakumo instantly got up, with Kakashi still in his embrace, and went to the bedroom.  As he walked in, the lights began to flicker.  ”Hmm, she must have forgotten to pay the bill.” he thought to himself.  He walked towards the bed.  There, in what seemed like a thousand blankets, laid a sickly pale woman.  Itoshii Hatake.

As he sat down next to the bed, Itoshii began to hack.  After she stopped, she began to speak.  ”Sakumo, my love.  Are you back from you mission?”  Her voice was incredibly hoarse.  ”The medics told me I’m not getting any better.  But I’m a fighter.  I know I’ll pull through.”

Sakumo gave a light-hearted smile.  ”Yes, I know, my dear.  I know you will, too.  Our son told me that Minato stopped by.  Did he talk to you, or was he just here with the medic?” he asked, his smile slowly becoming a frown.

“Oh, Minato,” she replied.  As she began to speak again, a grotesque sounding cough was made.  Once done, she continued.  ”He came her to talk to me.” she said turning towards Kakashi.  ”Kakashi, please go to your room.”

Kakashi frowned.  ”Did I do something wrong?” he asked, incredibly puzzled.

“No, no, my dear.  This is just a private conversation.  Plus, it’s time to go to bed.  You have your first day of the Ninja Academy tomorrow.  When we’re done, I’ll send your father in.” Itoshii said, trying to sound upbeat.

Kakashi walked to his room without a peep.  As he walked, he stared at his feet.  He was saddened, but at the same time, confused.  His mother never talked in private.  She was an open person who always let Kakashi stay up until late.  Something was wrong…

Making sure Kakashi was gone, Sakumo shut the door, giving them more privacy.  ”So what is it you and Minato spoke about?”

“Well, he told me that judging from my results, I’ll be with the deceased in a few days.  He also told me many ninja of Konoha are going rogue.  He told me he needed you for an assassination mission, but you hadn’t returned.  So, he wants you in the Hokage’s Office at six o’ clock sharp tomorrow morning.  Then he went into the living room and talked to Kakashi.  I fell asleep soon after.”

Sakumo’s frown turned into a grimace.  ”So, you’ll be dead in a few days.  You know I’ll always love you.  Remember that when you’re gone.  And I will go see Minato after I take Kakashi to the Academy.  Now get some rest.  It’s late and I know we’re both tired.”

He gave her kiss on the forehead and got into the bed.  As he laid in bed, he watched the ceiling, the only thing he could when he wasn’t tired.  All he could do was think about when Itoshii would pass.  They had been together for seven years, seven wonderful years.  He couldn’t imagine living without her…

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Meanings

Invisible: I named this fanfic “Invisible” because I feel like Sakumo’s eventual suicide was invisible to everyone around him.  He was a highly respected shinobi, had a very talented son.  He’s someone you’d never think would commit suicide.

Itoshii: Itoshii is the Japanese translation of “Beloved”.

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Well, I hope you enjoyed this little fanfic.  Please leave your praises or insults in the comments below.

MWUHAHAHAHAHA!!! I’M BACK FROM THE GREAT BEYOND!!!

Yo IRA, HERESSSSSSSSSSS JHONNY! *ehem* AJD!

Boot camp came and passed, Schooling is boring blah. I have finally used my not so impressive pay to hook me up some internet. Just wanted to give you all the displeasure of knowing I’m here, and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it I look forward to continuing an awesome run with everyone. Not sure how long it’ll take me to get everything up and running, but I will be lurking in the shadows amoung you.

Drop some Hate mail below…If you dare! otherwise, Apologies for those who were expecting something worth reading. Respects paid to…(Elfarren or harshyt) for that photoshop work. It’s been a while, but…not really.

—Peace Out, SA/ET Durbin AJD

I bet your all thinking “Hey why is this retard doing the breakdown”. Well the reason for that  is because Dragon is inside a cookies stomach, i feel like the cookie should be inside the Dragons stomach though but whatever. After cookie ate Dragon….well….Dragon gave cookie a stomach ache and now cookie is in hospital. But do not worry though, i am going to go inside cookie which will make her feel better and a few months later Dragon will pop out of  cookie. So they will be both fine again shortly

Anyways on with the breakdown….

Well Minato summoned a death god, which decided to shrink a fox by pulling out half of its soul and sealing it inside Minato….makes total sense right?……

The fox attacks Minato and Kushina and after they almost die a frog appears and seals itself inside an old perverted sage. So Minato and Kushina say there final words to there son before vanishing with a Eight trigram seal.

What a wild story huh?

Well Naruto seems to believe all this crazy talk from the woman who appeared from inside his subconsciousness claiming to be his mother, this causes him to cry.

Naruto 505 starts with Naruto thinking, “what the heck just happened” and “I am going to be the best”, well…just as this is happening Naruto stops day dreaming, he wakes up and comes back to reality…..(yep it was all a dream) When Naruto wakes up he realises he is on fire!!!

Since Naruto is on fire it gives him the power to sense evil presences. So keep this in mind….if you ever want to sense an evil presence, try setting your body on fire

Naruto senses the presence of an evil fish…..so what does he do??!!??!!…

Falcon PUNCH!!! ....or fox punch....or hand on fire punch, or something...

Just a little while after this happens….Guy meets and converses with his true self….and it turns out to be an evil fish that’s combined with a sword!!!

Guy responds by giving the evil fish sword a bash…..yeah…thats crulety to fish

So is it Guy VS Kisame next time??

So that’s all

Ja SCHY

Aloha everyone!  Welcome back to the fantastic Cookie-experience!  ^^  Well, Dragon will be back next week for the next breakdown, so don’t worry, I’ll regurgitate him soon!  Anyways, I know you’ve been waiting, so you don’t have to anymore!  Even if you do not like Naruto (I shun you TT_TT), please read the message at the end of this breakdown.

One again, since I’m in quite a hurry with this, I’ll keep MOST of it in point form, but I’ll elaborate on somethings.  One thing that bothered me about this is how Minato freed the Kyuubi from Madara’s control.  How?!  Was by stabbing him, or Rasening his face?  Well, here’s a littel picture to brighten your day! ^^

OMFG! Kyuubi is getting a Sharingan! Why is everyone getting transplants?! Oh, sorry, reading the wrong way.

Anyways, now to keep you laughing, here’s the splash page that is my absolute favourite!

One big happy family, almost happier than the Uchiha, who killed themselves from happiness! ^^

Back to the breakdown, here comes the points!

- One thing to mention is that whenever Kushina is angry, here hair stand up into nine pieces.  Coincidence?  Well, who cares really?

- Sadly, no Itachi, but happyly, no Sasuke!  I really wanted to know where Fugaku and Mikoto went off to in such a hurry.  Perhaps they were involved in the attack, as because they were no where to be found in the fight against the Kyuubi.

- It seems that Madara is getting more and more bold in this flashback.  At least he admitted the Fourth had beaten him.  He has now moved on the Stage Two of NA (Ninja’d Anonymous)!  Congrats.

- It appears that Kurenai’s father was protecting the Soon to be Jonin of Konoha.  He also appeared to want many grandbabiez!  Appranged marriage with Asuma anyone?

- One of the most crucial points in this entire flashback, Iruka’s parents.  We’ve always heard that they died in the attack (About every 100 chapters it’s mentioned), but never seen them.  It appears that Iruka’s mother was about to die, but his father was fine and told him to run away while he had a chance.  I think it’s honourable to mention that Iruka’s father has a funny mustache.

- One last thing.  BUNTA!  He pwn’d the Kyuubi into food.  Bunta is my all time favourite toady and I was happy to see ‘em!

-Okay I lied, this is the last thing: It appears that with Kushina’s special chakra, she can reseal the Kyuubi within herself, to which she was planning to do.  But Minato has other plans… FIND OUT IN %)$ I mean 504!

Now Minato has ESP! :O

As I leave, I’d like to point out that OneManga will be closing after this week.  It has sadly lost many manga and will be closed, although the forums will continue to run.  I’d also like to mention that many other are closing or deleting the manga they show.  Thankfully, MangaStream will stay open, hoping they can continue to provide great manga every week.

See ya everyone!

Shalom everyone.  As most of you know, Dragon is on “vacation” (He was actually eaten by me…).  So, as the incredibly nice person I am, I, Cookie, the Legendary Drunk, will be doing this and the next breakdown.  So, getting down to business, this chapter was just pure awesomeness!  Every page made me jump just a little.  Kishimoto-sama really pulled out all the stops for this flashback arc.  Here is the splash page…

Minato Namikaze: Ever the enigma.

Since I’m in quiet the rush, I’ll keep this breakdown in bullet form.

• The weirdest thing about this chapter was that Itachi mentioned that his parents had gone out.  Although this could be a coincidence, Kishi wouldn’t just point this out for no reason.  Perhaps they’re part of Madara’s little scheme. o_O
• It seems that Minato’s Flying Thunder God Technique is limitless.  Due to the amount of phasing/teleporting in this awesome chapter, Minato must have teleported up to a few miles.  It also seems that he can create a Space/Time barrier and send an attack to an already placed seal somewhere else.
• FTG also has two levels, albeit weird, is pretty cool.  Although we don’t know what Level Two actually does, we may in upcoming chapters.
• Although Madara (I believe Tobi is Madara, so I’ll address him as such) took control of the Kyuubi with just a normal Sharingan. O_O  I always thought that you had to have the Mangekyo Sharingan t control a Tailed Beast.  Well, this may just mean that you have to have a powerful Sharingan to possess a Tailed Beast.
• Looks like most Konoha shinobi were in this fight, even Hiruzen, but this chapter only shows Minato.  Damn you Kishimoto-sama!  Give the others some spotlight!

Don't f*ck with the Yellow Flash!

What makes Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage, such a spectacular and awe-inspiring character is not his combat prowess or his FTG, but his abling to be completely calm in the most stressful situations.  As seen in the above image, even when a giant ball of Kyuubi chakra is hurdling straight at him, he doesn’t even wince (Although he had planned to use his Space/Time barrier technique anyways ).  What’s even more spectacular about Minato is that he chose to save Kushina and Naruto over protecting his village.  I think that shows how much love he actually had for them.  With Minato, we hardly ever see emotion, but as seen in Chapter 500, he actually cried when Naruto was born.  If that isn’t love, I don’t know what is.

Madara, cut Minato some slack!

Well, all in all, this chapter could have had more talk than action, but I still think it was good.  I liked the new techniques and the showing of Kakashi! *Gets ran over by Kakashi fan gurls*  Well, I’m signing off for this week.  Sorry that this isn’t the kind of breakdown you’re use to, but at least you got to experience that is Cookie!  And don’t worry, after Dragon escapes from my stomach, he’ll be back to doin’ the breakdowns.

Adios everyone!

…after years of waiting for it, we finally see the truth…

This is Dragon with Naruto 501 Breakdown!

Sorry for the late breakdown, but I have an Internet problem on my computer so I’m doing this breakdown on someone else’s computer.

Madara wants to revive the Kyuubi and won't hesitate to kill Naruto if he has to.

Naruto 501 was a good chapter, even though we already knew that Madara would free the Kyuubi and Naruto would survive. We still don’t know if Kushina will die and exactly how Minato seals the Fox into Naruto.

After a splash page with baby Naruto and Sasuke, we start from where last chapter left off.

Madara threatens to kill Naruto if Minato attempts to restore Kushina’s seal, but he loses his patience and tries to stab Naruto only for the Yellow Flash to grab his son in time.

Madara is cunning and has placed some explosive tags on Naruto. Minato escapes the explosion unscathed and then teleports Naruto to his house.

In the meantime, Madara is getting ready to free the Kyuubi.

It's not rape if your name is Madara. O_O

Madara then frees the Kyuubi with his Sharingan and says that he’s going to crush the Leaf.

The strange thing is that he uses his normal Sharingan to control the Fox, not the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan that he supposedly has.

Does Madara even have the EMS?

I think he doesn’t have it anymore because he lost it in  the battle vs Hashirama. Maybe he used Izanagi during that battle?

The Exorcist: Madara Version. Buy it now and you get a free Fox plush!

Even having the Kyuubi extracted doesn’t kill Kushina because of her Uzumaki heritage, but the Nine Tails tries to crush her.

Minato arrives just in time and saves her. She asks him where Naruto is and tells him to save Konoha.

Before that, he brings her to where Naruto is and she cries because she’s happy to see her son.

This is one of the saddest and most emotional scenes in the manga and we know that Naruto won’t know how much his parents loved him until he’s 16.

Minato decides to go and fight the Kyuubi to save Konoha. And Itachi's spider senses are tingling... @_@

It’s also sad how Minato says “I’ll be back before you know it” when we know he’ll die in the battle.

Anyway, why did Kishi show us Itachi??? Is he going to do something during the Kyuubi’s Attack???

I think he’ll try to fight against Madara, but Minato won’t let him get killed and will stop him. Madara will be impressed by his ability at such a young age and that’s why he’ll come to him during the Uchiha Massacre.

That’s it for the breakdown.

Here’s your demotivational poster!

I won’t be able to do the breakdowns for two weeks because I’m going on vacation starting from Wednesday. Could you please fill in for me, noneatencookie?

I won’t read Naruto for two weeks so I’ll have to wait to find out what happens next! >_<

最强 Dragon

Awww, look at the happy couple. ... What?!? They're both dead?!? X_X

This is Dragon with this week’s Naruto breakdown.

Naruto 500 was a great chapter.

It didn’t have any action, but I think chapter 499 satisfied us for that matter.

What made this chapter great was the amount of information in it. Many theories were confirmed and others have started to develop, making people debate and wonder what really happened 16 years ago, the night of the Kyuubi’s attack.

In this chapter we get a glimpse of the truth.

It all started when Kushina was chosen as the second jinchuuriki of the Nine Tails and was brought to Konoha from the Whirlpool Country.

Even though they were from different countries, the Leaf's Senju and the Whirlpool's Uzumaki Clan were distant blood relatives.

Naruto, descendant of the Uzumaki Clan, is a very distant relative of the Senju and the Sage of Six Paths.

That might also explain his transformation in the 499th chapter. Naruto, a relative of the Rikudo Sage, absorbed a very big part of the Juubi which probably brought his chakra and power level closer to the Sage’s.

The people of the Whirlpool Village had extremely long lives and the Uzumaki Clan specialized in Fūinjutsu, sealing techniques.

Kushina taught Minato lots of sealing jutsu. One of these, the Four Element seal is identical to the Uzumaki Clan’s symbol which is used by Konoha shinobi as a symbol of friendship and goodwill.

In times of war, people came to fear the Uzumaki’s sealing techniques and for this reason the Whirlpool Country was destroyed and the survivors escaped to other countries.

Kushina was one of them and was chosen to be the Kyuubi’s next jinchuuriki for her strong chakra and because her predecessor was also a powerful female ninja called Mito Uzumaki. She was the First Hokage’s wife and during the battle against Madara she sealed the Kyuubi inside her own body to help him. By the way, she has a seal on her forehead identical to Tsunade’s… Maybe she could use the Creation Rebirth technique too and she taught it to Tsunade?

Speaking about Tsunade, this chapter proves that she and Naruto are not-so-distant relatives, because if Tsunade is Hashirama’s grandaughter then that means he had a son or a daughter with Mito which had Tsunade; that means that she has Uzumaki and Senju blood in her, so she could be Naruto’s distant cousin or aunt because Mito Uzumaki and Kushina are related in some way (maybe Mito is Kushina’s aunt).
Wow, Naruto thought he didn’t have any family in Konoha, but now he’s related to almost all the Hokages… >_>

Kushina was a great jinchuuriki for the Kyuubi, but it was released thanks to Madara when the seal was at its weakest: the moment of Naruto’s birth.

16 years ago, October 10th, everything was ready for Naruto’s birth. A trusted team of Anbu would have guarded a place outside of  the village, while Minato kept the seal under control and the Third Hokage’s wife Biwako and a medical ninja called Taji would have helped with the birth.

Scream all you want, Sasuke fangirls!!! Your idol is a girl! Muahahah- *gets hit in the head by 50 crazy fangirls*

On their way to the place, they met an infant Sasuke and his mother, Mikoto who tells them she called her son Sasuke just like the Third Hokage’s father, hoping he’ll grow up to be a fine shinobi. Dream on, Mikoto, dream on… <_<

Anyway, it’s time for Kushina to give birth.

With the Bloody Habanero screaming in agony, the Kyuubi trying to free itself, Konoha’s Yellow Flash panicking and Biwako claiming women have babies because men can’t handle pain (LOL), everything’s going fine until a sinister and masked figure, after killing all the anbu that guarded the place, starts to phase through the walls looking for Kushina.

In the meantime, Naruto is finally born (I still think he’s prettier than Sasuke u.u ) and Minato prepares to restore the seal to full power…

but then the masked man grabs the newborn baby and threatens to kill him if Minato doesn’t back away from Kushina.

The happiness for becoming parents of a healthy baby is replaced by the horror of this vision: what will be Minato's decision???

I’m sure lots of people will have gasped and thought “…OMG. Madara’s such an a-hole” when they read the last page of this chapter because this is really a horrible thing, threatening to kill the newborn son of two parents.

I know that a few people have a theory that the masked man isn’t Madara, but the majority of you, including myself, are sure that he’s Madara, so, just to be sure, I’ll ask you who is the masked man?

Another question is if Mikoto told Madara that Kushina was going to give birth. They met when she was going somewhere with the Third Hokage’s wife and she might have understood what was going to happen.

We all know the Uchiha were planning a coup d’état and this might have been the time to take the Kyuubi and use it to rise to power. Maybe Mikoto told her husband who told Madara, so she didn’t mean any harm to her friend.

We still don’t know when the Uchiha started planning a coup d’état because maybe they started planning it after the Kyuubi’s attack or maybe long before it.

Anyway, what is that strange jutsu the masked man used against those anbus and wants to use on Naruto???

To me it looks like Scar‘s technique from FMA, he places his hand on your face and then you die… O_O

Well, that’s it for this week’s breakdown and my crazy theories.

Debate in the comment section and here’s your demotivational poster!

There were tons of demotivational posters this week, so tell me which one you prefer between the one above and the posters on this page.

See you all next week with the rest of the truth (hopefully)! ^_^

If you have not guessed already from this posts title, the post that your reading is going to be about Naruto shippuden ultimate ninja storm 2, which is a game – a Naruto game obviously and it’s a game that is currently being developed by Cyber Connect 2 (cc2) for the Playstaion 3 and Xbox 360. It was officially announced on December 21st, 2009 by Namco Bandai Games at a Jump Festa event. The release date is October 21st 2010 for Japan.  The US will receive this game October 19th and EU will recieve this game 15th October.

So yeah…this is going to be an information post that will be updated once new stuff is announced, so you could always bookmark and check back on this page regularly to see if somethings new has come up if you feel like it. I’m not going to be analysing the game in this post and sharing what I think might happen, although you may find that sort of stuff in the comments section of this post.

Anyways to start this post off I’ll start with a trailer.

From that trailer you can probably guess that the game is a 3D fighter, it has a few characters and it has pretty good graphics.

As i mentioned above, this game is made by cc2 and anybody that’s familiar with cc2 should know that they make games with good cell shaded graphics. I think cc2 make Hack and Naruto games only, so they specialise in anime games, therefore cc2 would naturally have a good cell shaded graphics engine for their games I suppose. In fact a Naruto OVA was made using cc2′s graphics engine, so that just shows that cc2 has some good graphics.

Here are a few screen shots of this game which show what the graphics and the game is like, you should keep in mind that the graphics are probably not complete yet, more changes and improvements should come, however the graphics should be close to completion. Also click on an image to see it in its full size.

Graphics look pretty, we have the Rasenshuriken, Sasuke and Itachi  going all out, 4 tailed Naruto and Sasuke in an Akatsuki outfit battling the Hachibi too!!! On top of that there are a few VS battle and boss battle screens as well. There is online play, 42 playable characters, a fully explorable konoha and a n action adventure story mode similar to Naruto shippuden ultimate ninja 5. (or Accel 2)

Now heres another trailer for you which was released a few weeks prior to E3

We get to see a lot of Hidan, Kakuzu, Pain and Jiraiya. We even get to see Naruto and Sakura walking around leaving Konoha and going towards the sand village. Pretty cool. Apparently you get to walk around as Naruto, Sasuke and Jiraiya in this game, which is good since in Storm 1 you could only walk around as Naruto. There are also scans showing us that you get to walk around as Asuma too, pictures of scans are at the bottom of this post though, so we shall come to that latter.

Heres something else for you, 3 more screen shots which may be interesting.

Yeah so check that out, you can play as Lars who is a character from Tekken 6 in this game. Why? Well the costume that Lars is wearing was created by the creator of Naruto “Kishimoto”, perhaps that has something to do with it.

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Well heres some more video’s for you, the following trailer was shown at E3.

Here is an interview with Hiroshi Matsuyama  (H.M) which took place at E3

Click here to watch the 14 minute interview. The video’s in HD so it may take a while to buffer and stuff, so while you wait for it to buffer  you can always read the rest of this post if you want. H.M talks quite a bit about the game he is creating.

Anyways the boss battles seem to be one of the big selling points about this game and there seems to be lots of boss battles too. Team jutsu’s are in this game, so support characters are all the more important, there are some videos in the comments section which shows us some VS battle clips and the vids show us that you can do a bunch of new things with your assist characters, so after you finish reading this post you may want to check out the comments section bellow. There are also English voices available for “most” characters, so that’s good news for those of you that watch the Dubs. So everything is shaping out nicely.

The demo for this game is already available, it was available to download on PSN and Xbox live on the 29th of July.  The demo appeared on Japans Playstation store first and it will appear in other regions August 25th. In this demo you play through a boss battle.  Naruto and Sakura VS Kakashi, it’s the same demo people got to play through at E3.

Here is a gameplay video for the Naruto and Sakura VS Kakashi fight.

So the game play has changed a little in comparison to the gameplay from the first Naruto storm game, I’ve played the demo on my PS3 and a few features have been removed, in the demo you can’t walk on walls, you can’t do ground attacks and a few other attacks anymore either and there are no ultimate justsu. All or some of these things may be available in the actual game though, they are just not available in the demo. On the plus side you can do backwards chakra dashes now and if you charge Naruto’s Rasengan it becomes a Odama Rasengan.

For those of you that are unfamiliar with Naruto ultimate ninja storms gameplay then check out the gameplay footage in the video bellow, you may or may not see some differences in gameplay…

Here is another trailer which was shown to us 18th August, it confirms a few more characters and shows us some cool new things.

Also here is some detail about the online modes for this game….

· Player Match – Take on rival ninja to sharpen playing skills or just for kicks with the following match types:

o Quick Match: Play deadly ninja roulette with random opponent selection

o Custom Match: Define match settings and pick your battles

o Create Match: Host a match and have challengers come to you

· Ranked Match – Challenge and defeat players around the world to improve your global ranking and become the true ultimate ninja

· Ranking System – Compare your skills and strengths with players the world over and climb your way up the global rankings

Now going back to cc2, cc2 used to make games for Sony consoles only, however Storm 2 is different. cc2 works closely with microsoft while creating this game and as a result they are putting storm 2 on the 360 and not just the PS3, but how and why?

Well does any body remember Ubisofts Naruto series on the Xbox 360?

Ubisoft created “Naruto Rise of a ninja” and “Naruto the broken bond” for the 360. Well cc2 is getting rid of competition…..

cc2 purchased the rights to make Naruto  games on the 360, meaning Ubisoft are no longer allowed to make Naruto games on the 360, as they no longer have the rights to do so. So for those of you that expected to get a Ubisoft sequel to Naruto the broken bond on your 360, you’ll be disappointed. However you’ll get cc2′s Storm 2.

Here is another trailer for you

Now what else can i tell you about this game…well, there are 42 play characters. The selection screen was leaked and it shows that there are 42 slots for characters. You can see for yourself in a very short video which shows the character selection screen if you click here.  Now as for what characters are playable, here  is a list of characters that are confirmed…

1 ) Asuma

2 ) Chiyo

3 ) Deidara

4 ) Garra

5 ) Hidan

6 ) Jiraiya

7 ) Kakashi

8 ) Kakuzu

9 ) Naruto

10 ) Sage Naruto

11 ) Sakura

12 ) Sasori

13 ) Sasuke

14 ) Shikamaru

15) Itachi

16) Kiba

17) Lars

18) Orochimaru

19) Sai

20) Yamato

21) Tsunade

22) Suigetsu

23) Karin

24) Jugo

25) Choji

26) Lee

27) Konan

28) Ino

29) Tenten

30) Kisame

31) Guy

32) Neji

33) Pain

34) Killer Bee

35) Temari

36) Kankuro

37) Hinata

38) Shino

39) Minato

40) Kabuto

41) Tobi

42) Akatsuki Sasuke

Thats all 42 characters in the rooster confirmed. All the evidence which shows the characters above are indeed confirmed can actually be found on this page.

If you buy the collectors edition (also known as the limited edition) of this game then you get the following items:

. Naruto shippuden ultimate ninja storm 2 soundtrack disk

. Unlock Minato from the start

. Limited edition laser cell drawing made by Kishi

. The game

. “Extra content”

It was also stated that Minato is the last unlockable character in the game.

You get some bonuses if you pre-order this game too. You seem to get a code which unlocks Lars. It is unknown what region this pre-order bonus applys for. If you pre-order this game in Japan you get a nice book with character illustrations and stuff.

Now this posts starting to get long, however don’t think that I’m done yet!!

There are still a few scans left for me to show y’all Again I’m going to point out, that by clicking on one of these scans you will be able to see it in its full size, which is helpful considering there are screenshots in these tiny pictures. I recommend clicking on the scans if you are interested.

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So in these scans we learn that the game includes the Pain invading the leaf arc, that’s because we can see Kakashi and Sage Naruto battling multiple realms of Pain in boss battles. We also see an Acell 2 style story mode, you get to walk around all over the place as different characters like Asuma. We can also see that Pain has Konan for support and that Konan battles Sakura. We also get to see Hebi/Taka in action and Sasukes Mangekyou sharingan. Minato is also confirmed and unlike previous Naruto ultimate ninja games, he is actually playable after becoming Hokage. Tobi and Killer bee is also confirmed as playable and Bee turns into his bijuu when awakened!!

So i think this game is shaping up to be pretty good so far, the previous installment had a few flaws. There was no online play, there was no real purpose in running around Konoha, the story missed out a whole arc. But  Storm 2 seems to have fixed all those issues, it’s a game that’s looking awesomeness. My only concern now is that there seems like there is even less combo’s in this game when compared to storm 1. Lets hope that’s not the case.

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Thats all from me

Ja SCHY