Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4
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Developer(s) | TOMY/Eighting |
Publisher(s) | TOMY |
Platform(s) | Nintendo GameCube |
Release | November 18, 2005 |
Genre(s) | Fighting |
Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4 is the fourth installment of the Gekitou Ninja Taisen (Clash of Ninja) series, which is based on the popular manga and anime series Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto.
Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4 keeps most features from Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 3, either with little or no changes. Certain characters can transform into alternate forms during mid-combat, and others have specials that can even cancel out strikes or other specials. The most noticeable change is the exclusion of the shop. Characters, stages, and other unloackables are obtained by completing a variety of missions in the all new Mission Mode.
New features
- A full-blown tag team mode (called 3-Man Cell), similar to that in Tekken Tag Tournament.
- Unique team supers for pre-assigned teams in tag team mode (eg: Sharingan Team, consisting of Kakashi Hatake, Sasuke Uchiha, and Itachi Uchiha, has Sasuke using Chidori and Kakashi using Raikiri after Itachi uses Amaterasu - a jutsu he cannot use anywhere else in the game).
- All characters can now sidestep while running.
- The Y-cancel. During certain points in a combo (or after almost any move as long as the opponent's airbone when struck and the striker's is not airborne, with some exceptions), you can cancel the lag of a move (but only if and after it hits) by using Y. This can be used to prolong combos to create new, devastating ones.
- All requirements are gone. Certain X- and down X-supers used to require the user to have a low (red) life bar. Now, all you need is enough chakra to perform the move. Although most of the down X-moves are basically just a stronger special than their X counterparts, they come out slower and thus cannot be used in combos the same way as the normal X's.
- Certain X's and down X's have been tweaked to give out more or less damage. An interesting point to note is that Hinata's X deals out three less hits than in Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 3, but deals out more damage.
- Choji's chip-eating move now also increases his damage output.
- The hitboxes of Itachi's clones have been reduced.
- Itachi's down X no longer activates when he's hit from behind.
- All characters can now choose between two kinds of Kawarimi no Jutsus, L and R. Using R will make you teleport behind your opponent and strike them. Using L will simply make you teleport behind them.
Playable characters
Characters new to the series are marked with an asterisk (*). Note that Naruto's "Ultimate Kyubi" form is actually his one-tailed form within the context of the series.
Stages
This is a list of stages in "Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4". Stages new to the series are marked with an asterisk (*):
- Gate of the Kyubi
- Konohagakure Hot Springs
- Academy Rooftop - Sunny
- Academy Rooftop - Raining
- Academy Entrance - Summer
- Academy Entrance - Evening
- Great Naruto Bridge - Clear
- Great Naruto Bridge - Mist
- Forest of Death - Dawn
- Forest of Death - Night
- Chunin Exam Preliminaries Arena
- Chunin Exam Third Stage - 1st (Field)
- Chunin Exam Third Stage - 2nd (Rooftop)
- Enclosed Upheaval Battle (Third Hokage vs. Orochimaru)
- Ichiraku Ramen Bar - Night
- Ichiraku Ramen Bar - Evening
- Toad Hall - 1st (Day)
- Toad Hall - 2nd (Night)
- Konohagakure Entrance Gate - Winter
- Konohagakure Entrance Gate - Night
- Sunagakure
- Tanzaku Castle (Tsunade vs. Naruto)
- Three Way Deadlock (Sannin Battlefield)
- Konohagakure Forest *
- Konohagakure Outskirts *
- Konohagakure Hospital Roof *
- Orochimaru's Lair *
- Konohagakure Police Department *
- Valley of the End *
- Snow Valley *