Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-27312470-20160124013012

Ok, lets get to the point.

For those who don't know what spectacle creep is, here's a quick definition from urban dictionary:

"A phenomenon occurring when the creator/creators of certain a media franchise (in games, movies, comics, etc) try to keep things fresh and interesting by unwisely making everything bigger, better and more spectacular. This can lead to the feeling that everything up to that point didn't really have a point or that everything after this point is pointless since it's just so ridiculously over the top."

That pretty much sums it up. Naruto tries to outdo itself on every corner, and its starting to tire me. I'm sick of the main characters getting new powers every two seconds, and making the old powers feel obsolete. F.E. Naruto's sage mode was really cool, until it was completely overtaken by his Kurama link mode. By the end of the main series, the power creep is so strong, that it feels like a complete cluster f**k and it becomes impossible for me to take it seriously.

I think that Boruto and the whole Naruto Project was a good opportunity to go back to the roots of Naruto, when everything was simpler and more meaningful but that remains to be seen. Boruto himself is already showing signs of being overpowered, being considered elite genin and knowing a impressive amount of jutsus for his age. Lets just hope that this doesn't escalate much further and that we don't have him becoming the sage of six paths by the end of the series.

This is my main gripe about the Naruto series as a whole, and its so big, that it boggles my mind, how nobody is talking about it. Looking up "Naruto spectacle creep" on google brings up nothing. No forum discussions, no articles... Nothing. I'm completely and utterly confused, to how everybody seems OK with this and still somehow gets excited for, well, anything in the Naruto series at this point. 