Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2
(ナルト- ナルティメットヒーロー2, Naruto: Narutimetto Hīrō 2)
Video game info
Playable on	PlayStation 2
Series	Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
Previous	Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
Next	Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3
Release Date
Japanese	September 30, 2004
English	June 12, 2007
Debut
Jutsu 1000 Metre Punch 16 Hit Combo Adamantine Prison Wall Adamantine Technique: Cranium Crusher Amaterasu Arhat Fist Barrage of Gentle Fists Black Dream Body Pathway Derangement Calamity Flame Chakra Enhanced Strength Chakra Scalpel Chaos Fan Dance Clone Great Explosion Cold Needles Dance of the Sword Dead Demon Consuming Seal Dynamic Marking Explosion: Ice Mountain Destruction Fan Wind Roaring Wall Fang Beheading Fang Fangs of the Monkey King Fantasy Fire Release: Fire Dragon Flame Bullet Fire Release: Flame Bullet Fire Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet Flowing Blade Forbidden Technique: Gedō Seal Front Lotus Guy Version Gedō Seal: Release Great Dance Slash Great Sickle Weasel Technique Green Impact Heavenly Foot of Pain Heavenly Kick Wild Dance Heavenly Palm Wild Dance Hog Release: Tonton Human Shadow Simulation Technique Ice Prison Technique Ice Release: Black Dragon Blizzard Ice Release: One Horned White Whale Ice Release: Swallow Snow Storm Ice Release: Tearing Dragon Fierce Tiger Ice Release: Twin Dragon Blizzard Incursion of Clarity Infinite Wild Dance Insect Clone Technique Insect Pillar Technique Kagura Shuriken Last Resort: Eight Gates Crumbling Attack Leaf Broadminded Leaf Drop Leaf Strong Whirlwind Lightning Cutter Two Sequential Crashes Manipulated Tools: Deadly Spheres Strike Manipulated Tools: One Thousand Blades Attack Mind Body Disturbance Technique Needle Jizō Ninja Art: Profusion of Flowers Ninja Art: Shuriken Giant Body Technique Oneself's Rule Palm Wave Parasitic Destruction Insects: Arrowhead Swarm Parasitic Destruction Insects: Whirl Peerless Hurricane Formation Poison Mist Prepared Needle Shot Puppet: Degeneration Puppet: Inexhaustible Explosive Blades Puppet: Revolving Blade Heavenly Drill Puppet: Spewing Bullet Rasengan Rising Sun Roaring Run: Great Strength Ice Strike Slug Great Division Soft Neck Throw Soft Physique Modification Spider Sticking Spit Spiked Human Bullet Tank Spirit Foot Strength of a Hundred Seal Summoning: Food Cart Destroyer Technique Summoning: Toad Mouth Bind Super Multi-Size Technique Super Pressure Toad Oil Bullet Tongue Tooth Sticky Acid Transformation: Adamantine Staff True Sand Waterfall Funeral Tsukuyomi Ultimate Reverse Lotus Unsealing Technique Water Release: Water Fang Bullet Water Release: Water Shark Breakthrough Water Release: Water Shark Bullet Technique Wind Demon Special Attack Bullet Wind Release: Great Breakthrough
Tools Chakra Armour Chakra-Suppressing Seal Explosive Tag First Hokage's Necklace Makibishi Poison Retractable Cable Arm Shinobi Battle Armour Snowboard Wrist-Mounted Senbon Launcher

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2, known in Japan as Naruto: Narutimate Hero 2 (ＮＡＲＵＴＯ-ナルト- ナルティメットヒーロー2, Naruto: Narutimetto Hīrō 2), is the second instalment of the fighting game series Naruto: Ultimate Ninja released for the Playstation 2.

Gameplay

It features a similar gameplay experience to Naruto: Ultimate Ninja, featuring many of the same gameplay elements and geography. Some characters have been fused together, so the player must use a special jutsu to activate them, such as Sasuke with his Cursed Seal. The game also features an RPG-esque story mode, the first half from the series, the second being an added story arc that takes place between the Search for Tsunade and the Sasuke Recovery Mission. In this arc, Orochimaru has Kabuto use a technique called the Forbidden Technique: Gedō Seal to seal Kakashi's Sharingan. Orochimaru then starts his second invasion on Konoha and uses Summoning: Impure World Resurrection to revive Zabuza Momochi, Haku Yuki, and the Third Hokage. It features 31 playable characters in the Japanese version.

Playable Characters

Parenthesis indicate a character's Awakening Mode.

• Naruto Uzumaki (Nine-Tails Mode), also playable in a Nine Tailed Fox form, also playable with a taijutsu outfit) ^{(Ultimate Mode)}
• Sasuke Uchiha (Sharingan Mode, also playable with a Curse Mark Mode)
• Sakura Haruno (Ultimate Mode)
• Shikamaru Nara (Ultimate Mode)
• Ino Yamanaka (Ultimate Mode)
• Chōji Akimichi (Expansion Mode)
• Kiba Inuzuka (Ultimate Mode)
• Shino Aburame (Ultimate Mode)
• Hinata Hyūga (Byakugan Mode), also playable in an "awakened" form)
• Gaara (Ultimate Mode)
• Temari (Ultimate Mode)
• Kankurō (Ultimate Mode)
• Rock Lee (Eight Gates Mode)
• Neji Hyūga (Byakugan Mode)
• Tenten (Ultimate Mode)
• Kakashi Hatake (Sharingan Mode), also playable with an Anbu outfit) ^{(Ultimate Mode)}
• Might Guy (Eight Gates Mode)
• Shizune (Ultimate Mode)
• Third Hokage (Ultimate Mode)
• Jiraiya (Ultimate Mode)
• Orochimaru (also playable with Sealed Arms)
• Tsunade (Regeneration Mode)
• Itachi Uchiha (Tsukuyomi Mode)
• Kisame Hoshigaki (Shark Skin Mode)
• Kabuto Yakushi (Ultimate Mode)
• Zabuza Momochi (Ultimate Mode)
• Haku (Ultimate Mode)
• Dotō Kazahana ^{(Japan only)}

Support-Only Characters

• Asuma Sarutobi
• Iruka Umino
• Sakon and Ukon
• Tayuya
• Kidōmaru
• Jirōbō
• Nadare Rōga ^{(Japan only)}
• Mizore Fuyukuma ^{(Japan only)}
• Fubuki Kakuyoku ^{(Japan only)}

Trivia

• Should one begin a new game using a memory card that has a Naruto: Ultimate Ninja save file, the player will receive 340 Ninja Info Cards and 50,000 ryō as bonus.
• Naruto encounters the inner version of himself in the game, similar to Dark Naruto, shown nearly eight years later in the series.
• Depending on who they fight, characters have special intro and win phrases against certain opponents, such as Naruto vs Sasuke. This was not featured in the first game.
• Many reviews had criticised the massive difficulty level of harder CPU levels in the game and that some of the controls, such as timing substitution jutsus, were nearly impossible, as compared to its prequel.
• Although the game retains the command feature where players input the correct buttons for Ultimate Jutsus, the game also adds the Mash and Spin feature. Mash will determine if the technique succeeds or fails depending on who mashes the button input the fastest, while Spin requires the players to spin the analogue stick as fast as they can. However, certain Ultimate Jutsus are locked with a certain input command. For example, Naruto's red and purple Ultimate Jutsus are Command, but his Blue Ultimate is Spin.
• Certain characters in the game, such as Kabuto, Shizune, and Taijutsu Naruto, do not have Ultimate Jutsus. Instead, if they connect with the technique, they will enter into a "special mode" where they have certain enhanced stats or their opponents have certain decreased stats.

External Links

• Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 official website
• Naruto: Narutimate Hero 2 official website (Japanese)