Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game,
at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some
button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable
at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the
later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening
at almost any
point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.
Apparently Howard and screenwriter David Koepp realized this because,
at several
points late in the picture, they hit the pause
button to allow characters to deliver long expository speeches cluing Langdon in as to who's who and what's what.
The remaster does come with a highlight
button so that all interactive areas are shown, but this isn't quite perfect and it can
point to things that aren't interactive
at that particular moment in time, but will be
later in the story.
The integrated Pocket - getpocket.com will give you all the added info you need - which used to be called Read It
Later, allows you save web content to a personalised library, either by clicking a
button on your desktop browser toolbar, or
pointing your browser
at a bookmarklet that interrogates the current page and sends it out to the Pocket servers.
One
point of interest occurred
later in the morning when Richardson, under questioning by Rook, confirmed that TREB members accessing the Stratus system could,
at the press of a
button, easily email detailed property search results containing information such as list price, sold price and days on the market to a consumer.