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.
I've joined Plus the month the IGC was implemented, and I
fell in love with it the moment I've played my first «free» game: what a deal, for just 50 $ 12 months full of adventures and some
other great
stuff... I was really enjoying it until one day, by pure chance, I've read a post
in the US blog and I've discovered something that at first appeared so unfair: 50 % off for Plus members on tons of titles, and some
other gifts, too!