Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4 gameplay thread

So I’m planning on importing this, anyone done any menu translations yet? And I hope you don’t have to buy the characters anymore like Kyoujin said, is that true?

Just got my copy and played one round, the sidestep run is cool, characters feel alittle bit more mobile now. Wake-up charge b+B with Rock is awesome.

Bbl with better stuff. Btw, random shit: the character select screen sucks since they use real character models now (there is some lag between when you press a button to select and it actually happening on screen), the intro is awesome but the music playing during it sucks (sounds like a remix of GNT3’s). I don’t know anything about a shop when I first boot up the game and press start at the menu screen I got like 2 seperate msgs…(maybe bonus stuff for having a GNT3 save?).

I can’t confirm the D-pad thing because I barely understand the options menus besides the one where you can set rounds, time, etc.

There is a FAQ in progress at gamefaqs that has menu translation, it mentions that you can use the D-pad or stick but doesn’t say how and I can’t one that relates to it. Wonder if it’s BS or not.

Quick Edit (after a quick scroll down the same FAQ):

Wtf, lol.

It also has the methods to unlock other characters.

I kind of wished the unlocking system was back to the old way of just buying everything out of the shop. This new way of playing these 300+ missions repeatedly is even more tedious.

Been playing for a while all day, during the end of the session started to apply the “Play easy C rank Missions” repeatedly and only unlocked about 3 or 4 characters.

Got to play as Kisame (Zabuza clone as expected, like a slower version) and OTK.Naruto (seems broken) though so it wasn’t so bad, have something to look forward to.

Awakened Hinata makes normal Hinata useless. She’s a cross between her old self, Neji, and some new stuff and she’s incredible. Not enough to warrent using her over Neji if you prefer, but they are similar.

nice combo: f+BBABBBBY, BBX

A.Hinata doing 64palms is so tight. :clap:

No more Anko’s store? :sad:
Game still sounds great but I kinda prefer the buy it method than replaying missions.

Man, I am having such a great time using Tayuya, she can be great at mind games if the opponent loves to KnJ the summons, since she has her BBBBA move. Of course she’s left wide open during the summons if side stepped, but she’s so awesome.

Also awakened Hinata is fun, I don’t think I’ll use Neji or normal Hinata much anymore, since Awakened Hinata just seems more fun, imo.

match vids plz…

Still unlocking characters…

There aren’t match videos up that I know, well there are some vs. the CPU in a random thread at gamefaqs but other than that…no. Willvolution.com or Shishi Rendan (if it’s still up) would probably be the best places to look for GNT4 vids once they are made.

I’m up to Itachi now, got quite a long way to go before I get to CS2 Sasuke.

No match vids yet, this weekend. I’m going to make a few short combo clips though.

http://www.willvolution.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=7385#7385

Short combo sample of hers. She’s good stuff :tup:

OMG, A.Hinata is fucking nuts…although still not as good Neji though, from what I can see.

How does the dude with the puppet play like?

Just unlocked A.Hinata myself…don’t see point of normal Hinata anymore, she has some of Neji’s better strings but most of right ones from normal Hinata as well, plus the crazy j.B, and is her super counter 2nd strongest super in the game? I would think Ura Renge is still king but the damage from her super counter…ouch.

I agree with the Neji statement, even if the Daikaiten has been nerfed combo wise (what else can you do besides OTGing d+BA?) it’s still an awesome super and with UCing it’s even easier to punish KnJs with it.

Kankuro from what I can see seems to be the same, I haven’t really tested hardcore with the characters, I just try to notice things as I’m repeatedly playing mission mode over. BBd+X seems harder to combo but it could just be me.

Alright, this is fucking killing me; where is my game?
Seriously, Hong Kong is too far away…
History dictates that when I order somthing from play-asia, it usually takes 5 days (7 including the weekend). It shipped on Friday, so that means it should be here tommorrow afternoon. Atleast, I hope so…

whats the word on kakashi?? does his sharingan still drain his life at an absurd rate?? and does the 3rd hokages fire super move still do hella dmg?? i think it was his bbbab,d+X combo…does that combo still work?? still insane dmg??

I don’t get A. Hinata even existing when they could put characters that actually have shown up and she is still the shy girl type AFTER the time jump. Not to mention the game is PRE time jump. Still, I’m sure I’ll play this in a couple of weeks.

Those combos over on Will’s site looked good too.

S.Kakashi’s life drain seems to be the same. Overall he looks to be the same as GNT3 Kakashi, UCs helps by giving normal Kakashi some damaging combos but wake-up Raikiri Rendan is still a force.

The 3rd’s BBBAB,d+X combo still works and does crazy damage. I haven’t found an combo involving UCs that does more yet but I would think there would be one. I believe the way the last two hits of the BBBAB string sets up the opponent allows the d+X to do the most damage than from other combos.

Edit: even though Neji’s Daikaiten has been nerfed in team it’s still a powerful too in 3v3 mode (maybe some other realtime supers as well, but I noticed the most with Neji’s).

i.e. Neji with 100% (75 for super and 25 for tag) and partner with 100% chakra = random combo ending in Daikaiten, Z (tag attack), wake-up for instant kill (on most characters).

Depending on how far away from the corner you were, the better tag attack your partner should have. i.e. Rock Lee travels pretty but A. Hinata instantly warps in front (or behind) the opponent so it doesn’t matter where you do the combo with that duo, wake-up 64 palms from Hinata is guaranteed.

Edit2: Daikaiten, normal tag (Z), run, wake-up super seems more universal. Daikaiten, tag, wake-up Raikiri Rendan is overkill.

Same here.

I ordered mine from play-asia…its still not here.

:mad: - rawr!

Just unlocked OTKNaruto and he is insane, his f+A gains 25% by itself. Combined with the powerful knockback you can do some fucked up looking non-KnJable canceled combos like repeated f+AYs then d+AB, super. His d+X is at least better than CS2 Sasukes even though you can KnJ from after getting hit by it unlike other realtime supers.

Anyone play Jiroubou yet? Hoping fatty tier will be in full effect!

And that autoguard on Chouji’s A throw sounds hot.