Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles
Before Naruto arena fighting games had a chokehold on the gaming community, there was Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles, an action-adventure game for the PlayStation 2. Uzumaki Chronicles’ story takes place after the death of the Third Hokage in the Konoha Crush arc. With the Leaf Village worse for wear, Naruto and the rest of the village shinobi take on a hodgepodge of “filler missions” to help their community recover. Somewhere down the line, players are charged with stopping Orochimaru from using a dangerous green mist that unalives, revives, and transforms people into zombies. You know, villain shit. That doesn’t mean it was good. In fact, this one was mechanically clunky, had rudimentary missions (beat up a certain number of goons, collect a certain amount of items, those kinds of objectives), and enough loading screens to put you to sleep.
