
After we'd exchanged a few combos (and he'd whittled my life bar down to nearly nothing), Madara dropped one of his swords and retreated, again giving me the chance to grab it. With the combat now on a giant scale, I lumbered toward Madara, doing my best to block his attacks while I got in close enough to strike. Hashirama followed suit, drawing on his Wood Jutsu to create a massive wood-golem shell. With his armor shattered, Madara pulled out a new trick: merging with the Nine-Tails, which gave it shimmering blue samurai armor and massive lightsabers that mimicked the ones I'd stolen from him earlier. I immediately grabbed the blades, and Hashirama's formerly hand-to-hand fighting style gave way to something much flashier as I laid into Madara with his own weapons. More interestingly, the arena was sloped and tiered (where previous Naruto arenas have mostly been flat), and after I'd landed a few solid combos, Madara dropped his glowing swords and fled to higher ground, leaving them stuck in the earth with a big button prompt floating above them. Super attacks, meanwhile, sometimes come with lots of dramatic close ups of highly expressive faces, as well as quick-time events – so it's a good idea to always be ready to mash some buttons.

It's not Street Fighter, but it's still a lot of fun. Playing as Hashirama on PS4, the controls were instantly familiar holding the thumbstick in different directions while hammering Circle let me bust out different combos, for example, while tapping L2 let me teleport out of the way of incoming attacks. My time with Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 consisted of a short, very heavily directed fight between two giants of the series, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, who were battling inside what looked like a forest clearing under the watchful eyes of the massive fox demon, Nine-Tails.
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Now that the series is making the jump to PS4 and Xbox One (and PC, although it's not the series' first time on that platform), it's poised to be prettier than it's ever been before, and my first taste of it did not disappoint. Developed by the same minds that made Asura's Wrath, the games are characterized by beautiful visuals, breathtaking animation, and a frequently enormous sense of scale – all of which contrast sharply with their simple controls and uncomplicated fighting.

If there's a prize for anime games that look better than the animation they're based on, it should really go to the Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm series.
