It’s time to become the shinobi you were destined to be in Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker. Create your custom Shinobi and journey alongside others in the world of Naruto. Go online to experience team based combat where you and your allies fight like a true squad similar to the Naruto series. With tons of ways to fight, you can create a ninja that might even rival some of the legends like Naruto, Sasuke and even Kakashi. Get those bandanas ready, folks, and enter the world of Naruto unlike any other game ever before in Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker.

Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker gives players the chance to feel the manga/anime series of Naruto as they create their own ninjas and fight in numerous battles. The closed beta for Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker shows us how the team battles work online where players fight 4 vs 4 to capture a flag. Using various moves that mirror characters from the show, you can see that there is a deep customization system in Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker giving players the ability to manipulate what ninjutsu, weapons and even martial art styles that can use in combat. Working together is crucial in Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker as a lone shinobi will face a quick defeat against several others at the same time. Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker seems to offer several online modes—of which were locked for the closed beta—and most likely a story mode that will take fans and newcomers through the Naruto lore from the manga and anime stories.

Here at Honey’s Anime, being lovers of all things anime, we’ve obviously come to enjoy the Naruto series. We also equally have loved most of the Naruto games and thus, were jumping in our seats at being invited to the closed beta for Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker. After putting several hours into Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker, we have some thoughts on it and wish to share that with all our loyal readers out there on the internet. Now sit right down—which you’re most likely doing already—and enjoy our Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker Closed Beta Preview. Though just remember, folks, that this is a still work in progress game and our thoughts are only representing the gameplay we’ve experienced in the closed beta.

Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker allows players right away to create their shinobi and even choose where they hail from. Players can change their hair, eyes, armor sets and various other options to make what essentially is their own Naruto-themed shinobi that feels like he/she fits into the Naruto world lore. Players will then jump into the tutorial which explains how to play Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker in every sense of the word. Here, Kakashi—one of our personal Naruto favorites like many others—teaches you the ropes of combat and movement. Since this is where you’ll begin in Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker’s closed beta, we figured we too should talk about the gameplay and how it feels at least when not facing others online.

Players will quickly realize Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker isn’t just a typical fighter akin to the Ultimate Ninja series. Instead, Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker feels more similar to Naruto: The Broken Bond and its third person exploration and combat. Here, you will jump, run on walls and use ninja arts like Rasengan and Fire Style to defeat your enemies. However, we will also need to state that Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker plays considerably better than The Broken Bond offering up a nice mixture of combat styles such as attack which is more melee oriented and defensive, which offers attack and defensive skills in equal measure. There are two other styles in the closed beta—ranged and heal—but we felt the defensive style was one of the better ones, especially when you go online. Speaking of the online, this is where we begin to see some issues with Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker appear.

Online matchmaking is where we spent the most time with Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker seeing as how outside of the tutorial, it was the only other mode playable. Here, we were able to select 4 vs 4 capture the flag and we begun to see some problems occur with the good combat we experience outside of multiplayer. Possibly due to servers being crowded, we experienced a ton of lag-related issues in Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker such as characters hitting air when someone was there a moment ago and even attacks hitting but not registering. We also know it wasn’t our own internet issues as we had more than one person trying out the closed beta and reporting similar findings. This, at times, made death an all too frequent issue but when the game ran well, we felt some of the combat problems still remained due to some of the attacks being overpowered and even sometimes just unfair. The perfect example of this would be the defensive style’s sand wall which made capturing the flag almost too easy. We hope the final product of Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker fixes these issues and online server problems otherwise it might be problematic to the community.

Another issue we came across was the camera during combat. Seriously, the camera ,when on walls or even engaging enemies, would sometimes have a mind of its own appearing too close or even behind enemies. This was an issue we experienced also during Kakashi’s tutorial but it wasn’t as annoying seeing as the lag issues and server stability wasn’t as much of an issue. We hope the developers can work on the camera in Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker. Though we’re sure some tweaking isn’t impossible and are hopeful for a resolution here.

Our last thoughts on Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker comes in the form of the amazing graphics and soundtrack/voice acting. Even before we got into the closed beta, we knew Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker was going to be something beautiful from the trailers and early screenshots. When we actually began the closed beta though, it was even nicer than we could have imagined. Characters pop with a manga-like affair and the cel-shading is done incredibly well to make every movement and attack a real visual treat for the eyes. The same can be said of the voice acting and music which mirrors the English Dub as well as original Japanese voices which can be easily changed from the main menu.

We played the closed beta for Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker for several hours and feel this game can be something impressive when it releases. We love the amazing visual style that makes Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker feel like a playable manga/anime hybrid and love the idea of teaming up with others in squad based matches online. Then there is the huge number of customization options to wield various weapons and skills to make your shinobi feel like Rock Lee and or Zabuza. However, the latency and online issues with Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker scare us a bit here at Honey’s Anime. If the servers for Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker aren’t well maintained, we can see a lot of issues with combat as we experienced a handful ourselves as we mentioned in our preview of Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker. Though we know that with any closed beta this is meant to show the developers—in this case Soleil Ltd.—what fans and players feel works and doesn’t and we’re sure that Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker final product can be a lot better.

Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker impressed us here at Honey’s Anime but equally shows some early worrying signs. We enjoy the art and customization options as well as the online possibilities but pray combat is worked a bit and the servers are more stabilized when the final game drops. As it is now though, we have high hopes for Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker as this could be one of the better Naruto games we’ve seen since the Ultimate Ninja franchise. Did you get a chance to play in the closed beta for Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker? Comment down below to tell us what you thought of it and what you liked/disliked. For more game related articles be sure to keep stuck to our hive here at Honey’s Anime.