This game is a mixed bag for me. It's definitely carried by the presentation and style. It's got that anime look to the menus and the game is cell shaded and looks great even today but the gameplay has it's ups and downs. The world exploring part is good for the most part, you've got lots of abilities and things to do like races but the combat isn't super in depth. The main thing that happens in every fight Is you push your opponent far away and use your most powerful Jutsu and in story mode Naruto only has one Jutsu that does damage so it's that same one over and over again. I don't think it's bad but it gets repetitive really quick. It also doesn't help that there's lots of back tracking to the same areas especially if you do extra missions. I feel like the saving grace for this game though is that it's pretty short. I finished it within 5 hours so it won't get too repetitive before then. I had fun with this one but I definitely could see some cracks in the gameplay.