Narut Ninja Council 3 Fighting feature mission gameplay for up to four player

Because this is a fighting game, the main idea here is to beat your opponents senseless and drain their life meters until you're the last one left standing.

This is a 2D fighter, but the arenas are as tall as they are wide, and they have multiple tiers from which you can easily jump up and down.

You can smash boxes or rocks to uncover health items and weapons that you can throw at your opponents.

Some arenas also play host to booby traps, pits, and flying debris that will chip away some of your health when you come into contact with them.

The character sprites and animations have mostly been recycled from the previous Narut Ninja Council 3 Fighting games

(which were made for the Game Advance).

But all of the backgrounds and attack cutaways are brand new.

Because they've only recently graduated from the Academy, the three feel they must give strong showings to prove themselves.

When they arrive at the exam hall, Sasuke first uses his Sharingan to dispel a genjutsu intended to discourage unqualified genin and then agrees to spar with Rock Lee.

Lee's speed and taijutsu skills impress Sasuke enough to use his Sharingan in their fight.

Although he is able to see Lee's movements better, Sasuke can't physically keep up and Lee nearly performs the Front Lotus on him.

Lee is stopped by his teacher, Might Guy, whose emotional method of punishing Lee disturbs Sasuke, Boruto, and Sakura

The backgrounds are nothing special compared to other DS games, but they're twice as large as the backdrops in the boruto's Ninja Council games.

They're also more colorful and flaunt a better variety of cute details, such as flying birds or crumbling walkways.

The action largely takes place on the top screen while the bottom screen serves as a radar and a collection of "buttons" for initiating special Jutsu techniques.

When you perform a Jutsu technique, a dramatic cutaway put together with the game's characters and hand-drawn artwork will temporarily fill both screens.

Fans of the Narut animated series will really appreciate these flashy attack sequences particularly because they employ the voices of the show's actual voice cast.

The music and sound effects that make up the rest of the audio are fine, but they're also generic and forgettable.