Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen! 4
| Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen! 4 | |
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| NARUTO-ﾅﾙﾄｰ激闘忍者大戦！4 Naruto: Clash of Ninja 4 | |
| Developer(s) | Eighting |
| Publisher(s) | TOMY Corporation |
| Release Date |  November 21, 2005 |
| Platform | GameCube |
| Producer(s) | Toshinori Fujisawa (Executive) Masato Toyoshima (Creative) Yasushi Oyama (Executive Producer, TOMY) |
| Director(s) | Naoto Naruse Gen Okazaki |
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The darling child of the GNT community. This game boasts remarkable improvements over its predecesors, given that this game is the first in the series to introduce the Y-canceling mechanic and improve on the previous titles' 3-on-3 gameplay mode by adding real-time active partner-switching options. Newcomers include the dodgy medic-nin Kabuto Yakushi, Kisame Hoshigaki, the Sound Five (who would remain exclusive to this title) and the ultimate transformations of Naruto and Sasuke: One-Tailed Kyuubi Naruto and Second State Sasuke.
Gameplay
Naruto: Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 4 is the fourth instalment of the Gekitō Ninja Taisen series.
It covers the events from the Search for Tsunade arc to the Sasuke Recovery Mission. The game fleshes out the tag team mode from the last game, referred to as 3-man cell, which allows groups of characters to fight each other in turn. Most of it remains the same, only Gekitō Ninja Taisen! 4 enables certain combinations of team members having special attack combinations (done with forward+special). The 3-man cell mode also enables either 1 on 1, 2 on 2, 3 on 3, 3 on 1, 3 on 2 and 2 on 1, all in one tag mode. The Crisis Special system is also less apparent, as characters' health bars no longer glow or show any indication of some sort when Crisis mode is in play.
The Crisis Specials themselves are also remapped, and this is the first Gekitō Ninja Taisen/Clash of Ninja game to feature backward specials (back+special button) (Naruto Shippūden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 reuses this concept).
In the prequels of the series, the guard was infinite and couldn't be broken. Now in this game, there is a little bar with five dots near the health bar that represents the strength of the character's guard. As attacks are blocked, the dots will disappear and the guard colour will change from blue to yellow to red. If a player keeps blocking when their guard is red and all five dots are gone, the guard can shatter, leaving the player vulnerable and losing all of their chakra. The guard will immediately reset to full strength if it's broken; furthermore, if a character is not guarding, their guard meter will regain dots and strength over time.
Most noticeably, the game does away with the shop feature, and unlockables are now acquired by simply meeting certain criteria in the game's new Mission mode. Mission mode forces the player to fight increasingly stronger opponents under specific circumstances and with different methods of winning in order to complete each mission. It is the last Naruto game for the Gamecube.
Controls
- Main article: How to play
Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 4 utilizes a fairly simple control scheme. Characters can walk and run, jump, attack normally or with ninja weapons and perform special attacks. Unlike many fighting games, there are no complex button inputs to perform attacks. Most combos begin by pushing some combination of a direction and an attack button. However, combos can become somewhat complex when combining parts of basic combos together using a technique called "Y-Canceling" (these are sometimes referred to as "strings")
It's worth noting that this is one of the few Clash of Ninja titles that does not allow the player to use the Gamecube's D-pad to control their character. The community has found ways around this; however it typically employs the use of cheat codes or devices.
Characters
Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen! 4 has a total of 39 playable characters. These characters span across the entire duration of Part I of the Naruto series, from the very first episode to the Sasuke Retrieval Mission arc.
| • Naruto Uzumaki | • Hinata Hyuga | • Tsunade |
| • Sasuke Uchiha | • Akamaru | • Orochimaru |
| • Sakura Haruno | • Gaara | • Jirobo |
| • Kakashi Hatake | • Kankuro | • Kidomaru |
| • Neji Hyuga | • Temari | • Sakon & Ukon |
| • Lee | • Crow | • Tayuya |
| • Tenten | • Haku | • Kimimaro |
| • Might Guy | • Zabuza Momochi | • Kabuto Yakushi |
| • Shikamaru Nara | • Iruka Umino | • Itachi Uchiha |
| • Choji Akimichi | • Mizuki | • Kisame Hoshigaki |
| • Ino Yamanaka | • Anko Mitarashi | • Second State Sasuke |
| • Shino Aburame | • Third Hokage | • Ultimate Nine-Tailed Naruto |
| • Kiba Inuzuka | • Jiraiya | • Awakened Hinata |
Stages
This game contains a total of 31 stages.
| • Hidden Leaf Hot Springs | • Hidden Sand Village | • Deep Forest Emergence |
| • Tanzaku Castle | • Nine-Tailed Fox Room | • Three-Way Deadlock |
| • Amid Toads (Room 1) | • Academy Rooftop: Day | • Ichiraku Ramen: Night |
| • Hidden Leaf Main Gate: Day | • Leaf Academy Schoolyard: Sunset | • Forest of Death: Night |
| • Great Naruto Bridge: Clear | • Great Naruto Bridge: Mist | • Amid Toads (Room 2) |
| • Academy Rooftop: Stormy | • Ichiraku Ramen: Sunset | • Hidden Leaf Main Gate: Night |
| • Leaf Academy Schoolyard: Day | • Forest of Death: Morning | • Chunin Exam Qualifiers |
| • Chunin Exam Finals | • Chunin Exams Rooftop | • Hidden Leaf Hospital Rooftops |
| • Hidden Leaf Shrine | • Hidden Leaf Police Department | • Abandoned Uchiha District |
| • Orochimaru’s Lair | • Shambled Plains | • Snow Valley |
| • Final Valley |
Tier List
- Main article: List of GNT4 tier lists
Lemo's November 2021 tier list after the unbanning of OTK and Akamaru in the US
Unlock Conditions
| Mission Mode | Clear the first chapter in Story Mode. |
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| Ukon | Complete 5 missions. |
| Tayuya | Complete 10 missions. |
| Iruka | Complete 15 missions. |
| Mizuki | Complete 20 missions. |
| Akamaru | Complete 25 missions. |
| Kimimaro | Complete 30 missions. |
| Karasu | Complete 35 missions. |
| Haku | Complete 40 missions. |
| Zabuza | Complete 45 missions. |
| Anko | Complete 50 missions. |
| Itachi | Complete 55 missions. |
| Orochimaru | Complete 65 missions. |
| Tsunade | Complete 75 missions. |
| Third Hokage | Complete 85 missions. |
| Awakened Hinata | Complete 100 missions. |
| Sasuke CS2 | Complete 120 missions. |
| Kisame | Complete the S-Rank mission "Strongest Rival - Guy" without using continues. |
| Kabuto | Complete the S-Rank mission "Strongest Rival - Tsunade" without using continues. |
| OTK Naruto | Complete the S-Rank mission "Strongest Rival - Sasuke CS2" without using continues. |
| All handicaps unlocked | Have a save file from Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen! 3 on your GameCube Memory Card. |
Community Projects
List of current Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen! 4 modding projects
External Links
GNT4Clips Youtube Channel - A YouTube channel dedicated to compilations and short clips of high-level GNT4 gameplay.
The GNT4 subreddit - Contains discussion, links to gameplay videos and a wiki archiving Willvolution's GNT4 content.
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