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Naruto Shippūden: Kizuna Drive

Game

Kizuna Drive is a 2010 PSP action brawler built around an original, non-canon story rather than the anime timeline. Its main draw is four-player local co-op missions that push the Naruto cast through repeated waves of enemies.

Genre: Action
Platform: PlayStation Portable
Developer: Premium Agency
Publisher: Namco Bandai Games
Release Year: 2010
Japan Release Date: 2010-07-15
North America Release Date: 2011-03-22
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Story

Kizuna Drive tells its own self-contained tale outside the manga and anime continuity, giving the game freedom to throw its cast into original scenarios built around cooperative combat rather than retelling a specific arc.
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Gameplay

Up to four players team up locally to clear missions structured around defeating set numbers of enemies before moving to the next zone, with a combat system faster than genre peers like Monster Hunter clones but an AI partner that struggles when playing solo.
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Reception

Reception ran mixed to negative. Reviewers repeatedly flagged the mission structure as repetitive and criticized the computer-controlled partner's intelligence, though the four-player co-op earned some praise for pure pace when a full human squad was available.
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