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Naruto Shippūden: Legends: Akatsuki Rising

Game

Legends: Akatsuki Rising is a 2009 PSP action-adventure game developed by Racjin. It reworks the story already told in Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja 4 for a handheld audience and never saw release in Japan.

Genre: Action-Adventure
Platform: PlayStation Portable
Developer: Racjin
Publisher: Namco Bandai Games
Release Year: 2009
North America Release Date: 2009-10-06
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Story

The game retreads the same narrative beats covered in Ultimate Ninja 4 on PlayStation 2, following Naruto and allies against the Akatsuki, condensed and adapted for the PSP hardware rather than offering new plot material.
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Gameplay

Players move through linear action stages using jutsu and melee attacks against waves of enemies and bosses, continuing the Uzumaki Chronicles line of adventure games as it moved from home console to handheld.
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Reception

Critics were unimpressed: IGN gave it 5.0 out of 10 and called it mediocre at best, GameSpot scored it 5.5, and Den of Geek awarded 2 out of 5 stars, citing small and often empty levels. Metacritic aggregated the reviews to roughly 60.
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