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Naruto Shippūden: Dairansen! Kage Bunshin Emaki

Game

Dairansen! Kage Bunshin Emaki is a 2008 Nintendo DS action game released only in Japan. It puts players in control of Naruto through a top-down beat-em-up retelling of the Kazekage Rescue and Tenchi Bridge arcs.

Genre: Action
Platform: Nintendo DS
Developer: Takara Tomy
Publisher: Takara Tomy
Release Year: 2008
Japan Release Date: 2008-02-14
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Story

The game compresses the events from Gaara's abduction by the Akatsuki through the Tenchi Bridge Reconnaissance Mission and the reunion with Sasuke into a single top-down adventure, hitting the key beats fans of the anime would recognize from that stretch of Shippuden.
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Gameplay

Players guide Naruto through overhead action stages, clearing waves of enemy ninja with combo attacks and jutsu rather than the one-on-one arena duels typical of most Naruto fighters. Completing the story mode unlocks Nine-Tails Naruto and Sasuke as playable characters.
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Release

Takara Tomy developed and published the title exclusively for Japan (with a Korean release as well) in February 2008, and it never received a Western localization, leaving it one of the more obscure DS entries in the franchise.
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