Bleach vs Naruto 2.4 – Made Me Feel Guilt

<p>The world is filled with weird flash games&period; Some of them are great and original&comma; while others just feel like lazy cash-ins&period; There are also those that are surprisingly fun&comma; even if they do not seem like it from the get go&period; Which of these categories does the 2D fighter <em><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;poki&period;com&sol;en&sol;g&sol;bleach-vs-naruto-2-4" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">Bleach vs Naruto 2&period;4<&sol;a><&sol;em> fall into&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I am greeted by a fairly standard title screen that features an image of Naruto and Ichigo doing battle with a range of options showing up in between them&period; As I have not watched neither Naruto nor Bleach for a very long time&comma; I instantly start wondering if the shows have evolved at all&comma; or if it is still your standard action anime&period; I then take a look at what modes the game offers&period; The first one is called &&num;8220&semi;Nornal&&num;8221&semi;&period; This is either supposed to be Normal or the developers have managed to create a completely new mode unheard of in any other fighting game&period; This is followed by Vs Computer&comma; Vs Human&comma; Training&comma; Config&comma; Information and More Games options&period; I decide to choose this &&num;8220&semi;Normal&&num;8221&semi; mystery mode which I presume is the standard mode&comma; it is the first option on the list after all&period; An instruction screen then shows me how to play the game and it seems fairly simple to me&period; W&comma; A&comma; S&comma; D moves my character while J&comma; K&comma; L&comma; U&comma; I and finally O are used to perform various moves from my chosen fighters repertoire&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;92961" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-92961" style&equals;"width&colon; 784px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;10&sol;04125719&sol;BleachVSNaruto&lowbar;2&period;4&lowbar;BagogGames&lowbar;4&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-92961 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;10&sol;04125719&sol;BleachVSNaruto&lowbar;2&period;4&lowbar;BagogGames&lowbar;4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"BleachVSNaruto&lowbar;2&period;4&lowbar;BagogGames&lowbar;4" width&equals;"784" height&equals;"508" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-92961" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Nornal&&num;8230&semi; Really&quest;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>After giving me a basic understanding of the controls&comma; the game shows me the character selection screen&period; Here 37 characters from each respective show are featured&period; I realize that I do not know who most of the Bleach characters are as I only watched season one of it&period; I am pleased to see that Himura Kenshin&comma; from Ruroni Kenshin&comma; is available as a guest star however&period; Since it is one of my favorite anime of all time&comma; he easily becomes my first pick&period; I then have to select a support character of sorts and I am very pleased to see that Shishio is available from the very same show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When the first battle starts I notice that the 2D sprites looks pretty good&period; They are mostly well animated and most of the different attack moves look cool&period; I realized that the player can move about pretty freely around the stage to try to outmaneuver the opponent&period; The thought &&num;8220&semi;are these sprites borrowed from other games&quest;&&num;8221&semi; did occur to me more than once however&period; This due to the stage backgrounds varying in quality&comma; with many feeling misplaced in contrast to the characters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;92964" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-92964" style&equals;"width&colon; 781px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;10&sol;04125707&sol;BleachVSNaruto&lowbar;2&period;4&lowbar;BagogGames&lowbar;2&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-92964 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;10&sol;04125707&sol;BleachVSNaruto&lowbar;2&period;4&lowbar;BagogGames&lowbar;2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"BleachVSNaruto&lowbar;2&period;4&lowbar;BagogGames&lowbar;2" width&equals;"781" height&equals;"520" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-92964" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">A battle on a bridge can be epic&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>After getting used to the control scheme&comma; I beat a series of opponents in easy fashion until I had lost count on how many battles I had fought&period; Suddenly a screen popped up congratulating me for beating all my enemies and told me to try a higher difficulty level&period;  The notification was poorly translated too&period; I decided to obey the game and try out some other characters at the same time&period; While doing this I came up with the following answer to the question that I asked at the beginning of this article&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Bleach vs Naruto 2&period;4<&sol;em> manages to feel like a lazy cash-in on two of the biggest anime franchises in the world&period; While the characters and controls are decent&comma; the rest of the game does not give me any incentive to go back to it at all&period; The gameplay feels repetitive after a while&comma; the music is terrible and it is very hard to try to talk a friend into playing the game with me&comma; which really is the best way to enjoy an old-style 2D fighting game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The only thing that <em>Bleach vs Naruto<&sol;em> did for me was make me feel guilty for not keeping up with the anime shows for several years and for spending 60 minutes of my time with the game&period; It does however offer a quick way to have showdowns between characters from both shows&comma; which might be enough to satisfy the hardcore fans of Bleach and Naruto&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><em>This article contains sponsored links&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;