I Played EVERY Naruto: Ninja Council Game In 2023

[@Niosai]

New Bespoke Post subscribers get 20% off their first box of awesome - go to bespokepost.com/niosai20 and enter code NIOSAI20 at checkout. Thanks to Bespoke Post for sponsoring! Did you play Ninja Council? If so, which game was your favorite? Also, how do you unlock Sasuke lmao

[@beardizz]

I got the visual mode on ninja council 1, playing naruto to boruto ultimate ninja storm connection on it was INSANE!! :)

[@Niosai]

Right????? Wild discovery, crazy what the GBA was capable of @@beardizz

[@beardizz]

@@Niosai it’s insane that nobody else used the power of the gba to do anything like it

[@nessdbest8708]

Yeah i grew up with 3 & 4 & while 3 wasn't great 4 sucked. Also 3D era is 1 of the most boring games ever. Should've been way more harsh on it.

[@EnzoDraws]

Oh, oh, sidenote: huge shoutout to the Ninja Council games from NC2 onwards for being the MAIN games that spriters used to rip sprites from to use in animations and fan games such as M.U.G.E.N. I remember downloading tons and tons of Naruto characters with my friends for modded MUGENs and going through every character discovering their techniques, and they all looked great because they were from these very games! (or custom sprites made out of these ones) You could even make their Jutsus clash -which would prompt a "mash X button to win"- just like in the Ultimate Ninja games, which 1) I didn't even know was possible in MUGEN and 2) blew my mind at the time

[@BaileyVVS]

Damnnn I remember doing that same thing years and years ago

[@MegamanElric16]

I grew up playing Ninja Council 2 as a kid, and I thought it was pretty fun.

[@gamerwolffang2722]

Rose tinted lenses, Ninja Council one looks fun tho

[@tommyg4842]

Same i dont care its simple fun

[@Omgtired]

Played it yesterday at 32 yo, it's absolutely trash level

[@jordancromwell]

Ninja Council 3 for me

[@docilelikewintercatfish]

I freaking love the 1st Ninja Council game. It's short, fast paced, amazing bosses and many hidden interactions witj them. Also the visuals and music were really good. Finished it more then 100 times already :)

[@Niosai]

It's an excellent little hidden gem!

[@PikaLink91]

40:00 I was pretty sure I unlocked Sasuke in my own copy, and a quick Google search told me something that you need to find him in every stage and locate his "4 hidden dens" in order to make him playable.

[@Niosai]

Might explain that time I randomly ran into him in an unrelated level lmao

[@xcutionunknown9634]

Epic man, you're a freakin legend for doing these game series reviews.

[@Niosai]

I appreciate you saying that :)

[@civilwarfare101]

It's amazing how Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure got this whole thing right in one go while this Naruto sub series took a while to get there.

[@EWOODJ]

What do you mean? OG Dragon Ball ended 15 years before Advanced Adventure released. Plus, Dragon Ball got its multi game series in the 80’s. Unless you’re talking about something else.

[@civilwarfare101]

@@EWOODJ "Ended 15 years ago before Advanced Adventure came out". That doesn't mean a game will be good right away either. I compared to it Advanced Adventure since they seem to be similar games to this.

[@EWOODJ]

​@@civilwarfare101That's what I meant by "unless you're talking about something else". You didn't really specify if you meant the story or the "quality".

[@civilwarfare101]

@@EWOODJ I really don't want to start an argument over this. Most of these Ninja Council game sound appealing on paper but sound like they aren't my thing.

[@PikaLink91]

Excited to see you tackle this series! And yeah the European release order especially is super confusing, with how Council 4 is 1 in Europe, Council 3 is 2, and Shippuden Council 5 is 3 (going by the original Japanese numbers).

[@Diriann_Dracke]

Playing Ninja Council 2 European after the previous game felt like such a downgrade with the poorer gameplay and terrible level design, i'll take a good mission-based game without a story over that crap everyday. Anyway this video was great, i really had no idea how many Naruto games we missed in Europe compared to America so learning about them all was very interesting, some of them seemed really fun too.

[@gracekim1998]

Eeee😅

[@PikaLink91]

@@Diriann_Dracke Indeed, and this was just the Ninja Council series. As his other videos have showcased there are loads of Japan exclusive videogames. In general we get cheated out of a shit ton of anime licensed games. I mean shows like Fullmetal Alchemist and Death Note did pretty well overseas as well, but none of the three DS Death Note games made it out of Japan, as well as a lot of Fullmetal games and a LOT of other franchises. Take a popular anime and I guarantee you it has a Japanese exclusive videogame.

[@Ziko577]

@@PikaLink91 That's very true. I've played many games that are Japan only and it's criminal we didn't get many of them. There's a lot of Dragon Ball games we missed out on and that's because they were on old systems that were past their time when we got the shows and/or simply skipped over.

[@suuslime3908]

I swore in the first Ninja Council game, if you collected all those yellow icons, you'd unlock Lee.

[@docilelikewintercatfish]

Wait really? You can unlock Lee after Kakashi??

[@suuslime3908]

@@docilelikewintercatfish Pretty sure, I remember playing the GBA game, collecting all the symbols and seeing rock lee be unlocked.

[@EWOODJ]

Um…

[@docilelikewintercatfish]

@@suuslime3908 I'm pretty sure you're talking about the 2nd Ninja Council game where you unlock Rock Lee. I searched but couldn't find a single video related to unlocking Rock Lee on the 1st Ninja Council game on GBA

[@dj_borg]

It's 2 where you play as Lee, not 1

[@gentletal5101]

I had ninja council 3. Fucking loved using amaterasu, chidori, rasengan and 64 palms

[@kevinkite3418]

Excellent review!! I really love the Ninja Council series and played a lot as a kid!! I think it would be awesome if they release a collection for modern platforms with the whole series. Just a minor correction at 5:15, the GBA is actually a 32-bit system and that makes the music in Ninja Council 1 sounds even more strange considering what was possible with the GBA.

[@Niosai]

You're right, I guess "16-bit style" would've been more accurate 😅

[@SuperRaedizzle]

The fact it’s literally called “party mode” is everything

[@thedredayshow9246]

Our boy is BACK!

[@EnzoDraws]

So happy you finally covered these! It brings me so many good memories

[@Triforce9426]

I remember watching a lot of Naruto flash animations back in the day that used the sprites from these games.

[@PikaLink91]

Did you notice in fx Ninja Counsil 2 European Version that it takes a while for the main menu theme to kick in because the title call has been cut but the music hasn’t been “moved” to compensate for the dead air. So it’s just awkward silence for 4-5 seconds.

[@CatMonette]

You're actually missing one of the Ninja Council games in this video. Shinobi Rumble came out shortly after Naruto Vs. Sasuke and is a direct continuation and the last game on the DS before the 3DS game.

[@infernaldisdain8051]

He talks about that in the end.

[@PURPLE_G0J0]

Finally someone talks about Ninja Council!!! I grew up on these and I hate that they don’t get talked about at all until now

[@Waflez72]

Every time I see one of these videos in my feed I know I’m in for a great time. I played all of these growing up. Sadly I only have the first one still as far as the English releases go. I bought a copy of SND4 on eBay years ago once I realized NC3 took out the Sasuke retrieval characters

[@Niosai]

I appreciate you saying that :) The release structure for older Naruto games makes it kinda hard to collect them 😅

[@Waflez72]

That’s for sure 😅😂 it’s the sole reason I got into collecting Japanese Naruto games haha. Really appreciate your videos making the release timeline more clear and it’s always a nice nostalgia trip :)

[@bandboyrecords]

Would LOVE to see a "Path Of Ninja" video next or sometime in the future!

[@Niosai]

If it's a Naruto game, you can bet it'll be covered here eventually :)

[@CrossOutBryce]

5:39 made me laugh so damn hard 😂

[@swordlunge]

The first Ninja Council was my first contact with the Naruto universe. I remember playing the japanese version as a Rom image in a GBA emulator as soon as it was released. I could only speculate what the anime was about, but this curiosity led me to watch the anime proper.

[@Niosai]

I had a similar experience with Clash of Ninja! :)

[@empty_melodies]

These games seem super charming Edit: your fake out ending got me lol

[@JarlBarbossa]

Naruto vs Sasuke is a certified hidden gem

[@icezantthatoneguy6042]

24:49 you just unlocked a core memory for me. I hated this mission as a kid.

[@Niosai]

Glad I wasn't alone lmao

[@emilydonegan3208]

Yoooo, wake up everyone, new Niosai just dropped! These are some of my favorite videos! 😊

[@Niosai]

I appreciate that :)

[@IjalCaskey]

Finally you made it after 3months, only 4 series left (Uzumaki Chronicles ,360 Exclusive, 2 another shippuden game on psp) keep it up

[@Detective_L]

Video starts at 2:32

[@selfloathingweekly]

How many people remember searching Naruto chars for MUGEN and downloading Ninja Council sprite rips??

[@bradleythebroom]

I still get nightmares about that d-rank "defeat 10 bats" mission...

[@Niosai]

It's the main thing I remember from that game. Take that how you will. 😂

[@NinoBrown212]

Ninja council??? Ive never even heard of this

[@Niosai]

It's been requested a ton!

[@docilelikewintercatfish]

It wasn't a flagship series so It didn't get much popular

[@emilydonegan3208]

The only one of these that I actually played as a kid is American NC3, and I hated it lol; It’s so nice to be able to see such a comprehensive analysis across the series of games like these!

[@RasenRendanX]

Ah ninja council... Good freaking times. Ninja council 2 was my first. I had no idea how to play the game but i somehow beat it

[@lordvaust5830]

I played the first four games. 1 and 4 were my favorites though. 1 was simple and fun, I liked how you could unlock Kakashi and each character’s fourth Jutsu. Four felt like a big upgrade of the first game. Ninja council 2 was the one I played the least. Three was cool, but the mission structure made it hard to replay.

[@masterdj6077]

Omg I couldnt remember the name of this series of games for so long

[@SerenitySpiderMonkey]

The bosses were the only thing I liked about NC2. The first is still my favorite followed by NC3. Tbh I never knew these others existed

[@MrByo97]

I actuality own two of these. I'll have to try out NC4. I've owned Naruto v Sasuke for ages, but never finished it. Guess I gotta head back to it. Awesome video as always.

[@Niosai]

Ayyy! Which ones do you specifically own?

[@MrByo97]

@@Niosai Naruto v Sasuke & A New Era

[@Niosai]

Good ones to own, nice stuff @@MrByo97

[@mar1hunnit]

I like that you covered the Japanese version of Ninja Council 3 as well. Always wondered as a kid why I would see Kyuubi Naruto sprite battles but not his sprite in Ninja Council 3. Made me mad too because I had all (4 at the time) the US ninja council games lol good times

[@hyper_ninja3339]

Fuck yeah, more Naruto content! Next up on the agenda should be Path of the Ninja hopefully, which I have such fond memories of. Also, I was gonna bring up the Shinobi Rumble thing... good thing I waited until the end, huh?

[@Niosai]

I'll get to them soon :) And thank you for waiting until the end 😅

[@duck___e]

i totally recommend you play the ubisoft naruto games on xbox 360. they are some of the most unique and immersive naruto gaming experiences out there. too bad ubisoft only made two that never got a rerelease on modern consoles.

[@KGA129]

Thanks man your videos always makes my mood happy and good 👍

[@Itsuchi2]

Lol I thought everyone did this but apparently not. In Ninja Council 1 you’re invincible while charging chakra for a special move and if you keep the button mashed you won’t lose any chakra. So it’s just free invincibility frames. I had a hard time with Orochimaru. So when he used his snake summoning, I just press and held B and the snake passes right through me. Then continue fight as normal 😂😂😂

[@k474]

But what happen with "Shinobi Rumble" in the DS? That's a Ninja Council title too

[@Niosai]

I actually directly addressed this question at the end of the video :)

[@k474]

@@Niosai Oh, i see. Sorry lol

[@WorldOfGamingShepke]

Thank you for covering ninja council series as well. I am excited for upcoming Path of the Ninja video and even more for stand alone Naruto games video(s) because i want to hear your opinion of the games as Konoha Ninpouchou and Naruto: Shinobi no Sato no Jintori Kassen. Thank you once more and keep up with awesome work

[@faheemmuhaimin5446]

Love your videos.well I like Naruto ninja council 1(GBA) & 3 (ds) & Naruto vs Sasuke ds game.

[@muhammadhadif6034]

Did you ever played/reviewed the other Naruto psp games (Kizuna Drive, Akatsuki Rising) ? Would love to know what you think of those games !

[@rickdickson8520]

5:16 just so you know the gba is actually 32 bits

[@czarb201]

The Japanese ninja council 2 game isn’t as zoomed in and has an extra cutscene at the end

[@2anfrån018]

Damn, thank you for reviving some childhood memories❤️

[@sjmhadsock4586]

I remember playing this back in the day

[@Niosai]

Did you enjoy it?

[@sjmhadsock4586]

@@Niosai for a gba game yeah

[@47d75]

I'm glad you liked Ninja Council 4, that's my favorite game the Council series, despite people always ranking it as one of the worst Naruto games for some reasons. Ninja Council 4 was really nostalgic for me. It came out around the time that the Naruto Dub got cancelled on Cartoon Network, and I was afraid that Naruto was dead in the West and that we were never going to get Shippuden content in America. Then out of nowhere, Ultimate Ninja 4 and Ninja Council 4 came out in early 2009, two Shippuden games despite not having an Anime on TV anymore. I replayed those two games several times that year, and then the Shippuden Anime finally did appear on TV, on Disney XD in October of 2009, although by that point I discovered the uncensored DVD sets.

[@GaryJojo]

I remember having very fond memories of the ninja council games but I don't remember the 2nd being that big of a downgrade from the first. Though admittedly I spent most of my time spamming special moves instead of doing much else. But that Gaara demon arm level is definitely a highlight still for me.

[@MrPerromx]

Just earned yourself a subscriber 👌 keep up the good content and please more naruto 🙏

[@Niosai]

Thank you! More Naruto is definitely coming :)

[@PikaLink91]

I loved the mission structure and gameplay of Shippuden Council 3 European Edition. The only thing that bugs me is that that version uses Japanese voice clips, where the American version uses the English dub which I much prefer. Also for some reason the numbers are different in both versions. In Europe they are roman numerals, while in America they are regular numbers. Why this change? Also the American version replaces "Stage 1" with "Prologue" and replaces "Stage 10" with "Final Chapter". Again, why?

[@Styxiami]

Naruto vs Sasuke (I’m gonna call it Ninja Council 5(6 in Japan)) is definitely the best one of the series. The graphics is a bit jarring in my opinion compared to the last entry because of how the playable characters are scaled compared to the enemies but it’s seriously fun.

[@Niosai]

I'm glad someone agrees! It's such a huge improvement over the previous games, but even by itself it's genuinely fun

[@LivingGuy484]

Requests: I played every Kingdom Hearts Game (I'm sorry) vs I played every Zelda game

[@Niosai]

There's an insane multi-hour Kingdom Hearts video I've been working on for almost a year now. It's got a lot of work left, but it's gonna be wild and the biggest video I've ever done with some special stuff I've never done before. Stay tuned on that. :)

[@LivingGuy484]

@@Niosai Ohhhh that's awesome! I'm super hyped 👍

[@Mugen_Reborn]

Nice vid but you missed one game - Naruto Shippūden: Shinobi Rumble. I remember it was a sucessor to the ninja concil games while the 3D game is not but I might be wrong.

[@Niosai]

I actually mentioned Shinobi Rumble directly at the end and why I didn't cover it :) Basically, it's not really a Ninja Council game but I still plan on covering it in a different video :)

[@C.A.R.T]

Only ever played 1 and 2 with 1 being my favorite

[@Niosai]

The last couple of entries are definitely worth a try!

[@Sonic171K]

I never really gave this series a chance. Even when I still have a cartridge of the third game. 😂

[@meritumkratosx]

4:14 Understood the reference

[@Niosai]

It tickled me a bit how that worked haha

[@thatguy00271]

the nostalgia, GOATED games on the gba

[@lorenzocanto1612]

Awesome guy keep working hard ❤

[@ThunderDragonRandy]

The only Ninja Council games I played were 1 and 4 (3 in US)

[@Niosai]

If you're ever interested, definitely give Naruto vs Sasuke a try!

[@ThunderDragonRandy]

@@Niosai I'd be interested

[@goncalvezgoncalvez5834]

You should do Ratchet and Clank games next!!!

[@DJBV]

Gba is technically a 32 bit console

[@Niosai]

True!

[@mancowbear]

Great in depth video. Have you played the One Piece Gigant Battle/Super Grand Battle X games?

[@Niosai]

I'm still trying to catch up on the manga before I play the games 😅

[@Norrabal]

Consider checking out path of ninja 1 and 2, i remember liking those

[@Niosai]

Definitely gonna tackle those soon :)

[@AkiDave]

Naruto games are your One Piece lmao. Great video man 💙

[@MrswissrollUzumakiBelieveIt]

oh god here we go

[@Niosai]

😂

[@mrmajikjr]

The Gameboy Advance is not a "16 bit console", it has a 32 bit CPU...

[@yungguh5341]

Ninja Council European edition is called Ninja Council 3 in America which is confusing, good video tho

[@luisrosado7050]

5:50 huh..?! what a random joke

[@Niosai]

I'm taking that as a compliment lmao

[@docilelikewintercatfish]

Hey man. I'm pretty sure you made a video about all the disconnected Naruto games like Path of Ninja & others. Did you delete that?

[@Niosai]

No, not yet! I plan on covering those eventually, though!

[@docilelikewintercatfish]

@@Niosai wait, I'm confused now, I also remember you praised the writing & dialogue of 1st path of ninja game. You said something like, the dialogue had a lot of references to the manga & anime & you recommend it just for the writing. For the 2nd game, you praised it for more character & leaf village but also was a little disappointed that the original story wasn't very good. I randomly started to rewatch some of your videos again & I thought about rewatching that video too. I remember all of your Naruto videos & left some comments for some of the videos. Did I just forgot that I watched it from another creator? Maybe I have gotten crazy 😭

[@Niosai]

@@docilelikewintercatfish That may have been someone else 😅 I haven't even played Path of the Ninja yet

[@docilelikewintercatfish]

@@Niosai I mixed up your video with someone else. Sorry for that 🤣🤣

[@Needwagon4Speedwagon]

I need a One piece Pirate Warriors video from you

[@Niosai]

I'm working on getting through the manga so I can tackle all the One Piece games :D

[@Needwagon4Speedwagon]

@@Niosai oh hell yeah

[@corneliusblake-star4898]

5:41 stop the cap 🧢😂

[@ntk746]

Another banger released

[@gameraxle]

i wonder if you could use pokemon spinoffs to reach out to more types of video topics and viewers 🤔

[@Niosai]

I have plans for Pokemon videos :)

[@TaoumoAlistifada]

Try zatchbel serie in the next video

[@smartinezai]

Wow thanks for this video! Can't wait for a dynasty warriors one

[@remytt4]

The torture to do these...!

[@Doner007]

Anyone knows how to unlock last character in free mode in Naruto vs Sasuke? Im not into this mode but i want to max out everything in story and considering that all characters to free mode can be unlocked in story mode i assume that i had to miss something. I unlocked Kakashi, Jiraya and Sasuke, dont know who's last

[@Doner007]

nevermind, i had to beat every boss in a row to unlock 4 tail naruto

[@Wol1427]

You going to play every Naruto Path of the Ninja game? Or every Naruto Uzumaki Chronicles game? 😆😆😆😆

[@Niosai]

If it's a Naruto game, it will eventually be on this channel :)

[@LeoJMathews]

Maybe I’m just tripping. But I loved Ninja Council 2; I feel like I’m the only one. i started with it, so maybe I’m just biased🤷🏻‍♂️idk. I loved the game

[@kaylanchestnut945]

Are you going to play path of the ninja?

[@Niosai]

I'm planning a whole video for it in the future :)

[@cearlach32]

are we able to nominate series because the medabot/medarot series so needs some love and is relatively good although only the first game and the ps1 medarot r have been translated otherwise the gamecube, and 2 of the gba games were releasedoutside of Japan so they are in English

[@Niosai]

I love recommendations! I haven't thought about Medabots in a long time haha definitely adding that to the list

[@cearlach32]

@Niosai when you get to it you should probably mention the craziness of the license of the medabots name I would recomend Gym leader Ed's video on it also avoid the mobile game that's not medarot its a part of the craziness in short someone bought the name when the license ran out and refuses to give it back and made a nft crypto mobile game its why we haven't gotten another anything to do with the series after the 2000's

[@redbeardkingdom6890]

I used to play the hell out of the 1st one

[@Niosai]

None of the sequels?

[@redbeardkingdom6890]

@Niosai I did (4 I think, the arena one) but mostly the 1st one

[@EclipseHatesAllNonYBAGames]

How do you say the name of your channel

[@Niosai]

"neo-sigh" :)

[@gracekim1998]

Ninja ❤

[@manjusiyag1090]

yes the moves dont work in 2

[@GbrielB]

ninja era is a ninja council game? lol this new era is a -100/100 game damn

[@Niosai]

You weren't a fan of 3D?

[@GbrielB]

@@Niosai It's not even because of the 3D, it's because the game is very poor in animations and everything else, it looks like it was made in a few months and released to sell XD

[@gamerwolffang2722]

16:43 OH NO SPOILERS!!!

[@Niosai]

It's okay, we won't fully learn about that until we get the prequel show about Boruto's dad!

[@gamerwolffang2722]

@@Niosai you mean Shikamaru isn't Boruto's real dad?!

[@Niosai]

Sorry, I'm not sure, I didn't watch Shikamaru Shippuden 😬 @@gamerwolffang2722

[@gamerwolffang2722]

@@Niosai nah you trippin it's Sakura Shippuden the ways of dem hands 🙌

[@Not_cee]

1 is the best

[@MegaDeox]

Seems like a very "meh" series. Not gonna try any of these, but thanks for your hard work anyway!

[@sleepingarchangel.6939]

All he did was hate here lowkey

[@manjusiyag1090]

what about shinobi strikers bro

[@beardizz]

I played the first one, not fun

[@juarezamorim]

all the council games are great, you just suffer from a high skill issue.

[@Niosai]

If it's a skill issue making some of the games feel that way, I don't think I'd ever want to become good 😂

[@juarezamorim]

@@Niosai jokes aside, I agree that the music is pretty painful sometimes.

[@ChaoticBlossoms]

SAKURA MY QUEEN