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Naruto: Ninja Destiny

Players can now take their ninja battles on the road with NARUTO: Ninja Destiny, the first 3D head-to-head NARUTO fighter for the Nintendo DS. Any aspiring ninja can unleash powerful jutsu and take advantage…

55 14 December 2006

Naruto: Ninja Destiny is a fighting developed by Dream Factory, released 14 December 2006 on Nintendo DS.

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What Naruto: Ninja Destiny is

Naruto: Ninja Destiny is a fighting game developed by Dream Factory and released in 2006. It was published by D3Publisher. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Players can now take their ninja battles on the road with NARUTO: Ninja Destiny, the first 3D head-to-head NARUTO fighter for the Nintendo DS. Any aspiring ninja can unleash powerful jutsu and take advantage of items to brawl his way to victory against 16 different characters. Dual-screen combat will allow fierce battles to unfold on the top screen while power ups can be strategically unleashed on the touch screen for fast, frenetic action. Core fighting game fans and casual gamers alike will find plenty to enjoy, thanks to a combo move system that is both intuitive to pick-up and challenging to master. Featuring scenes, characters, and storylines from up to the 140th episode of the hit…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Naruto series

Naruto: Ninja Destiny is the 26th of 86 entries we hold in the Naruto series. The next entry was Naruto Shippuden: Gekitou Ninja Taisen! EX in 2007. Its critic score of 55 is 12 points below the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Legacy at 85.

See all 86 Naruto games in release order →

How it was received

Naruto: Ninja Destiny holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 16% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 10 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Naruto: Ninja Destiny launched on 14 December 2006, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 and WarioWare: Smooth Moves. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II - The Rise of the Witch-king, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946, WarioWare: Smooth Moves.

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When did Naruto: Ninja Destiny come out?
Naruto: Ninja Destiny was released on 14 December 2006 for Nintendo DS.

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