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- Israel
Probably since he is one of the very few popular and strong ninjas who aren't part of a clan (even Sarutobi is technically a clan, and even Kakashi has an (artificial) eye power)
Game of the Year: A Naruto Quest
- Thread starter Vesvius
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That he is thought I'm hesitant to play as any of Canon characters. Our guy is by all accounts average Joe it's doubtful even the game can justify that unleas it decides to throw the paper thin 85% excuse out of the window since no one's buying it.
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I've rather be a Shimura, call Danzo Uncle or something. It'd be really nice.
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- latvia
Eh it will be novel that's for sure we might even see his less zealous side.
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
I just don't want to be a Haruno or an Uchiha.
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- latvia
I agree on Uchiha.
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- va
[X] Shukufuku, a humble village with no Shinobi presence, located north of the Land of Fire.
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- latvia
Eh you guys are too late vote closed.
2. Choose Your Character!
Vesvius
The Wicked God
For long moments you stand frozen, staring at the map in front of you. Your eyes dart from location to location as you try to decide which one to press. Some are easy to eliminate- what's even in Suna anyway? And Iwa… from what you remember of the manga, Iwa existed mostly to get killed and be led by a tiny old man. You think you can give that a pass for now.
Kiri is more interesting. You stare at the icon for the Village Hidden in the Mist for quite some time. There's just something so quentisentially awesome about throwing around a sword twice the size of the person holding it that just the thought makes you pause. But some faint memories involving the Graduation Exam tickle the back of your mind. You don't remember exactly what it was about the Kiri Exam that's making the hair on the back of your neck rise up, but you'll listen to that instinct. You're going to avoid Kiri for now.
You spend just as much time contemplating Kumogakure. Learning how to throw around lightning! More swording! Hanging out with Killer B- or at least, trying to hang out with Killer B! What's not to love? You don't know- and that's the problem. You have almost no knowledge of Kumo, and that's a problem. You'll skip it.
That leaves you with two options: Konohagakure, the Village Hidden in the Leaves, or Shukufuku, a small village north of Fire Country with no known Shinobi presence. That last part sounds kind of wonderful. Despite what the universe is saying to you about how similar the Naruto world and your old world are, the fact that people can spit acid and crap thunder is… concerning.
Yeah. That sounds good. You could head to Shukufuku and start off in a place so minor it never appeared in the anime or manga. You'll learn this world from the ground up and play it safe. If you're lucky, you'll make it to whatever passes as a ripe old age here without ever seeing a ninja. You'll be a normal person and…
Your eyes slip off of the icon for Shukufuku and look up, straight at the inky blackness that still surrounds you. It wasn't long ago that your life's score was passing through that dark space. A score that was headed by your rank: pointless.
You don't want to be pointless again.
And in Konoha, you'd at least have a chance to not be pointless. Say what you will about characters in Naruto that came from Konoha: they were memorable. They had a reason to exist, even if it was just for a one note joke. They each had big moments.
Your finger jams down on the Konohagakure icon before you can give it another moment's thought.
YOU HAVE SELECTED KONHAGAKURE: THE VILLAGE HIDDEN IN THE LEAVES. PLEASE SELECT IT AGAIN TO CONFIRM-
Again, your finger presses down. And just like that, you're no long surrounded by emptiness. There is no flash of light. There's no transition at all. One second, you're in the middle of a void. The next you're above a bustling village. Sounds, sights, and smells assault you at once, sending you reeling with your eyes watering.
Once you're able to clear the tears from your eyes, the first thing you see is the enormous mountain in front of you, with four faces carved into the front of it. Hokage Rock. And with that sight die the last thoughts you had that this might be a joke.
WELCOME TO KONOHAGAKURE, THE VILLAGE HIDDEN IN THE LEAVES. THE FIRST OF THE GREAT SHINOBI VILLAGES, KONOHAGAKURE HAS RECENTLY PROVEN IT'S STRENGTH ONCE MORE IN THE THIRD GREAT SHINOBI WAR. THOUGH IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE WAR, THE THIRD HOKAGE STEPPED DOWN, HIS REPLACEMENT HAS PROVEN TO BE A BURGEONING LEGEND IN HIS OWN RIGHT. BUT DANGER EVER LURKS ON THE HORIZON…
The text continues to scroll in front of your eyes, listing notable facts about what looks like present day Konoha. Under the scrawl is a red button, marked continue. On either side of the scroll is an arrow.
Out of curiousity, you reach out and press one of the arrows.
WELCOME TO KONOHAGAKURE, THE VILLAGE HIDDEN IN THE LEAVES. THE FIRST OF THE GREAT SHINOBI VILLAGES, KONOHAGAKURE STANDS ON THE PRECIPICE OF WAR. TENSION WITH THE POWERFUL IWAGAKURE IS COMING TO A HEAD. CHILDREN OF YOUNGER AND YOUNGER AGES ARE BEING CONSCRIPTED INTO THE SHINOBI FORCES AS THE THIRD HOKAGE DOES EVERYTHING HE CAN TO STRENGTHEN THE VILLAGE BEFORE WAR BREAKS OUT…
The village around you looks the same but the text is definitely different. It's describing events from before the series proper actually started. Is this some kind of time selector? Can you pick when you start to exist?
Before you get excited, your eyes drop to the continue button. It's still there but unlike the last one, it's grey. Your heart sinks. Something being greyed out is never a good sign in any game.
You press it anyway.
THIS OPTION IS LOCKED! IT CAN BE UNLOCKED BY GAINING THE ACHIEVEMENT "Student of the Past".
Well. That's inconvenient.
You press another arrow. Another text scroll comes up, and the village below you starts to look a lot less put together and a lot more like an actual village. Again, the continue button is greyed out. Another arrow press, more of the same. It looks like the only continue button you can actually hit is the first one.
With nothing else to do, you press it. The village around you seems to lose resolution and gets fuzzy, as if you're suddenly looking at it with much worse eyes. Directly between you and Hokage Rock the air shimmers. Four silhouettes warp and twist into being. Below each of them is a small placard.
CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER.
"Um, what?" you ask. "I thought I was just going to, you know, be me. Or at least be someone on the show!"
The universe is unhelpfully silent. You're starting to get the feeling that that's going to be the norm.
Well. You should probably do what you're being told to.
CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER.
[] The Scion. You were born to a family of wealth and privilege, growing up wanting for nothing.
[] The Street Rat. You grew up on the streets, using your wits and cunning to eke out an existence.
[] Son of the Shops. You come from a long line of peddlers, and have been haggling with anyone and everyone since the moment you learned to talk.
[] New In Town. You're not from around here. Your family is a new arrival in Konoha, and it definitely shows.
Kiri is more interesting. You stare at the icon for the Village Hidden in the Mist for quite some time. There's just something so quentisentially awesome about throwing around a sword twice the size of the person holding it that just the thought makes you pause. But some faint memories involving the Graduation Exam tickle the back of your mind. You don't remember exactly what it was about the Kiri Exam that's making the hair on the back of your neck rise up, but you'll listen to that instinct. You're going to avoid Kiri for now.
You spend just as much time contemplating Kumogakure. Learning how to throw around lightning! More swording! Hanging out with Killer B- or at least, trying to hang out with Killer B! What's not to love? You don't know- and that's the problem. You have almost no knowledge of Kumo, and that's a problem. You'll skip it.
That leaves you with two options: Konohagakure, the Village Hidden in the Leaves, or Shukufuku, a small village north of Fire Country with no known Shinobi presence. That last part sounds kind of wonderful. Despite what the universe is saying to you about how similar the Naruto world and your old world are, the fact that people can spit acid and crap thunder is… concerning.
Yeah. That sounds good. You could head to Shukufuku and start off in a place so minor it never appeared in the anime or manga. You'll learn this world from the ground up and play it safe. If you're lucky, you'll make it to whatever passes as a ripe old age here without ever seeing a ninja. You'll be a normal person and…
Your eyes slip off of the icon for Shukufuku and look up, straight at the inky blackness that still surrounds you. It wasn't long ago that your life's score was passing through that dark space. A score that was headed by your rank: pointless.
You don't want to be pointless again.
And in Konoha, you'd at least have a chance to not be pointless. Say what you will about characters in Naruto that came from Konoha: they were memorable. They had a reason to exist, even if it was just for a one note joke. They each had big moments.
Your finger jams down on the Konohagakure icon before you can give it another moment's thought.
YOU HAVE SELECTED KONHAGAKURE: THE VILLAGE HIDDEN IN THE LEAVES. PLEASE SELECT IT AGAIN TO CONFIRM-
Again, your finger presses down. And just like that, you're no long surrounded by emptiness. There is no flash of light. There's no transition at all. One second, you're in the middle of a void. The next you're above a bustling village. Sounds, sights, and smells assault you at once, sending you reeling with your eyes watering.
Once you're able to clear the tears from your eyes, the first thing you see is the enormous mountain in front of you, with four faces carved into the front of it. Hokage Rock. And with that sight die the last thoughts you had that this might be a joke.
WELCOME TO KONOHAGAKURE, THE VILLAGE HIDDEN IN THE LEAVES. THE FIRST OF THE GREAT SHINOBI VILLAGES, KONOHAGAKURE HAS RECENTLY PROVEN IT'S STRENGTH ONCE MORE IN THE THIRD GREAT SHINOBI WAR. THOUGH IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE WAR, THE THIRD HOKAGE STEPPED DOWN, HIS REPLACEMENT HAS PROVEN TO BE A BURGEONING LEGEND IN HIS OWN RIGHT. BUT DANGER EVER LURKS ON THE HORIZON…
The text continues to scroll in front of your eyes, listing notable facts about what looks like present day Konoha. Under the scrawl is a red button, marked continue. On either side of the scroll is an arrow.
Out of curiousity, you reach out and press one of the arrows.
WELCOME TO KONOHAGAKURE, THE VILLAGE HIDDEN IN THE LEAVES. THE FIRST OF THE GREAT SHINOBI VILLAGES, KONOHAGAKURE STANDS ON THE PRECIPICE OF WAR. TENSION WITH THE POWERFUL IWAGAKURE IS COMING TO A HEAD. CHILDREN OF YOUNGER AND YOUNGER AGES ARE BEING CONSCRIPTED INTO THE SHINOBI FORCES AS THE THIRD HOKAGE DOES EVERYTHING HE CAN TO STRENGTHEN THE VILLAGE BEFORE WAR BREAKS OUT…
The village around you looks the same but the text is definitely different. It's describing events from before the series proper actually started. Is this some kind of time selector? Can you pick when you start to exist?
Before you get excited, your eyes drop to the continue button. It's still there but unlike the last one, it's grey. Your heart sinks. Something being greyed out is never a good sign in any game.
You press it anyway.
THIS OPTION IS LOCKED! IT CAN BE UNLOCKED BY GAINING THE ACHIEVEMENT "Student of the Past".
Well. That's inconvenient.
You press another arrow. Another text scroll comes up, and the village below you starts to look a lot less put together and a lot more like an actual village. Again, the continue button is greyed out. Another arrow press, more of the same. It looks like the only continue button you can actually hit is the first one.
With nothing else to do, you press it. The village around you seems to lose resolution and gets fuzzy, as if you're suddenly looking at it with much worse eyes. Directly between you and Hokage Rock the air shimmers. Four silhouettes warp and twist into being. Below each of them is a small placard.
CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER.
"Um, what?" you ask. "I thought I was just going to, you know, be me. Or at least be someone on the show!"
The universe is unhelpfully silent. You're starting to get the feeling that that's going to be the norm.
Well. You should probably do what you're being told to.
CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER.
[] The Scion. You were born to a family of wealth and privilege, growing up wanting for nothing.
[] The Street Rat. You grew up on the streets, using your wits and cunning to eke out an existence.
[] Son of the Shops. You come from a long line of peddlers, and have been haggling with anyone and everyone since the moment you learned to talk.
[] New In Town. You're not from around here. Your family is a new arrival in Konoha, and it definitely shows.
DarkKing98
Certified Village Idiot
- Location
- USA
Not sure what to vote for. Just know I don't want Street Rat.
[X] New In Town. You're not from around here. Your family is a new arrival in Konoha, and it definitely shows.
I'm not sure I want ot be spoiled like the Scion, but also don't want to have zero ninja lineage like Son of the Shops implies. So it's either this or the Street Rat, and this seems a bit more interesting.
I'm not sure I want ot be spoiled like the Scion, but also don't want to have zero ninja lineage like Son of the Shops implies. So it's either this or the Street Rat, and this seems a bit more interesting.
will408914
(slouching towards bethlehem)
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- California
[X] The Street Rat. You grew up on the streets, using your wits and cunning to eke out an existence.
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- 2
[X] New In Town. You're not from around here. Your family is a new arrival in Konoha, and it definitely shows.
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- Actually pretty lost
[X] The Scion. You were born to a family of wealth and privilege, growing up wanting for nothing.
Will there be an point where we can spend our previously "earned" points? I would expect that we haven't earned enough to buy anything particularly impressive, but it would be a nice touch.
Will there be an point where we can spend our previously "earned" points? I would expect that we haven't earned enough to buy anything particularly impressive, but it would be a nice touch.
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- Chile
[X] Son of the Shops. You come from a long line of peddlers, and have been haggling with anyone and everyone since the moment you learned to talk.
This choice strikes me as someone who can convince people to do stuff, like giving us extra training.
Also, Scion might mean Uchiha Massacre or Branch Family Hyuuga so i'd rather avoid that.
This choice strikes me as someone who can convince people to do stuff, like giving us extra training.
Also, Scion might mean Uchiha Massacre or Branch Family Hyuuga so i'd rather avoid that.