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I'm gonna be blunt. I pick Sasuke because Naruto is a piece of junk in this game. There we go. I said it.
Naruto Ninja Council suffers a bit from the Ocarina Of Time-syndrome (Ratio of talking/action is too high) which makes me doubt if the game is suited for a TAS or not. However I still decided to submit it, so here we go! After all, OoT made it!
This run is 11724 faster than S@G's rejected run, which was rejected due to being unoptimized etc. This run is 39677 frames long.
Well, here goes!

The run !!

Game Mechanics !

- HP: The green/ yellow/red bar. Figure out yourselves what it do.
- MP/mana/ki/whatever: The blue bar below the HP-bar. Charges when Sasuke does... nothing. Drains when using scrolls or Jutsu. Seems to drain more MP/mana/ki/whatever the less you have.
- Dashing: Sasuke can dash by pressing right or left twice. This allows him to run faster (No shit) and also run straight up certain walls. A must to be able to complete the game.
- Jumping: Sasuke always jumps at a fixed height, so holding A really doesn't matter.
- Crawling: Needed to get through small spaces. Hardly used throughout the run.
- Attacking: Sasuke can perform a regular 3-hit combo (Punch, kick, roundhouse) which, unlike Naruto's combo, can be interrupted so you can skip the kick, or possibly even both the punch and the kick and go straight to the roundhouse. This is something which makes Sasuke very useful. The roundhouse kicks enemies to the ground.
- Shuriken: There are several types of shuriken in the game but I skip most of them due to them hardly being useful.
- Jutsu: Jutsu can be used by charging by pressing the B-button and holding it. Charging drains MP/mana/ki/whatever, and there are several different kinds of Jutsu. Takes a lot of time to use due to extremely much extra animation.
Scrolls
The game has scrolls which are more or less needed to make it through the different stages, but they are mostly level-specific so I'll explain about them at the stage where they are first found.

The levels !

Level 1 - 1: Tutorial ftw. I have to avoid as many [?] as possible since they bring up a "This is how you do this, n00b" -sequence. I charge my Jutsu a bit too much here to be able to hit Ebisu with it. And no, Naruto would not have been faster in this level, despite having a OHKO. Shows how much you know!
Level 1 - 2: Kakashi tells me that I can crawl well thank you Captain Obvious. Ino is easy (No pun intended!).
Level 2 - 1: Lightning Style Scroll obtained! It can break walls and shot bolts at people. Choji needs to be knocked down more often than other bosses since he would use a very time demanding Jutsu.
Level 2 - 2: Really easy stage. I do a punch on top of the small rocks since that helps me slide across them.
Level 3 - 1: I stand still and wait in the beginning to charge some MP/mana/ki/whatever and then I make a leap for the Earth Style Scroll and proceeds through the level. Rock Lee has an even MORE time demanding Jutsu where he restores ALL of his HP. What a freak.
Level 3 - 2: Haku is the by far simplest boss in the game. Ever.
Level 4 - 1: Fire Style Scroll is causing forest fires and other stuff. If this game was 3D, I could simply walk past the trees but noooo. A lot of charging in the beginning of the level, and despite having sufficient amount, I still have to charge in the end! Well screw you too!
Level 4 - 2: Using the Fire Ball Jutsu was about 3 seconds faster than using the Fire Style Scroll here. Rock Lee is back for more asskicking. One kick might look missed, but it had to be done so I could slip "through" him.
Level 5 - 1: I need the Water Style Scroll to make it onto the first platform despite having the right height! Making sense, no? Not here! Other than that, badass Sasuke is getting burned, and throws people into fires. I had to collide with the bird before Shino to avoid the [?]. Shino himself is causing little problem.
Level 5 - 2: Scroll skip! Woho! Neji has a strange Jutsu which is the reason why I throw so many shurikens at him.
Level 6 - 1: The Wind Style Scroll is a pain to use well. Bleh. Temari is simple as most of the other bosses here.
Level 6 - 2: Shurikens are used to manipulate the enemy before Kankuro so time can be saved there!
Level 7 - 1: 2 scrolls to be found but only one needs to be used. I have no idea why Haku is back, just as easy this time.
Level 7 - 2: 2 scrolls here as well, none used! I rule. Zabusa is no fun. He can block attacks and turn them into counters, but oh well. Sluggish ftw.
Orochimaru has a instant-use Jutsu in which he summons a huge ass snake which is why I kick him down so often, despite this making him teleport.

23:54:35 <adelikatWork> <Comicalflop> naruto? oh dear...
23:55:14 <Cardboard> At least I am finishing runs....

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The TV show should be more like this. Two seconds of incomprehensible dialog, followed by ten seconds of Sasuke beating the living hell out of whoever he happens to be talking to. None of this three-episode-flashback garbage. I've played this, and was surprised that the AI was so readily abused. Yes vote.
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Quit running these bullshit games and finish a run that I appropriated to you!
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Dude. LINK
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omg lol this is so fake!!!1 the nes cant produce music like this!
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Dude. You don't know what appropriated means.
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Dude. You don't know how it is to be a huge ass snake.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
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I don't think I have ever seen a Bosses HP bar go down so quickly. It is a pitty about that forest stage and having to wait untill you can blast those trees out of the way. A Yes from me though :)
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Zurreco-Dude, I think I had to carry some girl across an entire stage in one of the games you suggested which seemed kinda sexist and we can't accept that. That and I hardly knew how Snes9x worked, I know it better now. Sweet. What's mine say?
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omg lol this is so fake!!!1 the nes cant produce music like this!
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<Cardboard> At least I am finishing runs.... You were saying? Also Zurreco, surely by now you must realize we are entirely bored with your attitude of dictating how other people should think, how their opinions should exactly match yours, and what movies we should or shouldn't work on. I'll try to take a looksie at this run, sounds interesting. Naruto without the "flashbacks inside a flashback" should be worth seeing.
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Comicalflop wrote:
Also Zurreco, surely by now you must realize we are entirely bored with your attitude of dictating how other people should think, how their opinions should exactly match yours, and what movies we should or shouldn't work on.
Dude, it's a joke.
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And now you're stepping on my own form of humor, so thanks but get off because it's not a gas pedal.
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Comicalflop wrote:
<Cardboard> At least I am finishing runs.... You were saying?
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Was what I was saying. Good job on submitting a run on my birthday however. Also I still like Zurrrrrrrrrrrreco. And I never watched Naruto, is it any good? I only watched Initial D \o/
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omg lol this is so fake!!!1 the nes cant produce music like this!
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Well, it has some good parts, but a lot of the reasons why people make fun of it are based on truths. -some of the epic fights are too predictable. One person gains the upper hand, then the control switches, and it does this 6 or 7 times so that they can stretch the number of episodes longer. -Flashbacks. If you like flashbacks, this show's for you. -There's some creepy pedophilia themes, basically in the form of Naruto's mentor. -Orochimaru is creepy. -Sasusake is going to be a bad, bad villain, and no matter what, Naruto thinks he can persuade him and the pink haired girl what's-her-name thinks he'll love her. Their determination sorta drags on in that they just don't get it. -They kill off the cool characters. -There's random technology in the ninja world, which makes no sense. -Naruto's main jitsu is turning into 2,000 naked chicks. -Naruto's Fire fox form demon thingie/curse is boring. Like "ooooh, he'll destroy everything, but still gets beaten in combat? puhleeeeeeeeze" -Naruto is touted as a ninja who'll never lose, kinda like Yu-gi-Yo. But yet he loses, constantly. -Rock Lee only does a drunken rage fight once. And, he's supposedly invincible and capable of destroying continents on a full bottle of sake, whereas all he did in the fight was fall asleep. And so on and so forth. All in all, it's way more hyped up than it should be. But after making this TAS, you should watch some of it for giggles.
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Comicalflop wrote:
-Naruto's main jitsu is turning into 2,000 naked chicks.
I'm game!
Warp wrote:
omg lol this is so fake!!!1 the nes cant produce music like this!
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The chicks all have Naruto's face. Still game?
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TAS was done well, it's the game that sucks. Boring combos and pure repeatitiveness as it is. So, I dunno what should I vote for...
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l2j? I dunno, I'm not particularly sold on this run. Nothing about the game seems to make it stand out amongst the other bland GBA platformers, and I'm sure there are better bland games than this one. Meh. I mean, the TAS seems pretty speedy and well thought out, but... Meh.
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Comicalflop wrote:
The chicks all have Naruto's face. Still game?
2000 paper bags should do the trick >_>
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omg lol this is so fake!!!1 the nes cant produce music like this!
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Awesome TAS, Lots of actions, fast paced, and looks well optimized. Easy yes vote.
It's hard to look this good. My TAS projects
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moozooh wrote:
Dude. You don't know how it is to be a huge ass snake.
Dude, you don't know how to use hyphens. Huge-ass snake or Huge ass-snake?
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DarkKobold wrote:
moozooh wrote:
Dude. You don't know how it is to be a huge ass snake.
Dude, you don't know how to use hyphens. Huge-ass snake or Huge ass-snake?
Clearly the second was the intended meaning!
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Upthorn catches my drift, brutha.
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Edit: I think I understand now: It's my avatar, isn't it? It makes me look angry.
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This was slightly repetitive, but there was so much ass kicking that it didn't matter at all. Nice run.
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This movie has been published. The posts before this message apply to the submission, and posts after this message apply to the published movie. ---- [1173] GBA Naruto: Ninja Council by Cardboard in 11:04.30