Naruto: Ninja Council series

The Naruto: Ninja Council series, known in Japan as Naruto: Saiky? Ninja Daikesshu, is a series of action games based on the popular manga and anime series Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto. They are developed by Aspect and published by Tomy. Various installments of the series have appeared on both Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance and DS, the first two games in the series available for the former while the rest are available on the latter.

Naruto: Ninja Council

Naruto: Ninja Council (known as Naruto: Saiky? Ninja Daikesshu in Japan) is the first installment in the Ninja Council series. It is an action game for the Game Boy Advance. The playable characters are Naruto, Sasuke and Kakashi. There are scrolls that the character can obtain to perform abilities at the cost of Chakra, which can be used to break down walls or create whirlwinds. The story mode very loosely follows the Zabuza arc to the Chunin Exam arc.

Naruto: Ninja Council 2

Naruto: Ninja Council 2 (known as Naruto: Saiky? Ninja Daikesshu 2 in Japan) is the second installment in the Ninja Council series for the Game Boy Advance.

In this installment, one can play as Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Rock Lee is also unlockable. This game loosely follows the second through third seasons of the anime, but with some minor differences, such as repeated fights against Dosu Kinuta, Zaku Abumi, Kabuto Yakushi, and Orochimaru, as well as areas that did not appear in the anime. It also features a two-player co-op mode using the link cable, and a four-player battle mode. However, it should be noted that while the first game had voice samples from the cast (carried over from Clash of Ninja), this game does not. The sprites in this game, while not only different from Ninja Council, would become mainstays for this series.

Naruto Saiky? Ninja Daikesshu 3

Naruto Saiky? Ninja Daikesshu 3 is the third installment of the Ninja Council series and the first for the Nintendo DS. It is only available in Japan and Europe. The game features action/side-scrolling gameplay with touch-screen functionality. There are separate stages in the game much like the first two games in the series. The storyline follows the Sasuke Retrieval story arc, minus the Naruto and Sasuke battle, instead adding a final battle with Orochimaru. The Sound 5 are also present in the game, but Kimimaro is only featured in a mid-mission minigame. It was released in Eu