On certain missions, you have to fight bosses

These missions aren't really missions, but just stipulations for how you fight the battles.

Basically, the developers created a bad 2D fighting game with Sasuke characters and made it worse by making them fight snakes instead of them focusing on each other.

What were they thinking?

Multiplayer is available, and it's actually good, but the only problem is the fact that it is only multi-card multiplayer.

This game is definitely not worth buying two copies to enjoy one of its better features and because of that it's hard for me to take it into count while composing this review.

However, these multiplayer matches can be pretty intense, but they get boring way too quickly and the lack of online multiplayer kills the decent game mode to being practically irrelevant.

Even though the game is essentially a sprite-based fighter, I do know that sprites can still provide breath-taking visuals.

I mean, have you ever played this game? That game was made up entirely of sprites and provided such an eye-pleasing gameplay experience that it is by far the prettiest game on the DS that I have played so far.

So, it makes me wonder why Ninja Heroes Mission Fighting can't provide those kinds of visuals as well. Environments are repetitive and bland,

with the only feature of the graphics that is slightly impressive is the amount of characters that can appear on the screen all at once.

Another terrible part of this “game” is the soundtrack.

The background music is unmemorable and any sounds the characters make throughout the god-awful

“gameplay” become extremely repetitive to the point that you'll feel compelled to turn the volume down on your DS.

Why didn't the developers just take some of the better tunes from the show and stuff them into the game?

Honestly, that would have done wonders and maybe have bumped the game up from a one to a two score.

This game will last you twenty minutes if you play for fun. At first, you'll find the interesting gameplay mechanics to be fun,

but after that you will be absolutely horrified at the "missions" the developers have created for you to play.

After you force yourself through the missions found in the campaign, you might want to try to unlock some of the extra characters and concept art,

but that's no fun as you have to perform certain tasks, meaning you'll have to play the single-player mode again.

If you manage to find someone with Ninja Heroes Mission Fighting as well, you could play the somewhat decent multiplayer,

but that will get boring after a day and lack of online play leaves no real compelling reason to play this game ever again.