The story mode consists of only two things: battles and cut scenes. You will play as other key characters for certain big fights and have them as allies in others. You will mainly be following Naruto and Sasuke’s paths through the duration of the 5th Great Ninja War. This is the very end of the series and you are facing off with Naruto’s strongest foes yet. The story takes place during the 5th Great Ninja War arc of the story. I won’t knock it for that, I assume most people will be coming into this knowing the story and having previous experience in the series. So with that said the story really started off in a bad spot for me. Just to be clear this is my first Naruto game and I have never seen the anime series.