Although it’s almost a necessity to find partners, unless you can make do with the starter characters, I found the whole free-roam quite restricting, tedious and could happily jump straight into the tournament with both feet. To start with you may well not have many fighters to choose from, but by scouring the area there will be others that can be convinced to help you after you’ve helped them in a task. In order to participate you need a team mate or two as the battles can consist of more than one round. Each area is quite small and until you complete each grade of the tournament you’ll not unlock any more areas. They’ve included a free-roam type area to navigate with various places to visit such as shops, lottery vendors and people to talk to. Once you’ve chosen your fighter for the Ninja World Tournament mode it’s not just a case of entering the tournament, bossing it and being crowned the champion of the world.
