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Because it isn't primarily a fighting game? It is an action/adventure game with quests and exploration that has a fighting mode in addition. In the event the demo was from the main adventure/story mode , there could have been story spoilers contained in it.
Anyways, just so happens the demo is only a battle between Kakashi and Naruto from the battle mode. Plays extremely smooth and everything really does come off looking almost identicle to the anime, down to the characters, environments, animations and even mannerisms. However, the battle mode plays almost exactly like the recent DBZ games, ESPECIALLY Burst Limit, with a few minor tweaks. You are able to constantly have a partner jump in and make a quick attack for you (you have 2 partners as Naruto, one if you choose Kakashi). Other than that, everything is pretty much DBZ clone, right down to ki charging being an exact duplicate of chakra charging, just mapped to a different button. Oh, and there is a jump button here, but considering pressing up in Burst Limit has you lift off the ground and fly, that isn't much of a difference. Mind you these comparisons are based on a scaled down version that doesn't have any of the button context moves (ie 'jutsu' techniques) or advanced techniques combos. Also, at the beginning of the demo you are given a choice between English and Japanese voice casts, and both appear to be the real voice actors from the series.
Hopefully with there being an adventure mode at the core of the main game things will be better and more varied. If the adventure mode pans out to be the greatness it appeared to be from the Qore interviews, then this game should be pretty great. Hopefully the next DBZ game takes a few cues from this and adds in an adventure mode of its own.
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