Storm Connections - Characters I’d replace the clones with.
I can’t say I’m among those who have a disdain for Storm Connections, but there are some aspects to it that I think could have been done better.
One of which is not having such an abundance of characters that have the exact same moveset as another, yet take up a separate character slot on the roster.
For example, Base Kakashi and Great Ninja War Kakashi? No difference. Both versions of Hanabi? They’re exactly the same. Sasuke Part 1? Aside from the awakening there’s no difference between the two versions. So they could have had just 1 version that has the Curse Mark awakening. There’s no need for the other one.
And the most plentiful offender, the Boruto versions of the Konoha 11 (sans Naruto), Darui, and the Sand Siblings. There movesets are the same as past iterations of those characters. They really should have just been costumes like they were in Storm 4.
So to explore the idea of some more unique roster choices, I put together a list of different characters to put in those character slots in place of the clones. Would that mean the game would need more development time if they went that route? Yeah probably. But in this case I think it would have been worth it.
The new game exclusive characters in the special story mode, Nanashi/Hikari and Merz, as well as Toneri who played a significant role in that story, are included because they really should have been characters you unlock after completing that story.
As for everyone else, as you can see there’s a big focus on Boruto era characters. Say what you will about the Boruto series, but the game is literally called Naruto AND Boruto Storm Connections. It just makes sense for it to lean more into the Boruto era like this. In some ways, it honestly should have done that.
However, there are 17 of those clone characters in the game that I’m replacing in this hypothetical “what-if?” and there were 18 total Boruto characters I wanted to include. So I took the extra liberty of adding a few characters for a hypothetical 2nd season pass, and including that extra Boruto character in it. I’m quite confident the game will not get a 2nd season pass, but again, this is just a what-if for funsies.