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I had fond memories of this game when it released and I played it originally on the X360. Decided to play again and 100% the achievements, and it definitely does not hold up. Clunky, repetitive, and kinda boring.
Story is told almost entirely through text with only a few cutscenes. The dialogue in these cutscenes aren't always voiced, but sometimes are, strangely enough. A character may say something with audio and the responding character won't be voiced, which makes it very awkward. Also some of the localization is cringe, e.g., "GET IN MUH BELLY!!" Very 2008 moment.
The Land of Waves arc was skipped entirely, which is very disappointing since it is one of my top favorite arcs in the Naruto series. There were also some changes to other arcs, such as the Sasuke Retrieval arc in which instead of playing as Choji, Shikamaru, etc against the Sound 4, it's just Naruto vs Kimimaro a couple of times. The changes and exclusions in the story were just disappointing.

Completing all the achievements does not require 100%'ing the game. I do not recommend that as it requires the player to play through the game twice for no reason. Each mission must be beat to unlock the bonus conditions to 100% clear the mission. I don't know why they didn't just give the bonus conditions at the start instead. Really just artificial replayability.
The mission variety is fine. Fights, tree climbing, chases, hide and seek, cannon rings, etc. Most mission types do get boring just due to how many times the player has to do this, but are interesting enough the first couple times.
Fights feel clunky. I try to do an action like chakra dash, but I ended up jumping instead. Try a ninjutsu, but do a regular attack instead. Not sure why trying to do these presses fails sometimes. It's a simple input; chakra and another button. I never failed a chakra infused shuriken input, so I don't know why chakra dashes were so rough to consistently hit.
Konoha is mostly an empty sandbox with characters, save points, and stores scattered throughout. Not much to explore here. It might be fun to jump around and get to places faster, but by doing that the player actively makes it harder to achieve 100%'ing all the missions. One of which is "footsteps in the sand," and jumping does not count to total steps traveled for this mission. As I jumped mostly, I am not even remotely close to clearing the A-rank version of that mission, let alone S-rank version. Very counter intuitive to have this footstep mission and then make jumping the go-to method of travel around Konoha.
It was also a pain to even get this game started on more than one occasion. Midway through my playthrough, the game defaulted to my integrated graphics rather than my discrete graphics, which rendered the game unplayable due to ~10fps from the integrated graphics. Changing nvidia settings let the game default back to discrete, but why did it even change during my playthrough? No other game has done this. I ended up building a new PC as well 3/4ths through, and Steam would not boot up this game. Trying to opening up the .exe in the local files threw up some missing .dll files which I had to hunt down. Then after upgrading from Win10 to Win11, I had to reinstall the same .dlls. Again, no other game has given me those .dll missing errors. Apparently these are common issues.
Side note, some of the SFX are bad. The waterfall during the final arc sounded like a fan blowing into a mic. Very rough stuff.
Achievement wise, you will need a 2nd controller and go to free battle to get some of them like "win with a downed strike." Most of them can just be done by playing easily. I am glad there are no multiplayer achievements, as well.
Overall, the game just didn't age well. I can't recommend it to non Naruto fans or actual Naruto fans. Only play if you're masochistic and achievement hunt for whatever reason (like me).