Demoted to Extra: Kimimaro's other Sound Five members aren't fought in the story chapters, despite the fact they're actual playable characters.
Thankfully, the chakra charge move seems to mitigate this as you home and shoulder check them, stopping them in their tracks.
Bouncing Battler: Well, it is a game about ninjas, but this game in particular is quite bad for it, any and all AI opponents who are not giant bosses can and will hop around like caffeine addicted monkeys, denying you a chance to get in for a hit, to almost hair-pulling degrees.
Big Bad: Just like in Part I of the canon story, Orochimaru is the main villain threatening the Leaf and Sasuke in particular.
And Your Reward Is Clothes: You can unlock Sasuke's second outfit, The Sand Trio's, and Shikamaru's Sasuke Retrieval arc outfits by completing the story missions related to them.
The Land of Waves arc, and by extension Zabuza and Haku, are the most noticeable of the absences.
Adaptation Distillation: Not everything or every major player from the pre- Time Skip era is playable.
In 2017, this game got rereleased with 2 and 3 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC and in 2018 for the Nintendo Switch. The first sequel to this game is Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, which picks up from the Time Skip within the canon of Naruto.