 It brings me no joy to say this, but the recent Boruto game is failing. I'm of course talking about Naruto to Boruto Storm Connections, the newest iteration of one of my favorite franchises of all time, and it's doing worse than Storm 4. By far one of the biggest reasons for this is that Connections as a game has no way for you to invite your friends. Regardless, I still had a lot of fun with my time on Connections, and I wanted to see just how much the player population was holding up, and so with that I decided what better way to test out how active the population is than by jumping onto my PS5 and getting back into the game. If you do want to see more Naruto Storm Connections, definitely let me know down below in the comments, or just let me know if you're still playing the game in general, but with that said, let's go ahead and see if we can't get any matches. Well, we found a match pretty quick, so I think that's definitely a point in the game's favor. You can definitely still find matches if you're just playing online at random times, although I will say I'm not playing this on like a weekday on job hours, so... Hey man! Now that being said, I forgot this game is very different. I'm gonna have to act my best if I'm gonna play here. I wonder if Super Armor on the Ninjutsu's affected people's opinion on the game at all. I know it definitely was... It's probably the craziest thing that they changed overall. Oh, let me go. Other than maybe just the combo system, but I think everybody's pretty much a fan of that. Let me pop off! Let me pop off! Hold on! I got... No! I got him! No way! No way! That is sucked! Sorry! You were supposed to save me! Drop it! Drop it! Drop it! Alright, we're gonna lose a round. We're gonna lose a round. That's okay! Listen, I'm back in the game. I am a fan. All things considered, I am still a fan of this game. I think I'm just a fan of the Storm series though, so I don't know if that's saying much. I'd probably play any Storm right now. But the fact that this one does run at 60 FPS by Native and doesn't have the other annoying issues that the PC version has is definitely a point in its favor for me. They just gotta... They gotta add invites, man. Let's be honest. They're juggled, and I'm still saying they need invites. Oh, if I keep getting bodied by that too. Grab! How did I not react to that? Man, I'm getting cooked. Hold on. No way I didn't counter that. No way. Mitsuki assist. It's OP. Get my guard broken because the guard in this game dies every two seconds. No! Nah, bro, you gotta... You gotta have to do better than that. You gotta have to do better than... I mean, I'm dead. I'm definitely dead. Ah! No! No subs! Oh my God! We got tor- Let me get that rematch. Can I get that rematch though? You mind if I get a rematch? Please? Please? Please? I'll take it. Wait, I don't think we got it. Did we get it? Oh, man. Look at this, man. I mean, I feel like this rank-up screen, I... You know, I get on it a lot, but because look at how bad it looks, man. How do you put something that bad in your modern game? I feel like it's just... It's literally unacceptable. It just shouldn't be there if it's gonna look that bad. That assist is wild, by the way. There we go. I'll take it. All right. Let's go. Oh, he stopped in front of me. I'll take it. Get away from me, Naruto! Oh my gosh! You cut me off, bro! Naruto cutting me off is actually... It's doing things to my mental. Sarutas not putting in the same amount of work as Mitsuki. I'm awakened. You know what? I got the team awakening. Hold on. Sage mode Mitsuki. Come on. How can we say this game failed, bro? How can we say this game failed? I gotta know. Oh, man. I was popping off. No way! No way! Mitsuki! Help me! Mitsuki! Help me! Mitsuki! Mitsuki! Mitsuki! Sub! Substitution Jutsu, please! I'm tight. I am upset. 60FPS, though. The Jutsu's looking good. Didn't need the slow-mo. Ooh. Okay. Okay. Just to win in this situation, I think. I'm making too many misplays. Hey, who are you trying to counter, boy? Borthor! What's that got? Give me that. Oh, I forgot. You can't combo it like that. Man, that sucks. I was just out of chakra. Hey, the armor. The armor is so cheap, dude. I really do think the armor is like a little... It's just the change that I'm not sure the game needed, in my opinion. Because if he dashes at me, is countering even the move when I can just armor up like that? Like, I think if I just do that, I think I'm bound to win more exchanges. He's got a sub. The Borthor Rasengan, that's all I'm cheesing out right now. That is all I'm cheesing out. Hey, if you want to awaken, let's awaken, bro. I saw you charge it up. Let's charge up, Dan. Karma! Ugh. You got to be kidding me. Lost again. Can I get that rematch, though? How does this game work? Do we just get three rematches? No matter. Can I get that rematch, though? Oh, the rank of screen. Ugh. We do get a rematch. And now that he sees that I'm finally learning the game again, is he going to rematch me? I'm not opposed to it. Let's go. I'm not opposed. Back in for the third match. Even if we win, we're going 1-2. So this is purely for pride. I just disagree on the fact that that should have ever hit me in the first place. Look at that armor, baby. Ah, the Chakra armor is not going to get me for that long. Oh, we got a sub out of it, but that's useless. Oh, make him stand up. Oh, talk to him then. Talk to him then. How do we not clash that, man? Mitzki, help. Mitzki, help. That's cheap. Bro, this game is just cheap. You can't have a good time in this game unless you're willing to play cheap. This game is cheap, bro. This is like somebody that, stop. I'm playing cheap now. Blocking. Into a grab. I understand. I used that strategy on you last time. I did, in fact, use that strategy on you last time. I can't complain. Oh, your boy. Your boy's getting a little nice, your boy's advancing. That one wasn't going to work. Oh, your boy's getting nice. I'm actually, yes, that was sick. That was sick. I'm playing the game now. And if you don't want to play the game with me, then I got to play the game with you. This character is cheap. This character is so cheap. That should not be allowed. How did that come on me through the sub in a block? Through a sub in a block? I got to get my subs back. 14 seconds is too long. All right. We're going into karma. It's me again. I shouldn't hit. What? Kaze, Kaze, Ray, making up all sorts of lies on my name. Give me that guard break. I know that guard's not that healthy, man. All right. We got him on the back foot. I shouldn't have gotten hit there. Jesus. Jesus. Characters. Oh, that is so broken. Oh, I'm dead. Wait, maybe not. I don't know. We're probably still dead. We're just down in the sub economy so bad right now. I just don't know how I'm feeling. I don't know how I'm feeling on the winnable state of this game. Our subs are coming back. He's out of chakra. We might as well just hit the floor. His team is cheap, man. The guard damage this team can do is wild. I'll take it. We're going to force this up here. I'm low on chakra though. So I think I'm just going to... Oh, no. Cheating-ass character. I should have been throwing the paper bombs all along, man. Cheeeeep. Kaze, Kaze. I'm going for it. Karma. Launch up. I've gotten no other choice. Oh, my God. Sarada. Oh, my... Damn, I just got outplayed on the chakra-ass. That was a good game. Good set. Let's get it to the next one. I'm warmed up now. I'm warmed up. Look, I'm back on my connections arc. Okay, I'm back on the connections arc. I've relearned the connections mechanic. I'm ready for anything the world has to throw at me at this point. Oh, except for this loading... Yeah, I'm doing it again. I'm complaining again. Why they got me going up against pirate Narita? Is he here? He is. He is here. I'm going in there. Again, I feel like... Oh, wow. I feel like I'm ready for pretty much anything, but maybe the player base has just evolved too far for me. But I refuse to believe that. Maybe this person has the right idea. Maybe delaying your sub. Maybe you've got to really delay it in this game. I mean, I'm just going to combo it, though. All right. Attack is too slow. You've got to play a cheaper team than that. You're going to have to play a much cheaper team if you're going to keep up with me. Square Jutsu? Wasn't the Jutsu to use? That was just sick. The jump timing on that was nuts. And there's the super armor again. Again, if you're... If you actively still play Storm, not even just connections and you tried connections, what did you think on the... On just the... Whoa, that was sick. That was good. That was good. What did you think about the super armor on Jutsus? I think that might have been too strong. I keep saying that, but... Again, it's just... It feels too good every time. It feels very cheap. All right. We'll take the ultimate, but now it's time to start spamming some... Some just normal shuriken and stuff. We're just trying to take a cheap little win here. Oh, man. Stop. Oh, my God. I keep throwing. I'm throwing. I can't throw this, right? Surely I can't throw this. Please win. Please win. Oh, my God. I'm panicking. There we go. Holy moly. I was panicking up a storm. Thankfully, the round system is actually... It makes it less heartbreaking to lose health in those matches unless you just... Actually just perma-lose. No way. Oh, my God. Damn, that was a good reset. Got to fly over here. Thank you, pirate Naruto. All right, full screen. We're just going to go into a Jutsu again instead of not... We'll take a trade there though. What hit me? What is going on? What was that? I don't even know what Jutsu that was. I don't even know what Jutsu that was. I'm pissed. I lost so much to it. Oh, was her summoning... At this point, I just got to let the subs come back on this one. Slow me down. Okay. If we could just win this sub-battle. Right. No, no, no. I need to win this sub-battle right here, right now. Naruto assist. I'm going in sub-less. Please, please. I deserved it. I deserved it. I deserved it. Let me get this win though. I need this win. I'm dashing in. Counter it. Oh, sub. Hey, this person's warmed up now. This person's warmed up now. I love to see it. I love the competition. I got to stop one dashing so early and two cancelling my combo because I misread the dash. Mitsuki, thank you. Mitsuki, my goat actually saving me. Unlike the Sarut assist who's only here for the semantics of it all. Thank you, Sarutta. Never mind. Did I say that? I didn't mean that. I did not mean that at all, Sarutta. I'm sorry you had to hear me say that. Team Jutsu! I still miss. Run into it though. I'll take that. I'll take that damage. I could have gotten more. Where's that final sub at? I need that sub. I need it. No, wait. It's not because that's game. I'll take it. We get a win. Finally, it feels like it's been 40 minutes, but we finally get a win and I'm going to go all set long win, win, win. I need that. Give me one more. Give me one more. I need it. Give me one. Oh, the rank up screen strikes again. One more. Yes. And we actually get it. Nice. Back in again, I feel like we can have a stronger performance if I just do a better job of not dropping so many combos to mainly just fear if I'm being honest. I just, I have to just not be afraid of the late sub and just instead trust my reaction speeds like right here. I'm feeling right now. All right. Mitsuki, Mitsuki assist for the safety mix ups. That's not how this game works, but I tried it. I use way too many subs in that battle though. I'll take it dude. The late subs on that did nothing to me. So I feel like saving your subs for too long is probably not the best just because of, I don't know, the game system is very like offense rewarded. There we go. Dude, that's, that's the performance I wanted to see the whole time. Clean sweep. I felt like we were in control that entire time, especially of the sub economy to a quick little range Jutsu into a Sarada call. Armor on the Jutsus. I'm out of here. Shout out Boruto. All right. We burned a sub for him. Okay. So I got him to cancel out. I feel like we're, oh no, please give me that attack. I'll take it up on subs. We've got a Mitsuki to protect. Mitsuki protects a little bit. I break your wide open terrible Jutsu. You can't play these characters online, bro. Some characters are made better than others. I'm speaking like I actually know the tier list, bro. Karen could actually be secret OP and I would never know. I would just, I would never know. I'm just spreading me when I spread false information online. I changed out in a Sarada. Let's try it. No, I thought that would maybe get around it. Get a sub. Get a sub. Thank you. I was too late. Ginori. Still too cheap. Ginori with armor. He's too cheap. I'm embracing the cheapness of connections. Get more people on the steam charts, bro. Even though I'm playing on PlayStation. We need more people on connections. Bring back. Well, I'm not going to lie. Connections, the developers need to update connections. How about that? Let's start with that. Developers, can we get some updates on connections? Then we can get the players back. Round one again. I just got to show up. I just got to perform. There we go. Get him to, what? How did I get so unlucky with that? There we go. Chakra cancel. I'm using, I have to actually use that because obviously it's the, it's such a good defensive option. I mean, it's crazy. It turns their offense against them to the point where you just have to do it to play. Even though I accidentally way too early cancel out of that. If we can force a sub here though, they're not going to do it. I'll take that though. I'll take that all day. Didn't even use any chakra on that one. That was risky. And we're saying on out of there to safety into a meat ski into a dash up. Oh, this could be bad. That could have been really bad. I'm not even going to lie. Oh, except now it's not cheap. Except now it's not a bad idea. It was a great one. We are running away though. I'm not trying to play. I'm just going to arm it up though. Honestly, super armor. What are you going to do? What? G Dory. Thank you. Sorry. Sorry. I said that thing about your assist. Why am I doing that? Oh, man. I'm messing up bad. I'm saving the sub. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. Am I a coward? What a mix. Oh, what a mix with the pots and pans. Sarda, save me. Thank you, Sarda. Oh, Sarda wasn't good enough. Sarda wasn't good enough. Meat ski, save me. Oh, it wasn't good enough. Damn. I didn't even go a lot. I don't think the power of the karma is saving this round. And if it does, then I'm just him. Dara, so what are you doing here? I got to be him. I got to be him right now. I got to be him. Oh my gosh. Yes. Double counter on both. No, no, no, no. I should have just set my feet and countered that I knew it was coming. That would have been a great comeback, though. He's in range. Keep on their back foot. Okay. Come off that. Hang on. Cheap stuff. Oh, it's a grab. Oh, good. Nice. I was waiting. I went a little silent there. Got to sub this. Maybe he wants to wait. In that case, I'm going to make it hurt, though. There it is. There it is. Please combo. No, break his guard at least. Ah, damn. Damn. Now his guard breaks. No. Bro, that was going to be so sick. Regardless, I had a great time coming back to connections. Overall, I'm just kind of sad the developers, you know, shipped the game in its state and didn't add more to it or at least invites, man. No turn, no online modes at all. I mean, come on, man. Kind of disappointing. And it's sad to see the way the game is performing, at least on steam right now, especially with four being higher. That is just a sad sight when any series has a previous entry clocking and higher. But I'm going to leave it off with that. If you enjoyed this video, check out another video on your screen now. I've been Dudley. I'm a big fan of Storm Connections. And I'm hoping the developers can clutch up. Thank you for watching. Goodbye.