It’s a reskinned version of Monopoly, which people might appreciate. It does seem a bit like a missed opportunity to get to “be” your favorite characters from the series. Which I suppose makes sense, given all of the major characters appear as spaces on the board. Instead, you get an Akatsuki cloud, Anbu mask, boot, Gaara’s gourd, kunai, and shuriken. There’s no attempt to change “jail.” Though the railroads are now the Akatsuki members Deidara, Kisame, Itachi, and Pain.Īlso, you unfortunately don’t get little figures of characters like Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi as tokens. They don’t actually give you tasks, but instead are the standard excuses to give you a quick reward. Chance and Community Chest cards are Mission and Training cards. (Perhaps they fight better when eating properly?) The game still refers to this as rent, though if you wanted to “play along” you could pretend you’re paying to “borrow” their services for a mission. Unfortunately, the food element is only aesthetic and explanation why feeding ninja makes them better. Placing them on a ninja increases their value when someone else stops by. Onigiri are houses, while ramen bowls are hotels.

While the naming and terms for items aren’t the same, their functions are.

(Also, I’m a bit disappointed that the more advanced “legends” like Jiraya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade are only put as yellow properties while people still learning like Naruto and Sasuke are the most expensive ninjas on the board.) But then the game also splits up Team 7 by making Naruto and Sasuke into Boardwalk and Park Place and putting Sakura in the Green properties with Kakashi and Sai. For example, the three “pink” properties in Naruto Monopoly are Team 10’s Choji, Ino, and Shikamaru. For the most part, teams are properly placed together. Which is a bit of a shame, because a rule change that might have prioritized collecting known “teams” or having a certain number of warriors on your side would have done a lot to set it apart.īut then, the placement of characters is a bit haphazard for that too. The back of the box might say “Recruit the best ninjas to show the Hokage that you’re up to the task of leadership,” but that’s the only time that comes up. Your goal is still to be the last person standing while everyone else goes bankrupt. While there is the theme, there’s no functional change to the way Monopoly is played in Naruto Monopoly. There’s a hint of a theme there, but there are times when it doesn’t commit to the bit in the same way something like Monopoly Gamer does.

Likewise, instead of placing homes and hotels, you’re placing onigiri and ramen bowls. There’s a Naruto Monopoly game out and, instead of taking the approach of buying property around places like the Hidden Leaf Village, it involves buying ninjas.

Naruto monopoly