Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker - Season Pass (DLC)

I'll be straight with you: reviewing a Season Pass in isolation is a bit like reviewing a tyre without mentioning the car, so bear with me while I explain exactly what you're getting here and whether it actually moves the needle for your playtime. Shinobi Striker is a 4-versus-4 online brawler built around four class roles - Attack, Ranged, Defense, and Heal - and its core loop is all about grinding Training Points with ninja masters to unlock new jutsu, weapons, and cosmetics for your custom avatar. The Season Pass (the original, not a numbered sequel) hands you nine Master Character Training Packs in one shot. The roster covers some of the heaviest hitters in the franchise: Jiraiya, Madara Uchiha, Obito Uchiha, Minato Namikaze, Tsunade, Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Orochimaru. As a bonus on top, you get the Jiraiya Costume with Shima and Fukasaku Replica, which is a cosmetic set that carries real fan-service weight for anyone who grew up with Shippuden. Unlocking each master expands what jutsu slots are available to your build, and Ranged-class players in particular benefit from the pass, since Madara's kit opens up some of the more punishing long-range options in the game. The training system works by accumulating points through online matches and VR missions while a chosen master is active. You swap masters freely via the Ninjutsu Library in the Hidden Leaf Village lobby, which means the pass is less about playing as these characters and more about using them as teachers to shape your own fighter. That distinction matters a lot for players coming in expecting arena-style combat with Jiraiya himself rather than a tool to sculpt a custom loadout. If the latter sounds dull, this pass - and the base game - probably are not for you. If building out a Ranged build with a carefully curated jutsu set and then testing it in Flag Battles, Barrier Battles, or Base Battles sounds genuinely appealing, then the nine masters here represent a substantial widening of what your avatar can do. The honest caveat is that Shinobi Striker as a whole has always drawn criticism for feeling thin on standalone content outside its multiplayer loop, and critics at launch noted the game leans hard on its IP appeal to carry weight that the mechanics alone might not. That critique carries through to DLC: if the base game's grind-and-battle loop has already started to feel repetitive, more masters won't fix that. But if you're still hungry and want your build to have access to the kind of jutsu that dedicated players are running in ranked matches, locking yourself out of this pass leaves a real gap in your options. Community consensus is that the Season 1 masters, Madara especially, remain relevant across multiple seasons of play - so the content here ages better than a purely cosmetic pack would. Bottom line for the Xbox crowd: this is a functional upgrade to an active multiplayer game, not a story chapter or a new mode. Treat it accordingly.

Alex · Scout Team

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