Set Stats

Total Achievements: 46

Missable Achievements: 0!!!

Achievements for reaching 100%: 30

Challenge Achievements: 16

Time to master: bruh

The Game

The first game in the fairly well known Ultimate Ninja series, where you can play as your favourite characters of 12 playable characters (up until just before the Sasuke retrieval arc) and duke it out in a 2D fighting game filled to the brim with ninja spirit!

Being the first game in the series, it's definitely lacking polish in various areas, but it was fun to see how the series started out.

Unlike the sequels, the "story mode" in this game is more reminiscent of the arcade mode from Tekken, where you choose a character and go through an amount of stages to unlock the next character. There's not much else to say, since I cannot recommend this particular game over the rest in the series.

The Set

The absolute worst I've ever played

This set taught me to look at the achievements before booting up the game. I played the 2nd and 5th game an awful lot way back when, so I figured this'd be a quick 20 min adventure. But no. That wasn't the case. All due to the two fucking achievements: Hokage's Treasury, and Passionate Battle of Men demanding an unreasonable amount of the player's time.

Passionate Battle of Men can at least be mostly automated with a macro, but Hokage's Treasury demands actively grinding one particular misson over and over in order to make the necessary money.

There are also 6 achievements related to purchasing all 2,151 items from the gacha shop. Oh, and sometimes you get actually nothing from your purchase. Other times you get a useless consumable to use in combat. It makes absolutely no sense to begin buying anything before you reach the cap of 9,999,999 zeni required for Hokage's Treasury, since you'd just be shooting yourself in the foot.

I understand these achievements exist because they are actually for real part of reaching 100% in-game completion, which is complete bonkers. I have no clue how this went through QA back then. If these achievements didn't exist, the achievement for completing every mission also would not exist. There is definitely a way around this though, but that path was clearly not chosen during development of this particular set.

Fun game detail cheevos

On a positive note, Kakashi and Sasuke can actually activate their sharingan by using the correct ultimate, which will make them copy the opponent's moveset entirely for a duration of time. There are 4 achievements related to this gimmick, which I think is super cool.

Tips & Tricks

Hidden Scroll locations: Here's a poorly written guide I found to located each hidden scroll in every stage: https://www.ign.com/articles/2006/07/06/naruto-ultimate-ninja-secret-scroll-locations-faq-716753

Ninja Info Cards: After buying all items from the shop, you'll still be missing 11 Ninja Info Cards. To get these, go visit Naruto's House from the menu after getting all the other cards from the shop.

Hokage's Treasury: There are generally only 2 missions worth grinding to get this, both in A rank: Imagination Training 2 and Gaara's Second Challenge. Both of these missions have more details on the achievement's page: https://retroachievements.org/achievement/262313)

A user also suggests using macros to automate this, but I find it WAY too slow to be a real option personally.

Passionate Battle of Men: Best advice is to use a macro spamming X every 2 frames. Go to vs. battle, select your characters, and make sure to change battle settings so the match time is only 10 counts (the shortest possible) then activate your macro. Each set of characters take 25-30 minutes, so you just gotta make sure to come back and check in once in a while. You'll find more details on the achievement's page: https://retroachievements.org/achievement/262314

The Verdict

Do not touch this set if you value your own time. You can play the sequels just fine though, and I definitely recommend those! Especially Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2. In true Naruto fashion, the events from this game are repeated in the 2nd one anyway.

Links 'n stuff

Shoutouts to RA user Layton I guess, for creating one of the most needlessly time consuming sets on the site!

Check out the set yourself!: https://retroachievements.org/game/21448

My last mastery post from four months ago (jesus christ): Mastery #73 - M&M's Kart Racing [Wii]

Have a look at my RA profile if you want!: https://retroachievements.org/user/Desynch

I will be the first to admit that it is not an awe-inspiring list of games, but I really wanted the badge since I also earned the top GameCube launch badge 2 years ago. Life comes at you fast, and time is a commodity not everyone has in bulk.

LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars - This was a game I'd wanted to play for a while, but the Steam version does not have achievements, so I couldn't really be bothered. I was extremely happy to see my favourite LEGO game as a launch title for RA!
I made a RAview post about my experience, if you're interested.

Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure - The original "toys to life". Always wanted to play it as a kid. As an adult, I have had the funds to purchase all the original 32 figures (kinda), and enjoyed this mindless title, albeit a little late. Mastery took longer than expected, and I did it BEFORE it received a 2x multiplier lmao
I made a RAview for this as well

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga - We've all played this before, and on a plethora of platforms as well. I was scared of the misables in the beginning, but they're honestly not that bad.
Of course, I made a RAview of this set too.

Mario Kart Wii - Too frustrating to master in time, but easy enough to beat for a point.

Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes - As this is one of my favourite games of all time, I think it is horrendously overlooked. This is also where I spent 33% of my time during the event lmao. I was racing a couple of other RA users to mastery, and ultimately got 2nd place due to life getting in the way. Big shoutouts to RA user Caelixx for being first to reach "beaten" and RA user EEez for being first to master this monster of a set. It was great fun!
RAview is coming!

Super Smash Bros. Brawl - It was really appealing to earn a free three points by beating the subspace emissary, but I never got around to actually doing it. I'm not very good at this game.

DreamWorks Super Star Kartz - This was fairly mindless to master. The most difficult part were time trials, but you can quite easily beat them with 10-20 seconds to spare.
Of all the games on my list, this one frustrated me so much I made a RAview of it. It's real bad.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 1st Edition - Google. Not all these games are bangers. In fact, let's get them out of the way.

Learning with the PooYoos: Episode 1

Learning with the PooYoos: Episode 2

Learning with the PooYoos: Episode 3

Golden Balls

Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails

M&M's Kart Racing - As a game, this one is better than the DreamWorks kart racer from before. As a set, it is fairly grindy with having to earn money to buy all karts for all characters, as well as actually developing skill to beat the time trials.
Another RAview for this one! It's been a while.

MySims: Agents - I adore this game. It was my first exposure to the MySims franchise, and it really just hits different. It has a fairly engaging story, weird ass detective plots, and so, so much customization. It's got some pretty challenging puzzles too!
RAview is coming!

MySims: Kingdom - I loved Agents so much I immediately went to play Kingdom. This one is... not for me. It's especially not meant to be rushed like I did. You're supposed to take your time and make each area of the world beautiful in your own eyes, and not simply spam stats at them like I did. Story is also a lot more loosey-goosey than Agents.

Animal Crossing: City Folk - Quite an easy "beat" for a whopping 3 points, simply grinding and selling foreign fruit for just under 8 hours. Very menial, perfect for decoupling after work. It worked out great as the game was part of Achievement of the Week 2026 earlier in the year.

Time for me to spam LEGO for you to step on

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 - This one deserved the 2x multiplier way more than Complete Saga in my opinion. The game is HUGE with no way to track collectibles you've gotten in the hub whatsoever.

LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game - Great take on a LEGO game in my opinion. It has so many cool little details in character animation and features actual sword fighting!

LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues - Beating this was already an Achievement of the Month, so going as far as mastering it seemed well worth it in my book. As a game it is horribly. Might make a RAview of it. Idk yet.

Crash of the Titans - Mastering this was my ticket to grandmaster, but an in-game glitch is preventing me from earning a single achievement, so I dropped it and went away with a simple "beat". The time investment it would have taken to master would not have been worth it in the end, if you wanna think about it like that. Still saddens me a bit.

Phineas and Ferb: Quest for Cool Stuff - I pivoted to this at the last minute (saturday 18th) to try and make it in time. I was surprised to find such a neat platformer in this game, and Doof always has great banter.

What badge did you end up with? And more importantly, what games did you play to reach your goal? Did you play anything new and fun for you? Or did you take the path of least resistance like I mostly did? I'd love to hear about it and be exposed to more wii titles!

Personally, I only go to a specific achievement's page either to look for tips before earning it, or commenting on the experience after earning it. I think it's great when someone does it, and I have been thanked a few times for my comments.

There's always a thought in the back of my head that it'll ruin the experience for someone, as if the achievement becomes a checklist they have to go through this way. One solution I can think of is having spoiler tags in achievement comments, but I don't know if that's something the community wants or even needs.

What your opinion on comments spoiling how to earn achievements?

APPROACHING SOUND BARRIER!!!

Set Stats

Total achievements: 36

Missable achievements: 0!!!

Progression achievements: 1

100% save file achievements: 15

Challenge achievements: 20

Time to reach mastery: 3h 40m

The Game

This is a... very strange but straight-forward game. You get to play as any of your favourite M&M colours in a high-paced race around the world (as long as it isn't purple or brown). While it may be classified as a kart racer, this game does not supply you any items to attack your opponents or lay traps. This, my friends, is truly the game CTR fans wish CTR was.

Instead, the track is littered with chocolate coins that you use to purchase new vehicles with. Coins that don't respawn on your 3 lap race. Another way to earn coins is to do a wheelie in your 4-wheeled vehicle by tapping a directional button, earning you 1 choco coin per second you wheelie for up to 10 seconds at a time. This is important if you're going for mastery, because you will need to grind.

The reason for that is rather silly. There are 4 unlockable cars in the game. The more expensive the car, the better its stats. Quite simple. However. Buying a car only unlocks it for that character. Meaning you'll need to acquire just about 2,000 choco coins per character. Absolute insanity. Also there is no speed penalty during a wheelie, for some reason.

Anyway, the game is quite bad. It controls horribly, the physics give up when you are going down hill, and each "character" has but a single voice line they spam over and over. Also, a narrator who screams APPROACHING SOUND BARRIER!!! when you reach top speed. Which happens every couple of frames due to physics unintentionally slowing you down just a tad.

It is also literally impossible to beat the tournament mode without buying the 2nd most expensive car, because the CPU's drive impossibly fast as you progress. So yeah. I'm not saying it's fun.

Controls

The controls are quite difficult to figure out when emulating the wii-mote. There is no support for the nunchuck, and so you must hold the wii-mote sideways to play, just like Mario Kart. I've linked my emulated wii remote profile that I used with my PS4 controller for you to download, should you not want to set it up yourself. There aren't very many controls though.

You can download it here: https://drive.proton.me/urls/Z3V4XKA0FW#VyNGhrN5Zs60

PS button: Wii button (function)

D-pad up/down: D-pad left/right (menu navigation)

Cross: 2 (gas pedal, menu confirm)

Square: 1 (menu back, cancel, hop)

R1: D-pad up (wheelie)

Left analog stick: Tilting (turning)

Start: + (pause)

The Set

If you manage to get past the awful controls of the game, the set itself is actually quite good (I could do without grinding chocolate coins though.) The cheevo titles are funny, and I think this is the first game I've played on RA with an achievement that actually grants 0 points for unlocking it (ASMR Tire Screeching Sounds). It also has the single best achievement I've had to earn.

Aside from that, you have the usual suspects - get a perfect start, beat all races, try all modes, you know the deal. The speedrun / time trial achievements for this are surprisingly difficult, and will likely cost you more than 1 attempt. And it's not even because of the controls! The times are just that tight. I can honestly almost recommend trying out the set purely for the time trials, which is a sentence I never thought I'd say.

The Verdict

As with most trashy wii games, I played this title for a couple of easy Wii Launch Event points. I would NOT have touched this game with a 5 foot pole otherwise.

But in terms of those points, this is a fairly easy set to play. Hard to say no to 2 whole points for just under 4 hours of play.

Links 'n stuff

Thanks to RA user Griffin! I wouldn't have experienced this disaster of a game if it wasn't for you :] (affectionate)

Explore the set yourself!: https://retroachievements.org/game/34596

Read my previous mastery here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroAchievements/comments/1titzn5/mastery_69_dreamworks_super_star_kartz_wii/

I need King Julian to stfu

Set Stats

Total achievements: 46

Missable achievements: 0!!!

Challenge achievements: 12

Progression achievements: 16

100% save file achievements: 18

Time to reach mastery: 7h 50m

The Game

This is Dreamwork's attempt to jump on the Mario Kart success wagon, and while I don't have the data from when this game was released in 2011, I highly doubt it reached the same status.

It has what you can expect from a multi-IP kart racer - playable characters from various franchises, tracks based on those same franchises, and recognisable(?) items re-purposed into weaponry. Shrek, Madagascar, Monsters vs. Aliens, How To Train Your Dragon, this game has it all!
... Except an enjoyable gameplay experience

There is absolutely no way the people behind this game came up with the movie Turbo (y'know, the racing snail movie?) because a regular snail could outrun these karts. I thought I was going to have to spend WEEKS getting through this because simply holding the A button to go forward seemingly barely works, even on 150cc.

It may sound like I'm overexaggerating, but it really is that frustrating. To top it off, the game has 9 tracks + 3 of them played in reverse, totaling 12 tracks, though I find it hard to justify calling it a reversed track separate.

To beat the game, you must complete all 4 cups on every difficulty, as well as the games challenges modes, which we'll get to.

Cups

How are there 4 cups per difficulty with only 12 tracks? Because each cup only has 3 tracks silly! Meaning you have to slowly drag your way through the same bits of scenery 16 times against CPU players who straight up cheat more and more as you increase the difficulty level. Seriously, these guys are reaching speeds I could only dream of on straights. Race around each track for 3 laps to win. There's not much more to it. It's just plain boring.

Challenge modes

Not gonna lie, I was kind of curious to see what other modes this game had to offer, but it turns out it's just more of the same. Yeah, the challenge modes are just the same races again, but this time with a limited item pool! Such as only turbo items, only homing rockets and shields, etc. Very cool and very fun stuff! help me

The Set

The set is fairly bland as it is with most kart racers, forcing you to experience all the game's super fun modes to their fullest..!

Progression - 16 cheevos

Is what it says on the tin. Win every cup on every cc for 16 achievements. get grindin'.

100% save file - 18 cheevos

While you get a DreamWorks Icon for each cup you win, every track also has 2 hidden ones for you to find and collect. Collecting both icons in a track awards you with an achievement, making up 12 of the set's achievements.

I used this beautiful guide from 14 years ago to track them down. They can be quite out of the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln5taO36PSY

The remaining 6 achievements are for beating every track in every challenge mode. These seem to unlock in some sort of order as you collect more DreamWorks Icons, but the game doesn't tell you how many icons to unlock any specific race. Or cup. Or cc.

Challenge achievements - 12 cheevos

Guinea did also add time trial cheevos for each of the 12 tracks, but they can easily be beaten with a good 20 seconds to spare for the most part. Not to say that's bad. I think it's good to have speedrun cheevos with generous leeway every now and again. While it may not be such a huge achievement to me, cheevos like these could be the gateway for someone to pick up a new hobby.

The Verdict

A lot of people seem very nostalgic to play this game, and I don't get it. I'm honestly stuck between deeming this or M&M's Kart Racing as the worst kart racer I personally have played.

Can't deny that it's piss easy Wii Launch Event points tho.

Links 'n stuff

Thanks to RA user Guinea, i guess. I wouldn't have gotten to experience this mediocre kart racer if it wasn't for you!

Explore the set yourself!: https://retroachievements.org/game/34609

Read my previous mastery here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroAchievements/comments/1smen81/mastery_68_lego_star_wars_the_complete_saga_wii/

So could you guess it? :]

Full list of words (I couldn't include all of them TT)

Aunt, Crayon, Crown, Roof, Route, Theatre, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Almond, Water, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Oil, Again, Mirror, Probably, Alabama, Been, Caribbean, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Pyjamas, Caught, Cot, Naturally, Aluminum, Doorknob, Drawer, Envelope, Nucleus, Washing, Tomato, Where, Often, Greasy, Columbus, Minnesota, Florida, Ask, Pen, Bag, Marry, Merry, Mary, Really, Flourish