Finally!  Someone got it right!

And yeah, I'm glad it was just me or a random bug because that would be beyond shitty if that's what they made you do.

I walked all around that city and I didn't see the hide and seek mission at first but I also didn't know how to pull up the big screen map so I could have easily missed it.  When it came time to have a certain amount of XP for story missions, I didn't have enough XP so I had to do something, it's just a shame they made the hide and seek mission so far away and not near where you would actually be.

And other than the story missions, the hide and seek and shit missions I described above were the only ones available to me until I finished a few more story missions.

I actually think they would have a much better (albeit shorter) game if they took our the side missions completely. Climbing trees, jumping through forests, and playing hide and seek time and time again really detract from the fun battle system and nice visuals that make this game stand out.

Yes!  While doing all those side missions because every now and then I have to stop the story missions to get more XP I keep thinking of the Yahtzee Sonic Unleashed review.

He bitches about in order to actually play the game you have to collect coins and talked to useless people.  Naruto has that along with pointless side missions.  I would like it so much more if they would just let me play through the story mode and do side missions at my leisure.

I'd actually love if they took out the side missions completely and instead used the resources to animate more of these scenes from the anime that they only allude to. Having these fights from the actual anime series as the story missions is cool, but with the little backstory they give you on the fights you really can't appreciate it. Animating the introduction to each story missions would really help. Perhaps just keep the side stuff as something to do if you want a break from the story missions, but I'd be cool if they got rid of them completely

Unfortunate for the bolded, but I strongly agree.  The side missions get far to repetitive and boring after a while.

I would have liked for there to be a structured battle mode, similar to, say, Mortal Kombat.

Then again, I would have liked for there to be an online battle mode as well.  Oh well=/

A thread of Twersterm and so far he is called only 3 times a PS3 hater, you are doing better.

Twesterm is the angry video game nerd but then not funny imo.

Yeah, who needs side quests? Frack 'em. Frack 'em all!

I haven't played this game, but it's a common problem in most games these days.

Indeed, things are improving for him. All of his complaints are valid though.

Oh if only I was as funny as him, though I wouldn't want to be him.  Who would want to choke down that much Rolling Rock?  No wonder he's angry.

twestern hates something sony related , *shocked*.