Favourite Dragon Ball Z Games

[Blob55]

Which are your faviourite DBZ games? Which bits do you really like and which bits did you think could do with an improvement?

Budokai 3:

Pros:

• Lots of interesting unused Voice files
• Japanese lyrics to Budokai 2 Opening
• Interesting endings for your second play through of Dragon Universe

Cons:

• Pain to get Cell Jr. and Saibermen
• Only 11 out of 38 characters were given a Story in Dragon Universe, even though there are voice files for the rest of the characters suggesting all characters were once given a story mode
• Everything is very expensive

SuperSonic Warriors:

Pros:

• All playable characters have their own unique Story mode
• Unlike Budokai 3, the character you play as never dies through the story (unless they die before their story starts), so you can get interesting endings like Piccolo teaming up with Gotenks to kill Buu
• Some interesting things happen, like Krillin learning Kaioken and Spirit Bomb and Piccolo wishing King Piccolo back
• If you go through a whole story without dying once, you can sometimes get a bonus ending

Cons:

• Goku and Gohans story modes are very similar to what happens in the Animé
• Some things are ridiculously expensive, meaning you have to replay the same stories over and over to buy some content (Museum)
• You have to buy some characters, story modes, difficulties and character forms/levels (Each character has 3 levels. Goku with Kaioken is Level 1, Super Saiyan is Level 2 and Full Power Super Saiyan is Level 3)
• Attacks are very basic
• Music is odd and repetitive
• Uses the original cut dub version of why Goku turns into a Super Saiyan
• Many, many, many grammatical inconsistencies and errors ((How many can you count?) Gero: “… ha… It shows… You are definitely Goku’s son…But, you’re too late… No one can stop me!)

SuperSonic Warriors 2:

Pros:

• Playable characters goes up from 13 to 15
• Improved story mode, where you can take multiple paths depending on how you finished a battle
• Slightly more complex attacks
• More freedom to choose which level you'll do next
• You can actually unlock characters this time, instead of buying them

Cons:

• Too many support characters
• Missing some forms of playable characters, like Kid Buu and Brolys other forms
• Bad Engrish for some names

 

[evilpacman]

Budokai Tenkaichi 2. I just loved the huge battlefields and the fast paced battles felt very Dragonball Z-ish. The selection of characters was huge too. I especially enjoyed the real-time energy moves such as the Kamehameha. You could aim it in front of a fleeing opponent and charge it up for a few seconds or just let it go loose right away if you are in a pinch. Once you figured out a few complex combo's you could make the battles very interesting and less "button mashing" I never played Tenkaichi 3, but I suspect I would like that game too.

I didnt like how some of the moves were just reused for some of the lesser characters, especially when they had some unique moves in the anime. Super 17 for example had a typical beam move from his palm that could have been replaced by the finger shooter move (I dont know what to call it but he does it multiple times in GT).
I also wish there would have been more GT characters like Rildo and the other Dragons.

Legacy of Goku 2. This is one of my favorite GBA games. I loved almost everything about it. Not much to say for cons, but I will comment on the sequel. Buu's Fury was much too easy if you used all the points you gained with each level. I made it more challenging by only allocation about half of the points I earned.

 

[Teal]

Legacy of Goku 2
Legacy of Goku 2
Legacy of Goku 2

One of the best GBA games out there. <3 I finally got hold of 1 a few months ago but I can't play it since my GBA/DS fat is in Finland...

 

[Sprinklepock]

I've only played a handful of DBZ games, and can easily say the most memorable for me and my favorite would have to be Budokai 3. I can't really elaborate on why it's my favorite, though I can state that I enjoyed the roster available and the story mode.

 

[Card Slinger J]

My favorites currently are Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2 and 3 for the PS2, although I haven't gotten around to playing Dragon Ball Online which is a region locked MMO from South Korea where you have to download an English Patch to play it. For some strange reason when I saw gameplay footage of Dragon Ball Online it almost looks more like the recent Dragon Quest games than an actual Dragon Ball game due to Toriyama's character illustrations for it.

 

[Chariblaze]

Semi-potential spoilers for Legacy of Goku 2 and Buu's Fury

Buu's Fury, definitely Buu's Fury.

Legacy of Goku 2 was good, to be sure. I spent a good amount of time playing, though since my friends and I could never find Vinnie'e house (it's the part right before you confront Dr. Gero in his lab and he releases Androids 17 and 18 [right where DBZ Abridged currently is, actually]) all that time was pretty much spent replaying the parts before. Man, those parts were heavy. As an 8-or-something-year-old, up to this point my experience with games was pretty much just Pokemon and Shrek 2 on GBA (love that game!). Pretty much all the opening stuff in Legacy in Goku 2 is one-after-another of semi-disturbing stuff. A desolate future with an armless, spiky-haired Gohan and grown Trunks fighting the Androids, Gohan's dream sequence with Frieza, Gohan's mention of the animals in the forest being altered because of Garlic Jr., Frieza's demise, Piccolo's vendetta against the warlord outside of West City, the fact that three years could pass in a story, Goku keeling over--all crazy stuff for me, especially since I'd never seen DBZ. Heck, even Goku's permanent expression was slightly unsettling for the character that's supposed to be "nice":

For those scenes Legacy of Goku 2 definitely holds that "lots of potentially disturbing stuff" card. But gameplay was another story for me. It didn't really feel particularly fun, probably because it was actually sorta difficult. Enter Buu's Fury. It introduced a lot of standard RPG stuff, for the better imo. Stats that were as upgradeable as you wanted (I didn't even know you could upgrade them, not up until the final boss!), armor (Ox-king's Helmet ftw!), lots and lots of food types, regenerating mana, cooler collectibles, and more--I loved those gameplay additions... but it was the story that really got me in this one. I don't know, maybe it was because I was able to marathon through Buu's Fury, but I felt that it had a lot of great moments and locations. Masako's Circus, the ninja temple place, H.F.I.L., playing as Hercule, the three levels of Babidi's ship, Heaven, Jamemba--all of it was great, and for some reason, it sticks out better in my mind than LOG2.

One part of Buu's Fury I really, really liked was the music. From the title theme, to Masako's Circus, to Goku going SS3, to Babidi's ship, to East District 431, to-I could just go on all day. :X

I feel that Webfoot did a terrific job with the Legacy of Goku trilogy (well, aside form LOG1, that was very very bleh). They put in a lot of movie stuff in an order that makes sense: Desolate future with armless Gohan at the beginning of LOG2, Broly where Goten and Trunks are on their own, Jamemba where Goku and Vegeta are both in Other World--all great stuff, to the point where I didn't even know these things were different than the show. That's another thing--the stories of LOG2 and Buu's Fury are adapted well enough that I could generally tell you what happened in the Android, Cell, and Buu sagas while having only seen like 5 episodes max. Sure, there's a lot of filler stuff that the games excluded, but aside from that. And lastly, across all three games, the power curve is respected: Goku starts at Level 1 in LOG1, maxes at 25, shows up in LOG2 at like 30, where all characters max at 50. Next game, Gohan's done a bit of training the seven years between, such that he starts at Level 55. The max in Buu's Fury was wonderful.

Because of it's relative shortness if you know what you're doing, I find Buu's Fury very fun to replay, too--I've done at least 13 playthroughs, which is more than I can say for almost any game, maybe sans Pokemon. Man, Buu's Fury.