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When it comes to fighting mechanics, Dragon Ball Z tends not to shine so the stories need to do the heavy lifting. Budokai set such a strong precedent, properly adapting the anime with full cutscenes up to the Cell Games, but Budokai 2 ends up resetting the plot in favor of Mario Party shenanigans and a story that gets just about every major detail wrong. Also, no cutscenes. Raging Blast is basically what you get if you strip down Budokai Tenkaichi t o its base parts and release it before putting back the customization and roster.

Perhaps the best things Raging Blast brings to the table is fully destructible environments, battle damage, and even mid-battle facial expressions. It actually feels like an episode of Dragon Ball Z at times, with characters and the environment noticeably decaying with time. What is it about Dragon Ball Z that attracts developers to make such lazy story modes? Remove that, and you just have mindless violence.

Raging Blast 2 , while fixing just about everything that was wrong with the original, takes a huge step back with the story mode, opting for a few loose missions for each character. At least you can play as Hatchiyack. Following the success of Budokai 3 , Budokai Tenkaichi had to really impress. The Budokai series had just hit its peak and whatever followed needed to be better.

Unfortunately, Budokai Tenkaichi was not better and felt quite sloppy in comparison. It does a better job of capturing the Dragon Ball Z storyline than Budokai 2 —at the very least— but the decision to split every arc into mini-segments that you had to unlock and jump back and forth from created a serious lack of cohesion.

When it comes down to it, Budokai Tenkaichi was just a rough draft for the sequels that would perfect its formula. Not just that, but it was the only Budokai Tenkaichi game to focus exclusively on 2 v 2 action. Maintaining the same three-dimensional combat from Budokai Tenkaichi , Tag Team translates surprisingly well to the handheld although not without its faults.

Part of the appeal of Budokai Tenkaichi was its massive roster, which Tag Team is simply lacking. The story mode is also rougher in terms of quality compared to its PSP brethren. While it may not do anything new in terms of story presentation, a decent amount of care has been put into the gameplay to at least make it unique and stand out.

To accommodate the heavy emphasis on team-based combat, the story mode is actually slightly adjusted to make the major battles feature multiple characters fighting at once. Unlike Budokai 2 which altered the story without much thought to force Goku into every major altercation, Battle of Z takes a bit more care with its story and actually makes an attempt at having the story make sense and still feel like Dragon Ball Z.

A Budokai game on a handheld with a completely new story. Sort of. Shin Budokai for the PSP pretty much takes the Budokai formula and transfers it to the small screen with great success. The story takes place a few years after the defeat of Majin Buu and sees our heroes dealing with the demon Janemba.

Growing up while Dragon Ball Z was airing was an experience unlike any other. Before Dragon Ball Super came along and explained what has been happening to him, the video games had to fill in the blanks. Nowadays the Dragon Ball franchise has hundreds of games, including many free browser games. Dragon Ball Z Games Best. Popular New. Dragon Ball Z : Buu's Fury. What is a Dragon Ball Z game?

Master Roshi thinks about Goku's abilities and he sees that Goku crushed not beat the Red Ribbon Army by attacking in a straight approach. The Red Ribbon Army had weapons, firepower, and resources, but Goku managed to defeat them.

Roshi also says that if he took on the Red Ribbon Army himself, he would have fought them in a different approach, and claims that Goku may be stronger than him.

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