Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butouden
Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butōden (ドラゴンボールZ 超究極武闘伝, Doragon Bōru Z Chō Kyūkyoku Butōden, lit. "Dragon Ball Z Super Ultimate Fighter") is an fighting game released on the Nintendo 3DS. The game was first announced on the April issue of Shueisha's magazine on Saturday that the 2D fighting game will arrive on the 3DS this summer. The game features over 100 fighters in both one-on-one and team battles. It will have a story mode where you go through sagas as either the heros or villains. A demo has been released for Japanese 3DS's with the help of a code. In the demo you can play as Goku, Vegeta, Teen Gohan, and Buu. You can play on 5 stages. It was released on June 11, 2015 in Japan. On June 9, 2015, two days before the Japanese release, there were reports that the game was classified on June 4th, on the Australian ratings board, which hinted the localization of the game. It was confirmed by Bandai Namco on June 23 that the game will be released in the West in mid to late October.
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But the gameplay is so, so, fun and polished. The pixelart is great too, it's a game that you appreciate and understand more after playing arcade fighting games from the 90s (specially the Capcom ones)
This game wins the award for "funniest retelling of the DBZ story". Three fights for the Saiyan Saga, four for Frieza, two for the entire Android Saga, and only one fight for the Buu Saga. Hours of the anime and many chapters of the manga reduced to single one-sentence textboxes, absolutely amazing. It was probably a time constraint thing, but I find that incredibly funny.
Admittedly, I didn't really play a whole lot of this game. It seems rather extensive, actually. Beating the DBZ recap unlocks other modes (one of them is apparently the real story of the game), and a bunch of "what if" stories from other characters' perspectives.
But... this game is just too boring for me to care. This is a button masher if there ever was one. Maybe later on you can employ actual strategy, but what I played you could get away with spamming and win easily, and I just couldn't care enough to push through to other modes. The game looks quite pleasant despite the 3DS's limited resolution, but if all a game has to offer to me is some nice spritework, I'm afraid I've no reason to stick around.