Underrated DBZ action. It plays like Street Fighter, but with a 3rd axis to shimmy or dash around the opponent. There’s a medium sized character roster with some neat choices you don’t see playable often; like Chi Chi and King Piccolo.

Hardly anyone has mentioned the impressive customization cards in this game. Where u pick a character, level up, and earn dragon balls to summon Shenron and wish for more characters, costumes, special moves, stat advantages, and other bonuses. Very satisfying progression for a game with only ‘arcade mode’ (where every character unfortunately sees the same ending) or ‘survival mode’, which is so damn hard i doubt anyone can beat it without maxing out your chosen accrued skills on a custom character.

The raw combat here is real engaging, and I find the customization is a decent enough draw to play more and more. You gotta appreciate that they ported this hardcore tournament fighting game to consoles and bothered to throw in more content than Capcom would back then. This game does a lot with a little