Checked out some DBZ stuff in honor of the GOAT's passing. I'm mostly familiar with Budokai 3, never played this one before.
I do like the story mode's structure, presenting the story just like the anime, with the intros and recaps and such. But I wish there's more of it, the mode is so brief and skips a lot of cool stuff from the original story.
This is one of the earlier PS2 DBZ games, and even then the game still looks pretty nice. The 3D art style is well directed, and sufficiently matches the anime and manga's aesthetics. It definitely would have blown my mind away if I was a DBZ fan back when this came out.
The gameplay is pretty rough in this one. I never liked the way you do special attacks in these games, I wish you can just input a quarter circle forward or something like that for a Kamehameha instead of the punch button sequence. But beyond that, the feel of the controls is just a bit off, it's can be sluggish and awkwardly unsatisfying at times. Not to mention the game still lacks some visual oomph that the later DBZ games would have.
Budokai 1 is a decent start that would set up some of the best DBZ games ever made, and that's all it really needed to do. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to continue my DBZ binge.
I do like the story mode's structure, presenting the story just like the anime, with the intros and recaps and such. But I wish there's more of it, the mode is so brief and skips a lot of cool stuff from the original story.
This is one of the earlier PS2 DBZ games, and even then the game still looks pretty nice. The 3D art style is well directed, and sufficiently matches the anime and manga's aesthetics. It definitely would have blown my mind away if I was a DBZ fan back when this came out.
The gameplay is pretty rough in this one. I never liked the way you do special attacks in these games, I wish you can just input a quarter circle forward or something like that for a Kamehameha instead of the punch button sequence. But beyond that, the feel of the controls is just a bit off, it's can be sluggish and awkwardly unsatisfying at times. Not to mention the game still lacks some visual oomph that the later DBZ games would have.
Budokai 1 is a decent start that would set up some of the best DBZ games ever made, and that's all it really needed to do. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to continue my DBZ binge.