Cute little licensed game. Nothing too fancy or complicated: the combat is streamlined and button-mashy (and that's normal, considering this is a gba game), the level design is often uninspired and sometimes a bit confusing. The music is nothing to write home about.

Stages are divided into normal sidescrolling beat-em-ups, flying stages, duels (with a different control scheme and fighting game mechanics), and some minigames. For such a short game, this is quite a lot of varety.

What really shines is the love for the source material, especially the incredible spritework and animation. For each and every saga depicted (from the start of the series, through the red ribbon arc and finally the evil king piccolo arc), the developers nailed the aesthetics of stages and bosses. I have some nitpicks, since the story has been condensed and altered, sometimes reasonably (I can understand why they wouldn't include Bulma flashing Muten in exchange for a dragonball), sometimes less reasonably (Goku loses both of the tenkaichi tournaments featured in this story, I don't get why they made him win them in this game).

But that's not really important, it doesn't take away from the charm of having such an underrated and under-represented part of the dragonball franchise immortalised in a short little (though somewhat unpolished) game.