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Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku is a linear action adventure that pretty much follows the cartoon’s plotline to a tee. The game opens as our hero, Goku, watches in horror as his son, Gohan, is kidnapped. The quest to get his son back takes this guy from Master Roshi’s Island, to the Home for Infinite Losers, back to earth, and continues on through the entire storyline of the Dragon Ball Z series. If you’re looking for an accurate representation of the story-arc of the series, you’ve got it. If you’re looking for an accurate representation of the series’ style, well…you’re not going to get it.

As players continue through the game, they’ll earn experience points by talking to characters, completing quests, and, of course, defeating enemies. As you get deeper into the quest and become stronger, you’ll gain additional combat abilities and increase in speed. And more speed is definitely a good thing…Goku walks around like he’s sloshing through mud…you may find your thumb aching from pressing the D-pad more forcefully, as if that’s going to help this guy move faster.

This design is a far cry from the wild, exaggerated action sequences that the Dragon Ball Z is known for — these battles aren’t the wacky, over-the-top airborne fist-and-fury fights that Dragon Ball Z fans expect out of hte series. No, these battles have been reduced into a very traditional ground-based control scheme. Players control Goku in an overhead scrolling environment that attempts to mimic the Japanese-style RPG, but it’s extremely crude and clumsy. You can only move up, down, left and right…no diagonals allowed. Which means, to walk up and left, you need to perform a really awkward “staircase” motion with the D-pad. What’s worse is that Goku’s sprite is a bit sticky in places, latching onto background objects because of the items’ wide collision border.

If you’re not learned in the way of Dragon Ball Z, you may find yourself confused with just what the heck is going on . It’s a sloppy presentation since the designers don’t clean up the transitions to orient the players. When you perish and end up in HFIL, it just happens. No elaborate sequence to show the passage of time…you just appear in a new location. Conversations are held via text boxes with character faces of who’s talking…but the artwork is so small it’s a bit difficult to tell who is who in those little squares. And most confusingly: you can save your position anywhere in the game, but it isn’t clear what is actually saved to cartridge…when you restore the game, you have all your health back, but all enemies you’ve defeated are alive and well. So, essentially, players can cheat and build up their experience and combat by saving and loading their games, defeating enemies over and over.

Features

Ten hour quest
In-game clock
Cartridge save (two slots)
Only for Game Boy Advance

Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku is an action role-playing game for the Game Boy Advance. Its storyline condenses the entire 92 episodes of the Saiyan Saga into a single video game. Fans of the series will enjoy the subject matter and lengthy list of cameo appearances, but devout RPG players won’t find anything to sink their teeth into–since the game is short, easy, and lacking in imagination.

You assume the role of Goku, who is on vacation to visit Master Roshi on Turtle Island. Soon after his arrival, Raditz–Goku’s long-lost Saiyan brother–shows up and kidnaps Goku’s son, Gohan. This sends you on a quest to rescue Gohan, which the game ultimately forges into a succession of lengthy scavenger hunts and battles against notable series villains. All of the big names are present, including Vegeta, Frieza, Krillin, Piccolo, and King Kai.

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