Some of the fighting games have basically granted you control of the hero characters and dropped you in a sandbox to seek out the bad guys to advance the story so Kakarot isn’t completely unfamiliar. It is basically a hybrid fighter/RPG that takes the player through the entire DBZ story, something that has been retold countless times in video game form, but it definitely looks to have a great deal more polish than past games. When I heard about Kakarot it did get my attention. I never heard great things about any of them, not that I heard truly negative things either, so I never sought it out. Other RPG or RPG-style games have followed for Dragon Ball, but I never gave any a shot. Years later I would order a cart on eBay, but it was misdelivered to the wrong address so I never got it and I was out a meager sum of money (this was before the collector market explosion in prices) and I never tried to get another copy. The sequel was much better received, but I never played it. That game wasn’t a true RPG and more like a Zelda clone, but it was different so it had that going for it.
There was a similar title released for the Game Boy Color that flew under the radar a bit and that was due to Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku sucking up all of the attention on the Game Boy Advance. I even played a ROM hack of the first one and managed to complete it and found it to be a satisfactory experience. And it had in the past in the form of a few card battlers for the Famicom. I was, and still am, mostly into role-playing games so naturally I wanted to see DBZ expand to that genre. Wrestling games and DBZ were really the only fighters I was still dabbling in and they had their own flavor, for sure, but eventually I got burnt out. I played so many fighting games in the 90s that come the 2000’s I had mostly moved on. The only problem for me is I found myself getting tired of the fighting genre. The good thing was that the games only seemed to get better from there. It was not a great game, but compared to the crap that came before it it felt like a masterpiece. I was a day one buyer of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai when it was released on the PlayStation 2 in 2002. Once Dragon Ball Z picked up in popularity in the west the better games started to follow. In Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot you will play as Goku, as well as other characters, and basically relive the entirety of Dragon Ball Z and then some via an open world environment and lots, and lots, of battles.
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The only games released outside of Japan were Dragon Power for the NES, a sidescroller that was altered to the point of being unrecognizable as a Dragon Ball game, and Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout, a truly godawful 3D fighter based on the mediocre sequel anime series to DBZ. And trust me on that because I did import some and they sucked. The best games were mediocre, at best, and none of them were truly worth the price. Unfortunately, 99% of the DBZ games at the time were region-locked to Japan and if you went through the trouble of either importing them or downloading them you got to find out that they were also terrible. Street Fighter 2 has fireballs and “ki” type attacks, but they weren’t anything like they were in DBZ.
The first time I ever watched a fight unfold on Dragon Ball Z I knew I wanted to experience that in video game form. The good thing about not playing a lot of games is that I never got around to playing a lot of the latest and greatest for the PlayStation 4 or Nintendo Switch, and since it’s cheap to port and upscale an older game, there’s a ton of that sort of thing available on PS5 which lead me to Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot. And ideally, that something would be budget friendly. I need a break from action figure reviews so why not turn to the world of video games? I don’t get to play many these days, but I did splurge on a PlayStation 5 not that long ago and was looking for something to play.
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