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. 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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