Dragon Ball Z The Legacy Of Goku 3
May 14, 2002 Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku is an action/adventure RPG based on Dragon Ball Z. The game was developed by Webfoot Technologies, the first American company to make a Dragon Ball Z video game for the Game Boy Advance. The Legacy of Goku is. One of the many video games based on the manga and anime Dragon Ball. This game is a continuation of The Legacy of Goku series. You can choose between several characters from the anime such as Son Gohan, Piccolo, Vegeta, Trunks and Goku.
No, you haven't died and gone to meet King Yemma, DBZ fans. The first of Infogrames' games based on Akira Toriyama's mega-popular animated and comics series has arrived.
Legacy of Goku is an action-RPG based on the first three DBZ sagas: Saiyan, Namek and Frieza. As Goku, you battle evil and save the universe with fists of fury and fiery projectiles.
Don't know anything about DBZ? Allow us to give you the gist: In each episode of the show, a bunch of people (called Saiyans) with wily hair, rippling muscles and moon boots fight and talk about power levels for a half hour. These battles are commonly over control of the Dragon Balls (seven are scattered around the planet that, if collected, grant the gatherer any wish he/she desires) and sometimes span several episodes. We can assure you, LoG is shorter than the 185 half-hour shows.
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Legacy of Goku gets a lot of things right--the graphics are some of the best I've seen on GBA, the sound is good, and it follows the convoluted DBZ storyline pretty darn accurately (albeit abridged). For those reasons alone, most hardcore DBZ fans will be able to overlook its problems. But I can't. The enemies are unfairly difficult, and close combat isn't an option, lust hitting a creature who is all over you (which is all of them) is next to impossible to do with any accuracy, much less delivering the multiple hits it takes to put 'em down. You're left using long-range projectile attacks that are safer but still difficult to land because your opponents move so erratically, as if they're going to act out a tribal dance before killing you. lust as you're fleeing this onslaught, part of that beautiful background you thought you were walking around inevitably blocks your movement, stopping you cold and giving your attacker a free shot. Wonderful. The gameplay (when you're not being chased by hordes of creatures) is pretty good, but simplistic. Bring an item here, find this person, plant these trees--nothing new, though if you've never played an action-RPG before, you may have some difficulty, especially in the Temple area of Namek. (The game has an unbelievably nasty habit of not fully explaining minor details, leaving a lot to trial-and-error.) This might be the best game ever spawned by DBZ, but it still falls just shy of good.
As someone who's never been a big fan of Dragon Ball, I came into The Legacy of Goku mainly just hoping for a solid action-RPG, regardless of the DBZ name. Now that I'm done, about the best thing I can say is that I don't necessarily regret the experience. Goku isn't bad--it's just that with a few adjustments, it could've been a lot better. The controls are too stiff (you can't even move diagonally), and battling enemies is both frustrating and boring thanks to touchy hit detection and extremely repetitive fights. It's too bad, 'cause the underlying game is pretty decent if a bit too short for an RPG. A good rental for casual RPGers.
I have a dark secret: I'm a Dragon Ball fan. Hey, it's not my fault. I've been reading the books since the series started, and I happen to enjoy the exploits of Goku and co. If nothing else, DBZ does a good job of condensing the 'Z' storyline into a eight-hour game that functions, on the basest level, as a guided tour through the world of Dragon Ball. But that's the only reason I dig this mediocre action-RPG. Holding the game back are some clumsy controls and a wimpy combat system. The rest of the 'action' is made up of a never-ending series of fetch quests that are useful for little more than killing time. This one's for younger kids and hardcore fans only.
Dragon Ball Z The Legacy Of Goku 2
First episode of a trilogy of adventure games, The Legacy of Goku starts at the very beginning of the Dragon Ball Z series. While Goku visits childhood friends, the cruel Raditz appears and reminds him that he was sent to Earth to destroy the human race. Goku refusing to join him, Raditz will kidnap his young son Gohan...
Released in 2002 for Game Boy Advance (Nintendo), play here the online version of this RPG true to the DBZ series.
Game Controls:
Enter: Start
Bkspace: Select
Arrows: Move
Z: Button A
X: Button B
A: Button L
S: Button R
See also:
Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku 2
Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury