

Up to this point, any Dragon Ball title has been all about endless fighting. When I heard that DBZ: Kakarot would be an open world experience I was a bit worried about how that would play out. It isn’t just about the fighting, it’s about these character’s lives and the in-between moments that make them as popular as for their fighting skills.

Starting events from before the arrival of Goku’s brother Raditz, you get to actually stop and smell the roses while picking up apples and fishing with Gohan before heading home and getting blasted by ChiChi for having taken too much time gathering the ingredients for lunch. Where it never ventured however was to re-create Dragon Ball’s version of Earth that could be explored somewhat at your own pace with tons of things to see, collect, and side quest stories to do between the heavy handed button mashing.ĭragon Ball Z: Kakarot takes that new approach to the Dragon Ball series that made going through the story for the xth time actually quite enjoyable. It created a story that had yet to be told and you got to hang out with Adult Trunks, who basically leads the time police.


It lets you live them.įor what will probably be one last comparison to the aforementioned Xenoverse, in Xenoverse, you got to create your own custom fighter who leveled up and learned new abilities to fight against those that would change the timeline to suit their own nefarious deeds. Hack// and Naruto games, has finally made a Dragon Ball story that does more than retell the events of Dragon Ball Z. With titles such as Dragon Ball Xenoverse and Fighter-Z bringing the series right into the gaming sphere’s limelight, CyberConnect2, the makers of the. Having started back in 1984, the Dragon Ball series has seen a giant manga run, anime series, video games, movies, and with the more recent Battle of the Gods kicking off Dragon Ball Super, the series saw a return to relevance after that abysmal original finale that was Dragon Ball GT. You would be hard pressed to find a series that has the mass-market appeal of Dragon Ball.
