DBZ: Legends
System: Sony
PlayStation
Release Date: May, 1996
Dragon Ball Z Legends
reinacts the great battles of the Dragon Ball Z story, including
the battle against Nappa, Vegita, the Ginew Force, Freeza, Androids
No. 19 and No. 20, Androids No. 16, No. 17, and No. 18, Cell,
Darbura, Buu, Super Buu, and Kid Buu. It's all here. The story
unfolds in cinematic sequences between battles. Try to follow
as closely to the real story as you can, or pick any 3 of the
characters you've beaten so far and fight against your friend
and his 3 favorites.
Dragon Ball Z Legends
plays very much like the fantastic Legend
of SonGoku game for the PC-Engine (TurboDuo), although it lacks the cinematics and variety of its predecessor. The main
difference is that in this game there can be up to 3 characters
on either side of the battle. The battles are fought until the
balance of power is swayed completely in one direction, after
which the selected character unleashes a huge and usually spectacular
attack on his opponent. Speaking of characters, there are a
lot of them! After beating the game there are a total of 35
characters to choose from in the Versus mode. Being able to
power up and fly fast creates a cool effect, and all of the
sound effects are straight from the show. Watching the battles
is at times much like watching the series. The story starts
with the battle with Nappa and Vegeta and moves through the
end of the series (the battle with Boo). In most cases you can
make things happen the way they did in the original series,
but you don't have to. All in all this is a great game!
Like the PC-Engine
game, the play mechanics are very strange at first. Pushing
up moves you toward your opponent, and pushing down moves you
away. There are no special combos really, and the super moves
are executed automatically. I wish more of the characters had
more than one attack. Kuririn doesn't even do his kienzan, and
Trunks doesn't do his Finish Buster. You don't have to win the
fights in the way they were won in the series like you do in
the PC-Engine game, which is kind of silly at times. For example,
Vegeta can defeat Boo in the final battle, instead of Goku.
Like the Big Bang Attack could have killed Boo...oh well.
;) The Playstation version
of this game is just a bit on the easy side. I beat it in a
very short time the first time I played. Also, the Versus mode
is almost worthless against a buddy unless you both only choose
1 character, as the action gets too far away and you can't tell
what is going on. Still, this is the best Dragon Ball game that
has been released for the Playstation, and it shouldn't be hard
to find since it was released in massive quantities due to its
popularity (it was even re-released in the PlayStation Best
series in Japan).
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- Fast fighting
action, just like on the show
- Follows the entire
Dragon Ball Z story
- Great sound effects
- Nice looking special
attacks
- Can be frustrating
and confusing
- Two player mode
is almost unplayable
- Intro movie isn't
very good
- Not really a straight
up fighting game
   
Expect some soon.
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