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"Dragonball Z: Legacy of Goku" was the first game I bought on GBA. I bought it because I'm a huge fan of DBZ. I was pretty disappointed, however, because this game isn't exactly what you would call exciting.

The game begins at the beginning of the Sayian saga and ends just after the Freezer saga. You can only play as Goku.

This game's main flaw is that, while DBZ is essentially an action anime, "Legacy of Goku" is more like a quest game, with very little action. You spend more time looking for items and trying to help out local strangers than actually battling enemies. It gets pretty frustrating after a while. Quest games are challenging and fun in their own right, but it just doesn't suit DBZ. Besides, who cares about a lost kitty cat when the fate of the world is at stake?

Also, what enemies you do fight on the way are pretty pathetic at the beginning. I mean, it's sort of sad seeing Goku, who could battle incredibly strong beings when he was twelve, have to fight snakes, wolves and bank robbers.

As for the battles against the stronger enemies (Raditz, Nappa, Vegeta, Frieza and his men), they feel very repeatitive, mostly because Goku's techniques are very limited. He can do a kai blast (which doesn't do much damage), the solar flare and the kamehameha (which can't reach anything beyond a few feet). He can also fly for a limited time, but that move is mostly used for reaching inaccessible places or for getting away from enemies. Also, he can hit with his fists, but you can never use that against strong enemies, because as soon as you get close to them, they hurt you. So it's rather hard to do anything in battle other than solar flare + kamehameha + run away and start all over again until your enemy is dead. Eventually, you have to go hide in a corner and wait for your energy to recharge.
The bird's eye view angle, the primitive graphics and Goku's excrutiating slowness (he can't even run) also contribute to this game's dullness.

I'm not saying this game was too dull to finish, but Dragonball Z definetely deserved better. Hopefully, the sequel will be more advanced.

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When I first saw this game on the bargain shelf at Hastings, I was thrilled. I thought, "Yay, I can finally get this cool game at a cheap price." I drove home, popped the game in, and watched the opening movie. (A shortened version of the show's opening) It was cool. I started playing. I played for a while, having fun controlling the most powerful sayain in the universe, when suddenly, I died. I had been killed by the most terryifying, the most hideous, the most evil creature in the whole galaxy...a small dog.

This happended a few mor times, until i finally got past that point, after which I thought, "Hey, it's okay, I'll be able to level up and get better at beating these terrible dogs."

At some point several days later I beat the final boss of the game, Freiza, then mentally shot myself in the head for ever buying this excuse for a game.

The premise is simple. You move around with a top down view similar to Zelda. You can punch to kill enemies close up, or use a ki attack to attack them from afar. You gain three different ki techniques. The ki blast is a simply a shot of energy that hits enemies for less damage than a punch. Then there is the famous Kamehameha Wave which you get from King kai later in the game, regardless of the fact that Goku could use that attack in the show before he even knew that the King existed. Finally you learn the solar flare before your first fight, and before the K wave. this is where the game goes from being merely horrible, to being utterly, boringly terrible. Now fights with any enemy progress like this. Solar Flare..punch enemy a few times...RUN AWAY!...lather, rinse, repeat. That's pretty much it. Not only that, but they give you lots of stupid tasks that weren't even in the show that range from slightly relevant( Returning lost artifacts to a Namek temple) to things that anyone going after a guy who kidnapped his son would never do. (Saving a girls kitty-cat). These irrelevant tasks added to the mediocre gameplay, and imbalance of power between enemies turns what could have been a great game, into one of the worst experiences I have ever had in my gaming life. There goes about 5 hours of my life. The only way I can atone for this is by making sure that no one else goes through this torture. Run..don't walk..away from any copy of this game. you will thank yourself later.