Dragon Ball Z The Legacy Of Goku (series)
Amazon.com: dragon ball z the legacy of goku. Skip to main content. Try Prime All. (Series 4) 4.4 out of 5 stars 540. Get it as soon as Wed, Aug 21. Jan 17, 2020 Releasing in fall of 2004, was Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury. It dropped the Legacy of Goku moniker that originally left people with a bad taste in their mouth, and was a further refinement to their formula that had proven successful. It was, in every way, the opposite to the first Legacy of Goku game. Legacy of Goku II and Buu's Fury notably feature soundtracks consisting of remixes of the music composed by Bruce Faulconer for the original North American English dub of Dragon Ball Z. Hearing these epic songs straight out of the anime in 16-bit form is a real treat. Even fans of the original music are fine with it. Demonic Spiders.
Future Generations Are Not Thankful
I wasn’t expecting much from Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku, but I knew that as a onetime Dragon Ball fanatic sampling the thing would have to happen one day. This was one of the early Western-developed games in the vast pantheon of the license, and reputedly Webfoot Technologies got better with practice. It had nowhere to go but up after this insulting flotsam hit the market, that’s for sure.
The Legacy of Goku purports to adapt the entirety of the Z series from Raditz’s appearance up through the destruction of Namek. That nearly 100-episode span covers a lot of territory, and anyone with no knowledge of its events will be flummoxed and confused constantly in this game. The plot sequences in Legacy of Goku take up less than ten minutes in total, and fail completely at acclimating anyone unfamiliar with the series to its ways. Dragon Ball initiates will meanwhile take great offense at the gigantic swathes of story eliminated by focusing exclusively on Goku’s escapades, and the jaw-droppingly idiotic filler additions will incense them further.
During this stretch of the Dragon Ball Z story, Goku is mostly in a tearing hurry to reach his friends and save the day. For some reason Legacy of Goku instead shows him meandering around the outdoors and performing such leisure activities as helping children gather flowers to wile away the time. For a game that can be completed in under four hours to have so much blatant padding is perplexing, and it will further mystify those with no knowledge of the series.
These fetch quests may be blatant filler, but many of them are mandatory. Finding misplaced magazines and guiding a stray cat home are actually rewarded with experience, usually more than the enemies in the area are bequeathing upon death. The aggravation of these fetch quests may not be completely worthless because of this payoff, but it doesn’t make up for how out of place and inappropriate that content is.
Look at all those wolf corpses – Goku’s been busy today.
At the beginning of the Dragon Ball storyline, Goku was capable of superhuman feats and knew no fear for his safety. After years of growing exponentially stronger through fighting ever more powerful adversaries, in Legacy of Goku he dies from a few wolf bites. How Goku ever expects to defeat opponents capable of obliterating entire planets when a single wolf can rip him apart is one of the unanswerable mysteries of the universe.
In addition to its terrible rendering of the source material, the game as an action RPG is a broken mess. Goku’s physical attack has such a miniscule range that it is impossible to employ without being counterattacked immediately. Fortunately he can simply use Ki attacks to hit from a distance while walking away from the enemy when it eventually pursues. The constantly recharging Ki meter makes this tactic applicable everywhere, and all enemies behave in the same manner so as to remove any thought whatsoever. A few can fly over obstacles, and bosses have their own Ki attacks that need to be dodged, but the same tactic will work against both Frieza and the dinosaurs at the beginning of the game. It can take a surprisingly variable amount of time due to Goku’s attacks dealing inconsistent damage, but with enough patience the result will not be in doubt.
The problem with dodging enemies comes from trying to successfully skirt obstacles in the environment while running away. Someone at Webfoot must have had a grievance with moving diagonally, because Goku is limited to only four directions. This makes clearing numerous passages far more troublesome than it needs to be, on top of the visuals being downright deceptive as to what is an obstruction. Based on the overhead view Goku should be able to pass behind many objects, but instead he will get caught on them if not steered with minute precision.
The way to make sure Goku can survive a pummeling after being caught on low-lying trees and pointy rocks is to constantly gain levels. A freak accident can lead to quick death from enemies, since there is no recovery period after being hit. Saving at any time would seem to remove this concern, but Legacy of Goku treats saving a little differently from most games. The convenient part is that the game fully restores Goku when the player reloads a save after dying, but in exchange for the bothersome aspect of being returned to an area’s entrance with all the enemies revived. While extremely helpful during the many instances when grinding is strongly advised, it is a puzzling occurrence.
This is of course exactly how the showdown with the Ginyu Force went – except it isn’t.
Legacy of Goku came out fairly early in the GBA’s life cycle, but plenty of other games showed that the system’s visuals were capable of more than what this title presents. Environments are flat and dull, animations are minimal, sprites are tiny, and the occasional still clip from the TV show is rendered grainy on the GBA screen. The music is mostly unobtrusive and unmemorable, though a couple of its tracks are pleasantly undistinguished. Goku’s death scream stands out for being frequently heard and having nothing to do with any actor who voiced the character.
The video game record of Dragon Ball is checkered, yet even among diehard followers of the series this title’s reputation is poor. I didn’t listen to the many voices warning what this game would be like, and the only real positive of the experience is how little time I sacrificed. Check out Attack of the Saiyans for a legitimately entertaining Dragon Ball RPG experience: check out Legacy of Goku only if a masochistic urge cannot be satisfied any other way.
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Cover art for the first Legacy of Goku game for the Game Boy Advance | |
| Developer(s) | Webfoot Technologies |
| Publisher(s) | Infogrames Atari |
| Designer(s) | Webfoot Technologies |
| Series | Dragon Ball |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance |
| Release date(s) | 2002-2004 |
| Genre(s) | Action role-playing game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player Multiplayer |
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The Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku series is a series of video games for the Game Boy Advance, based on the popular anime series Dragon Ball. All three games are action role-playing games. The first game, Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku was developed by Webfoot Technologies and released in 2002. The game was followed by two sequels: Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II released in 2003, and Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury released in 2004.
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Gameplay
The games are action adventure RPG's. The player controls a Dragon Ball character and experiences various portions of the franchise. Combat is the main focus of the game. The player can hit the A button to use physical strikes, while the B button allows the player to unleash a variety of energy based attacks. Energy attacks drain an energy meter that recharges when it is not in use. Energy attacks can be cycled through with the L button, and more energy attacks are learned as the player progresses through the game. Later games in the series featured transformations that made the player character stronger temporarily. By defeating enemies, the player receives experience points, which allow the player character to level up and grow stronger. Later games in the series also feature consumable items that would restore the player character's health or energy, and equipment, which increased the stats of the player character. In Buu's Fury and Legacy of Goku II, the player could also use a device called a scouter to look up the stats of the various characters in the game, as well as basic information about them.
History
The Legacy of Goku
Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku is the first title in the series, and was released in the United States on May 14, and in Europe on October 4, 2002. The game covers the story of Dragon Ball Z up until the destruction of Planet Namek. Goku is the only playable character. It is also one of the first GBA games to feature full motion video.
The Legacy of Goku II
Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II was released on June 17, 2003. The plot of the game picks up where The Legacy of Goku left off, and continues until the end of the Cell Games Saga when Gohan defeats the evil android Cell. The game introduced several new concepts to the series. The first was transformations, which allowed characters to become temporarily stronger, at the cost of slowly draining their energy. It also introduced the scouter, which allowed players to look up the stats of other characters in the game, as well as basic information about them. The game also introduced charged melee attacks, which allowed characters to unleash a powerful physical strike after a short charging period. The game also allowed characters to further supplement their stats with capsules that were scattered around the game world.
Due to the game's success, a second version was released titled Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II International exclusive to Japan on July 23, 2004. In this version all characters were given new profile images and their names were reverted back to their original Japanese however Mister Satan still retains his English name 'Hercule' on the front of his parade float.
Buu's Fury
Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury is the third and final game in the series. It was released on September 14, 2004 in North America. The game focuses on the final parts of the Dragon Ball Z series, namely the battles with Majin Buu. The game added several new additions to the series. First, the game added equipment, which could be equipped to characters to alter their stats and provide various other benefits. The game also allowed players to allocate their own stat points, of which three were given per level. Also added was the ability to block by holding the R button, and also to energy block by holding the B button while blocking. Using the energy block slowly drains the user's energy gauge. Both techniques greatly decrease the amount of damage that is received from attacks. The game also added various other features such as fusions and the ability to transform into a Super Saiyan 3. Although many features were added, the ability to use charge attacks by holding and releasing the A button was eliminated.
Characters
The Legacy of Goku games feature a variety of characters from the Dragon Ball universe for the player to play as. In the first Legacy of Goku, only Goku was playable, however in subsequent games in the series, multiple characters were playable including: Gohan, Goten, Trunks(kid and future), Piccolo, Vegeta, and Hercule. In Buu's Fury, a Fusion concept was implemented that allows certain characters to combine with each other, boosting their stats and changing their appearance. The three available fusion characters in the game are: Gotenks, Gogeta, and a one-time playable Vegito.
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Reception
The Legacy of Goku received 51% positive reviews from the press,[1][2] with the game selling over 1.22 million copies in the United States.[3]
The Legacy of Goku II received mainly high reviews, with many considering it a huge step up from the first.
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Buu's Fury received mostly positive reviews. It has a 69% average on Gamerankings.
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References
- ^http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/519688.asp
- ^http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbadvance/review/519688.html
- ^http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml
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