Catalogue No. - T-13305G

Oh my God, what do we have here? After the pretty good 2D Dragonball game Bandai have decided to go all funny on us and release this crap. This is quite a shock really since all the other Dragonball games have been pretty playable.  At first I thought maybe TOSE Software did a poor job at converting this game from the PlayStation original but after playing the PlayStation game I can say honestly that both versions play like crap.  So yet another crappy PlayStation game is ported to the Saturn.

So what's so bad about this one? Well let's start with the animation or should that be “What animation ” ? The animation in this game is so bad that it's hard to describe. For instance you character could be standing there doing nothing at all then suddenly move in to what looks like a spasm. It's meant to look like he/she's doing a frenzied kick or punch but in fact look like a badly animated spasm. Next we have the controls. These are so unresponsive not to mention make no sense at all. Half of the time you'd be forgiven for thinking the game was on auto or something since no matter what you press it never seems to do anything.

Graphically this game is also very poor. Badly drawn, blocky characters along with dull backgrounds. Now, all this may be acceptable if the game played ok but it doesn't. The actual idea of the game is stupid. From what I can make out, you and 2 team mates battle it out against an enemy or two. You can view any of your characters and possibly control them but that's hard to figure out since the controls are that unresponsive it may as well be plain luck. One button actually brings up what seems to be a running commentary on the battle !!!

I have no idea what Bandai were thinking when they came up with the idea for this virtually unplayable heap of crap. Avoid it at all costs and get the far superior Dragonball Z Shin Butouden which is a Saturn exclusive title.