Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury is an RPG based on the popular series. While most
Dragon Ball Z games tend to quite appropriately be fighters, Buu’s Fury instead
gives you the chance to play through the DBZ storyline beginning at the point
where Goku decides not to return to Earth after the defeat of Cell. If you’re a
DBZ fan you’ll probably be really happy to have the chance to play your way
through a healthy chunk of the saga. On the other hand, of you’ve never seen the
show you may feel as if you’ve walked in on the middle of a movie and you may
never catch on to what’s going on.
You begin play as Goku, but will have the chance to play as a number of
characters as well including Gohan, Vegeta, and more. Your overall goal is to
defeat Buu, but along the way you’ll fight plenty of other foes and engage in
quests that come straight from the DBZ saga. In fact, the game is broken up into
a series of chapters that give it an episodic feel as in the cartoon series.
The game plays like a standard GBA RPG in which you control your character
from an overhead view. The fighting takes place in this view too in real-time;
there is no fight screen or RPG-style turn-based battles. You have both punch
and magic attacks, and there is a block button as well although in truth it is
not really needed. In fact, outside of solving some puzzles the magic is not
particularly needed either. The problem is that enemies in the game can be
easily defeated by punch button mashing, especially when you get them trapped at
the edge of the screen. In addition, defeated enemies often respawn when you
leave a screen and return which lets you defeat the same enemies over and over
again to pump up your experience. These enemies also have a tendency to drop a
lot of items when defeated, so you’ll clean up on more than just experience. To
make things even easier, you start the game off with experience boosting items
that you can equip and before you know it you’re leveling up faster than you can
say Dragon Ball Z. The net effect of all this is that the game is pretty darn
easy to complete. Take into account the fact that there are too many gaps in the
story for anyone but a DBZ fan to know what’s going on, and you have a game
that’s really geared for true fans and not really anyone else. DBZ fans will
look past the game’s too easy gameplay because they’ll be wrapped up in the
story. Everyone else though will breeze through a game without entirely
understanding just what the heck is going on, leaving them to wonder “what’s the
point?”.
How much you enjoy Buu’s Fury will depend entirely on how much you enjoy
Dragon Ball Z. Although too easy a game, it is still an enjoyable RPG through
the DBZ storyline for big fans. On the other hand, for everyone else it’s
certainly not a bad RPG, but the story will feel incomplete and the battles too
easy.
In The End, This Game Hath Been Rated:
67%. Leave this one for Dragon Ball Z fans, who’ll more than likely
love the game.
