As one of the earliest animations to attract attention in mainland China, Dragon Ball has a high popularity in the country. I still remember buying a set of Dragon Ball comics in a bookstore when I was in elementary school. The story was about Goku fighting the red army and the world's best martial arts competition. The plot in it made me want to stop reading.
There are obviously a lot of comics about Dragon Ball, and I’ve only been exposed to a handful of them before, and of course it’s spawned a lot of games.
As early as the FC era, there was the Dragon Ball game. At that time, we called this game card a yellow card (the shell is yellow). This is a combined card of 4 and 1. There are four games in it, and they are described separately. The Saiyan attack, the fierce battle with Frieza, the story of the artificial humans and the Saiyan extermination plan.
At that time, I thought the graphics of this game were very beautiful, especially the animation effects when activating special moves. The game's battles use a card system, which I think is a very advanced design. It's just that the names of the skills seem a bit strange now, such as Sun Wukong's Fist Body Exposure, and Vegeta's Explosion Light. Now it seems that the vocabulary of "Zhongtouzu" did not feel inconsistent at that time.
The "Dragon Ball" series on the Famicom is considered a AAA-level masterpiece on the FC platform. Whether it is cutscenes, soundtracks, scripts or battle scenes, they are all gorgeous. 8-bit computer skills are used to reproduce the full-screen and bold characters of "Dragon Ball". There is no other store for the nirvana pictures!
In the handheld era, Dragon Ball also released a game on the GBA called Goku Fighting Game. The core gameplay of this game is still very interesting. It is a fighting game in which all characters compete with each other in a high-speed moving screen. This game abandons the traditional game moves, and the special moves used by the characters can be triggered by simple keystrokes. This is simply good news for handicapped people.
Dragon Ball Z: Maiku Doge is a fighting game produced by the famous glasses factory Banpresto. It is adapted from the Japanese comic "Dragon Ball". Most of the characters in the comic can be selected (several of them are hidden characters) . The game includes ground combat and air combat. Of course, the most powerful special moves in the original game are also reproduced in the game.
Another success of Goku Fighting Game is the plot. Most of the characters in the game have their own plot lines. If you want to know the plot that is different from the original Dragon Ball, just play the game Goku Fighting Game.
There is also a Dragon Ball game with beautiful graphics on the GBA called Dragon Ball Adventure. The game was released in 2004. The story flow of the game is taken from the emergence of the little Wukong from the mountain to the defeat of the big devil. The progress of the story is described in pictures and texts, and various action scenes in the original work are adapted into the game content. The game is composed of three modes, namely: a side-scrolling action game mode; a one-on-one combat mode; and an air combat mode in which you fight in the air on a somersault cloud.
The plot of the game is not long but very interesting. In the game, the battle with Krillin, the life-and-death duel with Tao Baibai, and the scenes of the world's best martial arts club are all very restored.
Especially when Little Wukong finally defeated the Big Demon King with his dragon fist, that thrilling feeling still echoes in my mind. In addition to the story mode, Dragon Ball Adventure also has a battle mode. The impact of the battle mode is very good. The only flaw is that there are a few characters.
Later, the more powerful handheld PSP was also inseparable from Dragon Ball games, such as Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai 2. This game series was first born on the PS2 platform. Due to the good response from the market, the game was naturally ported to the PSP platform.
Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai 2 also uses a hypothetical plot method. The adventure surrounding Trunks will give Dragon Ball fans their first exposure to the side story plot of the series. The story tells the story of the growth of Trunks' power. Of course, old faces from the Dragon Ball series will appear one after another during this process. In the 6-hour plot mode process, players can operate multiple classic characters to fight. Players who like it must not miss it!
In addition, characters in the game can also be cultivated. Character attributes such as physical strength, strength, defense, attack, heavy attack, pursuit, kill, etc. Players can cultivate corresponding values according to their own preferences. When the value reaches a certain level, you can easily crush your opponents, but the process of collecting and training cards is a bit cumbersome and requires repeated levels.
Just the opposite of Dragon Ball Adventure, this game is based on fighting games and also adds a plot mode. This mode has multiple endings, including several good endings and several bad endings. It is simply a game for plot-oriented players. It's paradise.
Dragon Ball Z: Super Ultimate Fighter is a 2D fighting game produced and developed by Arc Syatem Works and NBGI. It is released on the 3DS platform and is the latest work in the Dragon Ball Z series. This game launches two main modes: "Z Story Mode" is an animated version of the story mode, players can play the game from multiple different perspectives; "Moco Unbelievable Mode" takes the adventure from the perspective of the protagonist Goku.
In the PS2 era, Dragon Ball Z: Lightning 3 is undoubtedly the recommended Dragon Ball game on the platform. The game consists of several main modes such as plot story, ultimate battle, martial arts meeting, battle, and super training. The story mode is undoubtedly the top priority. Sections that are loyal to the original work will be presented one by one in the story process. However, the story mode of this game does not continue to use the method of moving in the map, but is changed to conform to the story mode. The design of a fixed plot is triggered after certain conditions. Players can choose one of three difficulties: simple, normal and difficult to unfold the story process according to their own abilities. Under different difficulties, only the opponent's ability and the money they can get after completing the task are different. The difference is that other settings are basically the same.
This series can be said to have created a historical precedent, and a series of later Dragon Ball games were almost all additions based on this work. This game is still a fighting game, but it has changed from 2D to 3D. In addition to bringing a new degree of freedom to the graphics, it also improves the gameplay. If you want to find friends to have fun together, this game is undoubtedly a good recommendation.
Dragon Ball FighterZ, released in 2018, has adopted the 3R2 cartoon rendering method, making the game experience like reading a comic. Of course, the picture is more realistic than the comic. All moves in the game can be found in the comics. The game adopts a 3V3 battle format and encourages players to practice and master different fighting styles. The difficulty of combat operations is greatly reduced.
This game plays very much like the King of Fighters, and you can experience the refreshing fighting feeling in the game. The combo system in the game allows the player to be at the bottom one second and turn defeat into victory the next second. Under special conditions, you can also trigger script kills and use special moves to directly KO your opponent. The pleasure brought by defeating the opponent goes straight to your brain and cannot be stopped for a long time.
The last thing I want to recommend is Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, which will be released on PS4 in 2020. This game allows you to experience the story of Sun Wukong and other Z warriors. In addition to the classic battle scenes in Dragon Ball Z, the game uses an open world that allows players to control characters such as Son Wukong, Son Gohan, and Vegeta to fight, fish, dine, and explore the world. The gameplay is somewhat like the Dragon Ball version of Ranch Story. I like it. Friends, please don’t miss it.