And that's when I learned another lesson: sometimes, developers can actually learn and improve, and realizing that just requires you to take a chance. And really-with a predecessor like the original Legacy of Goku, coupled with the fact that this game was made by an American developer, likely aiming to capitalize on peak DBZ-mania at the time, it would come as no surprise that this game would be as awful as you could imagine. When it reaches the title screen, with the background laden by even more pixelated versions of character art, slapped all across the frame in an attempt to look cool, again, taken right from the show, it’s entirely fair if your expectations hit rock bottom. The game kicks off with a horrendously pixelated intro, looking every single bit of its 16-year-old age, with all the hallmarks of an early-2000’s Game Boy Advance title, rife with a bit-crunched guitar riff from Bruce Falconer’s western Funimation dub soundtrack and exceptionally short GIF-like animations of all the main cast, ripped straight from the anime. At the very least, it couldn’t possibly be worse than the first, right? Cynically, I selected it-I’d play it just for a bit, if only to see how horrible it would be.
But, eventually, years later, whilst scrolling through a list of games on my Supercard, I saw the game innocently sitting there, begging to be played. So, in the following year of 2003 when a sequel was released, I pointedly ignored its existence, entirely certain that the game would be just like the first: clunky, awkward, a chore, difficult to control downright terrible in every single way. Sometimes licensed games can be very, very, bad. At the time, it didn’t really matter that most of those games were clones and reskins of more popular franchises, or licensed purely to make a quick buck I could play as my favorite characters-what more could possibly matter?! So, when the day arrived, and I excitedly popped the cartridge of Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku into my GBA, younger me immediately learned a valuable lesson: Sometimes licensed games can be bad.
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↑ Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Gokun at gamerankings.As a kid, there were few things more exciting than going to the local game store, and finding out that one of my favorite anime or cartoon series would be getting a brand new video game.However, it is unknown if the game is, or will ever be in development.
Webfoot Technologies wishes to develop and release a Legacy of Goku 4 game and have shown different possible ways the game would be approached.
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