Dragon Ball

"Why aren't there any remakes for good games?"

Introduction
Hum, if you are reading this, you may already know that this game is based on a worldwide famous anime/manga called Dragon Ball. As the name makes you think, this game was made based in the story of the first series, the one who had the same name... Also, this game is a remake of a certain game which was released a couple years ago for the NES platform. However, as in most remakes for wonderswan, the result wasn't very good. ''Why?'', you ask... read this review in order to know it!

Gameplay
Once starting the game, you will be given some cards, which you will use in order to fight in battles and move across the board... Yeah, board, since in this game you will be standing in a board and depending on the card that you select, you will be able to move the ammount of places related to the number of stars in the card. This gets to be boring, mainly since sometimes you may want to move to a specific place and you just don't seem to be able to do it. From those places, some things may happen, for example you can find an opponent monster (which most of the times don't look like the ones from the anime or manga...), enter a city (or dungeon or anything else), find a character (which will help you giving/trading you better cards), or... it may not happen anything at all! Like in most rpg's, battles are needed for experience and so on, but most of the battles can be won by luck, I mean, only by picking the certain card at a certain time, since the system for the battles is not very understandable and most of the times you don't even understand how did you performed a certain move!

Story
Like I said before, the story is the same from the anime... It starts from the time when Gokuh meets Bulma and it then continues into a far greater adventure.

Graphics/Sound
Concerning the graphics, I can't say they are very good, but they surely aren't bad either, since you can easily understand all the characters from the anime and recognize them. The sound is not good at all, like in most wonderswan games...

Play Time/Replayability
Huh, this game is really hard, so you surely will have an hard time to finish it.

Final Recommendation
You'd better not play this game, since it isn't good at all... Even if you are a dragon ball fan!

Reviewer's Score: 3/10, Originally Posted: 02/13/04