DragonBall Kai: Saiya-jin Raishû (Attack of the Saiyans)

The Tori-bot · Post by **The Tori-bot** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:38 am

ShinRogafuken wrote:
The Tori-bot wrote:
ShinRogafuken wrote:Is this game worth picking up?
... Yes?
haha not every DBZ game is.

Hey, you asked, I gave you an answer.

ShinRogafuken · Post by **ShinRogafuken** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:23 pm

Official Release Dates:

October 30- UK/EU
November 10- USA/NA
?- AU/NZ

RoarkVegeta · Post by **RoarkVegeta** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:55 pm

You're kidding.

November 10th?!

Shiyonasan · Post by **Shiyonasan** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:09 pm

RoarkVegeta wrote:You're kidding.

November 10th?!

Same day as the Dragon Box. Big day for Dragon Ball in the US.

ShinRogafuken · Post by **ShinRogafuken** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:20 pm

RoarkVegeta wrote:You're kidding.

November 10th?!

That's old news, it was announced in July. (I just posted all the release dates seeing as that we got the UK/EU one).

jda95 · Post by **jda95** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:14 am

Shiyonasan wrote:
RoarkVegeta wrote:You're kidding.

November 10th?!
Same day as the Dragon Box. Big day for Dragon Ball in the US.

Bad day for people buying them all.....

Teclo · Post by **Teclo** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:49 am

Looks like this is yet another time that I'll be playing the NA version rather than the EU version (unless we get the Japanese voices but NA doesn't). I tried playing the Japanese version and although I could play it relatively comfortably, my Japanese isn't so good that I could just wander around and relaxedly talk to the NPCs and fully understand what every single item did. I kind of had the feeling that I was missing lots of nuances, basically.

I don't know if anyone's said, but the game is a (so far) linear experience that has a world map which is just a picture of the world with points you can click on to visit them. The locations are drip fed to you and vary between fairly generic RPG locations (they really love their caves and other rocky areas) and somewhat small village areas. The battle system is pretty cool, though. It seems pretty archaic compared to turn-based martial arts battle systems like in SRW OG Sage: Endless Frontier, but it's still got some pretty nice things like how you can half the damage you take by correctly timing a press of a certain button.

The system I've heard hyped up a bit by which you use your techniques to solve puzzles is nothing more than pressing a button to blow up a rock with some sort of ki attack. Basically, the rocks are doors and the ki attack button is the open button. There's also a capsule system whereby you can equip two items to the bottom screen and the top one will give you an effect; either a field effect or a usually one-shot (per battle) battle effect. So there's a gas mask that you'll equip to walk through hazardous terrain and another item that will attempt to blind all the enemies at the start of each battle. You press one of the shoulder buttons to change which of the two equipped ones is currently active. You get more as you go on and if you visit the Capsule Corp building as soon as you get the chance, Bulma will upgrade it so you can have 3 equipped at once rather than 2 (only 1 in effect at a time, still).

Probably the best thing about it is just how polished it feels. It has a really nice, quality feel to it whereas the (still very enjoyable) Buu's Fury felt really cheap and almost home-made.

When I scanned through the Topic review, I noticed someone asking about importing it from Europe. You can try these places, the first one definitely delivers outside the UK:
http://www.game.co.uk/
http://gamestation.co.uk/

Sebastian (SB) · Post by **Sebastian (SB)** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:20 am

Raging Blast comes out November 10th as well. I'll be getting that along with the Dragon Box.

Tanooki Kuribo · Post by **Tanooki Kuribo** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:19 pm

The cover art for the European version of "Attack of the Saiyans" has been released! Hopefully the USA cover art is the same...

Innagadadavida · Post by **Innagadadavida** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:28 pm

Tanooki Kuribo wrote:The cover art for the European version of "Attack of the Saiyans" has been released! Hopefully the USA cover art is the same...

Did you forget already? Atari's gone! *Cheer*

Supa Saiya-Jin Tullece · Post by **Supa Saiya-Jin Tullece** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:44 pm

Dragon Ball Z

Awww....

Ichigo Storm · Post by **Ichigo Storm** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:48 pm

The cover's nice but the names kill me. Red and Yellow? Really? Sure it could be to go with the Dragonball Z logo but it just looks like bad word art to me.

I wish they had kept it DB Kai. I know it hasn't be licensed yet or dubbed so there is absolutely no reason for it but the giant blue KAI looks so nice compared to the DEEBEEZEE logo. As a matter of fact, the old logo just makes this boxart look very -ew- to me.

Tanooki Kuribo · Post by **Tanooki Kuribo** » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:09 pm

Yes! The American version will have the original cover art! It seemed like the image is zoomed out a bit...

http://www.ebgames.com/Catalog/ProductD ... t_id=75479

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:10 pm

Tanooki Kuribo wrote:The cover art for the European version of "Attack of the Saiyans" has been released! Hopefully the USA cover art is the same...

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Wow, Tien's third eye could not be more interested in this.

LeprikanGT · Post by **LeprikanGT** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:43 pm

On that note...have we ever seen a 'view' of what it looks like to Tien looking through his third eye?

JAPPO · Post by **JAPPO** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 2:30 pm

Namco Bandai sent some new videos and screenshots here.
http://dragonball.saiyanisland.com/2009 ... ans-media/

(99% sure it's new).

ShinRogafuken · Post by **ShinRogafuken** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:57 pm

Here is a video review of this game by BLCMan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICdhggKaphM

He gave it an 8/10.

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:55 am

ShinRogafuken wrote:Here is a video review of this game by BLCMan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICdhggKaphM

He gave it an 8/10.

A lot of his complaints were rather.. redundant. He doesn't seem to like the varied music.. or the fact that you should save a lot.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a given in most games?

Tanooki Kuribo · Post by **Tanooki Kuribo** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:56 am

Here is a video review of this game by BLCMan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICdhggKaphM

He gave it an 8/10.

Also he gives away a huge spoiler.

He says he isn't but he is.

ShinRogafuken · Post by **ShinRogafuken** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:09 am

Tanooki Kuribo wrote:
Here is a video review of this game by BLCMan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICdhggKaphM

He gave it an 8/10.
Also he gives away a huge spoiler. He says he isn't but he is.

I haven't played the game or anything but he said it doesn't matter.