Sebastian(SB) wrote:
Great
, Now I feel very conflicting emotions upon renting this game. Is it best just to ignore it?. My DBZ fanboygasm tells me no, but my predictions are betraying me at the same time. Is it as bad or even worse than the recent TMNT games?
Don't feel conflicted, there is no reason to get worked up over this game. Anyway, should you rent it? Yes/No? Hard to say... if you want to see the introductory movie in full animation, go ahead, since it's the first thing you see before level1, but if you don't want to be dissapointed by a game and regret spending that $5.00 on it, then don't. I've been telling people that it might be best to ignore it, so it doesn't taint their perception of DragonBall games (which it is fully capable of doing, sine people ignore the company that developed it, and put the blame souly on Atari, who'se fault it is only half.)
As far as the TMNT games go, the first one was pretty much the same as this in many concievable ways, but it was a little more fun to boot, but easily forgettable as a game of that franchise.
And about your "Fanboygasm," get rid of it, you'll be better rounded when it comes to games that don't appreciate in their value, than you will being over excited about everything from a specific franchise from the get-go. Look at Sagas, since were on the topic, people were doing the 'gasm' thing since the first details (and ultimately the last,) were released; things only seemed to quite down (not a lot, though,) when people began nitpicking every quality of the ingame movies GameSpot would put up, and then became the heated discussions about stupid things like Piccolo's ears, or how they mislabeled Piccolo as Recuume, or some shit like that...
In the end I would say it's easier just to not get your hopes up about these sorts of things, or you'll let yourself down when it doesn't turn out exactly as you would have hoped (Fable comes to mind,) and when we get into the Anime department of gaming (out of the ones we actually GET,) we really have hit or miss.
Biased reviewers have been dogging the Budokai series from day one, as well as the other releases of the series, but really the only one to really recieve an accurate review was "Taiketsu," which was bad, but like the biased reviewers they are, every DragonBall game we get is picked apart so they can afford to give it a bad review because they don't like it; thats probably a good reason why not to have someone review a game if they hate it's source material...
At the end of the day people tell you not to judge a book by it's cover, but for Sagas that isn't a possibility, no ad marketing, opinions detailing it's down falls, you've got to look right at it and be like: "Fuck they're right!"
Thanks for reminding me.
