Why the lack of Cell titles on the Super Famicom?

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Why the lack of Cell titles on the Super Famicom?

Post by Jord » Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:55 am

I recently got the first Gokuden title for my Snes(only 7 Euros :D) and also bought Butouden 2(6 Euros :D).
Now I know that Butouden is centered around the Cell Games but why is it the only title. Gokuden got a sequel for the SFC going grom the fight with Piccolo up to the revival of Krillin, Yamcha, Ten and Chaozu. We also know Legend of the Super Saiyan which is centered around the same era.

Now I don't understand why BANDAI didn't make a RPG out of the Cell saga. I mean, the furthest a RPG went in terms of storyline was the 3rd RPG on the NES, which was based upon the arrival of the Artificial Humans and gave a preview of Cell. Cell's story was finished during the SFC era, considering we got a "Buu title" in the form of Butouden 3.

Why didn't the games go beyond Frieza instead of repeating the same story 4336 times? Was the Cell saga so bad recieved in Japan or was LOTS a major flop?

(Well, at least the SFC games allowed you to play as SSJ Goku against Frieza. The second NES RPG was focused around the Frieza Saga and you couldn't even finish the Frieza fight. A to be continued screen occured)

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Post by Super Saiyan Turlast x4 » Mon Sep 19, 2005 6:47 pm

I completely agree with you. A long time ago I played through Super Gokuden 2, and once I beat Freeza I thought it was going to move on to the Jinzouningen battles. Unfortunately I thought wrong! It just baffles me that they can make Super Saiya-Jin Densutsu, Super Gokuden, and not have Cell in either one!!

Cell was only put in the Super Butouden fighting games, and that really pissed me off!! I also played the Famicon A.K.A Nintendo DragonBall Z games, and Cell was featured on the Third RPG game called Hot Battle:Androids, or something close to that. After I played the game and got to Imperfect Cell with Kamicollo, I said about time Cell is a boss in a DragonBall Z game!

After I beat Imperfect Cell, the feeling struck me that I wasn't lookin at exp point's in japanese. I am lookin at the credit's for the ending of the game. I never understood that at all. The Final game only let's you fight Imperfect Cell, then it's the end. That sucked big time, and they never made a fourth game to the series either!!

To be perfectly honest, I think they didn't want to make a RPG solely based around the Cell saga, Cell games, because they probably felt asthough there would be too much to cover in the game. There was so much training going on during that saga, and so many battles! So that's why I felt asthough they gave it up. If that's somewhat true, then I feel like that's an Asinine reason not to make a game based on the Cell saga
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