UB 22 re-release: Did I waste my $$$?

Dayspring · Post by **Dayspring** » Tue May 04, 2004 4:55 pm

Hey. I just bought the North American version of UB 22 for the PS1. It's used so only $19.99 Canadian. Unfortunately, while I was writing my exam at school, my brother leant the Playstation to some dork.

I was wondering if I wasted my money, since everybody always gave high praise to Final Bout only. Also, I don't remember ever hearing that Kid Goku, SSJ3 Goku, Kame-Senin, "Hercule Satan" and Vegetto were unlockable players. Were they hidden characters in the japanese game and the US version just killed the code-finding fun by outright giving it to us?

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Tue May 04, 2004 11:59 pm

I thought everyone hated both PS1 fighters?

Also, "Mr Satan Satan"?

Post by **SaiyaJedi** » Wed May 05, 2004 1:03 am

PsyLiam wrote:Also, "Mr Satan Satan"?

It's the reverse-censorship kicking in. Dayspring meant to write the accursed bastardization of "H e r c u l e Satan," but that wasn't what came out.

Deus ex Machina · Post by **Deus ex Machina** » Wed May 05, 2004 2:12 am

Waste of money? Probably. But that version is pretty rare from what I understand, so you got a collectors item.

Ash · Post by **Ash** » Wed May 05, 2004 4:12 am

US Final Bout is rare, but I doubt US UB22 is rare, it's been re-released last year.

And we're flooded with FR Final Bouts & FR UB22 here in the Netherlands ^_^;

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Wed May 05, 2004 5:03 am

Here too. I am constantly tempted to pick one up, just for the music/opening animation. I'm sure someone said that it was quite good, on one of them.

Sun_Wukong · Post by **Sun_Wukong** » Wed May 05, 2004 3:40 pm

The US Final Bout, from what I've heard, is horrid. The US UB22 is actually pretty decent, despite the fact that they got rid of the "cut scenes". I would always play Goku vs Freeza so i could laugh at the horrid animation

Dayspring · Post by **Dayspring** » Wed May 05, 2004 10:23 pm

It's funny watching the budoukai announcer announce the fighters: ALL JAPANESE DIALOGUE W/NO SUBTITLES!

And how the bloody hell do you read the attacks out of the instruction manual?! I don't get how to use apply the directional keys with it. I really want to though because without knowing how to apply the code I can't use SSJ3 Goku and Vegetto!

PsyLiam · Post by **PsyLiam** » Thu May 06, 2004 11:10 pm

Dayspring wrote:It's funny watching the budoukai announcer announce the fighters: ALL JAPANESE DIALOGUE W/NO SUBTITLES!

Thank god they never do that with the modern games. At all. Ever. Not once.

Jodaku · Post by **Jodaku** » Fri May 07, 2004 6:16 am

UB22 is as much as a bog standard beat-em-up you can get, but being a DBZ fan, you should get at least some enjoyment out of it.

Final Bout is just plain awful, although the opening is actually very good (music and animation-wise), not as breathtaking as Budokai 2’s opening, but it’s still sweet.

Music-wise, UB22 has the better sounding quality music (both games share some of the same themes, but there’s a difference between the them, FB music seems to be more electronic). Mirai Trunks theme’s kicks ass, and despite what I said about FB’s quality of music, SSJ4 Goku’s theme really is awesome, I can’t stress enough how much I love this theme, it’s one of my all time favourite DB related themes/music.

Super Sonic · Post by **Super Sonic** » Sat May 08, 2004 6:23 pm

The Us Final Bout's dubbing is absolutely horrible. Even US DBZ at its worst was 10x better.

Sabre · Post by **Sabre** » Mon May 10, 2004 5:20 pm

I bought the UK Edition not long after its release back in Autumn "Fall" of 2002, I wasn't expecting much for 1995, and I didn't get much! It was kind of like a very basic 'Mugen' (Customizable MS-DOS Fighter) with 3D backgrounds...

It Put me off getting Final Bout, but I'm not that much of a fan anymore. Saying that my brother has Budokai on GC, which is OK.

Mugenmidget · Post by **Mugenmidget** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 2:08 pm

Sabre wrote:...It was kind of like a very basic 'Mugen' (Customizable MS-DOS Fighter) with 3D backgrounds...

Watch your mouth.

I got a somewhat sick joy out of Ultimate Battle 22 but nothing beats Super Butoden 2 when it comes to this engine, especially on hyper mode.

Plus for some reason you can usually get Butoden 2 cheaper.

Kanzenshuu

UB 22 re-release: Did I waste my $$$?

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