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Single player Dragon Ball games? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by Apeman42@lemmy.world to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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I don't know why, I'm not even a big fan of the anime, but I kind of want to pick up a Dragon Ball game for PC while a bunch of them are on sale. Maybe it's just because I like Toriyama's style in cel-shaded 3D but am recently Dragon Quest-ed out.

Now I know that naturally, many of them are going to be straight, fairly traditional fighting games. But it looks like some of them might be closer to action RPGs, and the line is a little blurry trying to look them up.

So, can anyone recommend Dragon Ball games on PC that are closer to the ARPG side of the scale and good for single player?

I was looking at Kakarot, which definitely seems to fit, and seems to be kind o a TL;DR of the Goku story, from what I can tell?

Xenoverse looks really nice, and custom character is always great, but I can't tell how much of a pure fighter this series is?

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[–] MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Definitely the Legacy of Goku trilogy or Kakarot. Both accomplish roughly the same things as single-player RPGs that try to enrich the established storyline with perspective changes and new character moments. One is retro and one is modern and you can't go wrong with either. Be sure to install the QoL romhack for the LoG 1 if you play that one. I played Xenoverse 1 as well, and it has a brand-new story that isn't bad, and it does have deep RPG mechanics, but it can be a grindfest at times.

As much as I love the Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi games, I don't recommend those because 1) you can't do matches online and 2) the single-player modes are almost entirely condensed retellings of the anime over and over again between releases with little to no replay value. Those games were great if you got into them on release, and I have fond memories of doing the offline co-op with friends. You do sort of get the BT trilogy gameplay with Xenoverse, though.

The NES RPG series, Gokuden, is on my bucket list. I assume those are less approachable, but that series organically works in what-if scenarios where anyone who survived the boss fights go to Namek, regardless of canon, which is cool.

Some highlights that are great but tell an incomplete story: Super Saiya Densetsu on SNES and Attack of the Saiyans on the DS.