There are a lot of character models in the game and they did a good job of making most of them look unique. I definitely got hooked on the gameplay by the end. Sadly the later levels started spamming this quite a bit, but the battles like this are still few when looking at the grand scheme of things. Then you have to win in one turn which can take a while to set up. The only matches that I don’t really enjoy are when the opponents have instant regeneration. Yes, the battles still can be quite long so you’ll have to have a lot of patience with the game, but it’s usually very fun. The weakness of this style is typically that battles can take forever, but this one feels more exciting.
You can attack from anywhere with a few exceptions so the game is very fast paced. What makes the gameplay a lot more exciting than other tactic styled games is that you aren’t limited to moving your characters one turn at a time. You must defeat an opponent with this attack to recruit him/her to your team. It’s pretty neat although it clearly wasn’t the game’s focus so it feels hastily put together. You also have Zenkai Attacks which quickly turn the game into a 3D Brawler like Tenkaichi 3 for 10-20 seconds. I’d recommend only using it when you know it will defeat at least one character.
YOu also have an Ultimate Fusion attack which can defeat most foes in a single hit, but be warned that it means all of you teammates lose a turn so you have to fend off 5-10 consecutive attacks. Bouncing opponents off of each other will get you bonus damage. You always have to tactfully decide which direction is best based on where you think the opponent will block. When you attack, you decide what direction to launch them in and the opponent gets to guess which way he should block. You move the characters around and attack. Think the Mario/Rabbids game coming up or Yu Yu Hakusho. Instead of the typical beat em up DBZ style, this game is more of a strategy title. The real final boss wasn’t quite as difficult compared to that one since nobody had healing abilities, but it was still tricky. It was also a very challenging boss fight. The climax is pretty fun as we get a really cool super form for one of the fighters. I suppose we didn’t get any Super characters because most of them are still technically DBZ characters. It’s cool seeing Terry have allies from the various Dragon Ball titles.
The series seems to take place around the Resurrection F arc of Dragon Ball Super. I can see why Goku and Vegeta didn’t make it since they’d probably be a little too strong. The game certainly chose some unique members to be on the main team. The stakes may not be very high until the end, but the story is still fun. Will they win the tournament or does Pinich have a good plan up his sleeve? Fortunately Terry has more potential than the whole franchise put together so there’s no way that these guys could hope to stop him. Legendary villains like Broly, Omega Shenron, Frieza, Cell, Buu, Janemba, and many others seek to block their way. To this end, they must recruit a great number of fighters and shatter all of the sky barrier preventing them from reaching the tournament.
Alas, getting to the tournament will be difficult as the heroes must get a lot stronger to prove that they are ready. It’s a pretty potent team and they will be the ones who appear in all of the cutscenes but you will be able to switch them out pretty early in the story. Terry decides to form his team with Goku from the original Dragon Ball series, Pan from Dragon Ball GT, Goten, and Trunks. Fighters from across time and space have been invited to attend but each group must have 5 members. (At least that’s his name in my version) His rival is Pinich and they have decided to enter the Intergalactic tournament. The story follows a Saiyan Warrior named Terry. While it’s a very different kind of Dragon Ball game compared to the others, it certainly ends up working out quite well. It’s finally a game built around the concept so you can fuse everyone together for quite a lot of interesting results. Until now fusions were quite limited though, but this game changes things on that regard. People have thought about that for years with Marvel and DC even getting in on the act. The concept of fusing characters together to form even stronger ones is certainly nothing new.