I Cried While Playing This Game. Not Because It Was Good, But Because It Was Absolutely ATROCIOUS!!!!!!!
User Rating: 1 | Dragon Ball Z: Taiketsu GBA
Many Dragon Ball Z games have subtitles that people do not understand, such as Budokai, or Buyuu Retsuden. But I have figured out what Taiketsu tanslates to: "PLEASE DO NOT BUY OR PLAY ME, EVER!!!!!" It actually has several meanings, they include:"CRAPPY FIGHTING GAME" and "WHAT WAS ATARI THINKING?!" and my favorite: "WHY GOD? WHY PUT US THROUGH THIS?!" What it boils down to, is that, well, you should never, ever, ever, ever play, buy, steal, taste, or even look at this game. I remeber the days of me playing this game, getting so frustrated at the ridiculous fighting combos which are hard to pull off, and why the hell did I even think about getting it, and, using it for baseball practice. That was probably the most memorable, and enjoyable, part of this game. Smashing it into a million pieces with an alluminium bat. Ahh, those were the days. Let me start off by asking something, where the hell is the story mode?! Unlike other REGULAR fighting games, Taiketsu had to be different. It had to be...."Special". So, there was no story, you had a Tournament mode, which was a very sad excuse for story mode, Endurance mode, where they through a whole bunch of people at you and say: "Lets see how long it takes him to rip the cartridge out this time!" ( Which, I hold the record for 0.0003 seconds. Do not ask me how that is possible or how i pulled it off. ) Then you have Time Challenge, which I stayed away from, for some reason. Next is Sparring, which is supposed to be where you train, but, as you would have expected, Atari managed to screw that one up as well. Now comes the good things, and the bad things. Good thing number one, ummmm, well, the only one, nope, there is nothing good about this game. Okay, straight to the bad things. One, i found my self having to do ALOT of button mashing just to keep the moron at the other end away from me. The combos in this game can be easy to pull off, or you can bust a vein just trying to pull it off. One example is Goku's Kamehameha. It is possibly one of the simplest moves to pull off. But, it might not always work. A move that will send you to hospital, and no not because of the sheer brutality of it, I am talking about you getting a problem in your left ventricle trying to succesfully complete it, is Brolly's Seismic Blast. Which brings me to our next bad thing, the characters. For starters, Taiketsu had an ok roster of characters. There were the usual Goku, Vegeta, Cell. But then they decided to make it interesting. So they added Majin Buu, Gotenks, and, the legendary super saiyan himself, Broly. But wait! How do I unlock Broly? Well, that is yet another pathetic and sad mystery, though some would call it a "Glitch", that Atari has gracefully blessed upon us so that we can go bald trying to figure this out. There are two ways, that I know about, that you can unlock him. The first way is to finish Tournament mode with Majin Buu. The second is to finish Tournament mode with all 14 characters. I unfortunately had the honor of getting the one where i have to use all 14 characters. It seems that it is random for each cartridge. Now, the next bad thing. Story mode, or lack of it. What is a fighting game without story mode? Now, I can go on and on all day, actually for eternity, and just keep listing all the atrocities of this god for saken game. But I'm not. I am not here to bash this game, though I would love to. I am here writing a review, telling you fellow gamers about this, this trash. So, I finally bring my review to an end. If i could give this game lower that an one, I would do it in a heart beat. This game is just plain bad. There is no other way to put it. So, I see it as my duty to inform all of you not to make the same mistake that I did. Stay very far from this game. Unless, of course, you want to imply some sort of damge to it.
