I’m always a sucker for flight mechanics like it ever since Gat Out of Hell, and Kakarot delivers. The flight mechanic is the highlight here. Exploration has you fly across different areas across the Dragon Ball universe to train, collect resources, make meals, get into small fights, and continue the story. The basic summary is that the game splits into two modes like similar Japanese open world games: exploration and combat. It’s overwhelming at first, but you do get used to it when you give it a chance.
We’ve got world exploration, fighting, resource collecting, crafting, cooking, emblems that you can level for in-game bonuses, and so on. This is thanks to its mechanics upon mechanics. Like other open world games, Kakarot begins with a chock full of tutorials that don’t end. If you love that formula however, Kakarot has you covered. I couldn’t help but fidget during my playthrough’s slower moments. Shonen anime is notorious for how long winded it can be, and Dragon Ball is no exception. Even as the game trims the fat, pacing feels a bit off. While Kakarot is great for people who have never watched the show, it’s redundant for anyone who binge watched it in preparation. At worst, it’s a kick to the jaw every time he’s on screen. It might be more accurate to its source material than the dub we saw as kids, but having a character that’s obviously blackface is uncomfortable at best. Describing it as outdated might be too kind. Rewatching this story thirty years after its release also show how times have changed. It makes the game an economic adaption of the anime, giving players a CliffsNotes rendition of key events. Kakarot retells the story of Dragon Ball Z, splitting the show’s iconic arcs about omnicidal monsters and intense training into four separate sagas. Will this attract non-fans like me, or will it only be for the stalwart Dragon Ball lovers? Let’s find out. It’s why Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is interesting, staying with a more well-tread aspect of the franchise over telling a new story. This is a series that’s been going on since the 80s, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed by choice because of that.
However, it never hurts to have a layman’s opinion.
It might not lend credibility to start a review for the new Dragon Ball game like this. Honestly, I still didn’t before I got a copy of this game for work. I saw a couple episodes of both Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z on Toonami as a kid, but I had no idea what was going on (Pokemon and Sailor Moon were more my thing). That sounds impossible, there are so many that you can trip over them.
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