These assist characters are summoned into battle by tapping their icon on the touch screen in mid-fight, having an alternate result depending on the character summoned. Meanwhile, an assist character takes up one slot. There are six potential slots to select characters to, and each fighter you choose takes up two of those slots. If you don't wish to utilize a team of three fighters, you can opt to add assist characters to your ranks. Speaking of characters, a typical battle allows up to three characters to be selected for a round.
Such combatants this go around include mainstays like Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, Vegeta, Trunks, and Krillin, plus villains like Raditz, Nappa, Frieza in his final form, Perfect Cell, Android 18, Majin Buu, and more.ĭo androids dream of electric Saiyans pounding them in the jaw? However, the variety of characters in Extreme Butoden is rather high, and considering how the game uses 2D sprites for the fighters and assist characters instead of 3D models, it's easier to understand why the number of fighters is considerably less than the console games. This unlocks the final of 25 characters within Extreme Butoden.Ģ5 characters might seem like a small amount, especially when compared to the 3D games, where we've definitely been a bit spoiled.
The difficulty here ramps up considerably, but through beating the mode and taking down each team of fighters put in your path, you become the Extreme World Tournament champion.
This mode pits your team of fighters and assist characters against a series of tough opponents. finish a foe with an Ultimate Combo, beat the opposing side within a specific amount of time, and so forth) and if you reach 400 points or more through doing a mix of Super Combos, summoning assist characters, and getting Rush Combos, multiple hits on an enemy at once.Īn example of one of the maps used in Adventure Mode.įinally, there is the Extreme World Tournament that unlocks after Adventure Mode's eight maps have been completed. Getting an S rank in a fight depends on whether you fulfill the mission's conditions (e.g. To do this, you travel across eight unique maps, doing battle with AI opponents, and depending on how well you do in each fight, you earn items and new assist characters to your arsenal. In Adventure Mode, you take the role of Goku who has to collect seven special Dragon Balls in order to combat the return of a plethora of old villains from Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. My personal favorite of the modes, and that's because of how much more expansive it is, is Adventure Mode. This is from the Saiyan Saga to the Majin Buu Saga. The first, Z Story, puts players in the shoes of various Z fighters, each with their own ten fights to complete, taking place throughout the Dragon Ball Z story arc.
These unlock one after another as they are completed. Krillin is here today to show that size doesn't matter.ĭragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden sports three main modes for solo players of the game.
With Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden, the Dragon Ball Z fighting game series reaches the 3DS with a Kamehameha Blast of epic proportions. Though the system was rich in fighters in its early life, lately the fighting game scene is one that has avoided the platform. Once more, a new Dragon Ball Z game enters the gaming atmosphere, this time landing on the Nintendo 3DS of all platforms. Thankfully, Dragon Ball Z Kai is doing a lot to fix the issues I had with the original anime. However, the actual anime, at least the original version with all of its filler, was a show that was a bit difficult to watch. Collecting figurines as my younger self was also an entertaining hobby. For one, I really enjoyed and loved playing the games, no matter if they were 2D or 3D fighters, or something else completely out of left field. For the longest time I've had a love-hate relationship with the Dragon Ball Z franchise.