It had some potential, but it the end it doesn't deliver
The Good:
- Multiplayer gives it a little replay value
The Bad:
- Only 2 hours long
- Awful frame rate and camera
- Mindless button mashing combat
- Ugly graphics
- Only a few characters to choose from
- No Majin Buu saga
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When you have terrific fighting games making it one by one into the best sellers list, what do you do? you make an awful repetitve beat em' up using a great licence.
This game is meant to take you all the way back to the Saiyan saga (yet again) and recreate the Dragon Ball Z story with more action than previous fighting games. Sadly it doesn't do that. Instead it delivers a repetitive button mashing experience.
The gameplay is absolutely mindless, you only have to press two buttons: Y for kicks and A for punches and that's pretty much it it, you fight waves and waves of dumb enemies with two buttons, well you can unlock combos, but they don’t really add anything to the gameplay. You can also use the X button to throw ki power and if you hold it you can do a special attack like Goku's kamehameha or Vegeta's Galick gun, though it's disappointing because they only have one special attack.
The whole game can take only two hours to beat even in the hardest difficulty. The only real thing that takes time is defeating the bosses, and it's not because they're hard, it's because their life bar is really, really long.
There's very few replay value because you don't really want to do the same thing over and over. And the game only takes you from the Saiyan saga to the Cell Games, it's like they completely forgot about The Majin Buu saga or Dragon Ball GT. The only real replay value comes from the two player co-op, which is fun if you play it with the right person. But again, it’s very repetitive.
After beating the main story mode you'll unlock the Pendulum Room, which is basically the same as the story mode, except this time you are free to choose the character you want. But there aren't really many characters, lt says there are almost 20, but they're different versions of the same (Goku, SS Goku, Saiyan saga Goku, etc...).
If you’re new to the Dragon Ball Z series then you won’t have a clue on what’s going on here, sincer there isn’t any explanation of what’s happening except for two minite clips from the show that pop up every once in a while, it was clearly made for the fans.
The graphics are lame, the may look like the series at first but when you take a good look at them they're blocky and they make you feel like you're playing an N64 game. The music is good though, but just like everything else it’s repetitive. The voice acting on the other hand is horrible, the actors are uninspired and it just feels like they’re bored to death to do the same lines again.
The game doesn’t perform well at all. It's filled with bugs and graphical glitches, for example: you may get stuck between two enemies or walls and you can't really do anything but reset the game and sometimes your character just freezes while your partner is doing a special attack without any reason, the only way to unfreeze your character is by doing a special attack yourself.
All in all Sagas is a very disappointing game, it had a lot of potencial by bringing the DBZ franchise to a more action oriented gameplay than the fighting and RPG game we’re used to see year after year, but there isn’t any real value, that being said hardcore fans of the franchise will enjoy it since there’s nothing else like it out there except for the two GBA games. But for everyone else it’s not worth it. All in all this could be a good side mode for a fighting game, but as a game on it's own it just doesn’t deliver.
