Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo
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 Well Media.Vision, you tried your best but it isn't as good as Advanced Adventure
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Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo, released in Japan as Dragon Ball: World's Greatest Adventure (ドラゴンボール天下一大冒険, Doragon Bōru Tenkaichi Daibōken), is a video game of the Dragon Ball franchise and is based on the original series. It was developed by Media.Vision and published by Namco Bandai under the Bandai label. It was released in Japan on July 23, 2009, and in other territories in October of that same year.
Plot
Revenge of King Piccolo follows the story of Dragon Ball, beginning from the start of Goku's adventures during the Red Ribbon Army Saga up until the defeat of King Piccolo.
Bad Qualities
- Misleading Title: While yes, Piccolo appear in this game and want to dominate the world, you barely even fight him and we doesn't see that much King Piccolo in the game, instead it is mostly other guys that will try to stop you for saying the world.
- Wonky hit-detection, the hit-detection isn't the worst but the problem is that it's not very fluid and at times you might miss an enemy when trying to attack it, and this could happen a lot, especially in the later levels.
- This is especially true when you use your punchs, and at time, it might miss the enemy you try to hit, which is quite annoying, though it doesn't happen often, thankfully.
- The platforming is very poor in comparison to most other platformer games of it's time, as it is incredibly stiff and with the collision, you might sometime fall off, or at times it look like that you jumped long enough to make it, but instead you might fall, thank to the poor jumping controls.
- Speaking of BQ#3, the 2D sections are the worst part of the platforming, which is surprising considering how good Advanced Adventure was, and the platforming sections are even worse.
- As stated, the platforming is already bad but in 2D it is way worse, since the collision is even worse and you might fall off platforms a lot, especially the ones where it fall down after you land on them, and this could create a massive amount of difficulty spike, in the worst way possible.
- Sometime, the 2D sections had places where it look like you can't go in, but actually you can go to that place, but the 2.5D did not make this visible enough, this is noticeable in the second level of the game.
- The controls somehow feel extremely stiff and clunky in these sections, due to the game engine being mostly compatible on 3D gameplay and not with 2D gameplay, thus making these sections even more tedious than they already we're.
- The game is very short, as you can beat it in only 4 hours, although fortunately there is replay values.
- Some of the musics are reused from other Dragon Ball games, for exemple one of the music is ripped from Budokai Tenkaichi 2, which is lazy, despite that the soundtrack and the recycled musics being good.
- Repetitive gameplay that had only a few variation, and there isn't that much different gameplay other than the usual side scrolling beat 'em up gameplay, this also is one of the reasons of why this game is a downgrade from Advanced Adventure.
- Some of the levels are poorly designed, due to either having way too many enemies, or because of having poor platforming sections that are badly designed.
- The game is very easy, and had barely any challenges, which make it easy from start to finish.
- The enemies AL is terrible and they barely attack you before you attack, so there's a good chance that most of the time you will hit them before they do, and even if they do, they doesn't make you lose too much healths.
- There's a lot of items that give you lifes, and due to how much they are present, and how underpowered most enemies are, this make the game even easier and this would prevent you from die.
- You can also use your Kamehameha very often due to how easy it is to replish the bar of it, and this could make the bosses even easier, and this instantly kill the enemies.
- Some of the bosses are mediocre, due to them being bland or way too easy, though there are a few good bosses here and there.
- A lot of the levels are very long and some of them could even last 20 minutes at times, we get it that the game is short but still.
- Overall, this game is a downgrade from Advanced Adventure and ended the original Dragon Ball games saga on a mediocre note, and while this game wasn't that bad, it still got mixed reviews thank to being not as good as Advanced Adventure.
Good Qualities
- The graphics are great for a Wii game, as it is colorful and the art style is nice to look at, as well as being faithful to the series.
- Awesome soundtrack, despite being sometime recycled, this is because of how catchy and nostalgic they sound, in fact they are so nostalgic that it is on par with the great soundtrack from Mario Party 9.
- A great exemple of how nostalgic they can sound could be, would be the first world music, since it is so relaxing and while simple, it still good and fun to listen to.
- Despite being flawed and repetitive, the gameplay is actually alright and can be fun at times, especially when it come to Beat 'em up parts where you need to take down enemies to advance, and also even the platforming can be fun, it just that the platforming is not perfect and that the jumps aren't completely great.
- Great voice acting, as all of the characters cast reprise their roles, and sound just as good as in the series.
- The box art is incredible, as it is completely great and cool to look at, it also is faithful to the series animation.
- While a bit flawed, the bosses are actually decent and some of them can be challenging, some have great concepts that we're unfortunately poorly executed.
- It support GameCube controllers, unlike many action games on the Wii.
- It is faithful to the animated series, such as the story, the art style and even the soundtrack, despite that at times the soundtrack sound like it's came from a rejected Mario game.
- Fun combat, that is actually good despite the flawed hit-detection, it is very fast paced, but unfortunately it doesn't had variaty either.
- A decent number of replay values, especially if you go for the 100% completion, or if you want to play the game with your friends.
- The game overall isn't actually bad, it is just weaker than most Dragon Ball games.
Reception
Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo received mixed reviews by critics, who founded the gameplay to be way too easy and repetitive, though the graphics and soundtrack we're praised, it had a score of 65/100 on Metacritic.
Nintendo World Report awarded it a score of 8 out of 10, saying "Solid games like Dragon Ball Revenge of King Piccolo keep the franchise alive. It manages to integrate multiple game genres into one great title that series fans should enjoy" IGN awarded it a score of 7.4 out of 10, calling it "A simple beat-'em-up that seems perfect for kids but too forgiving and straightforward for die-hards." GameSpot awarded it a score of 5.0 out of 10, saying "Revenge of King Piccolo is more successful as a Dragon Ball primer than as an actual fighting game."
Despite the somewhat mixed reviews, lot of peoples consider this game to be an underrated gem, and other that consider this game to be mediocre at best.
Trivia
- This is the third game from the Dragon Ball series to be on the Wii.
- This is the first Dragon Ball series game to be exclusive to the Wii.
- All of the characters voices are original besides the voices of the Bear Thief, Fortuneteller Baba, and Drum.
- At the World Martial Arts Tournament there are no fans in the stands but the announcer is talking as if there are.
- On the cover of the game Master Roshi is seen wearing his Turtle Shell even though he was never seen wearing it in the game, except for the file select screen.
- Laura Bailey and Christopher Sabat are erroneously credited for voicing Upa and the Ghost Usher, respectively.
- The fifth DLC for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, "Chaos at the World Tournament", essentially picks up where Revenge of King Piccolo leaves off, beginning with Kid Goku's final battle against King Piccolo and then jumping ahead to Teen Goku's participation at the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament.
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