As I said before, some of the substories were fun little nods or wrinkles on Dragon Ball, but it’s a mixed bag.Įverything you’re doing is basically in service to powering up your characters for the main story, which again is something fans have seen so many times already. Flying around at high speed is fun, but I wish there was more connective tissue to make doing so more fun. The world simply feels empty outside of collectibles.
You can collect Z Orbs to power up your characters and teach them new moves, you can collect ingredients to make food, find the Dragon Balls to make a wish, and more. Dragon Ball Z, while beloved, is infamous for forwarding the idea of filler in anime, and I can’t help but compare that to Kakarot.Įverything in the world feels like filler to just extend your playtime. The world brings us to the biggest problem I have with Kakarot: most things outside of the main story simply don’t feel engaging.
Others feel like simple fetch quests, there to do nothing more than flesh out your playtime.ĭragon Ball Z Kakarot isn’t an open world game, but there are a number of different zones that you can roam around and explore, both on foot and by flying through the air. Some of these are fun, like when you help Puar disguise themselves as Yamcha, and try to Yamcha’s love life going when he’s waiting to be revived. Characters from across the series populate the world, and oftentimes give you options substories to complete. Outside of the main story is a variety of new side content. While it’s the same old stuff, this is probably the best the stories have been presented in video game form, with decent pacing, strong voice acting by the original actors, and some fantastic cutscenes. If you’ve seen the anime or played any number of Dragon Ball games, you’ve experienced these stories already. The main “chapters” of the game are these sagas, with an intermission between each one that lets you explore the world. Kakarot brings every single saga from Dragon Ball Z into one experience, this means you’re playing from the Saiyan Saga to the Buu Saga. When Dragon Ball Z Kakarot shines it shines brightly, but it’s bogged down by some questionable design decisions along the way. While that had me excited going in, the result isn’t quite as stellar as I was hoping for. Color me excited then when Kakarot promised to be a full-blown action RPG that lets you live out the story of Goku. Dragon Ball Z is one of the most storied anime franchises of all time, and we’ve seen countless video game adaptions over the years.
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