You can even buy and cook food to restore Ki and HP to your party. You earn EXP to level up, upgrade super moves via a skill tree, and add and remove support characters to your party. They're not inherently unique for a role-playing game, but depicting Dragon Ball Z in this light is what sucked me in.ĬyberConnect2 threw in all of the staple mechanics. The best part about Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is its RPG mechanics. What's more immersion-breaking, however, is having to click a button to continue each line of dialogue presented during voiced-over cutscenes. I found the lip sync to be generally bad, but that's not very surprising for an anime game.
And when they were combined with classic Dragon Ball Z sound design and music, I felt like I was literally inside the show.īut Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot does have some flaws. Overall, the visuals don't look as good as those in Dragon Ball FighterZ, but they're pretty nonetheless. (He also voices teenage-adult Gohan.) And although the game is called Kakarot (Goku's birth name), you get to play as all of the important characters that aren't Goku - such as Piccolo, Vegeta and Gohan - which was a neat surprise. (Image credit: Bandai Namco Entertainment)Įach mission feels like an episode of the show, and the format is driven by title cards read aloud by none other than Kyle Henry Hebert, the original narrator from the Dragon Ball series.
