REVIEW: Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai
by Matt Paprocki
If you're worried about your child's reading comprehension skills,
you could try to give them Shakespeare as a test. You might as well
pick up something like
Shin Budokai. For as baffling as classic literature can be for some people, the storyline in
Dragon Ball Z
is worse, especially when it's all told through text. Thankfully, the
PSP offers a start button to skip all of that after you've gone past
the point of being lost, and then you'll end up inside a decent, albeit
lacking fighting game.
Oddly enough, for being based on an anime, Shin Budokai
contains no footage from the films or shows. The intro cinematic is
comprised of grainy game footage, while the conversations use still
pictures. Past that, the in-game graphics engine does a fine job of
representing the characters with a sharp, clean cel-shaded look.
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