Dragon Ball: Fusions

I would love a sequel or at least an update or dlc with a Dragonball Super roster and some extra side quest

I just finished this game and It really impressed me. When I first saw it I thought it looked interesting but never imagined I'd have so much fun playing it. I'll start with the pros. Pros + 1. The combat system works really well. I'm a long time fan of turn based combat and found the addition of interactive elements and player placement helped keep things fast paced. 2. The art style is excellent, it looks great for a 3ds game. 3. The level design was great. The game is divided into 7 stages and i found myself eager to unlock them just so I could see which iconic area was next. 4. The fusions system works well and its quite fun to see what you can create. 5. I never needed to grind so the game never dragged for me. 6. There are a lot of sidequests. Most of them are typical fetch quests, pointless flying through ring games or just more fighting but it is a lot of fun finding your favorite characters around each map and talking to them. 7. There's a huge amount of fan service. Characters from dragonball, dragonball z, gt and super along with the movies. 8. The story is new and doesn't rely on reusing scenes from the anime like a lot of dragonball games. It's not amazing but I liked it and the final fights were pretty cool. Cons - 1. The fights can be quite long, although as the game doesn't require much grinding this didn't bother me. 2. A lot of reviewers complained that the attack animations are lengthy but I really enjoyed them with the exception of ring outs. When your character is knocked out of the ring you see the same animation of them flying through a mountain. It gets old and afterwards you have to reposition them on the map so this can slow the pace of combat. 3. Recruiting characters can be annoying. You have to build up an attack meter and then launch a special move but it can be blocked. Also later in the game it's a challenge to build your attack meter without knocking everyone out first. 4. You need to collect energy to progress to the next stage. This could be a little annoying but it didn't take too much time. Overall this is a really impressive game. I bought xenoverse at the same time but found fusions much more addictive. If you're a dragon ball/rpg fan and a 3ds owner then I really couldn't recommend it enough.

As an avid Dragon Ball fan (disclosure), I found this game very entertaining and satisfying. It didn't blow me away at all, but I GREATLY enjoyed the unique combat system and art style. Really pushed the 3DS to its max potential, I feel .

The game (both localized and original version) is really poor and now that I was expecting. I was expecting it to be a similar experience to Dragon Ball heroes (several timelines mixed together with fun activities to do and plethora of characters to choose from) It may be because it felt more like Dragon Ball Super instead of Dragon Ball itself that I felt disappointed. (I personally would've like it to be more GT oriented than DBS because of the space related story it manages but that is just my opinion) The localized version has absurd and senseless censorship while the original one still has exclusive features non Japanese speakign fans can enjoy such as special characters and online events. Sure, it has a lot of characters to choose from but most are either exclusive to the post game (under awfully specific conditions as well) or require really excruciating chains of quests for you to have access to them. That is if you don't mind having access to generic characters of course. The story was slightly lack luster but I comprehend that mixxing several different stories and timelines with their won inconsistencies and temporal impossibilities is not the easiest thing of the world. If you like Dragon Ball in general (by this I mean no preferences in absolutely anything related to the franchize) and don't mind artificially elongated gameplay then you probably will enjoy this game, else you would be better off playing some other Dragon Ball related game in other platform.

People comparing this game to "Xenoverse for the 3DS" are idiots. What could have been a fun little romp in the Dragon Ball universe ends up **** eggs due to a stupid combat system, lack luster controls and a dull story line. If you must get this game, get it on discount or used.