The Worst New Fighting Game Reveals a Terrible Trend That Won't Go Away
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Video game adaptions of anime have had a rough go of things in recent years, and there doesn't seem to be any indication of it getting better.

Okay but really, why are they all boring 3D fighters that have barely changed since the PS2 era?

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    10 months ago

    Honestly most anime games were hot garbage. Kinda like games based on movies.

    Dragon Ball Z Kakarot was incredible though. And was really wishing it kicked off a revolution, but nope. One Piece pirate warrior series is only fun because it’s just Dynasty Warriors with a anime reskinning.

    • Ilflish@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      I liked the concept of Kakarot but boy was it full of filler. Other than that we’ve had a One Piece RPG which was supposedly alright and a Fairy Tail game which was supposedly alright. We had Dragon Ball Fighters which is one of the most visually impressive Dragon Ball games imo. And we had the Shounen Jump game which seemed like it was supposed to be a big deal anyway but wasn’t great.

      On a different note there’s a Shin-chan and Doraemon game for something more low stakes.

    • freebread@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      I heard people really enjoyed One Piece Odyssey last year. Never seen the series myself.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I found it kinda funny when they gave fighter z and kakarot as examples of DBZ games that broke that mold when fighter z is a fighting game and kakarot was an adventure game that followed the original story. Don’t get me wrong, I loved kakarot (because it was the my first time going through the whole DBZ story), but Xenoverse would have been a better example IMO because it did break the mold more (it does still focus on the original story, but you’re a part of a time patrol whose job it is to basically provide help to the original heroes because villains are trying to change the original story).

      • pory@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        FighterZ is an actually good fighting game in the style of MvC or Street Fighter though, not the same 3d drivel with copy paste movesets and terrible game balance usually associated with anime tie-ins.