I feel like this game bit more than it could chew
Not sure how the whole community feels about it so I'm okey with getting some hate. But man, I'm disappointed. I know so many little details about DBZ that this game just forgets. For either time restrains, budget, or not wanting to bloat the experience(which is honestly a stupid excuse given the amount of story DLC the game has gotten over the years).
- Goku not fighting Raditz on only his orange attire to get every little advantage he can get against an enemy he knows he may not be able to beat.
- Not letting us explore the Snake way, something that Legacy of Goku 1 and Infinite World did!
- Barely showing the training everyone did to fight Vegeta and Nappa. Only focusing in Gohan.
- The fight of Frieza against Neil. To show how Frieza fights before the actual fight.
- I can let them pass not letting us fight 1st form Frieza with Vegeta since they only power struggled a little in the show. But if there was a game to show us more, it was this one.
- Not showing Gohan's rage against either 2nd or 3rd form Frieza.
- Not showing the transformations themselves. They appear of thin air besides the 2nd form.
- Not showing us literally nothing about the Yardrat planet or how Goku ended up there.
- Not showing 17 destroying Trunks' sword.
- Not showing the FINAL FUCKING FLASH!!!!
- Not showing how Perfect Cell defeated Vegeta.
- Skipping Trunks' transformation AND BATTLE...
And I'm going to stop here because I still haven't finished the game. But from what I've heard it just gets worse from here.
Kakarot is not the definitive way to experience the DBZ story as I've heard. It is a half-hearted and half-assed experience that I really don't know what it wants to be. The gameplay is flashy, but shallow. The exploration is fun but mindless and stupidly unrewarding. Some cutscenes get a lot of love while others you have the characters just standing there watching eachothers. It has the iconic soundttack and some mini games no one asked for but that's it.
I feel like Budokai Tenkaichi 2, Legacy of Goku 2 and 3 and Infinite World had more love for the story. And in implementing at least some sort of mechanic into those little details that couldn't make it into the main gameplay.
I wanted so bad for this game to be a Legacy of Goku 4 game. But it's not and I only blame me myself for thinking that. It pales in comparison to those games in charm, unique music and interesting ways of filling the gaps between stories.