Soul Calibur III v. Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi

[Super Buu]

Yeah, the melee system is fun. I prefer games where it's based on you knowing what you're doing and reacting to fights as they happen (like SSBM and Tenkaichi Budokai) other than fights where you memorise a list of button combinations and go (almost every modern fighting franchise). Fighting is only 'just fighting' if you're playing for the coolness factor, where games are 'advancing' through graphics (as games 'advance' in this way, the graphics get better and better, more and more scantily clad women i.e. SC2 DOA, gameplay is irrelevant). People that focus more on the gameplay have noticed a staleness in the genre, as is shown with new adaptations of the genre becoming popular (everyone loves SSBM).

Tenkaichi is far from a perfect game, they can expand a lot on the specials and they could make the background destruction even better. The dragonball collection system is overtly simple and basically just shoved there for the sake of tradition. However, I think if the fighting system can start off this solidly, it's going to get excellent in later generations. I mean, if the original Budokai was that bad when the series started imagine what they can do with this?!

But I have to say, Legacy of Goku series was horrible... It's pretty hard to debate that. When Cell spits out 18, she gets up and WALKS AWAY, saying nothing. The first was the only I bought legitimately, but I completed it within a day and returned it. It was alright in the second, never really polished, but playable. The third was probably not quite as good as the second.