Buu’s Fury doesn’t have that Dragon Ball Magic | Game Boy Advance Retrospective/Retro Review

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Published on September 15, 2023 6:00:28 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cigBWtf8Org

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Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury (2004)

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Review

Duration: 40:41

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Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury is a 2004 video game for the Game Boy Advance. It retells the final chunk of Akira Toriyama's original run for the iconic manga Dragon Ball in the form of an action RPG sequel to The Legacy Of Goku series.

It is also, kinda a little unpolished and unfinished.

While I have a lot of nostalgia for Buu's Fury (and the LoG series as a whole), I was surprised to find that this game felt like a rush-job. I wouldn't go as far as to call it bad, but because of the issues inherent to the story it is adapting, the insistence on shoehorning filler into it to pad the length out, and the number of bugs that plague it, what should have been an easy victory lap for Webfoot Technologies is little more than a solid 3/5 game to me. It's worth your time if you like DBZ, but only if you really feel like you need more Legacy of Goku action after the second one.

Chapters:
00:00 - Preview
00:16: - Intro
01:14 - Background Info
05:22 - Question of the Day
06:10 - Part I: The Game
20:24 - Part II: The Issues Inherited from the Buu Saga
30:38 - Part II: Buu's Failings
38:04 - Conclusion

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