GBAtemp Recommends! Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure

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GBAtemp Recommends! Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure
G.R. Issue #8 (GBA)


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Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure

This week we chose a great beat 'em up game you may want to check out. The game is arguably a hit-or-miss for some people, but hopefully you'll get some enjoyment out of it.

Dragon Ball: Advance Adventure is lightweight platformer beat 'em up that might have slipped under your radar.
The game is a must for DragonBall fans and generally those who enjoy good ol' beat 'em up games alike.

The story mode in Dragon Ball: Advance Adventure stays true to the television series story. You'll find yourself in non-stop action as you fight your way through a good number of levels, stopping along to engage in combat with challenging bosses. The combat mode on the game is great; there's a lot of replay value there.
You're able to play through the story with a large selection of different characters and your character gains new battle skills as you progress.
The story mode will keep you entertained for a few hours, no doubt.
Dragon Ball: Advance Adventure's graphics are quote nice, there's a lot of color and animations. The games audio is nothing special; it gets the job done, however.

Make sure to pick this title up and give it a go, you'll enjoy it!

Like any side-scroller, Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure isn't going to occupy weeks of your time. In fact, you'll probably beat it the first time through in two hours or so. That's not so different from the majority of license-based games. What is different, however, is how many incentives the game provides for playing through the story mode multiple times. When you finish the game the first time, you'll unlock a variation of the story mode that introduces collectible items, and you'll gain the ability to play through the game with Goku's buddy, Krillin. Items picked up in the story mode will add additional playable characters to the story mode and to the stand-alone one-on-one mode. There are more than 20 characters to unlock, each with unique moves and animations. These incentives are great and will probably triple or quadruple the play time that most people get out of the game. It's just too bad that there isn't a linked cooperative mode. You can play the one-on-one mode against a friend, but that's nowhere near as fun as it would be to tag-team the main quest.

Dragon Ball fans should definitely pick this game up, and non-fans should at least consider doing so. Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure is a fun, diverse action game that does the license proud.

Spoiler: Gameplay Trailer

#1782 Dragon Ball Advance Adventure (Rising Sun)

#1963 Dragon Ball Advance Adventure (iND)

#2026 Dragon Ball Advance Adventure (Rising Sun)

#2431 Dragon Ball - Advanced Adventure (Ongaku)

Genre: Beat 'em Up
Publisher: Infogrames
Dump Date: 15/06/2006
ROM Size: 128Mbit

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Discuss

 

[Heran Bago]

Discuss thread disappeared while I was posting so reposting here.

This game is really really good. I did a hack a while back trying to replace the main character with Sonic. Worked out great! I never moved it over to the English version though.

Shameless self promotion:

Spoiler

But yes this game is one of the best 2D beat em ups ever. It's a GBA champion right next to Astro Boy: Omega Factor.

 

[Intimidator80]

Yea i played this game b4 and it was pretty good if your a dragonball fan heck you prolly like it even if you aint but it is really short and they skip all the funny parts with bulma

lol

 

[Covarr]

I already beat this game.

 

[gacktgacktgackt]

Fantastic choice... prefer Astro Boy though, has more meat on its bones.

 

[X D D X]

I liked this game but i thought it was nothing compared to the other Dragonball games on the GBA.

 

[DeMoN]

Never even heard of this game but I have played many Dragon Ball games for the GBA including the Super Sonic Warriors fighting game which was pure awesomeness.

 

[jelbo]

Really good game, amazing graphics and animation.

Heran Bago, is your patch downloadable? It looks nice.

The music in this game is quite good too. I did a line-in recording of it some years ago. *Link removed as it contained copyrighted material*

The archive contains some nice boxart scans as well, done by someone from GBAtemp

 

[Agjsdfd]

Thats a nice and easy one. Played through few times. Enjoyed and it reminded myself of the good ol days of Dragonball

 

[Satangel]

Finally a game I know and own!
Really one hell of a game, very nice graphics too!

 

[Jibib]

I got so much fun out of this! It took me ages to find the one-star dragonball, that was what kept me going.

The Minigames are awesome which u unlock after!

Shame they missed out cut-scenes and also shame it wasnt longer!

 

[Hadrian]

There are worse games I guess.

 

[SylvWolf]

Really liked this game, still on my card. Great recommendation.

 

[Agjsdfd]

There are worse games I guess.

3rd best recommendation after Golden Sun and Boktai.
Beckham and other thingies were just crap...

 

[Deleted User]

I remember playing this game back in the days. It's a fun brawler not only if you like/know the Dragon Ball series/story, but if you do it gets even better.

Really good game, amazing graphics and animation.

Heran Bago, is your patch downloadable? It looks nice.

The music in this game is quite good too. I did a line-in recording of it some years ago. *Link removed as it contained copyrighted material*

The archive contains some nice boxart scans as well, done by someone from GBAtemp

I can only second that question. Please share it with us.

 

[LloydKurosaki]

even though it's a game you can beat in no time, the fact that yo are able to bring back to life all those memories about DB is amazing, this beat-em up game is really one of the best games in it's genere.

 

[m3rox]

Ya know, that game looks decent. I haven't touched a DB game since trying an SNES one years ago. Gonna have to give this a shot.

 

[TenchuBlaze]

I love this game! Fun fun fun beat'em up. However, I wish that you could unlock adult Goku and Piccolo jr. for the one on one mode. That would've been awesome.

 

[Jordan10la]

Never had any interest in Dragon Ball but I can say that I am now addicted to this game.

 

[rikuumi]

i dont like it