Wednesday, September 9, 2015

T5W#4-Top 5 Anime Based Video Games


I’ll be honest about it up front: I haven’t played too many of these.  However I have played my fair share and have enjoyed these select five titles based on their gameplay, fun factor and authenticity to the shows on which theyre based.  These are the games you played when you wanted more and wanted to be a bit more involved with your favorite characters.  So no sense in wasting time, let’s get to it.


#5-Gundam Wing: Endless Duel (SNES)
If you were lucky enough to get a copy of this game, youd wish that Gundam Wing came out in the US in 1996 after the show had wrapped.  That way the game could still come out when the Super Nintendo was in it’s final glory days and this could have been a good send off.  At the time, this was the Gundam Wing game we sort of wanted but appreciated anyway.  The roster was a small one but the combat was very much reminiscent of Street Fighter and ended up being a good brawler.  Plus hearing some of the Gundam Wing themes in 8 bit form will make you so giddy inside.

 
#4-Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (PS2)
SAC isn’t a perfect game, it’s more of a guilty pleasure.  It moves a bit…clunky and the gunplay isn’t the greatest.  Yet this still feels like a Ghost in the Shell story and game.  It’s definitely helped by the addition of the voice casts from both dubs.  Plus you get to control Motoko, Batou and even a Tachikoma through many intense levels of bullets, hacking and even some hand to hand combat.  It could have been a bit more polished but I do enjoy it for the Stand Alone Complex feel this game brings.  Just wish I could find a copy of the soundtrack somewhere.  It’s not Yoko Kanno work or quality but for a game it’s one of the most fitting ones ive ever heard.

 
#3-Dragon Ball Z Budokai (PS2)
Up until the release of this game, there had been so-so attempts to get a fighting game out of Dragon Ball Z, the closest decent attempt was probably Dragon Ball GT Final Bout.  But Budokai brought us not exactly to the perfect DBZ fighting game but was a step in the right direction.  The CG characters moved well and the fighting spirit of the show was there.  The roster wasn’t the greatest of numbers, mostly cause it only went from the Saiyan Saga thru the Cell Saga, but your favorites were all there and ready to play.  For anyone who owned a PS2, this game was a dream come true…well for me it was almost, the real one was yet to come.
 

#2-Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 (PS2)
Dragon Ball Z Budokai laid the groundwork for the possibility of an amazing DBZ game.  Budokai 2 was…a little better but Budokai 3 not only took Budokai’s fun to the next level, it perfected the style began in the first entry.  With a roster of fighters that goes up through GT, dozens of arenas to choose from and even a CPU vs CPU option to watch your dream match up of Yamcha vs Kid Buu play out…in the most unexpected way depending on it’s mood lol, Budokai was the ultimate love letter to fans of DBZ.  Plus it has SSJ4 Gogeta as a possible fusion and his ultimate attack is a borderline God Mode Cheat in every possible way


#1-Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 (Xbox 360, PS3)
This game was an amazing dream come true whose packaging hid more of it’s true treasure than advertised.  Not only do we get a wacky story that brings together the cast of almost every single Gundam entry (through 2010’s Gundam Unicorn and Gundam 00 The Movie…which was DLC only) but it brings along a mass Iron Legion sized library of Gundams and various other Mobile Suits from the franchises history.  Working from the ground up to level up pilots and collect blueprints for stronger Mobile Suits offers hours of fun as there’s a character for everyone to love and a suit of choice for tearing up hundreds of enemies at a time.  It’s repetitive as all know how…but come one how can I not love Haro giving me orders over the communique or forcing Duo Maxwell into the Operations Manager role and hearing him complain about it?
 
I know im missing quite a bit since these are just from my experience.  Any titles out there that take the cake for you?

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