DarknessTear
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Pokemon Yellow? 
I heard Magic Knight Rayearth is good.
I heard Magic Knight Rayearth is good.
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Good anime based games?
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butman
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Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans
By the Director of BATEN KAITOS and the Art Director of CHRONO CROSS
This game should have covered from Dragon Ball to the Buu Saga and it would be a masterpiece.
Mass Effect
Member
The Naruto Storm games are the best anime based games.
The Legacy of Goku Trilogy are the best DBZ games and come in a close second.
Legacy of Goku 1 is trash tho
2 is the best. Buu's Fury is great too.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
The Gundam VS games are legitimately great arena fighters. They definitely go beyond the "good for a licensed game" label.
Tatsunoko vs Capcom is fun too.
Tatsunoko vs Capcom is fun too.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
Asura's Wrath is the best anime.
There's also the Attack on Titan game that was pretty servicable. It must have been a real challenge to translate the acrobatics of the show to an intuitive control scheme, but they got most of the way there. IIRC there was a pretty good Bleach-based fighting game on the DS too.
EDIT: Beaten to that last one!
i regret i never rented it when it was available at my local store, too bad the game isnt on the psn
Oh yeah, I remember Infinite world. I didn't play it due to owning DBZ budokai 3 and it came out together with Burst limit came out before it.
Buying a DBZ game, which was similar to budokai 3 seemed like a waste of money.
Tbh I still haven't even played it yet, but I'm all for playing a better budokai 3 experience
. Thanks, would be nice for Yamcha to be as strong as he believes to be. The poor guy lol.
Also a real bummer is that the real ending of the game was a paid DLC. Seems like a bad afterthought to do that...
Choppymushroom
Neo Member
Another shout out to the recent Attack on Titan game. Movement felt really good to pull off.
Good pick.
Kresnik258
Member
I feel like you've managed to list just about every "meh" anime game from the past few years without mentioning any of the good ones. Props to you if you enjoyed them I guess, but a lot of these were kind of poor (although I did like OPPW3 an DWGR).
Battlechili
Banned
I don't like Naruto but I like the Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm games. CC2 can make anything great.
BenjaminBeaumont
Neo Member
*crickets*
King Gilga
Member
Heartskips
Banned
I love this game way more than the show.
I havent cared about Naruto in so long but the next game looks fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28IEhf54ufA
Edit: Also thanks to anyone coming in here saying there are none, you are a waste of space.
Edit 2 : edited out some wrong info
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28IEhf54ufA
Edit: Also thanks to anyone coming in here saying there are none, you are a waste of space.
Edit 2 : edited out some wrong info
Never knew about this one. First exposure to any Gundam games was Battle Assault 2. Had the G Gundam cast and everything. I actually remember reading it was the first thing the dub actors had done as Domon's VA is way less hotblooded than he is in the actual show.
I'll also throw another in for Astro Boy: Omega Factor. I loved that whole system of finding other characters from the original authors various series in the game.
Paltheos
Member
Are we talking games strictly based off anime themselves? Or are we including games rooted in an anime aesthetic that may or may not themselves feature anime.
In the case of the latter, the Lunar games come to mind, and I'm a little surprised no one's mentioned them yet! Pretty much anything by Game Arts from 20 years ago qualifies. All fantastically fun and playful.
In the case of the latter, the Lunar games come to mind, and I'm a little surprised no one's mentioned them yet! Pretty much anything by Game Arts from 20 years ago qualifies. All fantastically fun and playful.
Giolon
Member
Holy shit those sprites are amazing
gundam battle assault's sprites were these taken to the next level. ALways loved that first game as a kid on PS1. Great times. Voice announcer was hysterical as hell.
GU-N DAM, BATTEL ASSAUELT
I would say the CC2 Naruto games were definitely better than kishimoto's source material. The only fuck up was not making part 1 a proper campaign mode like 2 3 and 4.
Gameplay's pretty amazing for a SNES game too; it's probably the closest thing to a Versus game on the system.
Some great music too.
Battle Assault's got the sprites made out of independent parts thing though; that always irks me when I look at it.
GlassBurrito
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Lupin the 3rd: The Shooting / The Typing
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans
By the Director of BATEN KAITOS and the Art Director of CHRONO CROSS
Recently saw a playthrough of this by Team Four Star and I NEED THIS.
WickedLaharl
Member
So far just played 1 hour of it, me like it
Ugh one of the worst games i played this year.
CoolestSpot
Banned
Came to post this. Just finished my 2nd playthrough.
zswordsman
Member
What happened here? This makes SOA interesting now lol. He probably survived rightUgh one of the worst games i played this year.
RoaringMdog
Member
All the NUNS mentions are making me salty. Once you get past the pretty ougis and cutscenes, you're left with a lackluster arena fighter. To make matters worse, the soundtrack is the standard CC2 guitar instrumentals that have been in their games since the original .hack Quadrilogy.
The Xenoverse games are a dumb kind of fun. I play the series because I enjoy dressing up my goofy Saiyan lady. All the dudes in the game suffer from Toriyama's Same Face syndrome, so that ruins them for me.
The best anime games are...the Gundam Versus series. Consistently awesome with licensed soundtracks 👌🏾
And shoutouts to the SRW series.
The Xenoverse games are a dumb kind of fun. I play the series because I enjoy dressing up my goofy Saiyan lady. All the dudes in the game suffer from Toriyama's Same Face syndrome, so that ruins them for me.
The best anime games are...the Gundam Versus series. Consistently awesome with licensed soundtracks 👌🏾
And shoutouts to the SRW series.
Sometimes, that's all you need to be fun and entertaining. I mean there's nothing inherently wrong with an arena fighter. Tons of people like xenoverse and that's far worse in terms of gameplay than the ultimate ninja storm games, with no production values to back it up either.
Star Orpheus
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Im quite linking Re Hollow Fragment though Ive only just started.
Of course I also kind of like SAO so its whatever.
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Shaman King Master of Spirits and it's sequel are great Castlevania games.
Advanced Adventure is one of the best GBA games and I don't even like Dragon Ball.
You can't go wrong with Jump Ultimate Stars too.
I don't think that's quite true. The World series came before the anime did.
Digimon World 1:January 28, 1999
Digimon Adventure: April 7, 1999
katsubento
Member
This was my choice too. Wish I had never sold it.
If VNs that were made into anime count, this conversation is incomplete without Steins;Gate. Honestly better than the anime imo.
The Astro Boy GBA game is also great. And I'm very excited for Yakuza of the North Star.
The Astro Boy GBA game is also great. And I'm very excited for Yakuza of the North Star.
..despite never having actually watched that series, lol.
You know, I think technically this does count, lol.Pokemon Yellow?
cheermancy
Member
I enjoyed the Attack on Titan game. If you're a fan of the series you might enjoy it.
Only got about 10~ hrs out of it though so YMMV.
Only got about 10~ hrs out of it though so YMMV.
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans
By the Director of BATEN KAITOS and the Art Director of CHRONO CROSS
This game is so underrated! Shame we never got a sequel.
I'm so tired of DB fighting games :X
The Orz
Member
I have to agree with everyone that has mentioned Ghost in the Shell (and I don't even like Ghost in the Shell). Game is more fun than it has any right to be.
A couple of my personal favorites would have to be:
Macross: Eternal Love Song for the PC-Engine
A fun, grid-based strategy game with great music that creates this wonderful illusion of action. I was addicted to this game in high school.
Then there's also:
Urusei Yatsura: Dear My Friends for the Sega CD.
A point and click Urusei Yatsura adventure game by Game Arts! The animation is beautiful and the game is absolutely loaded with references from the show/comic. Admittedly it helps if you're a fan of the series (which you should be) (you really should be).
A couple of my personal favorites would have to be:
Macross: Eternal Love Song for the PC-Engine
A fun, grid-based strategy game with great music that creates this wonderful illusion of action. I was addicted to this game in high school.
Then there's also:
Urusei Yatsura: Dear My Friends for the Sega CD.
A point and click Urusei Yatsura adventure game by Game Arts! The animation is beautiful and the game is absolutely loaded with references from the show/comic. Admittedly it helps if you're a fan of the series (which you should be) (you really should be).
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Remember back then when Naruto games weren't associated with shallow repetitiveness and pointless roster counts? I remember.
Before Ultimate Ninja Storm was Ultimate Ninja/Narutimate Hero, where it was 2D arena fighter. Characters feel more distinct and don't feel same-y with attacks, cinematic moves don't take forever, and there just is a oomph to the game.
The peak of the franchise, depending who you ask, is either Narutimate Hero 3 or Narutimate Hero Accel/Ultimate Ninja 4. Man, Bamco really screwed the pooch in order to appeal to a more casual, flashy/less substance game.
It was so good that they used to have tournaments.
Before Ultimate Ninja Storm was Ultimate Ninja/Narutimate Hero, where it was 2D arena fighter. Characters feel more distinct and don't feel same-y with attacks, cinematic moves don't take forever, and there just is a oomph to the game.
The peak of the franchise, depending who you ask, is either Narutimate Hero 3 or Narutimate Hero Accel/Ultimate Ninja 4. Man, Bamco really screwed the pooch in order to appeal to a more casual, flashy/less substance game.
It was so good that they used to have tournaments.
ultimate moves that dont take forever, what? Ultimate ninja started the whole "ultimate moves take forever/flashy" stigma, and they got longer and longer each game. The first game to tone those down was storm 2. and they again got longer from there
And storm also has tournaments, you can make anything have tournaments, doesnt matter how in depth or not in depth the combat is
Rose colored glasses
And storm also has tournaments, you can make anything have tournaments, doesnt matter how in depth or not in depth the combat is
Rose colored glasses