Dragon Ball XenoVerse Review

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There is a very deep grind to the game that you will need to participate in if you are to have any hopes of finding victory during later story battles. While the moves you start out with are adequate for the beginning, amassing a collection of powerful abilities will be imperative later on. Luckily the game has many things in place to assist you including training from some of the Dragon Ball universe’s most powerful fighters. This is a pretty nice touch in that it adds more than just random drops to your skill collecting activities.

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After coming across certain characters in Dragon Ball XenoVerse you can approach them for training in order to learn some of their signature moves and acquire some sweet gear. See a special move used by a strong enemy? Does that enemy happen to be one of the boss characters? Well you can ask them to train you and add some powerful techniques to your repertoire. This helps to break up some of the monotony and also find more of a use for everyone’s favorite characters.

All of this is tied up in a very social package which happens to be both Dragon Ball XenoVerse‘s strongest and most troublesome feature. This title eschews title menus and instead places everything in Toki-Toki City, the city of time which the plot revolves around. Anything you want to do in the game is accessed by speaking to the right person (or robot) in one of the three sectors of this small city that serves as both a hub, and a social space.

Whether you’re playing online or off you will see many other player-created characters hanging out openly to be recruited for missions. All Parallel Quests can be done with friends (or strangers if that’s more your thing), and you can still face off for supremacy in matches ranging from 1 vs 1 to 3 vs 3. You also have a slew of interaction options ranging from waving to striking a fighting pose. Heck, they even have both sides of the fusion dance which rival any of the slick moves you can bust in Destiny. You can tell that they put a lot of effort into getting people to play with one another, but it comes at a cost.

Having to walk to every activity isn’t too much of a bother until you find yourself trying to bang out several activities in a row. Once you complete one activity, instead of bringing you back to that menu (i.e. Parallel Quest window) you are spawned at a pre-ordained location where you have to once again find your way back to the mission list you were in. There are also no options to just retry a mission in the hopes for a better score upon completion or failure, which means even to do the same mission you will have to walk. It’s one of those things that seems small at first but eventually grows to an annoyance that must be acknowledged.

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Toki-Toki City serves as your hub world and pretty much your menu system for everything in Dragon Ball XenoVerse.

Adding to the annoyance were the server issues that boot you all the way back to the title screen. Dragon Ball XenoVerse does indeed provide the option of playing offline, but that doesn’t stop you from getting the boot for some reason. It is definitely something that can be fixed, but it still ruins the fun to be abruptly kicked from your game.

All in all, Dragon Ball XenoVerse is a solid premise that fits right in with the universe it’s set in. It is fan service at its best and there is absolutely no harm in that. Unfortunately it is slightly bogged down by the weight of one of its largest features. The hub world of Toki-Toki city is a great idea that serves its purpose but adds a bit of clunkiness that makes getting to the fun bits a bit of a chore. And fun is something that should never feel like a chore.

For any information on Dragon Ball XenoVerse be sure to check out the game’s official site.


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