Games
When it comes to games, both the Naruto and Dragon Ball camps know how to put on a show, especially when it comes to fighting. Fast-paced, over-the-top action is each franchise’s bread and butter.
Dragon Ball fighting games are known for meticulously bringing each character to life as players fight for supremacy. Dragon Ball Xenoverse even allowed players to create their very own warriors as they fought to save the timeline that fans know and love. Battling Frieza so he doesn’t kill Goku, saving Gohan from Cell, going toe-to-toe with Broly, those are scenarios that fans have dreamed of participating in. The Dragon Ball fighting games helped deliver on these fantasies over the years. Games outside of the fighting genre, though, didn’t fare as well. There were a couple of RPGs on the Game Boy Advance that shone, but everything else fell flat. You would think an open world adventure with the Z Fighters would be amazing, but not even that worked out.
Naruto is in the same boat, with the fighting games being the shining stars, and everything else being just okay. The most recent release, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4, took players through the finale as the series’ biggest foes all stood up against you. It was thrilling and cinematic in ways that not many fighting games can pull off.
Even so, there’s no way anyone could say one series of games is definitively better than the other. Both provide a feel of what it’s like to be in the anime, alongside your favorite characters. It really just comes down to which characters you’d rather play as.
