Hit the right level and nothing is a challenge. Too much grinding, however, leads to the opposite problem occurring. You can’t track how you’re getting stronger, only that you are. You will need to stop and grind in order not to get slaughtered by a few measly hits, but the fact you can’t cross reference any stats other than Health or Ki makes character progression feel far less satisfying than it should. Enemies do not drop enough experience to properly level Goku through natural gameplay. Which makes everything doubly frustrating because LoG’s RPG are not particularly well integrated. There’s little need for strategy beyond basic hit & run tactics and being the right level.
Poor enemy AI doesn’t help matters either, battles devolving into vaudevillian chase scenes even in boss fights.
Instead, Goku spends most of the early game dying to woodland animals seemingly made of katchin. You, the player, should feel powerful playing as someone the game acknowledges as supremely powerful. He should be able to comfortably keep enemies away long-range with Ki attacks. Goku should be able to string combos together with his punches. It’s a pity, because the bones are there for a fairly engaging experience (something The Legacy of Goku II and Buu’s Fury prove outright). Goku’s punches don’t always connect when or where they should, whiffing too many for comfort. Coupled with poor hit boxes on most enemies, this makes combat feel frustratingly imprecise. His movement is stiff, arbitrarily locked to four directions. Poor game feel is one of Legacy of Goku’s biggest problems.
Gameplay is made up of mundane side quests - find the egg, find the rocks, find the porn - with painfully stiff controls that fail to emulate the series’ elegantly choreographed action in any meaningful capacity. To say that LoG does not capture the action-packed energy of Dragon Ball Z would be an understatement. Then there’s The Legacy of Goku, a Game Boy Advance action RPG that butchered its source material and squandered its genre’s potential in an incredibly formative year for Dragon Ball.
The original Dragon Ball anime was in the midst of adapting the Red Ribbon Army arc, Dragon Ball Z made it halfway through its final arc, Legendary Super Warriors adapted all of DBZ into a deck-based RPG for the Game Boy Color, and Budokai 1 captured the spirit of the anime in an endearing - if rough around the edges - PS2 fighter that fans still look back on fondly today. Revisiting Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of GokuĢ002 was a big year for the Dragon Ball franchise in North America.
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