Would love to see some Tak/Tak 2 goodness! Those two games are amazing and blew my mind as a kid. Also interested to see your take on viewtiful joe 1 and 2, never got to play those. God bless you in Jesus name matty hope you're doing well!
Thanks for the DBZ gba retrospective, if we're sticking to GBA for now perhaps check out DBZ Supersonic warriors to round out the GBA DBZ experience, Summon Night Swordcraft, Contra or the Mega Man Zero series.
I haven't ever heard of this game having a bad reputation and this is coming from a 20 year video game seller. It's widely considered to be a great DBZ game and has always had high demand.
Yeah I've always thought it had a very positive reputation too. I remember being 8 or 9 years old when it came out and begging my mom for it. I have very little other memories of doing that so it's kinda cool, but yeah the game is probably in my top 3 dbz games. I put so much time into it when I was a kid
1 RUclipsr says LoG 2 was the best and now alllll I've been seeing this past year is how buys fury was too easy and it sucked. I love both games but I feel like buus fury was so damn fun and I replay it every now and then
It's not hated but it's always been derided as "not LoG2", also carries a lot of the typical Buu Saga stigma where the largest individual chunk of fans seems to put the Cell Saga on a pedestal and shit on Buu
I can say back when I was a kid, it did have a bad reputation in my area which was surprising because dbz was the anime and everyone here liked it but I only remember one friend liking it out of the group kids at my school. I still don't get why it had that reputation once I got to play it many years later.
it's the power of RUclipsr's Charisma. it's best to have a mind of your own rather than listen to them. Seriously why do you think New Vegas is Hugely popular and Fallout 3 is considered garbage by comparison even though both games are pretty much fine in their own right both with their own strength and weaknesses. or why Nintendo is mostly loved by 20+ year olds even though the games are lack luster and are mostly for children. Why everyone thinks Digimon Survive was the worst selling Digimon game even though it sold well on steam and PlayStation (some RUclipsrs believed it was only on switch) They ain't the smartest just the most charismatic.
No one has ever said this was bad. It's arguably one of the best games for the GBA. It had bad marketing and the name change made it fly under the radar.
About to watch the video, but gotta say, Buu's Fury is surprisingly accurate to the anime, has a ton of content, and was one of my favorite games when I was a kid. Love that game.
Starting at level 60 is really nice, and gets even better when you consider the fact that in Legacy 2 the max level was 50. So this is sort of an indirect continuation of levels between games and a cool way to integrate story progression into gameplay.
Played the Legacy of Goku series on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance handheld system back in my late childhood and my early teenage years in the 2000 decade while I was in middle school.
The cool thing about Fusion Reborn being in this game was that, at the time, the movie hadn't been officially released in the US yet. This game was the first time we were seeing the plot play out, and Webfoot actually based their in-game script on fansubs.
@@MyNameJefff Yep! Fusion Reborn came out in the US in 2006, Buu's Fury was 2004. One of the lines used in Buu's Fury is word-for-word of a famous line from the fansubs that wound up being changed in the official subs and English dub.
I know I rented this movie off of the anime end cap of my local video store in like 1999 or 2000. It was in Japanese with English subtitles, so it may have been a bootleg, though I wonder how it found its way into a chain rental store.
I love the scouter mechanic and how multiple characters can have more than one scouter readout depending on when you scan them. I always tried to get them all
@@luisfilipe2747 Yeah that is a valid criticism but just because people dislike one small part of the game doesn't mean they think it's "really that bad". I do dislike that there's so many level gates but the game is still great.
I dunno, it did seem a bit rushed, with how short it was and how many level gates there were to make the game seem longer than it was. I think LoG2 was better by a bit because it felt more natural in how it progressed. But yeah, the gameplay was better than in LoG2. Everything that was there was good, there just should have been a bit less level gates for enforced grind and a bit more actual content here.
If anyone wants to max level a character in this game(or all of them if you're mad like me), I would recommend getting the "GOKUU" hat before you reach lvl-100. If you wear the hat while leveling past 100 you will get an extra stat point. If you reach the max level of 200 with the hat, your stats will also max to 200 as well. I believe the "GOKUU" hat can be found in the Ninja Temple level in a treasure chest. Happy level grinding!
I have so many fond memories playing Buu’s fury as a kid. I found the game to be very hard because I didn’t realize I could add to my stats. I feel like I would be punching a boss character for 15-30 minutes. Years later, I randomly played it again and I noticed the stats points and I was sweeping enemies 😂
I didn't know that Buu's Fury got bad reviews, it's actually a great game and my favorite of the LoG series. BTW I would love to see a Battle Network review :)
This game was insanely difficult on my first 9 year old playthrough. I didn't know about character stats so I never powered up my characters. Took hours to defeat any boss.
The thing about Buu’s Fury that makes it a bit lesser than LoG2 is that, yeah, it added a ton of new gameplay elements, but it also made the gameplay itself a lot more bogged down. Having equips, stacking SSJ forms, customizable stats, and whatnot doesn’t really help if the enemies you face are too weak to let you really make use of them. Not to mention the grind, which I assume was the byproduct of the customizable stats. I also wonder why they removed the wall bounce. It didn’t add _too_ much to the difficulty, but it still made the combat in 2 feel more engaging as opposed to being solely A button spam. If the melee attack was replaced with a basic combo system, where every third or fourth attack had a lot of end lag (thus neutralizing A button spam), then it would have made sense. But now the player just has permanent access to the fan from SSBM. And on the topic of fighting game mechanics, some enemies are given the ability to block while the player can’t. I assume it’s due to limited buttons, but giving one side the ability and not the other is kind of a weird design choice. From what I’ve seen, enemies blocking your attacks only serve to slow down gameplay.
The youtuber Casp did a really good 26min video on all the flaws of buus fury. Basically too many level doors, and too much grinding padded out the game. Plus the mid to late game is far too unbalanced.
Hey Matty, just wanna say I've been a fan of your content for a long, long time. Still remember you freaking out over Fallout 4 way back lmfao. This Retro channel is absolute class and is one of my favorite channels on RUclips period. Excellent, excellent work man. Keep it up.
Does anybody remember the secret boss fight against Broly?! That was such an AWESOME easter egg hidden in the game, this series will always be my go to DBZ game on the GBA!
The only problem was, by the time you unlocked Gogeta there was nothing left to do in game as you pretty much unlocked everything at this point. In LoG 2 you could unlock Hercule and you still could level him up and then unlock secret ending, while playing as Gogeta was kinda pointless and just for fun. While not exactly part of LoG series, GT Transformation developed by the same studio let you play entire game with various unlockable characters like Uub, Vegeta or even Baby. But LoG formula doesn't really work with "New game+" idea.
Another nice detail I've noticed is that when you're running from one screen to another in Buu's Fury it doesn't stop you until you quit running or hit a wall unlike LoG 2.
Another small mention is that the character profile pics have different emotes in certain dialogue ranging from their default happy face, to mad, to confused, and Gohan changes drastically after he gets his Potential Unleashed/"Ultimate"/Mystic form.
Man the infinite senzu bean glitch made so much of the grinding in my play through sad a kid bearable. Literally ate the senzu you’re supposed to get for videl on accident, finished the plot line, and next I knew I had 255 senzu beans 🤣
You were talking about the food, but theres a trick/glitch you can do to make any food item obsolete, when you go find a Senzu Bean for Videl after her fight on the world tournament, if you eat that Senzu and come back to Videl you will give her one, then as soon as you can open your menu youll notice you will have a big chunk of Senzus, it will actually last you for the full game
My childhood right here, an isometric rpg dbz game that goes from gokus sacrifice to his return to beat Kid Buu, I really wish they could make Legacy of Goku 4
I truly enjoyed Buu's Fury. As a child i didn't have much luxury so i repeatedly played certain games such as this one. I managed to figure out my own system of making the game more challenging based on the use of equipment and stat customization. Also, i haven't seen much mention but in a few comments, another dragon ball game was made after this for GT. A review would also be really neat if possible ✊🏼
I think this game did something cool that almost no other RPG has done. It starts you as already having some levels, as if you are actually continuing from LOG2. Also, Sunzu glitch is best glitch ever, fite me!
@@retrorebound8887 Read the manga or only watch Bleach without the filler if you can find a guide! A good Bleach game I think you would like though is Bleach the 3rd Phantom. It is like Bleach Fire Emblem.
I don't understand ... I was reading people saying the third game was very good (I have 1, it's tedious) Now it turns out it's bad... (as I supposed and that's why I didn't want the other 2) I don't understand ...
I've literally never had a conversation about the best Dragonball game where this one wasn't brought up. The idea of it getting poor reviews is surprising and laughable.
what I love about buus fury is the way they try to fit the movie saga into the buu saga :D you got Fusion Reborn and Broly Second Coming in one long storyline along with Buu Saga
If you want to make Buu's Fury even easier, when you have to go to Korin to get a Senzu Bean for Videl, eat the bean before returning. this will glitch the game and give you 225 Senzu Beans
@@DoctorMario606 Has nothing to do with hexadecimal, that's just a representation (in fact bits are binary, not hexadecimal). 8-Bit means you can have 256 values(with one being 0 so up to 255). Though with that the initial poster is wrong, it gives 255 Senzus, not 225.
@@annedrieck7316 A computer (which a console ssentially is) stores variables like the amount you have of an item in a so called Integer, that is basically a number represented by 8 binary(0 or 1) numbers (though nowadays it's usually 32 or 64 numbers andnot 8 but back then consoles didn't have that much RAM). The way binary works, having 8 digits means you can have 256 values. But one of these values is 0 so it goes from 0 to 255. That's why in many older games 255 is the max a number can have. That said, if you eat the bean you now have 0 beans. Then you go talk to Videl and give her a bean. The game is coded to just do your beans -1. But you are at zero and here, computers have something called an "Underflow", which is that if you do -1 on the lowest possible number, it "Flips" all binary digits, so 0000 0000 becomes 1111 1111 which is 255. And that's why you have 255 Senzu Beans if you do this trick, because the programmers basically forgot to make the game check if you have a senzu bean and only do -1 if you have more than one.
Buu's fury is the best dbz game to date. It updates and revamps its predecessor by every measure. I don't know what garbage pile of critics u are looking at, putting 20 on the thumbnail
i've started with buu's fury so imagine playing the first legacy of goku after buu's fury.. it was really a pain in the ass to finish. But i liked legacy 2, was very close in quality to buu's fury
I played all 3 games. I always enjoyed Buus Fury. Part 1 gets a pass for being the start and prototype. They improved with part 2 and Buus fury was the icing on the cake. My friend let me borrow it and i enjoyed the heck out of it.
It being called buus fury instead of legacy of goku 3 definitely made it harder to know it’s a sequel I remember my cousin telling me he got it and beat it 3 times before I even knew about it he let me borrow it and bam it was my favorite ssj3 goku and gogeta fully playable at the end after collecting everything omg so fun
I think it would be cool if u could trade up goku from log 1 to log 2 and (goku,gohan,vegeta, future trunks,piccolo,and hercule) up to buus furry with the link cable
Remember this game like yesterday it was right after DBZ Super Sonic Warriors drop it was on the display at wal mart for $29.99 USD once revive my copy I felt I had the whole DBZ LOG collection underneath me !!!!
It is CRAZY how you’re blasting me to my past with these games man. I LOVED playing this game. I borrowed it from a buddy at school and could not stop playing it. I didn’t know ppl were saying it’s a bad game. It was amazing to a kid like me. Awesome game, awesome video.
Oh I'm already in for Attack of the Saiyans Thanks for using that remix of GT's main theme (Dan Dan), and name dropping the Faulconer tracks being remixed for the game
Great videos!! You have to give attack of the saiyans a chance if you've never played It. Its a great game, looking forward to see what's coming next :)
@@micenabled9418 Plus dropping the Legacy of Goku title was pretty stupid too since this way this seemed like a random new Dragonball game on a dying console instead of the end of a trilogy which probably would have made people more interested.
The Legacy of Goku trilogy was my favourite series on the GBA. I'll never forget finding out about Buus fury years after playing LoG 1&2 and binging the entire game immediately. The fusions were amazing! A remaster port/collection on Switch would be amazing. Great video Matty. I'm still begging for a Mega Man Legends 1-2 video!
6:53-7:13 I thought I was the only one who thought this, I was genuinely confused because goku's portrait looks normal in his yardrat outfit but goes back to the evil looking smirk when he uses his typical gi
Loved this as a kid especially since my favorite arc for DBZ was the Buu's Saga so I would often return to Buu's Fury and play through that a bunch. There's some tiny nitpicks you can make about how 2 does it better than BF but that's very minor. Like sure the level pacing and level gates coulda been adjusted to not be as big of a curbstomp as they ultimately are or need to level grind for gates but that's fine and we coulda kept all the locations on the mini map that you could land in but that's minor in the great picture. Still love the game to pieces regardless.
I bought this game at a pawn shop 15 years ago gearing up for a long roadtrip. Got a silver BGA SP and a link cable, and AA battery booster pack with it, along with Final Fantasy Tactics, LOTR The Two Towers, Sonic Advance and Final Round golf 2002, and Game n Watch Gallery 2 for Gameboy... One of my favourite purchases in hindsight
awesome man been waiting for this one another great video! ive loved your videos talking about these games so thank you but more dragon ball and naruto gba or ds games would be cool to see
This game was actually how I learned of what happened during the buu saga. I never could find a way to watch all of it when I was a kid but playing this was so much fun
This was One of the first gba game I played when I was in high school. Truly loved this one. Would love for you to cover Dragon ball Advanced Adventures as well!!
I will never forget getting this game for Christmas and like all kids I ignored the manual and just went into it. Had the hardest time with it on my first play through. It wasnt until the dragonball side quest with goten and trunks that I finally noticed the stat icon and hit A in the menu and realized I wasnt using the stats. The second I did suddenly every common enemy that was kicking my ass were going down with one punch it blew my mind. I then recall a few weeks later in the school bus another kid was having the same problem so I had to let him know! Also that sensu bean glitch makes all play throughs since just a good chill time. Love this series
This was literally the game that made me a DBZ fan, I remember playing this for WEEKS on Gameboy when I was young just enacting dumb scenarios. This game is childhood and it's amazing. Nobody can tell me otherwise
Great video, it was nice to see your opinions on the gameplay and grind. I would love to see a series on Naruto Ninja Council! I played a bunch of them growing up and remember them fondly. I'd love to see how you feel about them between the sprite work and the combat.
I’m really glad you covered the legacy of Goku trilogy, and when you mentioned Naruto Ninja Council I got excited. I’d like to see you go through at least the first 2 of those, I grew up playing them and it would an awesome trip down memory lane
I remember not understanding how the gate system worked so I grinded Gohan so much to the point where he was too strong for the game before realizing that you had to use a certain character for the door
You ask around 16:40 “Why the name change” If you look at how many copies, notably in NA only as well, for the first game you’d find your answer as to the name change. While 600k+ copies sold sounds great, LoG2 was only approved because the first game sold well; over 1.2M copies if I’m remembering correct. We’re talking half the sales numbers here with a much larger budget. Whether the devs or their publishers came up with the idea to change the name is debatable, but the reasons were purely out of mindfulness that the first game wasn’t received well and it had a huge impact on the superior second game’s sales figures. The owners of the first game clearly wanted a DBZ game in that style on GBA… they just got so burned they would never buy another LoG game so it just got called something else to draw those fans back in since the fans who did buy the second game were also still likely to buy the third; even if it was a differently named title. My question though, if you wanna wrack your brain for an answer, is why the hell would you buy a pristine copy in box of a game you started as not a fan of nor played as a child? If it was purely for collecting then you’d be destroying/risk destroying the value every time you looked at it funny, let alone handling and opening the box & manuals. This game as you also point out has a high price these days. As a fan myself of DBZ, I personally wouldn’t spend so much on a collector-quality item that I A.) Planned on ever handling or opening B.) Had never played nor thought would be fun Most comments seem to disagree totally that this game is or ever was considered to be bad, and even though your video is high quality, I think you’d have been better off asking what we thought of the game and giving your own score/opinion without using an unpopular (and borderline false) opinion to draw more views. Anyways that’s my two cents! Great game from this era and an excellent example of how funding as well as market reception play huge roles in the development of game series!
Great video! I think you'll like Attack Of The Saiyan's for the DS, the only thing you may not like is they use Japanese audio when they call out their attacks.
If I remember correctly, the game did not end when you beat Buu and saw the credits. There was a pretty beefy postgame with stronger enemies and I was amazed that I could get to Level 255.
In reference to you wanting more movie content in the game, The Dragon Ball collecting chapter also has the second Broly movie. LoG 2 also had a Cooler boss fight.
Legacy of Goku 2 and Buu's Fury are awesome RPGs. If you think their bad, you clearly haven't played them. (Speaking to those rhat haven't played) And the music is🕺. Great video.👍
i used to love playing this game when i was a kid. the grind was soo much and the enemies were so strong i had to level up and keep going to the same place. but it was fun when you progressed.
I still have this for my gameboy advance sp and im actually replaying it as we speak! Been playing it since I was a child and never stopped since. I hold this game dear to my heart and it will always be replayable for me.
It might be nostalgia, but I love this game. Being a huge fan of DragonBall as a kid, I enjoyed grinding out my favorite characters and playing as my favorite character (Ultimate Gohan). I really enjoyed this look back at some of my favorite games and hope you continue doing more!
You brought up the lack of wall bounce but there are two other major issues with the balance. For one, enemies barely react to your punches and only slide back a tiny bit making it very easy to combo them. In LoG2, the fights were difficult because each hit launched them so far away that you had barely enough time to walk up and punch them again. Unless you using a really fast character, you had to have near perfect rhythm and movement to keep them stunlocked. Stat distribution is also a problem thanks to a really poor damage formula. Basically, your stats power creep themselves and the higher your stats, the more they are worth. As a result, you can just pump everything into strength and you will absolutely flatten enemies because 1 point at 120 strength is worth a lot more then 1 point at 80 strength. As an additional note, there is pretty clear evidence that Buu's Fury was quite rushed compared to Legacy of Goku 2. Despite using mostly the same graphics, many of them have been downgraded. The character models and portraits are definitely better but the world itself took a major dive in quality. There are significantly less uses of light and shadow which include characters now using a stock circular shadow instead of a custom shaped drop shadow for each frame of animation. Water is now solid instead of transparent, you could originally see the bottom of the sea and rivers with proper foliage and everything. There also seems to be much less diversity as the same grass and dirt texture is used everywhere instead of changing them up like how LoG2 had multiple seasons and multiple variants of trees for different areas. I know I am kind of nitpicking but when you play the games back to back multiple times, you really start to pick up on the game's lack of polish.
The gokuu hat was so fun to wait for. I did a run to skip as much exp as possible until i got the gokuu hat. With that, i was able to nearly max every stat
Haven't made a lot of progress in Buu's Fury. I can tell it's got some quality but the level-up system is way more complicated than I was anticipating.
This game was amazing. The grinding does get to be a bit too much especially if you're someone who just wants to run through games. But for me it wasn't that bad until you had to play as Goten and Trunks (who I didn't use at all until I had to)
What?? This is why I genuinely hate gaming "journalism". They don't review if the game is actually GOOD, they just basically say if it tickled their fancy. All biased opinion, no facts.
Dbz: Attack of the saiyans would be pretty cool, it's a nice turn based game with interactive combat and we don't really see to many turn based DB games outside of maybe heroes and fusions.
Something I have learned a long time ago for both movies and video games is don't listen to reviewer. Period. If you want to know how good a thing is, check the customer reviews. That will tell you what a product is really like. Most reviewers don't even finish the game they are reviewing.
Our Legacy Of Goku trilogy is complete! What series do you want to see me return to next? Fire away! You're the reason this all exists ❤
I’m a relatively new subscriber, so I’d like to see Kingdom Hearts if you haven’t done it already.
Would love to see some Tak/Tak 2 goodness! Those two games are amazing and blew my mind as a kid. Also interested to see your take on viewtiful joe 1 and 2, never got to play those. God bless you in Jesus name matty hope you're doing well!
Mario and luigi superstar saga is a great gba rpg
Naruto ninja council would be sick. i only got to play the 3rd one on the ds
Thanks for the DBZ gba retrospective, if we're sticking to GBA for now perhaps check out DBZ Supersonic warriors to round out the GBA DBZ experience, Summon Night Swordcraft, Contra or the Mega Man Zero series.
I haven't ever heard of this game having a bad reputation and this is coming from a 20 year video game seller. It's widely considered to be a great DBZ game and has always had high demand.
Yeah I've always thought it had a very positive reputation too. I remember being 8 or 9 years old when it came out and begging my mom for it. I have very little other memories of doing that so it's kinda cool, but yeah the game is probably in my top 3 dbz games. I put so much time into it when I was a kid
1 RUclipsr says LoG 2 was the best and now alllll I've been seeing this past year is how buys fury was too easy and it sucked. I love both games but I feel like buus fury was so damn fun and I replay it every now and then
It's not hated but it's always been derided as "not LoG2", also carries a lot of the typical Buu Saga stigma where the largest individual chunk of fans seems to put the Cell Saga on a pedestal and shit on Buu
I can say back when I was a kid, it did have a bad reputation in my area which was surprising because dbz was the anime and everyone here liked it but I only remember one friend liking it out of the group kids at my school. I still don't get why it had that reputation once I got to play it many years later.
it's the power of RUclipsr's Charisma.
it's best to have a mind of your own rather than listen to them.
Seriously why do you think New Vegas is Hugely popular and Fallout 3 is considered garbage by comparison even though both games are pretty much fine in their own right both with their own strength and weaknesses.
or why Nintendo is mostly loved by 20+ year olds even though the games are lack luster and are mostly for children.
Why everyone thinks Digimon Survive was the worst selling Digimon game even though it sold well on steam and PlayStation (some RUclipsrs believed it was only on switch)
They ain't the smartest just the most charismatic.
No one has ever said this was bad. It's arguably one of the best games for the GBA. It had bad marketing and the name change made it fly under the radar.
It never felt right being buus fury, legacy of goku iii would have worked better
@@bhunivelze420 facts 🔥
if u see the title of this video, you can clearly see that is a lie 😂
About to watch the video, but gotta say, Buu's Fury is surprisingly accurate to the anime, has a ton of content, and was one of my favorite games when I was a kid. Love that game.
The major surprise to me honestly, was when I saw Broly's appearance in this one. That _really_ threw me off.
@@LuminesBreezer-- but it’s accurate bc of the second broly movie
Starting at level 60 is really nice, and gets even better when you consider the fact that in Legacy 2 the max level was 50. So this is sort of an indirect continuation of levels between games and a cool way to integrate story progression into gameplay.
Who in the right mind said this game was bad 😮 am they crazy
Clickbait title
Bet they were mad.
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am they crazy?!?!
@@admiralAlfonso9001 are* 😆
@@MrSkullMerchant read your own comment
Buu's fury is so good! It took what 2 did to the next level! I loved that game as a kid
Unlocking Gogeta as a secret character in this game I remember very specifically haha I loved all the legacy of games so much
Played the Legacy of Goku series on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance handheld system back in my late childhood and my early teenage years in the 2000 decade while I was in middle school.
The cool thing about Fusion Reborn being in this game was that, at the time, the movie hadn't been officially released in the US yet. This game was the first time we were seeing the plot play out, and Webfoot actually based their in-game script on fansubs.
wait is that facts? thats dope as fuck if true
@@MyNameJefff Yep! Fusion Reborn came out in the US in 2006, Buu's Fury was 2004. One of the lines used in Buu's Fury is word-for-word of a famous line from the fansubs that wound up being changed in the official subs and English dub.
Lol crazy how they gave him dragon fist!
@@GamingintheAM0801 what's the line?
I know I rented this movie off of the anime end cap of my local video store in like 1999 or 2000. It was in Japanese with English subtitles, so it may have been a bootleg, though I wonder how it found its way into a chain rental store.
Unlocking Gogeta was honestly so much fun as a kid. I loved doing it so much and absolutely love this game, spent so many hours playing this game.
Nothing left to do after you get him lol
@@shulkisreallyfeelingit2251 Just to have something cool to beat the shit out of enemies Dragon Fist, and Big Bang Kamehameha
Hell yeah dude. That part was insane.
I don't normally care about if stuff is "mint conditon" but keeping a piece of fiberboard looking like that since the GBA era is pretty impressive
I love the scouter mechanic and how multiple characters can have more than one scouter readout depending on when you scan them. I always tried to get them all
Odd title, I have never heard of this one being bad. I actually loved it myself lol.
I've heard ppl criticize how there was doors blocking your patch all the time instead of once in a while like the Legacy of Goku 2
@@luisfilipe2747 Yeah that is a valid criticism but just because people dislike one small part of the game doesn't mean they think it's "really that bad". I do dislike that there's so many level gates but the game is still great.
This was the best one in the trilogy, music and gameplay wise... whoever thinks it wasn't obviously didn't play it.
I dunno, it did seem a bit rushed, with how short it was and how many level gates there were to make the game seem longer than it was. I think LoG2 was better by a bit because it felt more natural in how it progressed. But yeah, the gameplay was better than in LoG2. Everything that was there was good, there just should have been a bit less level gates for enforced grind and a bit more actual content here.
If anyone wants to max level a character in this game(or all of them if you're mad like me), I would recommend getting the "GOKUU" hat before you reach lvl-100. If you wear the hat while leveling past 100 you will get an extra stat point. If you reach the max level of 200 with the hat, your stats will also max to 200 as well. I believe the "GOKUU" hat can be found in the Ninja Temple level in a treasure chest. Happy level grinding!
i remember doing something like that to try to max out the stats of everyone.
Imagine a remake of the entire trilogy on one package on the switch😍
Isn't a remake of this in one game basically what DBZ Kakarot is?
@@EskChan19not even close lol.
Fuck the Switch. Underpowered Garbage
@@EskChan19Hell nope
Bruh 💀@@EskChan19
I have so many fond memories playing Buu’s fury as a kid. I found the game to be very hard because I didn’t realize I could add to my stats. I feel like I would be punching a boss character for 15-30 minutes. Years later, I randomly played it again and I noticed the stats points and I was sweeping enemies 😂
You played it on hard mode
This was me too then when I realized I could add to my stats around fighting super gotenks buu I was unstoppable after that 🤣
I didn't know that Buu's Fury got bad reviews, it's actually a great game and my favorite of the LoG series.
BTW I would love to see a Battle Network review :)
This game was insanely difficult on my first 9 year old playthrough. I didn't know about character stats so I never powered up my characters. Took hours to defeat any boss.
Awe the joy of being a kid
The thing about Buu’s Fury that makes it a bit lesser than LoG2 is that, yeah, it added a ton of new gameplay elements, but it also made the gameplay itself a lot more bogged down.
Having equips, stacking SSJ forms, customizable stats, and whatnot doesn’t really help if the enemies you face are too weak to let you really make use of them. Not to mention the grind, which I assume was the byproduct of the customizable stats.
I also wonder why they removed the wall bounce. It didn’t add _too_ much to the difficulty, but it still made the combat in 2 feel more engaging as opposed to being solely A button spam. If the melee attack was replaced with a basic combo system, where every third or fourth attack had a lot of end lag (thus neutralizing A button spam), then it would have made sense. But now the player just has permanent access to the fan from SSBM. And on the topic of fighting game mechanics, some enemies are given the ability to block while the player can’t. I assume it’s due to limited buttons, but giving one side the ability and not the other is kind of a weird design choice. From what I’ve seen, enemies blocking your attacks only serve to slow down gameplay.
The youtuber Casp did a really good 26min video on all the flaws of buus fury. Basically too many level doors, and too much grinding padded out the game. Plus the mid to late game is far too unbalanced.
Hey Matty, just wanna say I've been a fan of your content for a long, long time. Still remember you freaking out over Fallout 4 way back lmfao. This Retro channel is absolute class and is one of my favorite channels on RUclips period. Excellent, excellent work man. Keep it up.
Does anybody remember the secret boss fight against Broly?! That was such an AWESOME easter egg hidden in the game, this series will always be my go to DBZ game on the GBA!
No? OMG ima go do this now
That was a secret? I thought it was required for the collecting dragonballs main story quest.
Wasnt a secret boss fight its in the main story when you collect the 7 dragonballs
There was a secret boss fight against Cooler on New Namek in Legacy of Goku 2 though
Thanks for the video Matt! Unlocking Gogeta as a secret character was the best part of the end game haha loved this game so much
The only problem was, by the time you unlocked Gogeta there was nothing left to do in game as you pretty much unlocked everything at this point. In LoG 2 you could unlock Hercule and you still could level him up and then unlock secret ending, while playing as Gogeta was kinda pointless and just for fun.
While not exactly part of LoG series, GT Transformation developed by the same studio let you play entire game with various unlockable characters like Uub, Vegeta or even Baby. But LoG formula doesn't really work with "New game+" idea.
Another nice detail I've noticed is that when you're running from one screen to another in Buu's Fury it doesn't stop you until you quit running or hit a wall unlike LoG 2.
Another small mention is that the character profile pics have different emotes in certain dialogue ranging from their default happy face, to mad, to confused, and Gohan changes drastically after he gets his Potential Unleashed/"Ultimate"/Mystic form.
Nice detail really gave it more charm. I love LOG2 but the profile pics for a lot of characters were kinda funky
Man the infinite senzu bean glitch made so much of the grinding in my play through sad a kid bearable. Literally ate the senzu you’re supposed to get for videl on accident, finished the plot line, and next I knew I had 255 senzu beans 🤣
Huh? Lol. Never knew
@@lifeonmars03 blew my 8y/o mind man lol
You were talking about the food, but theres a trick/glitch you can do to make any food item obsolete, when you go find a Senzu Bean for Videl after her fight on the world tournament, if you eat that Senzu and come back to Videl you will give her one, then as soon as you can open your menu youll notice you will have a big chunk of Senzus, it will actually last you for the full game
My childhood right here, an isometric rpg dbz game that goes from gokus sacrifice to his return to beat Kid Buu, I really wish they could make Legacy of Goku 4
I truly enjoyed Buu's Fury. As a child i didn't have much luxury so i repeatedly played certain games such as this one. I managed to figure out my own system of making the game more challenging based on the use of equipment and stat customization.
Also, i haven't seen much mention but in a few comments, another dragon ball game was made after this for GT. A review would also be really neat if possible ✊🏼
I think this game did something cool that almost no other RPG has done.
It starts you as already having some levels, as if you are actually continuing from LOG2.
Also, Sunzu glitch is best glitch ever, fite me!
With Bleach’s epic return, you should review the handful of Bleach games that have been released over the years across different platforms
Confession time: What if I haven't watched Bleach...?
@@retrorebound8887 Yikes.. what are you doing? Go watch BLEACH fam. Just be sure and skip the filler!
@@retrorebound8887 It’s an awesome anime.. if you like Naruto and DBZ, chances are you’ll like Bleach. Kubo’s art and character designs are unmatched
@@retrorebound8887 Read the manga or only watch Bleach without the filler if you can find a guide! A good Bleach game I think you would like though is Bleach the 3rd Phantom. It is like Bleach Fire Emblem.
Never seen a single soul say buus fury is bad
I don't understand ... I was reading people saying the third game was very good (I have 1, it's tedious) Now it turns out it's bad... (as I supposed and that's why I didn't want the other 2) I don't understand ...
I've literally never had a conversation about the best Dragonball game where this one wasn't brought up. The idea of it getting poor reviews is surprising and laughable.
I remember really having a Great Time with Buu's Fury. Great Vid once again Matti!
This games amazing to me, it even managed to fit in two of the movies into the story
what I love about buus fury is the way they try to fit the movie saga into the buu saga :D you got Fusion Reborn and Broly Second Coming in one long storyline along with Buu Saga
Man, you just brought back so many memories. I totally forgot you can fight Janemba and Broly in this game
If you want to make Buu's Fury even easier, when you have to go to Korin to get a Senzu Bean for Videl, eat the bean before returning. this will glitch the game and give you 225 Senzu Beans
Why only 225?
@@annedrieck7316 That's the max for an 8-bit value in hexadecimal (which is 0xFF)
@@DoctorMario606 Has nothing to do with hexadecimal, that's just a representation (in fact bits are binary, not hexadecimal). 8-Bit means you can have 256 values(with one being 0 so up to 255). Though with that the initial poster is wrong, it gives 255 Senzus, not 225.
@@annedrieck7316 A computer (which a console ssentially is) stores variables like the amount you have of an item in a so called Integer, that is basically a number represented by 8 binary(0 or 1) numbers (though nowadays it's usually 32 or 64 numbers andnot 8 but back then consoles didn't have that much RAM). The way binary works, having 8 digits means you can have 256 values. But one of these values is 0 so it goes from 0 to 255. That's why in many older games 255 is the max a number can have.
That said, if you eat the bean you now have 0 beans. Then you go talk to Videl and give her a bean. The game is coded to just do your beans -1. But you are at zero and here, computers have something called an "Underflow", which is that if you do -1 on the lowest possible number, it "Flips" all binary digits, so 0000 0000 becomes 1111 1111 which is 255. And that's why you have 255 Senzu Beans if you do this trick, because the programmers basically forgot to make the game check if you have a senzu bean and only do -1 if you have more than one.
@@EskChan19 Ah, thanks for correcting me!
Aw man, I used to love Attack of the Saiyans! I'd wanna see that video for sure
Yeah, really wish they would have continued that series. Turn based RPG DBZ was really cool.
Buu's fury is the best dbz game to date. It updates and revamps its predecessor by every measure. I don't know what garbage pile of critics u are looking at, putting 20 on the thumbnail
i've started with buu's fury so imagine playing the first legacy of goku after buu's fury.. it was really a pain in the ass to finish. But i liked legacy 2, was very close in quality to buu's fury
The fact Legacy of Goku 2 explained Vegeta’s absence in the Cooler film due to turning into a Super Saiyan, made me like it so much more at the time.
I played all 3 games. I always enjoyed Buus Fury.
Part 1 gets a pass for being the start and prototype. They improved with part 2 and Buus fury was the icing on the cake.
My friend let me borrow it and i enjoyed the heck out of it.
Who said this game was bad? This and legacy of goku 2 are one of the bests and don’t forget the elite soundtrack
Still remember playing multiplayer during lunch at school. Good times.
It being called buus fury instead of legacy of goku 3 definitely made it harder to know it’s a sequel I remember my cousin telling me he got it and beat it 3 times before I even knew about it he let me borrow it and bam it was my favorite ssj3 goku and gogeta fully playable at the end after collecting everything omg so fun
I think it would be cool if u could trade up goku from log 1 to log 2 and (goku,gohan,vegeta, future trunks,piccolo,and hercule) up to buus furry with the link cable
Remember this game like yesterday it was right after DBZ Super Sonic Warriors drop it was on the display at wal mart for $29.99 USD once revive my copy I felt I had the whole DBZ LOG collection underneath me !!!!
It is CRAZY how you’re blasting me to my past with these games man. I LOVED playing this game. I borrowed it from a buddy at school and could not stop playing it. I didn’t know ppl were saying it’s a bad game. It was amazing to a kid like me. Awesome game, awesome video.
15:37 i love to imagine someone just cornering a boss or enemy and going
"FIGHT BACK! FIGHT BACK NOW! FIGHT BACK!"
hey can you do super dragon ball z for ps2? ive never seen anyone talk about it and im convinced it was just a fever dream from when i was like 7
Id LOVE if you did the Ninja Council series!
When your first introduction to Gohan Angers was this very video game
This was basically my favorite Dragon Ball game outside Budokai 3 and Tenkaichi 2 and 3 for YEARS
Oh I'm already in for Attack of the Saiyans
Thanks for using that remix of GT's main theme (Dan Dan), and name dropping the Faulconer tracks being remixed for the game
Great videos!! You have to give attack of the saiyans a chance if you've never played It. Its a great game, looking forward to see what's coming next :)
This game was not received negatively. It was more positive than anything else!
Yeah it just came out at a bad time a month before the Nintendo DS dropped
@@micenabled9418 Plus dropping the Legacy of Goku title was pretty stupid too since this way this seemed like a random new Dragonball game on a dying console instead of the end of a trilogy which probably would have made people more interested.
@@EskChan19 that’s honestly what I thought when I saw it a random game that covers the most dragged out Arc
The Legacy of Goku trilogy was my favourite series on the GBA. I'll never forget finding out about Buus fury years after playing LoG 1&2 and binging the entire game immediately. The fusions were amazing! A remaster port/collection on Switch would be amazing. Great video Matty. I'm still begging for a Mega Man Legends 1-2 video!
A remastered port would basically be dbz kakarot
A review of the original Legacy of Goku is one of the 1st videos I made for my channel before I was spending my entire life at work lol
6:53-7:13 I thought I was the only one who thought this, I was genuinely confused because goku's portrait looks normal in his yardrat outfit but goes back to the evil looking smirk when he uses his typical gi
You’ve never had an original thought
Loved this as a kid especially since my favorite arc for DBZ was the Buu's Saga so I would often return to Buu's Fury and play through that a bunch.
There's some tiny nitpicks you can make about how 2 does it better than BF but that's very minor. Like sure the level pacing and level gates coulda been adjusted to not be as big of a curbstomp as they ultimately are or need to level grind for gates but that's fine and we coulda kept all the locations on the mini map that you could land in but that's minor in the great picture. Still love the game to pieces regardless.
You should go over Attack of the Saiyans, I wish that game got a sequel. The Supersonic Warriors games would be cool to see an overview of
I bought this game at a pawn shop 15 years ago gearing up for a long roadtrip. Got a silver BGA SP and a link cable, and AA battery booster pack with it, along with Final Fantasy Tactics, LOTR The Two Towers, Sonic Advance and Final Round golf 2002, and Game n Watch Gallery 2 for Gameboy... One of my favourite purchases in hindsight
awesome man been waiting for this one another great video! ive loved your videos talking about these games so thank you but more dragon ball and naruto gba or ds games would be cool to see
This game was actually how I learned of what happened during the buu saga. I never could find a way to watch all of it when I was a kid but playing this was so much fun
This was One of the first gba game I played when I was in high school. Truly loved this one. Would love for you to cover Dragon ball Advanced Adventures as well!!
I will never forget getting this game for Christmas and like all kids I ignored the manual and just went into it. Had the hardest time with it on my first play through. It wasnt until the dragonball side quest with goten and trunks that I finally noticed the stat icon and hit A in the menu and realized I wasnt using the stats. The second I did suddenly every common enemy that was kicking my ass were going down with one punch it blew my mind. I then recall a few weeks later in the school bus another kid was having the same problem so I had to let him know! Also that sensu bean glitch makes all play throughs since just a good chill time. Love this series
This was literally the game that made me a DBZ fan, I remember playing this for WEEKS on Gameboy when I was young just enacting dumb scenarios. This game is childhood and it's amazing. Nobody can tell me otherwise
Great video, it was nice to see your opinions on the gameplay and grind. I would love to see a series on Naruto Ninja Council! I played a bunch of them growing up and remember them fondly. I'd love to see how you feel about them between the sprite work and the combat.
Thanks for making these videos man
I’m really glad you covered the legacy of Goku trilogy, and when you mentioned Naruto Ninja Council I got excited. I’d like to see you go through at least the first 2 of those, I grew up playing them and it would an awesome trip down memory lane
Attack of the Saiyans is great! Would be awesome to see that next.
Now thats a rare one. Probably my fav dbz game, just in how much it feels like the anime
I remember not understanding how the gate system worked so I grinded Gohan so much to the point where he was too strong for the game before realizing that you had to use a certain character for the door
You ask around 16:40
“Why the name change”
If you look at how many copies, notably in NA only as well, for the first game you’d find your answer as to the name change.
While 600k+ copies sold sounds great, LoG2 was only approved because the first game sold well; over 1.2M copies if I’m remembering correct. We’re talking half the sales numbers here with a much larger budget.
Whether the devs or their publishers came up with the idea to change the name is debatable, but the reasons were purely out of mindfulness that the first game wasn’t received well and it had a huge impact on the superior second game’s sales figures.
The owners of the first game clearly wanted a DBZ game in that style on GBA… they just got so burned they would never buy another LoG game so it just got called something else to draw those fans back in since the fans who did buy the second game were also still likely to buy the third; even if it was a differently named title.
My question though, if you wanna wrack your brain for an answer, is why the hell would you buy a pristine copy in box of a game you started as not a fan of nor played as a child? If it was purely for collecting then you’d be destroying/risk destroying the value every time you looked at it funny, let alone handling and opening the box & manuals. This game as you also point out has a high price these days. As a fan myself of DBZ, I personally wouldn’t spend so much on a collector-quality item that I
A.) Planned on ever handling or opening
B.) Had never played nor thought would be fun
Most comments seem to disagree totally that this game is or ever was considered to be bad, and even though your video is high quality, I think you’d have been better off asking what we thought of the game and giving your own score/opinion without using an unpopular (and borderline false) opinion to draw more views.
Anyways that’s my two cents! Great game from this era and an excellent example of how funding as well as market reception play huge roles in the development of game series!
I loved Buus fury. Probably the only game I played over and over again the most. Definitely in my top 5
Great video! I think you'll like Attack Of The Saiyan's for the DS, the only thing you may not like is they use Japanese audio when they call out their attacks.
Kinda unique that it was Japanese audio in the US great game would’ve loved to see the names saga but kaioken goku taking out broly works😅
If I remember correctly, the game did not end when you beat Buu and saw the credits. There was a pretty beefy postgame with stronger enemies and I was amazed that I could get to Level 255.
In reference to you wanting more movie content in the game, The Dragon Ball collecting chapter also has the second Broly movie. LoG 2 also had a Cooler boss fight.
12:50 song name? is ut gohans anger but beepy?
Growing up everyone loved it lol
Lmfao watching the gameplay made me realize I never used the skill points when I played this as a kid 🤣
I realized it when I couldn’t pass second form Janemba
Legacy of Goku 2 and Buu's Fury are awesome RPGs.
If you think their bad, you clearly haven't played them. (Speaking to those rhat haven't played)
And the music is🕺.
Great video.👍
i used to love playing this game when i was a kid. the grind was soo much and the enemies were so strong i had to level up and keep going to the same place. but it was fun when you progressed.
people didn't like buu's fury? that's the first i heard of it...
The Gohan artwork in the manual looks like his apperance from Broly 2, I wonder if they wanted to include that as side content too.
Battle Network was such an awesome series. Loved those games! Can’t wait for the collection!
I still hate that we didn't get 4.5. Really would have had a time with that one too.
I still have this for my gameboy advance sp and im actually replaying it as we speak! Been playing it since I was a child and never stopped since. I hold this game dear to my heart and it will always be replayable for me.
It might be nostalgia, but I love this game. Being a huge fan of DragonBall as a kid, I enjoyed grinding out my favorite characters and playing as my favorite character (Ultimate Gohan). I really enjoyed this look back at some of my favorite games and hope you continue doing more!
Fun Fact: Use the senzu bean before you give it to Videl. Your inventory will underflow to 255 senzu beans and you'll be set for life.
You brought up the lack of wall bounce but there are two other major issues with the balance. For one, enemies barely react to your punches and only slide back a tiny bit making it very easy to combo them. In LoG2, the fights were difficult because each hit launched them so far away that you had barely enough time to walk up and punch them again. Unless you using a really fast character, you had to have near perfect rhythm and movement to keep them stunlocked. Stat distribution is also a problem thanks to a really poor damage formula. Basically, your stats power creep themselves and the higher your stats, the more they are worth. As a result, you can just pump everything into strength and you will absolutely flatten enemies because 1 point at 120 strength is worth a lot more then 1 point at 80 strength.
As an additional note, there is pretty clear evidence that Buu's Fury was quite rushed compared to Legacy of Goku 2. Despite using mostly the same graphics, many of them have been downgraded. The character models and portraits are definitely better but the world itself took a major dive in quality. There are significantly less uses of light and shadow which include characters now using a stock circular shadow instead of a custom shaped drop shadow for each frame of animation. Water is now solid instead of transparent, you could originally see the bottom of the sea and rivers with proper foliage and everything. There also seems to be much less diversity as the same grass and dirt texture is used everywhere instead of changing them up like how LoG2 had multiple seasons and multiple variants of trees for different areas. I know I am kind of nitpicking but when you play the games back to back multiple times, you really start to pick up on the game's lack of polish.
legacy of goku 2 and buus fury are gems. i loved these games as a kid, now im 25 bruh. time flies
The gokuu hat was so fun to wait for. I did a run to skip as much exp as possible until i got the gokuu hat. With that, i was able to nearly max every stat
You should do Attack of the Saiyans! Such an underrated game! Also, are you GamingGoose's son?
Haven't made a lot of progress in Buu's Fury. I can tell it's got some quality but the level-up system is way more complicated than I was anticipating.
This game was amazing. The grinding does get to be a bit too much especially if you're someone who just wants to run through games. But for me it wasn't that bad until you had to play as Goten and Trunks (who I didn't use at all until I had to)
What?? This is why I genuinely hate gaming "journalism". They don't review if the game is actually GOOD, they just basically say if it tickled their fancy. All biased opinion, no facts.
Pleases do attack of the saiyans. Its just as good as the legacy of goku series
Dbz: Attack of the saiyans would be pretty cool, it's a nice turn based game with interactive combat and we don't really see to many turn based DB games outside of maybe heroes and fusions.
Something I have learned a long time ago for both movies and video games is don't listen to reviewer. Period. If you want to know how good a thing is, check the customer reviews. That will tell you what a product is really like. Most reviewers don't even finish the game they are reviewing.
I really wish we could get a sequel for attack of the saiyans on the switch!
These videos are so dope🔥🔥🔥