Dragon Ball 3: Gokuden
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Developer(s) | Bandai |
Publisher(s) | Bandai |
Platform(s) | Famicom |
Release date | October 27, 1989 |
Genre(s) | RPG, Card-based game |
Mode(s) | Single player |
Dragon Ball 3: Gokuden (ドラゴンボール3 悟空伝 Doragon Bōru Surī Gokūden?), translated into English as Dragon Ball 3: Goku's Story is a 'Battle Card' role playing game. Released by Bandai on October 27, 1989 for the Famicom console in Japan. 'Battle Card RPG's are a strange hybrid of role playing, board games and trading cards which are unlike anything seen in the west like the previous game in the Card Battle series.
In the game players move their super deformed Son Goku around a game board style world, space by space. The player will encounter characters on the way, some will offer information and others you will have to battle. The battles are where the Battle Cards come into play. The outcome of each fight is determined by the randomly generated hand of cards players and the opponent are dealt. Players take it in turns to turn over a card and the action on the card combined with the order you revealed them in determines your attack strategy. The battle itself is then animated in the panel above. Fights continue like this until one of the characters is defeated.
This game relates all the Dragon Ball story until the fight against Piccolo Junior. Players can only play as Kid Goku (and later Adult Goku) though there are some chances to play as Kuririn or Yamcha.
Dragon Ball 3: Gokuden was the last Dragon ball game to be released on the Famicom. The series then proceeded to Dragon Ball Z : Kyoshū! Saiyajin.
This game was remade to be released on the WonderSwan in 2002.