After completing this story, five “What if?” scenarios are made available to play these amount to, essentially, repeating the fights from “Dragon Team”, but with focus on you being one particular character.

Though, at least you won’t be tired of repeating the fights yet. First up is an incredibly abridged retelling of the events of Dragon Ball Z, summed up in 10 battles and titled as the “Dragon Team” story this translates to around two minutes of fighting and far too much plot progression through on-screen text between fights. Z Story is the first section of story-based gameplay available to you upon starting the game, with the other two being unlocked upon its completion. The cast of characters is large enough for some interesting combinations, but it would have been nice to see some of the assist-only characters available as combatants, rather than multiple versions of some other characters – Gohan is available as a kid, Super Saiyan kid, unleashed, Super Saiyan teen. Character assists are initialised by simply tapping on an assist character on the lower screen, provided enough DP remains to call upon them. More powerful attacks can be launched by increasing your Ki and expending it by holding the L button while attacking with Y, X, or A. Fighting is easy attacks are based around combinations of pressing Y and X. This game, when pre-ordered, does also include a download code for a virtual console version of the SNES game Dragon Ball Z Super Butouden 2, a suitable pre-order bonus.

It’s a sprite-based fighting game that feels like the perfect throwback to the 16-bit era of videogames. The game was developed by Arc System Works, known for the BlazBlue series of fighting games. Dragon Ball Z Extreme Butoden is the first Dragon Ball game to be released on the Nintendo 3DS in the western world, despite two earlier 3DS games being made available in Japan in recent years.

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