Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors
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| Publisher(s) |   Atari Banpresto |
| Release date(s) | June 30, 2002 August 9, 2002 November 2002 |
| Genre(s) | Strategy |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Everyone (E) |
| Platform(s) | Game Boy |
Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors is a turn-based fighting game for Game Boy Color, played with the use of in game cards for attacks, techniques and support items. The game’s story takes place from the start of the Dragon Ball Z anime show and runs right through until the end of the Buu Saga, The game boasts a large array of characters featuring all of the Ginyu Force, Super Saiyan 1-3 Goku forms as well as fusion characters Vegetto and Gotenks.
Once the game has been completed, the player is free to replay the story mode or battle modes the game with the freedom to use any characters and forms they choose in any of the given battles, e.g Super Saiyan 3 Goku v.s Frieza, or Guldo v.s Evil King Piccolo. Also, two extra stories involoving future Trunks can be opened to gain a few extra cards.
There are also three extra slots. They appear in slots 28, 29, and 30. They contain no characters, although many fan theories have been put out about what characters are supposed to occupy those slots although none of these have been proven thus far, the most popular seem to be Tien, Yamcha and Chaozu.
The game has one of the largest array of characters complete with several different forms too choose from, hero characters are unlocked as the game progresses, Villain characters can be obtained by meeting special conditions on 2nd play through, the full list of characters can be found below
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[edit] Heroes
Gohan (Teen) - Normal, Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan 2
Piccolo - Normal, Kami, Evil King
Krillin
Goku - Normal, Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan 2, Super Saiyan 3
Vegeta - Normal, Super Saiyan, Evil Prince/Super Saiyan 2
Gohan (Adult) - Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan 2, Elder Kai unlock ability
Trunks (Future) - Normal, Super Saiyan
Goten - Normal, Super Saiyan
Trunks (Present) - Normal, Super Saiyan
Gotenks - Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan 3
Vegetto - Super Saiyan
[edit] Villains
Nappa
Guldo
Recoome
Jeice
Burter
Captain Ginyu - Normal, Bodychange with Goku
Freeza (Final Form only playable)
Android 16
Android 17
Android 18
Android 19
Android 20 (Dr. Gero)
Cell - 1st Form, 2nd Form, Perfect
Cell Jr.
Majin Buu
Buu - Evil Buu, Gotenks Buu, Gohan Buu, Pure Evil Buu (aka Kid Buu)
[edit] Fan Reaction
The game has a very large fan base for sprite work because the 8-bit sprites are so easy to edit and recolour allowing improved graphics or brand new sprites all together e.g Broly, Bardock, Coola, making these sprites ideal for simple fan comics, animations or games.
This game was one of the final gameboy color games to be released, and has been released in English, American (two different translation teams) and Japanese. It is also the only Dragon Ball Z game on the gameboy color (the previous two being for black & white gameboy, and the next one to be legacy of goku for gameboy advance). This game is also quite popular, probably because it features collectable cards and lots of characters.
The game has some additional sprites in its memory banks that aren't used at all in the game. These include; Cell sprite performing Spirit Bomb, a crudely drawn Krillin, Burters Ginyu Pose (unused since he doesn't have a unique beam attack) and many more.
