5 Fighters to Add

5 Fighters to Add

I argued earlier that the playable roster of Dragonball Z Extreme Butoden is rather small and could do with a bit more expansion. With that in mind, I put together a short list of 5 characters in no particular order that I would add to the roster as fighters. Maybe for the sequel?

Tienshinhan

Or Tien for short. A later addition to the Z Fighters, Tien was a former pupil of the Crane Hermit Shen training to become an assassin until he was befriended by Goku, Krillin and Master Roshi, and since then he helped out in the battles against King Piccolo, the Saiyans and Cell. Having trained under a different tutor to the other characters, Tien’s fighting style would set him apart as he favours more precise and practical attacks such as the blinding Solar Flare or the Kikoho, which drains his life to focus an attack to an area around his opponent, as opposed to the flashier but more wasteful techniques used by others.

Golden Freeza

Goku’s shiny new Super Saiyan God form is in the game, so why not Freeza’s new form to promote the newest film? The Five Nights at Freddy’s jokes write themselves here! Before anyone says anything, yes, I do recognize the irony of complaining about multiple Gokus, Gohans and Vegetas, then turning around and asking for another Freeza.

Omega Shenron

I mentioned the gameplay story segregation issue during Adventure mode and this is one significant example. The main antagonist of the story not being a playable fighter is odd. Him not even being a non-playable boss fighter is even weirder. As poorly received as Dragonball GT may have been, the idea of a villain created as a consequence of overusing the Dragon Balls is a great one, and he has a very cool design.

Super Gogeta

Another pick for cancelling out gameplay story segregation, this form is created when Goku and Vegeta perform the Fusion Dance, and though it is stated in dialogue that they do this at a point near the end of Adventure mode, it cannot be reflected in gameplay due to Super Gogeta not being a playable fighter. The best you can do is choose Goku and Vegeta separately.

Dr Gero

The resident mad scientist of the Red Ribbon Army has borne a grudge against Goku ever since he single handedly dismantled the organisation as a child. Finding himself unemployed in a highly competitive work environment, Gero expresses his displeasure by creating Cell and the Androids and programming them with the express purpose to kill Goku. A better adjusted person would have gotten to work on their CV or maybe gotten a hobby, but he’s a mad scientist for a reason. The majority of Adventure mode’s third chapter sees the good doctor pitting Goku against a series of mechanical meanies, and although this is in character for him, it is a bit of a shame that he doesn’t enter the fray himself at the end of the gauntlet, since he did give himself some cyborg modifications to fight Goku alongside his creations.