I always heard that Buu's Fury was underrated and one of the best Dragon Ball games but upon me playing it for the first time, I'm just wondering where that notion came from. Like Legacy of Goku 2, I went in expecting it to be a solid if nothing amazing game but what I was shocked by was how much worse it was.
When you start up the game, all seems fine it's basically the same as LoG2 but with a block button and a gear system. The former I welcome, the latter I don't. I was happy that defensive options was finally introduced but the more I played Buu's Fury is just how many changes to the gameplay didn't need changing or how things that were in LoG2 was not present in Buu's Fury.
I'll start with the combat, LoG2's combat was nothing too amazing but it was decently made for what it was. You fought enemies with fists up close when high on health and used ki blasts from a distance when some health was lost, it was simple but fine system since enemies always dropped health and energy upon death keeping fights fair and making the player feel good when barely getting out a fight with low health.
In Buu's Fury, this was all changed for the worst. When enemies drop health, instead of walking up to it and it heals you, now it's an item used in the pause menu. However what really ruins the combat is that the only way to reliably get health back is through level ups since gaining levels is very easy in Buu's Fury so now you don't even need to use energy attacks anymore since now, everything can be solved by just punching enemies since you know after fighting 5-6 enemies, you will level and get a health refill. You don't even need to use the healing items dropped by enemies since gaining levels refill all health and you will be frequenting the pause menu less if you do. It also becomes ambigious when is a good time to heal using heal items since there are times you know when a level up is coming but are low on health and get a refill after gaining xp or if you should waste one when a full healing is coming up.
Due to all of this combat went from being a simple but enjoyable time to being either easy 95% of the time and then randomly dying because you thought you could tank a few more hits on critical health before a level up.
There's other issues, LoG2's take on transformations was a faithful to the series, where Buu's Fury transformation are now on a seperate meter and doesn't drain key anymore making them easy to abuse.
On top of all this, Buu's Fury has a very nasty habbit of making the player do forced level grinding to progress, that I don't mind, but the problem is, the game will never have side paths on the left or right of a zone where the gate is so you can beat up weaker enemies to help you gain levels.
What adds furthur insult to injury is that previously visited locations are never marked on the world map, this was something LoG2 avoided since areas were marked in that game. As a result, even trying to find places to grind and open those level gated doors becomes a guessing game.
It gets worse from there and this is what made me drop in the game is that there is a dragon ball hunt after Vegeta scarifices himself which is something that never happened in the show but what is worse that the dragon balls aren't even marked on the world map like LoG2 to get it done faster you now have to follow arrows on the world map to get them making the process more tedious.
Then there is just pointless additions like needing to descend to enter an area, what does this even add? I can just press A on a part of the overworld to enter and it would accomplish the same thing.
Soundtrack also isn't as good as LoG2, there are some good remixes of Gohan Angers and Gohan Fights Frieza, the rest of the OST is pretty forgettable.
Overall, I wanted to like Buu's Fury, but instead all it really did was make me wish someone would mod in LoG2 with a block button and it would be a million times more enjoyable than this game. I was critical on Dragon Ball Kakarot but it's a masterpiece when compared to this.
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