Is Buu's Fury REALLY That Bad?! 

Our Legacy Of Goku trilogy is complete! What series do you want to see me return to next? Fire away! You're the reason this all exists ❤

I haven't ever heard of this game having a bad reputation and this is coming from a 20 year video game seller. It's widely considered to be a great DBZ game and has always had high demand.

Who in the right mind said this game was bad 😮 am they crazy

About to watch the video, but gotta say, Buu's Fury is surprisingly accurate to the anime, has a ton of content, and was one of my favorite games when I was a kid. Love that game.

No one has ever said this was bad. It's arguably one of the best games for the GBA. It had bad marketing and the name change made it fly under the radar.

Buu's fury is so good! It took what 2 did to the next level! I loved that game as a kid

The cool thing about Fusion Reborn being in this game was that, at the time, the movie hadn't been officially released in the US yet. This game was the first time we were seeing the plot play out, and Webfoot actually based their in-game script on fansubs.

Unlocking Gogeta was honestly so much fun as a kid. I loved doing it so much and absolutely love this game, spent so many hours playing this game.

Imagine a remake of the entire trilogy on one package on the switch😍

Starting at level 60 is really nice, and gets even better when you consider the fact that in Legacy 2 the max level was 50. So this is sort of an indirect continuation of levels between games and a cool way to integrate story progression into gameplay.

Odd title, I have never heard of this one being bad. I actually loved it myself lol.

I don't normally care about if stuff is "mint conditon" but keeping a piece of fiberboard looking like that since the GBA era is pretty impressive

This was the best one in the trilogy, music and gameplay wise... whoever thinks it wasn't obviously didn't play it.

I love the scouter mechanic and how multiple characters can have more than one scouter readout depending on when you scan them. I always tried to get them all

If anyone wants to max level a character in this game(or all of them if you're mad like me), I would recommend getting the "GOKUU" hat before you reach lvl-100. If you wear the hat while leveling past 100 you will get an extra stat point. If you reach the max level of 200 with the hat, your stats will also max to 200 as well. I believe the "GOKUU" hat can be found in the Ninja Temple level in a treasure chest. Happy level grinding!

With Bleach’s epic return, you should review the handful of Bleach games that have been released over the years across different platforms

Thanks for the video Matt! Unlocking Gogeta as a secret character was the best part of the end game haha loved this game so much

I didn't know that Buu's Fury got bad reviews, it's actually a great game and my favorite of the LoG series. BTW I would love to see a Battle Network review :)

This game was insanely difficult on my first 9 year old playthrough. I didn't know about character stats so I never powered up my characters. Took hours to defeat any boss.

I have so many fond memories playing Buu’s fury as a kid. I found the game to be very hard because I didn’t realize I could add to my stats. I feel like I would be punching a boss character for 15-30 minutes. Years later, I randomly played it again and I noticed the stats points and I was sweeping enemies 😂

I truly enjoyed Buu's Fury. As a child i didn't have much luxury so i repeatedly played certain games such as this one. I managed to figure out my own system of making the game more challenging based on the use of equipment and stat customization. Also, i haven't seen much mention but in a few comments, another dragon ball game was made after this for GT. A review would also be really neat if possible ✊🏼

Does anybody remember the secret boss fight against Broly?! That was such an AWESOME easter egg hidden in the game, this series will always be my go to DBZ game on the GBA!

I think this game did something cool that almost no other RPG has done. It starts you as already having some levels, as if you are actually continuing from LOG2. Also, Sunzu glitch is best glitch ever, fite me!

Aw man, I used to love Attack of the Saiyans! I'd wanna see that video for sure

Hey Matty, just wanna say I've been a fan of your content for a long, long time. Still remember you freaking out over Fallout 4 way back lmfao. This Retro channel is absolute class and is one of my favorite channels on RU-vid period. Excellent, excellent work man. Keep it up.

Man the infinite senzu bean glitch made so much of the grinding in my play through sad a kid bearable. Literally ate the senzu you’re supposed to get for videl on accident, finished the plot line, and next I knew I had 255 senzu beans 🤣

This games amazing to me, it even managed to fit in two of the movies into the story

Another small mention is that the character profile pics have different emotes in certain dialogue ranging from their default happy face, to mad, to confused, and Gohan changes drastically after he gets his Potential Unleashed/"Ultimate"/Mystic form.

BAD??! Buu’s Fury is the best of the series.

Another nice detail I've noticed is that when you're running from one screen to another in Buu's Fury it doesn't stop you until you quit running or hit a wall unlike LoG 2.

what I love about buus fury is the way they try to fit the movie saga into the buu saga :D you got Fusion Reborn and Broly Second Coming in one long storyline along with Buu Saga

i've started with buu's fury so imagine playing the first legacy of goku after buu's fury.. it was really a pain in the ass to finish. But i liked legacy 2, was very close in quality to buu's fury

people didn't like buu's fury? that's the first i heard of it...

I don't understand ... I was reading people saying the third game was very good (I have 1, it's tedious) Now it turns out it's bad... (as I supposed and that's why I didn't want the other 2) I don't understand ...

If you want to make Buu's Fury even easier, when you have to go to Korin to get a Senzu Bean for Videl, eat the bean before returning. this will glitch the game and give you 225 Senzu Beans

I've literally never had a conversation about the best Dragonball game where this one wasn't brought up. The idea of it getting poor reviews is surprising and laughable.

This game was not received negatively. It was more positive than anything else!

The thing about Buu’s Fury that makes it a bit lesser than LoG2 is that, yeah, it added a ton of new gameplay elements, but it also made the gameplay itself a lot more bogged down. Having equips, stacking SSJ forms, customizable stats, and whatnot doesn’t really help if the enemies you face are too weak to let you really make use of them. Not to mention the grind, which I assume was the byproduct of the customizable stats. I also wonder why they removed the wall bounce. It didn’t add _too_ much to the difficulty, but it still made the combat in 2 feel more engaging as opposed to being solely A button spam. If the melee attack was replaced with a basic combo system, where every third or fourth attack had a lot of end lag (thus neutralizing A button spam), then it would have made sense. But now the player just has permanent access to the fan from SSBM. And on the topic of fighting game mechanics, some enemies are given the ability to block while the player can’t. I assume it’s due to limited buttons, but giving one side the ability and not the other is kind of a weird design choice. From what I’ve seen, enemies blocking your attacks only serve to slow down gameplay.

You should do attack of the saiyans Edit: I typed this one second before you said attack of the saiyans lol

Pleases do attack of the saiyans. Its just as good as the legacy of goku series

I played all 3 games. I always enjoyed Buus Fury. Part 1 gets a pass for being the start and prototype. They improved with part 2 and Buus fury was the icing on the cake. My friend let me borrow it and i enjoyed the heck out of it.

Attack of the Saiyans is great! Would be awesome to see that next.

You should go over Attack of the Saiyans, I wish that game got a sequel. The Supersonic Warriors games would be cool to see an overview of

Growing up everyone loved it lol

I loved Buus fury. Probably the only game I played over and over again the most. Definitely in my top 5

Legacy of Goku 2 and Buu's Fury are awesome RPGs. If you think their bad, you clearly haven't played them. (Speaking to those rhat haven't played) And the music is🕺. Great video.👍

This was basically my favorite Dragon Ball game outside Budokai 3 and Tenkaichi 2 and 3 for YEARS

Remember this game like yesterday it was right after DBZ Super Sonic Warriors drop it was on the display at wal mart for $29.99 USD once revive my copy I felt I had the whole DBZ LOG collection underneath me !!!!

I am kicking myself in the balls right now. You know how many game boxes I've thrown away when I was a kid? Yeah I invite y'all to kick me in the balls too. Man I wished I hit critical thinking age earlier. Great video, brought back some good memories. I beat this game while on a road trip from Lexington Texas to Branson Missouri, for my brother's military graduation. I'll never forget my dad saying "what is with the button mashing"? I was at the end with buu and you had to rapidly tap A in a battle of energy. And when I said "it's the last boss"! He said carry on. Buu was defeated eventually. The game is great.

It being called buus fury instead of legacy of goku 3 definitely made it harder to know it’s a sequel I remember my cousin telling me he got it and beat it 3 times before I even knew about it he let me borrow it and bam it was my favorite ssj3 goku and gogeta fully playable at the end after collecting everything omg so fun

I'm sorry what? It's the best one out of the gba legacy series. Who in their right mind said it was bad?

I would 100% watch more DBZ content or even if you reviewed those Naruto games. If you want another DBZ game to review you should try DBZ Sagas, its a pretty bad ps2 game. Could be fun to see how awful it is over the years.

Buu's fury is the best dbz game to date. It updates and revamps its predecessor by every measure. I don't know what garbage pile of critics u are looking at, putting 20 on the thumbnail

Is it bad? Buu's Fury one of best DBZ games ever made. Wish I never got rid of my copy. 😭 getting rid of it and gale of darkness and colisseum some of my biggest mistakes

Never seen a single soul say buus fury is bad

I really wish we could get a sequel for attack of the saiyans on the switch!

As cool as an hd compilation release would befor these 3 games (even if LoG1 sucks), i feel like its near impossible for such a thing to happen. Given, it mostly has to do with these games being exclusive to the American market and being developed by American devs and published by Atari. Bandai Namco owns publishing rights to DB related stuff and with what I said, the chances of a compilation for modern consoles feels extremely unlikely.

hey can you do super dragon ball z for ps2? ive never seen anyone talk about it and im convinced it was just a fever dream from when i was like 7

I liked this game. It didnt have an annoying egg mission. Also includes Fusion Reborn in the game.

Buu's Fury is a great game! I played it for months after getting it for my birthday. I still play it on occasion to this day.

Attack of the Sayians is really good! That and Supersonic warriors!

But fury was the best imo I enjoyed it so much I really got all the hours I could out of it

Dbz: Attack of the saiyans would be pretty cool, it's a nice turn based game with interactive combat and we don't really see to many turn based DB games outside of maybe heroes and fusions.

I remember really having a Great Time with Buu's Fury. Great Vid once again Matti!

That game bad? If anything I’ve heard nothing but praise from it over the years

The fact Legacy of Goku 2 explained Vegeta’s absence in the Cooler film due to turning into a Super Saiyan, made me like it so much more at the time.

It’s here! The childhood GBA is complete

This game was amazing. The grinding does get to be a bit too much especially if you're someone who just wants to run through games. But for me it wasn't that bad until you had to play as Goten and Trunks (who I didn't use at all until I had to)

Battle Network was such an awesome series. Loved those games! Can’t wait for the collection!

You should do Attack of the Saiyans! Such an underrated game! Also, are you GamingGoose's son?

Buu’s fury was slept on matter fact

Lmfao watching the gameplay made me realize I never used the skill points when I played this as a kid 🤣

A review of the original Legacy of Goku is one of the 1st videos I made for my channel before I was spending my entire life at work lol

What bad ? It’s was good lol

please cover dragon ball advance adventure!!

Any gameboy dragon ball z game is bad very bad

It’s actually really fun. But easier to play than previous games.

do dbz supersonic warriors !!

I wouldve liked to have seen a GT game by the same studio. Attack of the Sayans on DS was pretty good. Shame they didn't make any sequels for that (that I know anyway)

Buu’s fury was great

Buu's Fury is the best of the trilogy. I loved it so much and holds a special place in my heart.

Now I think buus fury is underrated

This was literally the game that made me a DBZ fan, I remember playing this for WEEKS on Gameboy when I was young just enacting dumb scenarios. This game is childhood and it's amazing. Nobody can tell me otherwise

You brought up the lack of wall bounce but there are two other major issues with the balance. For one, enemies barely react to your punches and only slide back a tiny bit making it very easy to combo them. In LoG2, the fights were difficult because each hit launched them so far away that you had barely enough time to walk up and punch them again. Unless you using a really fast character, you had to have near perfect rhythm and movement to keep them stunlocked. Stat distribution is also a problem thanks to a really poor damage formula. Basically, your stats power creep themselves and the higher your stats, the more they are worth. As a result, you can just pump everything into strength and you will absolutely flatten enemies because 1 point at 120 strength is worth a lot more then 1 point at 80 strength. As an additional note, there is pretty clear evidence that Buu's Fury was quite rushed compared to Legacy of Goku 2. Despite using mostly the same graphics, many of them have been downgraded. The character models and portraits are definitely better but the world itself took a major dive in quality. There are significantly less uses of light and shadow which include characters now using a stock circular shadow instead of a custom shaped drop shadow for each frame of animation. Water is now solid instead of transparent, you could originally see the bottom of the sea and rivers with proper foliage and everything. There also seems to be much less diversity as the same grass and dirt texture is used everywhere instead of changing them up like how LoG2 had multiple seasons and multiple variants of trees for different areas. I know I am kind of nitpicking but when you play the games back to back multiple times, you really start to pick up on the game's lack of polish.

Loved this as a kid especially since my favorite arc for DBZ was the Buu's Saga so I would often return to Buu's Fury and play through that a bunch. There's some tiny nitpicks you can make about how 2 does it better than BF but that's very minor. Like sure the level pacing and level gates coulda been adjusted to not be as big of a curbstomp as they ultimately are or need to level grind for gates but that's fine and we coulda kept all the locations on the mini map that you could land in but that's minor in the great picture. Still love the game to pieces regardless.

Just finished the trilogy myself. Buu's Fury is by far the best game. The optional stuff from LoG2 might debatably be better since you have cool stuff like Cyborg Tao, but I think the pacing, average difficulty, UI, the new equipment system and more customizability with skill points, just everything I think Webfoot wanted to do was more fully realized.

Buu's Fury is and has always been my favorite of the three. It's definitely easier than LoG 2 (which is probably part of the reason I preferred it as a kid, though still FUCK that mission with the dinosaur's eggs) but it also changed a few of my minor complaints I had about LoG 2, specifically the SSJ transformations. I greatly preferred them having a separate energy bar between base form and SSJ/SSJ3. Also the Buu arc has always been my favorite, so that's also probably a major factor for me

I don't mind Buu's Fury being easier to play than Legacy of Goku 2. I feel like it's much more user-friendly, and this is coming from someone who's trying to play all 3 games. Although, your preference is probably dependent on what arc of DBZ you like most.

The Battle Network series staggered not because people were sick of it, but because Battle Network 4 was so trash it completely screwed up the rest of the franchise. I'm surprised on the BN reddit how loved BN5 is, it honestly perplexes me as an OG fan of the series. When they were coming out, 1-3 was known online as the "good trilogy" and 4-6 was known as the bad one (with the exception of 6).

Great video! I think you'll like Attack Of The Saiyan's for the DS, the only thing you may not like is they use Japanese audio when they call out their attacks.

Why they changed the name? One of two things - They wanted to make it approachable. If it was called Legacy of Goku 3, then some people might think they need to play Legacy 1/2 before they get to 3. Or, some people had already written off Legacy of Goku for being an RPG, and they wanted to trick a few people into buying it by changing the name to something else.

This wasn't the last from Webfoot/Atari, they had one more game after this. Dragon Ball GT: Transformation And it's VERY different

I was hoping kakorot would be a remake of this series but the rpg mechanics and side quests/open world is way worse. It looks nice but is way more empty

So you want it to be an rpg... and then you complain about grinding? I don't think you understand what an rpg is when it contains leveling up and stats. Also, this is the least grindy game in the history of forever dude.

You ask around 16:40 “Why the name change” If you look at how many copies, notably in NA only as well, for the first game you’d find your answer as to the name change. While 600k+ copies sold sounds great, LoG2 was only approved because the first game sold well; over 1.2M copies if I’m remembering correct. We’re talking half the sales numbers here with a much larger budget. Whether the devs or their publishers came up with the idea to change the name is debatable, but the reasons were purely out of mindfulness that the first game wasn’t received well and it had a huge impact on the superior second game’s sales figures. The owners of the first game clearly wanted a DBZ game in that style on GBA… they just got so burned they would never buy another LoG game so it just got called something else to draw those fans back in since the fans who did buy the second game were also still likely to buy the third; even if it was a differently named title. My question though, if you wanna wrack your brain for an answer, is why the hell would you buy a pristine copy in box of a game you started as not a fan of nor played as a child? If it was purely for collecting then you’d be destroying/risk destroying the value every time you looked at it funny, let alone handling and opening the box & manuals. This game as you also point out has a high price these days. As a fan myself of DBZ, I personally wouldn’t spend so much on a collector-quality item that I A.) Planned on ever handling or opening B.) Had never played nor thought would be fun Most comments seem to disagree totally that this game is or ever was considered to be bad, and even though your video is high quality, I think you’d have been better off asking what we thought of the game and giving your own score/opinion without using an unpopular (and borderline false) opinion to draw more views. Anyways that’s my two cents! Great game from this era and an excellent example of how funding as well as market reception play huge roles in the development of game series!

I never was a fan of the Dragon Ball Z GBA Trilogy, because they feel more like Secret of Mana clones than anything close to the DBZ franchise.

Legacy of Goku on Switch? ...Did you mean DBZ Kakarot? :P

Buu’s Furry always felt like more of Legacy 2. So if you’re already a fan of the series I doubt many complained.

How is this game bad? It had the best combat in the trilogy! There's a block button and charged attacks weren't dookey! It was easier to stay on top of your enemies. It wasn't a hit first or be hit situation like in log2.

If I play retro games, does that make it my... 2nd CHILDHOOD?! 💀