I really wanted to give this game 3 stars, believe me. But I can't. I've played for a long time, but I stopped keeping up with it once they added the AI CGs. Still, I wanted to review it because it was a game I liked and because it made me realize a few more issues people should know about. Since it's been some time, I may get confused on a few things, so I apologize in advance.
First, I want to address the AI art since this is what made me drop this game. If a developer wants to use AI art in their games, they are free to do so in my opinion. However, changing from original art to ai during the development is something I despise. I'm sorry, but it just feels lazy, boring and bland. This dev in particular didn't even try to make the ai art look like the original one in this game (which is something you can definitely train your ai to do, so the fact that they did the bare minimum, which is to make it look like the characters just enough so you would recognize them tells me everything I need to know).
Maybe the art wasn't to everyone's tastes, and yes it may not have looked like Dragon Ball, but it was its own thing and it was appealing. How can you just replace it with that sh*t? Is it because of time? Money? Or just plain and boring lazyness? I don't understand. I could go on an even longer rant on this issue, but there's really no point. Just know that the dev even didn't put any effort into the Ai art (and there isn't even a lot of efforts needed in the first place). Even if you're desperate for DB parodies, this isn't worth it, at least not for the art. What about the rest of the game?
So, the content... It feels like there is a lot of it... But there really isn't. There's a ton of story, but sex scenes? Nope. Not if you compare it to the story size. There's a sh*t ton of things that are just not available, and I'm not even kidding. There has been options "available" versions ago, and they still say it's in development. You have multiple rooms in your castle with a girl in each room. You can chat with them, but don't bother. Obviously, I'm not speaking for the complete game, but for now, talking to any of them is useless.
There's nothing to grind for, and if you hadn't unlocked sex scenes for them, then there's nothing to unlock. Any sex scene available will be unlocked pretty quickly, so don't worry about missing anything if you don't talk to them everyday. So, yes, those rooms are useless. There is little to no scenes with Bulma, which is insane when you know she is literally the second character to appear in Dragon Ball.
Chichi is basically non-existent, and same for Videl. Btw, when I say there aren't a lot of sex scenes, that also include repeatable ones.
You have other planets to explore. Don't bother with them. I mean, visit them at least once since you'll get one sex scene, which is repeatable. But you can forget about them after that because there's jack sh*t after that. Note: some planets aren't even available yet. As if there were a hundred of them, but nope! They've been there from the start, too. Still not available
Now, the story. It's a mess. You're supposed to be an overpowered God of Destruction (and Zeno's personal creation), but you get your ass kicked pretty frequently. Then you get a training arc an insane f*cking timeskip (multiple timeskips at that) or you spend hundreds of years into some kind hyperbolic time dimension to come back with super saiyan god super saiyan 5 or some sh*t. What the hell is the point of these powerups? You don't even feel any different. I felt absolutely no difference with that surge of power in the story.
Btw, you need to sleep after every story segment for some f*cking reason. Because you're tired. It's annoying, especially when the segment is short. It just feels like a way to uselessly prolong the game.
At some point, there's a plot with your son betraying you and with Vados taking his side (yeah because she's his mother), and like, I get it. A mother's love knows no bound, but the dude is f*cking crazy! He literally betrays you and tries to kill you, but for some reason she takes his side? WHY?! Why would she do that?!
This also reminds me of the random invisible robot that kicks your ass at the start of the game. Yes, an invisible robot. After some training, you destroy the thing. Rince and repeat throughout the game with different antagonists and more convoluted storylines.
I could go on and on, but there's no point. You got the gist of it. If you're an android 18 fan, it's great for you, though! Content wise. Until it's ruined by the sudden ai art jumpscare.
I would have given this game a 4 stars when I first tried it, so you can imagine my disappointment by rating it 2.
First, I want to address the AI art since this is what made me drop this game. If a developer wants to use AI art in their games, they are free to do so in my opinion. However, changing from original art to ai during the development is something I despise. I'm sorry, but it just feels lazy, boring and bland. This dev in particular didn't even try to make the ai art look like the original one in this game (which is something you can definitely train your ai to do, so the fact that they did the bare minimum, which is to make it look like the characters just enough so you would recognize them tells me everything I need to know).
Maybe the art wasn't to everyone's tastes, and yes it may not have looked like Dragon Ball, but it was its own thing and it was appealing. How can you just replace it with that sh*t? Is it because of time? Money? Or just plain and boring lazyness? I don't understand. I could go on an even longer rant on this issue, but there's really no point. Just know that the dev even didn't put any effort into the Ai art (and there isn't even a lot of efforts needed in the first place). Even if you're desperate for DB parodies, this isn't worth it, at least not for the art. What about the rest of the game?
So, the content... It feels like there is a lot of it... But there really isn't. There's a ton of story, but sex scenes? Nope. Not if you compare it to the story size. There's a sh*t ton of things that are just not available, and I'm not even kidding. There has been options "available" versions ago, and they still say it's in development. You have multiple rooms in your castle with a girl in each room. You can chat with them, but don't bother. Obviously, I'm not speaking for the complete game, but for now, talking to any of them is useless.
There's nothing to grind for, and if you hadn't unlocked sex scenes for them, then there's nothing to unlock. Any sex scene available will be unlocked pretty quickly, so don't worry about missing anything if you don't talk to them everyday. So, yes, those rooms are useless. There is little to no scenes with Bulma, which is insane when you know she is literally the second character to appear in Dragon Ball.
Chichi is basically non-existent, and same for Videl. Btw, when I say there aren't a lot of sex scenes, that also include repeatable ones.
You have other planets to explore. Don't bother with them. I mean, visit them at least once since you'll get one sex scene, which is repeatable. But you can forget about them after that because there's jack sh*t after that. Note: some planets aren't even available yet. As if there were a hundred of them, but nope! They've been there from the start, too. Still not available
Now, the story. It's a mess. You're supposed to be an overpowered God of Destruction (and Zeno's personal creation), but you get your ass kicked pretty frequently. Then you get a training arc an insane f*cking timeskip (multiple timeskips at that) or you spend hundreds of years into some kind hyperbolic time dimension to come back with super saiyan god super saiyan 5 or some sh*t. What the hell is the point of these powerups? You don't even feel any different. I felt absolutely no difference with that surge of power in the story.
Btw, you need to sleep after every story segment for some f*cking reason. Because you're tired. It's annoying, especially when the segment is short. It just feels like a way to uselessly prolong the game.
At some point, there's a plot with your son betraying you and with Vados taking his side (yeah because she's his mother), and like, I get it. A mother's love knows no bound, but the dude is f*cking crazy! He literally betrays you and tries to kill you, but for some reason she takes his side? WHY?! Why would she do that?!
This also reminds me of the random invisible robot that kicks your ass at the start of the game. Yes, an invisible robot. After some training, you destroy the thing. Rince and repeat throughout the game with different antagonists and more convoluted storylines.
I could go on and on, but there's no point. You got the gist of it. If you're an android 18 fan, it's great for you, though! Content wise. Until it's ruined by the sudden ai art jumpscare.
I would have given this game a 4 stars when I first tried it, so you can imagine my disappointment by rating it 2.