Review: Dragon Ball Z – Ultimate Tenkaichi (PS3)

SiliconEra has had coverage of the Japanese edition of 3D Dot Game Heroes from Atlus on and off for a while now but now that it’s coming stateside this May it’s getting picked up in more local venues. The PlayStation Blog recently talked up the in-game editor allowing you to make your own 3D pixel-art-style avatar for the hero, letting you play as any number of things: a spider, a shark fin, a gorilla, or even a classic Link-like hero. The game doesn’t care what you look like, and the editor also sports the ability to export your creation to a USB drive and upload it to a character sharing portal they’ll have set up for the US launch.

The mechanics of the game also don’t seem to care what crazy kind of thing your hero is. It just wants to entertain you. An IGN preview noted that the four classes to choose — Hero, Prince, Princess, or Scholar — only change the “genuinely witty” dialogue that’s got “plenty of self-referential humor”. Your equipment and weapons are the same across all four classes. And given the flexibility of the editor, all sorts of species too.