Dragon Ball Origins arrived in my mailbox this afternoon, so I took it for a quick spin for about an hour, and as far as I’ve played it’s not that bad. While the game’s pretty much ugly as sin, the controls work themselves pretty well and are clearly inspired by Phantom Hourglass. Combat is fairly quick and intuitive, though the early enemies aren’t exactly a challenge. I’m looking forward to playing more once I get Dangeresque 3 out of the way.

The major frustration that I’ve run into is that I have to look after Bulma as well as myself, but her favorite thing to do is charge headfirst into danger. This means that instead of going around and exploring the level and maybe getting some treasure chests, I have to run to help her all the time against a trio of pigs and bats, after which she runs off again to who knows where, clearly oblivious to the fact that everything in the game world, including myself, wants to kill her. And I thought she was annoying on the actual show.

I’ll get a review out for this game once I finish it, as well as my other reviews (including the Strong Bad series).