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4 /5

Although Dragon Ball spawned Dragon Ball Z, the original saga has received much less attention than the Zeto period. If you leave out most of the RPGs that never made it to our shores and take a look at everything that has been done around the series in the last few years, the observation is even more obvious: Dragon Ball Z sells and has long since supplanted the base material which seems to have been forgotten a bit. Fortunately, a GBA game comes to repair this injustice.

Dragon Ball: Advance Adventure indeed focuses on the whole of Dragon Ball, since the game starts when Bulma meets Goku and ends when the latter fights Piccolo. One wonders why the Little Heart period was left out, but apart from this small oversight, the great strength of this game is the huge respect of Toriyama's work. From the important encounters of the manga to the places visited, through the characters' gestures, this production breathes the fan-attitude that was already apparent in Budokai on home consoles. In this respect, it's not surprising to find the Dimps company in the credits, which gave DBZ its letters of nobility.