

You also have variations of certain characters such as SSJ4 Goku who sports his intimidating look from the Dragon Ball GT series. Some of the characters included in Dragon Ball Z MUGEN are iconic favorites like Son Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo and a few villains like Frieza, Buu and the Android enemies. At certain points, you’ll be visibly blown away by what you will witness. Each of the included characters are capable of using their own unique combos, attacks and movements. There are over 15 Dragon Ball characters in DBZ Mugen with more that were added over time. The fighting keys in this game are based on the classic “WASD” PC buttons combined with your cursor keys for movements. Gameplayįor the actual gameplay in DBZ MUGEN, the MUGEN graphic engine shows its colors with the powerful gameplay capabilities in full display. Judging from how well it plays, we think they did a fantastic job. The design philosophy game was to create a fan-made DBZ 2D fighting game that matches the feeling of its manga and anime series. In fact, it was created by various artists who came together to design the characters, stages, abilities, animations and effects across the board. However, that doesn’t make it any less fun or interesting as a video game. DBZ Mugen is not an officially made Dragon Ball game.


Notable creators are CHOUJIN and Team Z2.To better understand how this game works, it’s best we explain the backstory behind it. In more recent years, Dragon Ball characters have become increasingly less overpowered, to the point of them being considered balanced, but still retain a hint of cinematic flashiness. For the longest time, however, the majority of the M.U.G.E.N community disliked these characters as most of them were very powerful and overly flashy, which, while accurate to the source, made them very overpowered and even glitchy when fighting other characters. To this day the Dragon Ball series has the most video games compared to any other anime series.ĭue to the wide array of sprite-based games in the series, many Dragon Ball M.U.G.E.N characters have spawned over the years, to the point where it may have the most amount of characters to its name out of any other series, with Goku being the most commonly-made character. The most common games sprites are ripped from are the Dragon Ball Z arcade games, Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden series and Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22.

It has several of video games on various game consoles each consisting of different game engines. It has spawned into the extremely popular sequel series Dragon Ball Z and a non-canon third installment by Toei Animation titled Dragon Ball GT. Dragon Ball is a manga and anime franchise by Akira Toriyama.
