Overview
Dragon Ball Z: Super Gokūden - Kakusei-hen, loosely translated to "Dragon Ball Z: Super Goku's Story, Chapter of Awakening", is a sci-fi fantasy RPG developed by TOSE and published by Bandai for the Super Famicom exclusively in Japan on September 22, 1995.
A follow-up to Dragon Ball Z: Super Gokūden - Totsugeki-hen, which closely follows the Dragon Ball manga and anime series, Kakusei-hen follows the remainder of the original "Dragon Ball" series (the "Piccolo Jr. Saga") along with several chapters of the "Dragon Ball Z" series (the "Saiyan Saga" and the "Frieza Saga"). It also revamps the combat and branching storyline system while adding quiz segments testing the player's knowledge on key dialogue and actions from the manga.
As with the previous game, most of the gameplay is a simple text-based re-telling of the story, utilizing portraits to show the composition of each character in the cutscene. Throughout the game, players are given choices for branching paths (allowing the story to play differently from the manga), bonus mini-games, and one-on-one real-time battles as the main protagonist Goku (with some segments as his son Gohan).
Continuing the events of the previous game, Kakusei-hen starts years after the defeat of the Demon King Piccolo by the young martial artist Goku. After a confrontation with King Piccolo's son (also named Piccolo), an adult Goku and his allies must contend with a trio of alien invaders (the "Saiya-jins", of which Goku is revealed to share his alien origin with) before making their way to the distant planet Namek to search for its Dragon Balls (before the forces of the alien warlord Freeza finds them).
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