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Naruto, Bleach, Dragon Ball Z, One Piece. Just a few popular anime that have video games , each a great anime and each with a game or two to pickup this holiday season. The gamer that loves anime deserves these titles this holiday season, but what are they, which games go with which anime for which system and are they any good? No worries, these licensced titles as well as a few others with anime themes will be listed below by system with a word on each. Some are good, others great, but all will seem just a bit better in the hands of a fan.
n addition to this list the big titles right now, Naruto, Dragon Ball Z, One Piece and Bleach will each have a piece or two of ‘other’ content outlined from art books to DVD sets to trading cards. Fans will dig these, I know, I’m a gamer, an otaku and want all of this for myself. Happy shopping.
Anime on the Xbox 360
- Zoids Assault – This strategy RPG falls short of great promise. Still a great buy for fans, but for a title not really in circulation tough sell to anyone else.
- Naruto: The Broken Bond – A true delight to play mixing action with fighting set in the later storyline of Naruto, a must have for Naruto fans as well as action adventure fans on the 360.
- Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit – The last hurrah for DBZ, seems to be so. A solid title that just polishes what’s been done last-gen, but why such a limited rosters? There will be more, but this is it on next-gen for now.
- Tales of Vesperia – Anime style, excellent RPG gameplay. Any fan of fantasy anime, Record of Lodoss War, Slayers, you need this game.
Anime on the PlayStation 3
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm– What the Broken Bond is to 360, Ultimate Ninja Storm is to PS3, but still a bit of polish needed … and short, too short.
- Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit – Same as above, just on PS3.
- Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice – Great style, funny story elements and merging old-scholl with next-gen. A deep, long lasting title for fans of the anime.
- Valkyria Chronicles – Deep and innovative this anime looking and feeling (long cutscenes) would do well as an anime, and fans will dig it … if they play RPG’s.
Anime on the PlayStation 2
- Persona 4 – Ooooozing anime style. Beautiful animation, music and addictive gameplay which will see an anime spin very soon.
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 & Naruto: Ultimate Collection – The final Ultimate Ninja and a collection of all three fun fighters. Simple, low pricepoint, good for the fan or collector and not too dated on the graphics.
- Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World & Dragon Ball Z: Trilogy – The final DBZ on PS2 and a collection of Budokai titles. Simple, low pricepoint, good for the fan or collector and not too dated on the graphics.
Anime on the PSP
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 2: The Phantom Fortress – Little bro to the PS2 franchise. A unique story and good fighing awaits, but not much different from the first chapter.
- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII – New chapter in the FFVII universe that any anime fan worth a snuff knows about. The story gets very anime, meaning very weird. Great style.
- Wild ARMs XF – Gameplay is adequate for an on-the-go RPG. The anime style comes through and some settings will be familiar to fans of the not-related anime.
Anime on the Nintendo Wii
- Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 – It may be more a GameCube game, graphics and all, on the Wii, but a unique story and solid gameplay will please Wii owners.
- One Piece: Unlimited Adventure – Not as bad as originally discussed on AnimeSentinel, being a fan helps as the game has holes.
- Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors – It utilizes Akira Toriyama’s design and … it’s got great design.
Anime on the Nintendo DS
- Naruto: Path of the Ninja 2 & Naruto: Ninja Destiny – Two titles, one fighting, one RPG, both for fans alone as neither excels, nor do they fail.
- Bleach: Dark Souls – Great side-scrolling fighter with the style and flare of the anime, just a good purchase.
- Dragon Ball: Origins – While all the attention goes to DBZ the original adventures of Goku are pure pixilated nostalgia for older fans.
As promised here is a list of items that are must-haves for fans of the hot titles …
- Bleach Swag: Manga and DVD box sets, solid both, the art books beautiful but this Kon plush is the must-have.
- Naruto Swag: The manga from Viz as well as the DVD box sets are great purchases but the art books are the true must-haves for the beautiful illustrations.
- Dragon Ball Z Swag: Swag is still easy to find but the call to action is FUNimations re-mastered DVD box sets.
- One Piece Swag: Getting new life from FUNimation, unedited, re-dubbed, these DVD sets deserve another chance.
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