A dream collaboration of three major characters!! Let’s have a crazy battle!
- JP release: 20th July 2006
- EU release: N/A
- NA release: N/A
- Developer: Eighting, Q Entertainment
- Publisher: Namco Bandai
- NGC Magazine Score: N/A
- Mods Used: None
A Super Smash Bros style platform fighter that combined three extremely popular anime: Dragon Ball Z, One Piece and Naruto (hence the acronym DOM). While all three of these were popular in western regions, they were all brought over by different companies, making this game a licensing black hole, so it had to remain in Japan.
As a platform fighter, it does not feel good. Every character seems to have a basic attack, a long distance attack and a wide area special attack. While they look different, every character ends up feeling the same, there’s no uniqueness to the moves like Smash Bros and, for a game all about combining the most popular anime characters, there’s just no personality.
Like with seemingly every Smash Bros clone, this needed its own way to deal with scoring and health – these games will copy everything except the core concept that makes this style work. Here, it’s a little bit like DreamMix TV World Fighters, where hitting people causes their health to fall out for others to collect. The amount of health people have overall is the same, with the bar at the top showing how much of a share each person has. It comes across as just odd.
That said, against the CPU, this whole system seemed to be entirely irrelevant. Every battle was the same, using two different attacks to whittle down everyone’s health, being awarded a super attack and then easily KOing everyone. It’s not very engaging.
Fine
Overall, Battle Stadium D.O.N. is a decent fighting game for four player matches. Fans of the three franchises will be the most interested, of course. However, the game is a bit thin on content and it’s hard to recommend picking up at full price.
Daniel Bloodworth, Nintendo World Report
Remake or remaster?
Jump Super Stars was essentially this game done well.
Official Ways to get the game
There’s no official way to get Battle Stadium D.O.N.
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