Dragon Ball Legends overseas producer, Toshitaka Tachibana, took to the stage to provide more details, describing the 3D gameplay as "heavily action oriented" and "exactly what the Dragon Ball fans wanted on a mobile app."
The global, real-time PvP is really the main event, allowing players from all over the world to face off against one another. Global PvP means players won't be separated by regions or areas, as it would "lose the point of having a global PvP system to begin with.""We're not going to muck around with providing pseudo experiences of PvP where players fight other player datas," said Tachibana. "It's not going to be like that. We'll actually have the players be fighting one on one, anywhere anytime."
Tachibana described how the project couldn't have been realised without Google Cloud Platform, saying it allows for a "really stable playing field where users don't really need to worry abut internet connection, latency, and whatnot. All they need to worry about is the opponent that's going to be in front of them on screen."
While the game is action heavy, the control scheme was designed to be simple and intuitive, so that anyone can pick it up and play it. Players can bring three characters each into the one vs. one battles, with the object of the game being the defeat of your opponent's team.
Each character is equipped with four Universal Cards that activate specific moves, and tapping them in succession lets players chain them into combo attacks.Tachibana added that Dragon Ball Legends will be a "flagship title" for the studio, that is on a "whole new level." He also mentioned constant content updates, but we'll find out more about their plans for the game in a livestream later today.
So far, the confirmed characters are Goku, Piccolo, Nappa, and Frieza, with more of the roster to be revealed during the livestream.
"We hope that we can be a new benchmark in global PvP," added team leader, Keigo Ikeda. The game is set to release later this year. Shabana is a freelance writer who enjoys JRPGs, wine, and not finishing games. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
