SAND LAND

What a surprising gem! I wish they fixed the biggest drawbacks like the constantly repeating roaming dialogues and the very bland forced stealth sections. But other than that, I loved the quite open world, all the stuff there is to do. The vehicles and customization are the best part, speeding with a bike or car, ramming enemies, shooting different types of weapons, switching into multiple types of mechs for a different approach and new melee options, using their unique capabilities to reach new places metroidvania style, it's a delight.
The story is also pretty nice. Thief is a bit bland as a character unfortunately, Rao is pretty good and got the best development and Beelz is fun, my biggest gripe here is how Ann isn't in the party along with her skill tree until much later in the game, I always felt the party was not complete when she left
All in all, super fun and unique vehicular arpg? to explore and toy with the different vehicle types, I wish there's a sequel some day with even more vehicles and customization options

Get this. Play this. One of Akira Toriyama's works. There are even some dragonball references. From Dabura himself (but with horns), to those mechs with skull heads. It is a lot of fun and has some enemies from dragon quest, though it is a whole separate universe. It is an action rpg where you get a tank. The rpg stuff is very light but it is fun. You can upgrade and colour and customize vehicles. Seriously, just play it. I am sure Toriyama would appreciate it, bless his soul.

there's SAND, and its a LAND. SAND LAND.

This is a great game, great story line, and and game that will take a bit of time to finish, I like the games, that you have to invest a bit of time to complete....Thank You

Fun game that felt nostalgic. Partly because it's based off of a manga from over 20 years ago, and partly just the way the game handles. It was a fun adventure on a big map, my only real complaint being that there's no way to turn down how often the characters give you tips while you're exploring. 30 hours into the story I really don't need the suggestion that I look at the map twice in 5 minutes. Other than that, great game though.

This was a surprise hit to me as I knew nothing about it. I tried the demo before it launched and I was immediately hyped to play the game. I bought it on release and found that is a great RPG that's different than your typical one since it's all about vehicles. That stylized toony goodness that is some of Toriyamas best stuff.

Easy, fun and most importantly the last gift from Toriyama to the gaming industry

there is no way to turn off or down the companions' senseless blathering. I hate myself for having voice audio on while I am exploring the amazing world they made because all I hear is the same 5 voice lines I have already heard. Then I hate myself for having voice audio off when there is a cut scene and I have to take the time to read what you took the money to get voice acted.

If you like the show you will like the game. It expands on the story and the animation and voice acting is exactly like the show.

I was really excited to play this game, but there is a video memory error that happened every time I tried to launch it. I got only one good hour of play in, seemed really interesting. Pretty sad to refund this one, I'm a big fan of Akira Toriyama. I hope the bug is fixed at some point.

I really like this game, its a perfect example of a AA type of game. PS2 or something with a lot of value and quality. the tank combat is so fun, plus the art for the game puts to in a good mood since it Akira Toriyama's IP. there things that should be in the game like stealth they work it into the game fine but if they removed it, the mechanic would not be missed

i will say the only problems I had with the game is it dialogue. The story isn't great, there some good set ups and pay offs; my problem is traveling the world in this game and having the character repeat dialogue. you probably heard all of it with the first hour of the game, and you cant turn it off.

To finish this off, I recommend this game. If you want a solid open-world action RPG with the art of AkiraToriyama, it’s not a mind-blowing AAA product, but I’m truly happy this game exists.

RIP Toriyama

If you just want to drive around in a tank and blow stuff up, in a Toriyama designed landscape, Sand Land is the game for you! I've had such a blast in this one.. It's basically a cozy a-rpg with a pretty solid story. The tank combat feels really good.. There are plenty of other vehicles, but I only use the tank, motorcycle (for travel), and jump bot (for enclosed spaces). The other ones are either situational, or meh. (Combat with the hover-bot is awful.) There's non-vehicle combat, but it's thankfully few and far between, as it feels pretty pointless. Levelling up ads fun abilities, and you unlock vehicle upgrades as you progress through the story. If you want a challenge, this isn't the game for you.. But if you want a chill break, basically playing through an anime, give it a shot!

The cons:
-Random transitions (in dungeons) from 3D to side-scrolling 2D sections that are always jarring and pointless, especially when it snaps back and you almost jump off a ledge
-The stealth missions/ areas.. Oh gosh, WHY? These are so painfully annoying.. Definitely could've done without these. Thankfully there are only a handful of these that are mandatory, but they always overstay their welcome.
-If you do all the side-content available before getting back to the main mission, like I know you do, it gets frustrating that you can't unlock different bots or upgrade materials for vehicles before getting back to the main story. (Some things require a specific vehicle or upgrade to get to/ through.)
-For most of the game, the map marker shows your actual objective, and you can fast-travel to a closer location.. For some reason, towards the end of the game, some of the missions give you incremental waypoints, which was out of nowhere and really frustrating.

Minor grievances aside, this game is a real gem for anybody who likes rpgs!

really good game and great story and its so beautiful

Do you like Akira Toriyama? Do you like 80s/90s Cartoons? Do you need a cheesy game to kill a weekend? If you answered yes to 2 of the 3, it's worth it.....on sale. Pretty easy and straightforward, best to wait for a sale.
That being said the really low completion rate after finally getting that far is merited, the only thing ive ever seen more padded than this game is Assassin's creed or a stuffed bra.

The game is well made with nice graphics in Dragon Ball style. The vehicle controls are well made too.
Altough you have to sneak sometimes, that is made not that hard and there are some checkpoints in that missions.

Game was sick.

Beautiful.

A lighthearted open-world, based on Akira Toriyama's work, the whole thing very pleasant to play !
You'll find big dungeons, good vehicule fights, vast territories to explore, silly humor from nice characters. Also, Rosetta.
A bit grindy to reach 100%, but it's an open-world, so.
Very satisfied with it !

I adore this game. Reminds me of the PS2 days, but it has all the bells and whistles of modern games.

I don't really have a bad thing to say about it. It is very fun and will make you yearn for the PS2 era. The characters are interesting. This is a solid action adeventure game. Works well on steamdeck.

Much details are missing! Despite being an open world, the developers made copy and glue of various scenarios. You realize that the game was rushed to save operational spending. A pity, if you compare with the games that exist today, you feel how much you are outdated. I do not recommend buying even on promotion, they could have added a multiplayer would have been more fun.

多くの詳細がありません！オープンな世界であるにもかかわらず、開発者はさまざまなシナリオのコピーと接着剤を作成しました。あなたは、ゲームが運用支出を節約するために急いでいることに気付きます。残念なことに、今日存在するゲームと比較すれば、あなたはどれだけ時代遅れになっているかを感じます。プロモーションでも購入することをお勧めしません。マルチプレイヤーがもっと楽しかったであろうと付け加えたかもしれません。

Very good story and open world, Has some dragon ball references that are very cool, and the graphics are also very cool. Would recomend if you are looking for an open world rpg game.

It's pretty, reasonably paced and you get to fight baddies. Quite enjoyable,

Just a lot of fun. Unwind with some relaxing Lo-Fi music (nothing against the games BGM, vibe fits better with DBZ Namek BGM) and knock out quest after quest. Wonderful dialogue and banter between the characters you play as. Fighting as B is enjoyable as heck BUT the Vehicle Warfare is where the tasteful noods are at *wink*.

That's just my 2 cents worth of 12+ hours of gameplay <3

R.I.P
Akira Toriyama

Incredible game , its amazing , the demo did not do justice to this masterpiece !! goty !

I tried to like the game, but everything about it is boring, from the gameplay to the story. It has some nice chill music and fun Dragon Ball like designs.

Farcry: Anime edition

Overall pretty good game. The repeating voice lines are quite annoying but the environment is nice to look at. The fighting can be monotonous sprinkled with a few special abilities each character has, but the use of vehicles with different weapon types can be entertaining. If you are a fan of the artwork you will definitely appreciate this game.

i had alot of fun playing this game 9/10

It's fun and of satisfying length without outstaying its welcome. One thing I would have liked would be a new game plus as there are several vehicles and entire weapon types you don't find until near the end or even in the post game section. it also comes across a little strange to me how the entire generated loot mechanic doesn't really show up until the final hours of the game.

I would recommend this under certain criteria. You have to really like the art style and appreciate the silliness it offers. Don't take anything to seriously and don't get bogged down in collections or side quests. Just let the weirdness of it all take you through it.

A very family friendly situation that warms the heart at times. The writing is pretty bad most of the time and the other reviews aren't lying when they say they repeat the same conversations over and over again during travels. It will get on your nerve.

I thought it was a fun game, but it overstays its welcome by about 10 hours.

Pretty fun game, has a nice vehicle variation and customization, does have too many or too little sidequests, and most of them help you grow your little town, which is always nice.

I really love Akira Toriyama's works, concept and art style~, what a treasure <3

Having a blast so far! It's a fun, laid-back game that’s easy to pick up and enjoy. Perfect for when you just want to relax and not overthink things. Definitely recommend!

Accurate depiction of the manga.
Great tribute to the late Akira Toriyama.

Surprised by how pleasant of an experience this game is. It's just been fun existing and running around in this world.

Hand to hand combat is basic and mashy, but the vast majority of the game is about the vehicular combat. I don't know what was off about the demo's gameplay, but now that I'm playing this game for real, everything clicks and feels good to play. Also, sometimes dungeons drag on a little too long, but it's also just enjoyable to take in the sights along the way.

I really didn't expect to like the game this much, but here I am 20 hours in and still itching to get back to my next play session.

Pro
- Beautiful Art and Akira Toriyama designed character, Vehicles and World
- Customized Vehicles and different combats and traversal suited for different scenario
- Lovable Cast and main character can go Super Saiyan
- Overall a Fun Game

Con
- Ok Storyline
- Bad atmospheric Music
- Annoying and Repeatitive Dialogue
- Basic Combat Mechanic
- Copy and Past Level Design, Venue Layout and Enemies (Different in Color Sprite)

I love tanks

RIP TORIYAMA.
If you like his art style, and an action story driven JRPG, you will like this game.

A surprise gem. Tells a simple, but fun and interesting story. The characters are all great and the cast did a fantastic job bringing their personalities to life.
Combat can be rather simple and, even on hard, does not ever really pose a challenge. But it is still really fun.
Building up your vehicles is enjoyable, but the true loot doesnt start dropping until nearly the end of the game. At that point it adds an entire extra level of depth to the system.
The game is also much longer than the internet tells you it is. Every site claims you can finish it in 20 hours, with only 40 hours to 100%. I think those numbers are either AI generated or full of crap. I'm currently at 40 hours, have done a lot extra things (definitely not all), and am only about 65% through the main story.

I feel very 50/50 on this game.

I bought it for $30 and don’t think I’d recommend it for $60. I didn’t know the ties to Toriyama and that this was based on a manga/anime. It’s an exceptionally well-made game compared to other story-driven manga/anime-based games I’ve played.

I played on a ps5 controller.

Pros:
• Easily immersible open world that has a lot to explore similar to Borderlands 2’s wasteland that can be explored almost straight from the start.
• Fun vehicles that can be configured with different builds, paint colors, and weapons. A lot of customization options.
• Ability to trade materials for different materials/ease of access to certain things that can only be found by hunting specific mobs.
• Graphics are pretty enjoyable.
• Side quests fill in the NPC/world dweller's feelings about the current state of the world and how it has impacted different regions in different ways.
• The ongoing theme of “demons aren’t bad, just misunderstood” is fulfilling to see…although it does get repetitive.
• Open world exploration and ease of travel gives great quality of life and doesn’t feel like wasted time traveling from point A to point B.
• Slowly building out the town of Spino feels very rewarding to see the progression over time.
• Racing time trials.

Cons:
• There’s a lack of need for physical combat versus vehicle. It feels shallow to always be using a vehicle and I want more character combat.
• Even in hard mode, most characters or fights are easy to beat. You never really feel any threat.
• Level progression is 90% based on the main story, leaving side quests feeling hollow and mostly for money…much less killing random mobs you come across.
• The story is only mildly compelling. I felt more inclined to explore the open world that continues the story quests.
• Audio is pretty jank. Character dialogue is not always skippable and has weird pauses up to probably 10 seconds.
• Verbal cues in open-world exploring can get repetitive and the second you hear a new line or something meaningful it is almost always cut off by something like leaving your vehicle or entering a fight.
• Having your vehicle break is the same as dying with Game Over. I’d rather switch to another vehicle (since you can hold 5 at a time!) and keep playing.
• Many plot points overshadow Beelzebub’s strength or ability shown previously which breaks immersion and, for me, leaves me disinterested in continuing the story.
• Repetitive creatures that are just given a different color as the story progresses.

Thank you Toriyama for one last gift another masterpiece indeed
Really fun to play exciting story with likable characters and stunning visuals but a bit confusing where to go sometimes and upgrading your bot can be quite annoying also small issues occur like pillar boxes in super ultra wide when trying to change to an uncapped frame rate
overall its worth 60$ if you have nothing else to play but I would wait till its 30$ on sale and grab it
Solid 8/10 game recommend it to all anime loves

6/10
Pretty good. Kinda rushed the end, the end get's a bit dry. Definitely play on hard,super easy.

The core gameplay loop is pretty fun, at least in vehicles, which you're using 95% of the time. Other than some shader loading stutters which only appear to happen once that particular effect occurs, the game is well optimized and runs well. The open world banter is an obnoxious cacaphony of repeated voicelines over and over and over again which might drive you made.
Awful forced stealth sections that were just an absolute slog, but not so detrimental as to ruin the game. But good lord were they terrible.

runs like doo doo on a 4070 super no super ultra wide support, even though it has it built in ...

I had fun playing this game! It’s based on the first parts of the manga/anime, and Akira Toriyama’s creativity shines here. If you enjoy quirky designs for vehicles and characters, this game's got that charm to it. The whole world feels unique and fun, so if you’re into his style or just want something different, definitely worth the check it out!

I really wanted to like this. It seems like a great realization of a world created by Toriyama which you can freely explore. The graphics are gorgeous, the story is charming, the gameplay feels nice enough.

Unfortunately the content itself just seems like the same enemies scattered all over the place and minor loot chests sitting out in the open, just waiting to be grabbed. No challenge, no secrets, no platforming, no puzzles, no real mechanics to engage with. I couldn't get the sense of anything in the world being crafted by an actual game designer, it was just too basic and not engaging.

I know most modern players are more accepting of open world slop than me. Maybe one day I'll be in a tired enough mood to sit through more of it for the story and world, but right now I'm not feeling it.

Numerous minor annoyances combine into an experience that isn't making me want to stick it out until the game gets worthwhile. I'll give this more of a shot sometime in the future, but from the very beginning its user-hostile design is off-putting and I don't have the patience for it right now. Below is just going to be a series of complaints that may or may not turn you off to the game, but which made me stop in less than an hour. Your mileage may vary. I've heard there's a good game underneath, and I believe it. It seems to have charm, and oozes Akira Toriyama's style.

Dialogue auto-advances only on its own schedule, which is usually about 5-10 seconds after every audio line is finished. Yes, you can manually advance it with a button press, but during cutscenes I prefer to have the lines delivered with a natural flow. Here the options are manual intervention, or several extra seconds/minutes of silence added to every cutscene.

Sometimes you have to hold a button to interact with the world; sometimes you don't. It'd be easier to accept if a) it was consistent, and b) the hold time was shorter. As it stands, it's an obnoxious and arbitrary delay to some interactions.

I assume this next one isn't an issue if you're using a controller. For some inexplicable reason, the default key for backing out of menus is Backspace. (Alternatively, you can use right-mouse button, but this doesn't seem to be explained anywhere, nor does it appear to be rebindable to something sane, like Escape.) This means you have to either know the magical secret other key (RMB), or you have to take your hand off of WASD or the mouse every time you want to close a menu or dialog. A sane default key binding for common actions on mouse+keyboard is a must for a PC port.

I'll update my review after I regain the patience to put up with these annoyances, but the game doesn't make a good first impression.

I wasn't sure about this game but it had high praise so I got it while it was on sale. The graphics caught my eye as it was akin to Borderlands, which I loved. I played the entire game through before writing this and it was a long story with plenty of action and tons of side quests. I can say that the story and voice acting were for a <16 year old or folks that are into anime/manga with overly dramatic characters and acting. They tried to make it more immersive while you were traveling the open world with comments from the characters but I heard the same thing a billion times and it got annoying so I ignored them mostly. Overall it was a really fun game with lots of "bots" to tinker with/upgrade and multiple open world interactions (side to side classic, Wow-esque open exploring and random Mobs, multiple angle "events" inside quests, even some "mini games" where you piloted a bot through obstacles or yourself. I liked the variety of ways it played and the amount of unique voice acting. The story was "meh" and a different take on good/evil as you play the prince of demons who pretends to be bad but is really good. At the time of this review I also read they will make an anime based off of this, which could be fun for the age group mentioned, maybe old farts like me too.

I really like the open world and bot mechanic of the game, it feels fresh. Exploring and trying out the combat is great the during the first few hours.

However as the game progresses, it becomes stagnant and boring. I don't feel any incentive to explore places since the Loot system is underwhelming. Layout of every ruins feels copying one another which lacks complexity, and puzzles is more tedious than challenging. I especially hate the platforming sequences, so unnecessarily annoying.

I do like the city building and some bosses are great, but I feel like the developers can and should've provided more features into it than they already have. And I really wish they could've developed the very first gimmick introduced in the game, 'Water', as I'm fairly dissapointed in how lack in importance the mechanic is to the game, considering the premise of the whole story being cented around it

Quite easy to pickup and play. Graphics are good and run nicely on Steamdeck. But after the battle with Zeu, the story gets uninteresting. It becomes a chore to finish the game now.