Battle Stadium D.O.N

Battle Stadium D.O.N
Developer:	8ing
Publisher:	Bandai Namco Games
Release Date:	July 20, 2006 (JP)
Genre:	Fighting
Game modes:	Single player/Multiplayer
Ratings:	ESRB: Cero: A (All Ages)
Platform:	GameCube PlayStation 2
Media:	MiniDVD DVD-ROM

Battle Stadium D.O.N is a Japanese fighting game for the GameCube and PlayStation 2 featuring characters from the popular anime and manga series Dragon Ball Z, One Piece, and Naruto, hence the D.O.N. This game received a rating of 28/40 from Weekly Famitsu.

Gameplay

Similar to the Super Smash Bros. series, the players are put onto either a moving or non-moving stage. Borrowing from Power Stone, these stages have some level of interactivity. Players must then fight their opponents. Unlike other fighters, D.O.N uses a combined health gauge, that is, decreasing the health of one player will in turn increase the health of the other players. Thus, in order for one player to win a fight, they must make their own health bar take up the entire bar. As such, a fight can potentially last indefinitely if no time limit is set. Also, there are in game techniques that can be pulled off (ie. Kamehameha for Goku and Summoning Jutsu for Naruto) and supers that can transform the characters into a new form (ie. Naruto's Rasengan turning him into the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox and Goku's Genki Dama turning him into Super Saiyan). In addition, some characters can induce a temporary transformation during the battle (ie. Sasuke's Sharingan and Luffy's Gear 2nd).

Missions

The single player mode has the player fight through five rounds, 2 or 3 of which have missions with goals selected randomly. However, depending on the difficulty chosen by the player, different amounts of missions are given out with easy giving the least and very difficult giving out the most. Fulfilling the missions' goals rewards the player with coins that can be used in the slot machine available upon completing the fights. The slot machine is the way through which unlockables are obtained. There are also items which you can buy to help the characters in battle.

Multiplayer

Up to four players can participate in a multiplayer session, though a multitap must be used for more than two players for the PS2 version.

Characters

Dragon Ball Z

• Son Goku [SS] (Spirit Bomb/Genki Dama; Super Spirit Bomb/Super Genki Dama)
• Teen Gohan [SS] (Super Kamehameha)
• Piccolo (Hellzone Grenade)
• Future Trunks [SS] (Shining Sword Slash)
• Vegeta [SS] (Final Flash)
• Freeza (Death Ball)
• Cell (Super Kamehamaha)
• Majin Buu (Innocence Cannon)

One Piece

• Monkey D. Luffy [Activates Gear Second] (Gomu Gomu No Hanabi/Gum Gum Fireworks)
• Roronoa Zoro (Santoryu Ogi: San-Zen-Se-Kai)
• Nami (Tornado Tempo)
• Usopp (Usopp Pound)
• Sanji (Combo ending in Mutton Shot)
• Tony Tony Chopper (Kokutei Cross)

Naruto

• Naruto Uzumaki [Nine-Tailed Demon Fox Chakra] (Rasengan)
• Sasuke Uchiha [Cursed Seal Lv1] (Chidori)
• Sakura Haruno (Inner Sakura Power)
• Kakashi Hatake [Sharingan] (Lightning Blade)
• Rock Lee [5th Gate] (Hidden Lotus)
• Gaara (Sand Tsunami)

[ ] = Burst Mode ( ) = Special Attack

Stages

Dragon Ball Z

• West City
• Planet Namek
• Room of Spirit and Time
• Martial Arts World Tournament Arena

One Piece

• The Going Merry
• Baratie
• Giant Jack

Naruto

• Hidden Leaf Village
• Final Valley
• Forest of Death

Original

• Battle Stadium

Many of the stages have interactivity of some sort. Items and power-ups from each series are also found in the stages.

See also

• Jump Super Stars
• Jump Ultimate Stars

External links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Battle Stadium D.O.N. review
• The Magic Box: Battle Stadium D.O.N