8 Video Game Trilogies That Went From Bad To GREAT

8. Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku

Let's just be completely blunt here - 2002's RPG Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku is pure booty.

With its simplistic combat system, generally puddle-deep gameplay, mess of a story, short length, and abundance of bugs, it's easily one of the worst Dragon Ball games ever produced, and did nothing to suggest that developer Webfoot Technologies had the chops to do the franchise justice.

But to their enormous credit, they returned with The Legacy of Goku II just a year later, which improved upon every single maligned aspect of the original game, especially its combat.

As sequel glow-ups go it's an all-timer, and Webfoot sustained this momentum with the third game, Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury, again released only a year later.

Though perhaps a little too easy for its own good, it was ultimately a worthy adaptation of the Buu saga while further fleshing out the combat and giving the player more to do.

When the original Legacy of Goku dropped to thunderous indifference from critics and fans alike, did anyone anticipate that it'd lead to two genuinely great sequels?