Sand Land Reviews
Sand Land effectively conveys its story through seamless animations and gameplay. The simple combat system is enhanced by the ability to upgrade machines and components, keeping the gameplay engaging. Despite its vast but sparse open world, there are always side quests or locations like bandit camps to explore, though these tasks can be pretty basic.
Review in Czech | Read full review
Sand Land offers a fascinating mix of story and action. In a beautifully designed landscape, full of challenges and enemies, you look for a legendary source that can solve the water problem of the torn world. With a range of vehicles and the help of colorful characters you not only explore the main story line, but you also help to blossom the forgotten town of Spino by completing sidequests. The fans of heavy shooters, in which accuracy and tactics play a major role, will be less able to lose their eggs in this. Fans of the genre will appreciate world construction and attention to detail and Sand Land offers an entertaining experience with a good balance between story, gameplay and character development.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
Sand Land’s great tank combat combined with a solid storyline wrapped up in Akira Toriyama's stylings make this a little gem of an action RPG despite a few faults here and there.
Upon completing Sand Land, I'm left with fond memories of its narrative depth, cinematic moments, and the occasional tedious journey. Engaging with the manga version proves far more enjoyable; the adaptation could have reached greater heights, suggesting ambitious goals that fell short in execution.
Sand Land brings us a formidable, comical narrative experience that at various times evokes the good energy that the late Akira Toriyama accustomed us to, with a rich open world to explore and a good vehicle customization system. It has some flaws, but overall, with everything positive it manages to convey to the player. We invite all fans (and not only) of Akira Toriyama to discover, once again, a small taste of what he gave us so well.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
May Akira Toriyama rest in peace. In case you are interested in his work besides Sand Land and Dragon Ball. Despite the manga being hopelessly outdated, Dr. Slump a special insight into his style of humor. Something that happened sometimes in the first few arcs of the original Dragon Ball. His self parody, Neko Majin, is also a lot of fun.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
While the manga and anime allow for more direct ways of consuming the story, the video game offers a more broadened look at the world found within the story of SAND LAND. The video game is just as good of a way to consume the story as the other two, but if new and wild gameplay is what the player is after then this isn’t the best way to go about things.
Sand Land delivers a thrilling RPG experience that perfectly captures the exciting antics seen in the manga and anime series. Driving and customising the range of creative vehicles is always a treat, whilst the compelling vehicular combat mechanics ensure there’s plenty of depth and strategy found in-battle. It gets all of the core RPG mechanics right too, whilst the gorgeous visuals really help bring the world to life. It can feel a little bit dull on-foot and the stealth sections weren’t great, but they’re minor issues in what is otherwise an action-packed experience. I’ll admit, I didn’t know a whole lot about Sand Land before playing, but now? It has made a BIG fan out of me.
Sand Land captures all the style, action, and soul of Akira Toriyama and his manga of the same name. With exciting vehicle customization, combat, and timeless design, fans, and newbies will surely find something to appreciate about this titanic anime title.
Sand Land manages the tough task of translating an enjoyable story without overdoing the open-world mechanics in the process. It's rough in places but is a respectful adaptation of Toriyama's work and a pleasant experience throughout.
A gift from Akira Toriyama, bringing back childhood memories. The original story depicting events after the original work is pretty enjoyable to watch. However, the overall monotonous core gameplay is somewhat disappointing.
Review in Korean | Read full review
Sand Land arrives in the world of video games with an adaptation that does justice to Akira Toriyama's work, at least in terms of heart and soul. It may not be to the taste of those who were expecting a very deep experience in terms of mechanics, but it will satisfy the fans of the original work and its excellent author.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
If you’re looking for a charming new action RPG to explore, I would recommend Sand Land — even with some of the game’s hollow aspects, there is much fun here. The Akira Toriyama story is worth the price of admission alone, and you won’t want to miss an opportunity to play in his sandbox.
Sand Land manages to keep us glued to it from start to finish, with top graphics and consistently engaging gameplay, even if hardened gamers will frown at the excessively low difficulty. Anyway, if you are a fan of Toriyama's work, it is definitely worth considering.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Despite uneven storytelling and design flaws, Toriyama’s magical Sand Land is plenty amusing, a Shounen adventure not reliant on complexity.
This new Bandai Namco title has left us with mixed feelings. On the one hand we find very fun concepts such as the use of vehicles and their more than interesting customization, but on the other hand we see a development that is too classic and not very innovative in its open world. Despite these chiaroscuros, we can recommend this game if you are a fan of Toriyama's comics and want to be able to interact for about 30 hours (more if you want to explore the entire map) with its post-apocalyptic world and its quite charismatic characters. If, on the other hand, you are bored of open world games in which hundreds of points appear in which to repeat the same actions over and over again, perhaps you are not going to enjoy this game much.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Sand Land manages to do one of the most difficult things in this heated and boring cultural industry of our time: it is able to justify its own existence (alongside an anime that tells the same story, but not quite like that), which sometimes it may seem meaningless if we only look at the surface of the proposal. Despite some relatively silly technical mishaps that are more annoying due to the supposed ease of identifying them, Beelzebub's adventure has a craftsmanship that exudes a lot of grace and charisma.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
The sweet heart of Toriyama beats here, but it alone can’t help to make Sand Land compelling for most.
The Sand Land is very similar to the rest of the games adapted from anime. Although the game may be a gift for fans of the manga or the visual content, the experience suffers from many problems in its design, especially the open game world and stages, and the modesty of these aspects. It may cause a feeling of boredom as you progress in the game.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Sand Land is a great vehicular action-RPG, one of the best anime and manga games available, and a parting gift from the late Akira Toriyama.