Sand Land Reviews
Sand Land shows how good Akira Toriyama's storytelling and world building really was, unfortunately this is all bogged down with an empty open world filled with repetitive tasks and little to no reward for doing them.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
While everything in Sand Land is good, nothing really excels; the gameplay and combat is generally fun, but gets repetitive and tedious after a while; the story is good and surprisingly mature compared to other Akira Toriyama works’, but sometimes gets too superficial, making the core message a bit weak.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Despite the dry environment, a refreshing experience, especially in the first hours. When you immerse yourself in the game and start burning through the story line, you can enjoy it and absorb a good plot and actions of the characters.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Sand Land is primarily a story-driven base-building game with vehicle exploration elements. While quests and storyline add enjoyment, the game’s main focus feels like a grind due to repetitive dialogues and similar tasks. Despite this, it offers a somewhat enjoyable experience for those who appreciate abundant side quests and repetition.
Children and Akira Toriyama fans will probably love Sand Land.
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 is an unexpectedly beautiful game that's filled with heart, super-fun vehicle-based gameplay, plenty of laughs, and some of the most rewarding exploration out there. Definitely don't let its dry-looking world fool you into thinking any less. 🏜️
Sand Land is all set to be your new favourite anime, with compelling characters, enjoyable combat and great anime visuals in video game form. You might just find that Akira Toriyama has saved the best for last.
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
The end of our journey is just the beginning of your adventure. Sand Land is a work that feels very personal, leaving us with a great reflection, which is hidden with demons, humans, tanks and battles. War only brings desolation to everyone, no matter who they are.
Review in Spanish | 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
Overall, Sand Land is an adequate adventure that occasionally showcases moments of brilliance but struggles to capture the original work's essence.
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.
With a extraordinary art style, touching story and interesting gameplay loop, SAND LAND ended up really hitting home with me.
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
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 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.