Anime and video games go together like bread and butter. If you go to an anime convention, chances are that you will see video game cosplayers and merchandise and vice versa. Even if you’re not a major fan of both, you’ve probably at least dabbled in one if y𒁏ou love the other.

Maybe this is because Japan is the hub of anime and some of the most popular video games like Final Fantasy and Pokémon. Their game companies and manga artists have a pa🐻ssion for storyt𝓡elling that reaches to the hearts of many across the seas. But what about anime video games?

Combining the two seems like it’s meant to be. The genres of anime are never-ending, which make possibilities for fighting, horror, romance, fantasy, sci-fi and more in the video game world. Image a video game where you get to fight titans like in Attack on Titan? Or a game where you get to play an epic card battle like in Yu-Gi-Oh!?

A lo𝓡t of fans then discovered it’s not so easy to make a good anime video game. In fact, most of the anime games out there are really lame. Most of the fighting games are just button mashing with little thought involved and the stories seem non-canon to the show. Basically, there are a lot of lame anime games out there.

That does🀅n’t mean they are all trash though. Some games even inspired anime! Let’s take a ꧂look at the most lame and then greatest of anime video games.

30 🍸 Lame: One Piece: Romance Dawn

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Back into One Piece, this game was made for the 3DS and was another disappointment to the show’s fans. It has the same problems as many of the other anime games such as a dull adaptation to a certain part of the series, tediousness, and🍃 repetitive gameplay.

Also, the 3DS features are basically ignored and the cutscenes are boring and long.

to Game Revolution, “...It’s🦩 little more than an interactive manga with some battles tossed into some of the most boring environments....”

29 ꧙ 𓃲Lame: Digimon World: Data Squad

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There was a time when Digimon and Pokémon were once in a sort of competition with each other due to their commonalities. What happened to that? Well, Pokémon won and it’s probably the games that made a huge difference. The PS2 game, Digimon World: Data Squad, is proof of that.

The game garnered negatives reviews from its boring gameplay. IGN wrote, “The only thing we can say in this game’s𒆙 defense is that it’s not necessarily broken. As annoying as it may be, the game is still technically playable, and you can still understand the plot if you want to.”

28 Best: The .Hack Series 🍎

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This series is what Sword Art Online t🤡ries to be. The franchise has numerous games and anime series. A lot goes on, but the basic plot is that players of a high-tech massive multiplayer universe are trying to solve a mystery that revolves around some players going into a coma.

These games are fun because they act like you are actually in an MMO world despite it being a single player story. There are many dungeons an♕d you meet other players on your journey. The story and characters are 😼very memorable as well.

27 🤡 ♓ Lame: Beyblade: Let It Rip!

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Beyblade that was an anime known for its toy merchandise, probably because it was to promote the spinning top toys called “beyblades.” The toys were successful, but the video game, Beyblade: Let it Rip!, for the original PlayStation was a flop.

It contained no story mode or narrative.

All you really do is fight and get more parts to fight more. The game feels like there is little point since there aren’t many choices 🧸as to who to fight in the story-less game.

26 Lame: Mobi🐓le Suit Gundam: Target In Sight

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Made for the PS3, Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight, is a very clunky battle simulation. The game had no tutorial. Even if it did,💜 the controls were unmanageable to the point where walking into a wall could happen instead of partaking in combat.

A very mad Game Informer article , “I have nothing positive to say about this game. I even hate the menu screen. Perhaps the best thing I can come up with is that this mi🐼serable piece of trash is so awful that it’s destined to be the worst-selling game of the PS3 launch.”

25 Best: Naruto: Ultiꦿmat💦e Ninja 3

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This was a game of many firsts for the Ultimate Ninja series. It has a massive storyline of 55 missions, tons of combatants, and enough unlockable content for good replay value. The open world and many playable characters made this title definitely the best of the Naruto video games.

You even get a customization option for versus mode.

Gamespot wrote, “You may actually check the box to remind yourself that this isn't a PlayStation 3 game, because all of the super attacks you unleash are rendered in glistening HD q🐬uality, as are most of the backgrounds.”

24 Lame:🍸 Dragon Ball Z: For Kinect 𝕴

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The Dragon Ball franchise gave life to many video games, but not all of them are fondly remembered. At first, some fans had mixed feelings about Dragon Ball Z: For Kinect because it had a goodꦡ look, anime style, an🌳d could unlock 50 characters. However, the controls were very spotty.

You fought in first-person, so you couldn’t even see your favorite characters in action.

The combat is repetitive too, which a rock-paper-scissors like circle of hitting, deflecting, and blocking. A♌lso, the game only takes about three hours to beat.

23 𓂃Lame: Inuyasha: Secret🌊 Of The Divine Jewel

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Running from 1996 to 2008, Inuyasha was a beloved anime. It especially enchanted western audiences with its Japanese culture and Shintoism. So what’s the harm of 🎀making a video game out of it?

Inuyasha: Secret Of The Divine Jewel came out for the Nintendo DS in 2007.

The writing felt like a self-insert fanfiction with a western gir🌺l in mind since you play a foreign exchange student, Janis. If the story itself wasn’t weak, the mechanics were a pain. There is a constant interruption of bo🙈ring turn-by-turn battles as you try to move on the map.

22 Best: The Persona Series 🔴 🌱

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These Playstation games are beloved for their perfect mix of what makes anime great: school life and adventure. The most recent game, Persona 5 is a 𒅌trap of addiction from its inte💙resting story and fun game mechanics.

You get to divide up your free time between hanging out with friends and doing various activities to boost your money or social traits.

All this is bundled with an advent🦋ure of secretly fighting monsters almost in a magical-girl like story. You definitely get what you paid for, as the game easily can take 90 hours to beat on your first try.

21 Lame: Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympa🌊thy

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Fullmetal Alchemist has become an anime classic, especially when the Brotherhood version came out in 2009. However, this DS game came out before Brotherhood. In 2005, a lot of fans were met with disappointment with Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy.

Firstly, the game developers tried to crush this 51 episode show into only a four-hour game. This rush made what fans expected to be 🦂a deep story to be very hollow. The game’s combat also provides no challenge and is a bore.