How in the fuck am I supposed to review this game!?!? Massive game that gave me so many memories. Was basically how I experienced so much of dragon ball's story and mythos. Hell, me and my brother even 100% the game! That's hundreds of hours! Jesus what a wonderful gaming experience for a child. Game itself is pretty busted and not super exciting to go back to as an adult but there's just enough familiarity and effort put in to still find joy while playing.

PS Pikkon with the item that halfs ki cost for specials is so insanely broken

A vast improvement over Tenkaichi 1, the sequel is far more deserving of your time. Once more we're presented with a behind-the-character camera view and a fully mobile set of fighters that can fly around an arena as we fight, but this time the ambition is far more realised. There's a huge roster of playable characters covering a vast swathe of Dragon Ball, Z, GT and the movies, there's a lot more work done to make fighters distinct from each other, and signature attacks are far better represented. In a wonderful new twist you can now bring a team of up to 5 fighters to a round, all of which can be freely switched between during combat, and many characters can now transform between different forms during a bout as well, so the Dragon Ball feeling is wonderfully captured. However, one mark against the game is a far too overlong campaign mode that takes accuracy a little too seriously at the expense of actually having fun.

The first ever fighting game I ever finished, I played this before I ever watched Dragon Ball Z. And it was good, very good, a great gateway drug to one of the quintessential shonen anime series.
It was all built on great mechanics and movement in-game, not as ridiculously difficult to master as most fighting games while still emphasizing twitchy reactions and good positioning to gain the upper hand.
All the characters and story beats are there, the locations are famous Dragon Ball locations, and the super moves have that oompph to them that make landing one very satisfying.
Honestly rendered obselete by its successor, there is no reason to recommend it while budokai tenkaichi 3 exists, but I had a ton of fun playing this with my brother and I will always remember it fondly for it!

Vamos focar no aspecto mais interessante desse jogo em relação aos outros da franquia. O modo história.
Apesar de ser completo, ter customização e uma mini exploração de mapa, ele tem um defeito que incomoda muito. O fato de ter que jogar a história dos filmes antes de jogar algumas sagas principais do anime. Isso acaba atrapalhando a fluidez e continuidade do modo história.
No geral, é um jogo bem divertido e nostálgico.
Era meu tenkaichi favorito na infância, porém hoje eu prefiro o 3 por ter uma jogabilidade melhorada e um acréscimo de cenários e personagens interessantes.

Otro mítico de mi infancia, jugándolo hace algo más de 1 año en PS2 me he dado cuenta de lo diferente en gameplay que se siente al 3, la base es la misma pero la forma y mecánicas cambia completamente, mi gran decepción fue con el modo historia, lo recordaba bastante menos soporífero, hay sagas en donde tienes que luchar 5-6-7 veces contra el mismo oponente para que avance en la historia, una bastante lineal en mi opinión, aunque eso no quita el juegazo que es, la banda sonora me parece la mejor de la trilogía de largo, es un muy buen Tenkaichi aunque opacado por si histórica secuela.