It tries not to do what most other Dragon Ball games do, which is simply retelling the manga, so it's sad to say that it ends up worse because of it: beyond its cute premise, the original story not only reads like a lazily written fanfic, but it's also terribly small. That's for the best though, since Xenoverse's gameplay gets old very quickly. Fighting is the only thing to do here, and although the game has plenty of characters and techniques to unlock, they all provide minuscule changes to a combat system with very little depth fighting the same enemies that attack in the same repeated patterns. The game's very structure makes this repetitiveness even more grating, forcing the player to replay its lengthy missions in order to obtain all loot.