I understand a lot more now why people say they want Sparking Zero to play like Tenkaichi instead of Raging Blast. Granted I agreed regardless but now I actually have context.

Its no Budokai Tenkaihichi 3, which playing this made me boot it up again and that game is still the most solid in existence, but its still pretty good though with how much I played BT3 I could see just how much of the game was lifted from it. Theres a good amount of content here, just the story mode alone too me two days. The What-Ifs are where its at and why you should play this game.
I play on actual hardware if able and this game looked fantastic running on a ps3, I'd even say it looks better than Xenoverse 2. Quite the attention to detail at times (Frieza's transformations, Broly's charging effect) but also some rookie mistakes (somehow remembered SSJ Broly had blue hair but gave LSSJ blonde instead of green). I however did not like the combat much, it felt floaty and the super attacks lacked a lot of impact. Putting super attacks on the right stick was just an awful idea. Unless both my ps3 controllers were broken I had to mash that shit to continue my combos. Rush attack ranges were neutered to oblivion as well so unless you were within 10 feet of your enemy they weren't hitting. Blast deflection was a nice gimmick but I'm indifferent on the crash system.

The customization is nice, it allows there to not have a roster with 18 different Goku and Vegetas clogging it up though some absences both in roster and super attack were baffling. The camera was horrendous though. If you were near a wall you just had to let jesus take the wheel and hope either the ai knocked you away or stopped mashing long enough for you to rapid rise out of there.

I hope 2 fixes some of these issues but I doubt it.

Reviewed on Jan 27, 2024


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