Just to be clear: I did not want a Fighterz 2. I wanted Sparking Zero to be better and a bit more refined. Maybe they'll fix it up with patches, but at the time of making this video: I think Sparking Zero is very flawed and unbalanced in ways that are not fun. Games can be unbalanced and fun at the same time, but right now I don't think Sparking Zero is all that fun to play.
@ChitinChazz Idk I saw this coming the campaign and character interactions are the main selling points of the series also the sheer amount of characters. About the half assed non goku campaigns should have been fixed but has always been an issue.
You clearly haven't played a tenkaichi series. if you can't handle unbalanced stuff on here these games are known to be unbalanced from the start but I do agree that they need to fix the p1 and p2 controls I heard about the controls being swapped for players who want classic then changes to standard mid game. We already getting a character adjustment for yajirobe for the senzu bean spam which I agree needs some type of nerf because that's way to powerful for one character they can just put 1 or 2 senzu beans or lower his hp to balance that because the other characters heal for like a bar and half while his gets full bars of hp. As for the super counter it's not as easy doing online because everyone internet is different much easier to pull on offline so maybe they should make the window a little easier not to much tho
@@killerjames78 this game is made to target the older and og people like us, not modern type of players focused on competitive and balance fighting games like Tekken. It's made to be fun and entertaining and that's all a game needs to be, people are something else
@@killerjames78 Why does it matter if I've played a Tenkaichi game or not? Why does this game's issues get a pass because "That's how it was 17 years ago". I'm judging sparking zero solely based on what sparking zero does, and I think it's really flawed.
The game literally feels like an unfinished tech demo or even a fan project half the time, I genuinely don't understand how it got published besides rushing it to capitalize on the hype of Diama
@@hurricane7727 yes, but, the preorder character was Diama goku and it dropped the same day as daima iirc so all in all, it's fair to assume it was timed to coincide with daima's release
With out balancing and cool downs on abilities. Like imagine they have the main abilities and then a sub ability that you could use while the thing is on cool down. Sorry to say a key blast spam XD
@MetalHopper yup. The one that actually makes sense to be there. Honestly the amount of people who for some reason think that the release of Sparking Zero means that its ok to shit on DBFZ just because its not what they fancied is annoying lmao
@@SolKaka-p7elmao it will for fighting im thinking tekken is also a canditate but it means nothing they still gonna make super 17 dlc 😂😂😂😂 cashgrab game
@@Ner0Rev0lverright who would've thought adding a rank would make a game competitive and then it just being a online game also competitive. So no one thought about balance cause they wanted to make it more like the anime but if it was a lot of these fights would be over in like a second... Ok I say a minute. There be 0 chance they would win so that's a lie. Anyway where the balance patch.
I remember before this game came out, folks everywhere were saying it was “guaranteed to be the best DBZ game”. Posts everywhere on Reddit about people preordering and shooting down anyone who had criticism and concerns. Tough.
The pace of the fighting, the lighting, the menus, the lack of game modes, the lack of stages, this game is a disappointment. It's a disgrace to the Budokai Tenkaichi series.
@@alexwagner23 bruh, THIS literally everyone I know personally has had the problem with inputs not working. Then when I acknowledge how dogshit it is that a modern day AAA $70 title can't have simple button inputs work, ppl start looking at me like I'M crazy and suddenly become white knight paladin apologists for dogshit. Like I get game development is hard but this game was clearly rushed out for the holiday sales. The entire budget went to the animations and virtually nothing else (except the music apparently cuz that shit is hitting) Clearly the game wasn't play tested before release and the RUclipsrs that did get to play it before release seem to have been paid to me because everyone I fucking know who has this game talks about the button inputs not working. Also the lack of basic options in the world tournament mode is fucking abysmally dogshit in this game (only 8 man brackets, no option for NO giant characters, no option to make a CPU tournament?) literally the previous games did ALL this shit better. This game simply didn't live up to the hype AT. ALL. At least for me personally. If ur having fun tho I'm happy for you.
@RumiLockhartLMAOO. I told my friends 2 days after release, the best things about this game is. 1. It’s Dragonball and 2. The graphics. Nothing else is a plus
@@informer3481it’s incomplete. It’s laggy and the hit detection is terrible. The camera loses the opponent for no reason and the inputs are terrible and don’t register from your controller. Everyone cried for a big roster and they all use the same 5 characters. All they do is get their ass beat their they can use sparking and then spam ultimates. Man this game feels like a beta
@@tonetalks7484thx you for your info my friends keep glazing this game they try to compare black ops 6 to sparkling zero and that don’t even mix on top of that you right about the hit detection
I was considering getting this game in the future, but theres two problems. 1. There is Yamcha Slander in the game which I will NOT stand for in ANY form of media. 2. Theres Yamcha Slander.
@BrainUsage493 No, because he never cheated on Bulma. Bulma saw a girl kiss yamcha but he never kiss her back, he was caught by surprise and Burma just assumed he cheated
Bulma is hyprocite. Even when he is dating Yamcha he immediately ready to hope on any men that is on screen. Yamcha as far as we know never even get off from his fear of women properly so. Theres literrally make no sense that he cheats!
I sadly just deleted this game off my console, I wasn’t having fun winning, wasn’t having fun losing, I’m Z rank btw so I put some time in, player matches was where it was at but there’s no way to quick queue for those, I also can’t stand the vanish wars, too many happen in one match, and the Z counter and vanish options on beams are way to inconsistent with input delay, it’s like every match has slightly different input delay I gotta factor in when I fight someone
I pretty much avoided all content about the game until I was done with all the branching paths of the story and yeah, this is pretty much the strategy I developed through trial and error. Actually fist-fighting the CPU is fun but it doesn't do shit to their HP bars. Sparking attack spam 2-3 combos + ult is how I won most of the episode battles.
Yep. Fighting CPUs is boring, but trying to play online sucks too. You'll run into people using annoying starts like that yajirobe crap. It's not fun to fight an ai or a person, so who can you really have fun playing against?
Why can't they just remaster OG Budokai 3? Or make a perfect 1:1 recreation of Budokai 3 in the style of Tenkaichi, with the characters from Tenkaichi/Sparking, but the capsule system and character costume select from Budokai so the roster isn't artificially inflated with 20 Gokus?
I’m glad you said that, I thought I was alone in absolutely hating the style of sparking zero compared to BTK 3 it’s so cartoonish and reminds me of db super and nothing like dbz. Also the stages just seem so artificial, and there are so many cutscenes for every move.
I hate the losers who say we should be happy with the roster having only 1 db character since we have to pay for them later on. I dont want to be forced to pay $ for a monkey
No no no you should only be judging a game based on assumed DLC that isn't announced. DB character are going to be added later, so it's not a problem that we wanted them now... all sarcasm aside, we really should have gotten demon king piccolo at the least.
This game definitely needed some more time in the oven. Its great but it DEFINITELY has its flaws. They’re obviously gonna patch it but imo you need to get it right the first time.
Thank you. I tried my best to talk about the game/ my thoughts in a way that even someone who hasn't played the game can understand what I'm saying. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@@dcj991 How am I a fake gamer? Sparking Zero is still a good Dragon Ball game at the end of the day? Is it perfect? No, but it's made with love for the fans. If it wasn't then they shouldn't have put so much effort at making every move feel straight from the Anime or Manga, especially unique grab animations if certain characters grab characters that interacted in the anime. ( Vegeta SSJ Blue grabbing Goku Black Rose is one example. )
I wanted Sparking Zero to be a more polished, visually stunning version than BT3. But even that a Ps2 game, feels more responsive, snappier and well tuned than this game by a long mile. Sparking Zero just looks pretty. With tons of unpolished core gameplay and bugs that SHOULD NEVER have been missed and made it past testing. And personally, Revenge counter and Perception didnt need to be added to the defensive options to this game. Z counter and z vanish were plenty enough for defensive options. And even then from Z vanish to Z counter to Revenge counter, they are inconsistent. At least on classic controls , it probably could be more consistent with the button layout and combinations but I dont enjoy the game enough to care to find the hell out. Rush Attacks have HORRID tracking, Beam attacks have OP tracking...idk how they messed that up. Fighterz is not my biggest cup of tea but the least I can say was on day one, thatt gameplay was smooth, responsive and snappy which made the gameplay fun for a while until I got over the 1 touch death MVC3 feel it had. I dont have an issue on the Z Vanish stuff, the tenkaichi games and even Budokai games, this was a staple move that required you to get good at. You could Z vanish when thrown and a beam is coming at you, you can Z vanish when sent flying by a super hit, it was all done before. Its not new in sparking zero. HOWEVER the ki usage of Z Vanish is too small in this game. You cant Z vanish rush combos. Its again, all the other bullshit added that makes comboing now virtually annoying to do. At 13:40 with the Z vanish tug of war, compare how slow that is, compared to Tenkaichi 3 in looks AND feel. Completely different. Its too fucking slow in this game. Perception spammers can get with regular ki blasts( It doesnt have to be charged ki blasts) and forces you to deflect or block, then theres other things like side stepping ( again delayed in input) and z vanishing mid rush chain ( fucking delayed again when doing so).
Yeah idk who is saying its just like the old games that has chazz worked up in the commments. I hope he sees this abd injects positivity :) its not good to fill yourself with negative commentd
THIS Bruh, YES. I've come to the conclusion that anyone telling me the game feels BETTER than BT3 or RB2 is either a paid shill (globku) or just a delusional try hard with nostalgia glasses playing yajirobe in ranked and coasting off broken mechanics. With almost no in-between. The amount of "shut up and consume product" I've come into contact with while presenting legitimate issues that EVERYONE playing the game is feeling has been genuinely astounding. It is mind boggling that ppl really think they are so much better than other players at such an obviously broken game. smh.
@@ozziewhite6428 I had so much high hopes for the game because I always wanted to play the BT series bc of its roster and I couldnt. I had the Raging blast series and Ultimate Tenkaichi. And after playing them the attention to detail in cinematics of attacks and being able to customize I had it better than I realized. Theres this empty unfinished feeling with the game, with a lot of cool stuff still but just they dropped the ball on a lot of shit. They needed to take more out of Raging Blast since its natural progressed from BT days to RB to post Xeno era.
@@ChitinChazz Jokes aside, I agree with you, some things could have been done better. But I guess the nostalgia hits hard and probably people would complain if some shit got changed, even if for the better.
Tenkaichi 3 was soooo much better and had more modes and so much fun for single players they turned sparking zero to an online only game and barely any modes on there I get so bored and story mode is bootyy wish they had sim dragon or battle 100 💯
Sadly we live in 2024-2025 where the online environment is a priority Marketplace. Most kids don't go to each other's house and play on the same TV anymore. Let alone an unbalanced game Online where people these days will take anything as competitive .
Last comment ill leave. The mechanics I think that need to go: - Perception - Revenge Counter. Both of these ruin most offensive play, its two too many defensive mechanics to the already extensive defensive options that were taken from BT3 and put in this game. Super Counter and Z Vanish are MORE than enough as it was all you had in BT3. OH Also, Rush Attacks couldnt hit you on the ground in any of the Tenkaichi games... long story short....Tenkaichi 2 and 3 are better balanced and functional games.
@@sapphireglaceonYoure not wrong. Theres so many gaming sales now and having just a big ass library and buying new games you feel like overwhelmed playing and then regretful if you get full priced games.
@romart03 I was JUST thinking this too! Like it's literally the sibling of BT3 it's been weeks and he hasn't replied even knowing this he still dookies on this game, that's so weird he must've hadn't played the other games which is sad, like at first he made some points after that he was literally complaining for what? Honestly this seems like a skill issue and playing 40 hours isn't enough to make these silly judgements
I saw someone do a sparking rush combo with Dyspo after a dragon dash and the combo never ended. They did a 92 hit combo for 43k damage. I'll say this for certain, that was never possible in any older game. This definitely needs some balance patches.
"Perfect" Dragon Ball game my ass. This rewards the cheesiest and laziest strategies. I can't understand why anyone would say it should be played at Evo.
Dude that Yachirobi rush attack gave me war flashbacks to "Tenkaichi 2" where me and my brother would die to Kid buu's rush attack. In the time when the attack ended to when you regain control of your character. He can charge up his ki and do the same move, catching us in an infinite loop until we died. The fact that can still happen in this game lower's my opinion of this game greatly.
Gameplay is garbage no combos a lot of spammer, defense system is so broken story mode is garbage, half the roster are Goku and Vegeta. Customization is garbage every character have the same chain rush. This game was made for incel correc.
Being honest, I’m loving sparking zero, but if y’all don’t like it, that’s fine, imma just have my fun with my type of games, and y’all have fun with your type of games, if criticism was that easy, so many things would be better
@@R.V_Gaming94for real, most people will just say "skill issue🤓👆" or "you’re just bad" instead of actually listening to the criticism or just accepting an opinion
I love this game, it hits home so hard for me but the amount of half baked mechanics and content makes me think this game wasn’t ready to release, it had to have been rushed. Clearly the customization options were meant to be way more flushed out and the Story Mode as well. The mechanics could use some work too as well as the balancing but nonetheless this game is Imo the best dbz game we’ve gotten in a LONG time and there needs to be praise left for that.
I was drunk and could not sleep so I watched like 4 hours of this game, and I have to say that I was not terribly impressed. The chains are too easy to keep up and vanishing was broken as fuck. Since we always get half baked games these days, I think they will improve things, but it was still pretty disappointing. Also too easy to just charge up things as the AI dont try and stop you.
Just so everyone knows the high majority of these issues were not in the older game and were actually balanced mechanically properly we're mad too, give it a try on an emulator He's wrong on the sparking mode because non of those people properly dodged dragon dash or any other counter but he is correct about everything else
Glazers are going to say your hating but as a guy who's spent over $115 dollars on this game your spitting facts and every criticism you gave is valid thanks for the honest breath of fresh air review 💯
Finally someone spitting some facts about this game literally all my friends that played the game has been meet riding it non-stop and I thought I was losing it
No features no story terrible pvp terrible models no stages no stage destruction no angle beam struggles characters being completely watered down no outfits no body disintegration this game fucking sucks bro
This is exactly why I dont play the game this game is not the best dragon ball game sparking mode should be limited to only 2 to the very least 3 times a match because you literally can't do anything when there in sparking mode yes you can block it but once they get through that your done because usually your getting hit in the back so that's why when I play I like to combo and yes your right vanishing shouldn't be a option all the time
Great video! Funny and informative. Glad to see people demanding more than just bare minimum. Also no local multi-player in a FIGHTING GAME is psychotic! (And no, one stage does not count.)
Actually you bring up some good points at first I thought it was just me I was like I know I've been a little bit rusty on playing the dragon Ball z Budokai Tenkaichi games but damn this game is on some bullshit
@@ChitinChazz Yeah especially the CPU cuz it's just like their recovery time is so quick and I was disappointed with the lackluster story mode I'm like what the hell hell dragon Ball z Budokai Tenkaichi 4 the fan mod that they made years ago and get a better job than dragon Ball z sparking zero Yes parking fear has this moments but like you said it it's a lot of issues on the inside that needs fixing
@@treymykel that mods cpu is way more fun than Sparking Zero! I fought Sparking Zero Cpu at Super difficulity and always win. I play BT4 mods for a very long time byt my win vs the hardest Cpu in that game is still 50/50. The single player in this game is really lacking!
A lot of these games are overhyped, after a while people will eventually realize just how bad it is. The honeymoon phase doesn’t last long with these fighters.
Everything you're saying is everything I've said about every bandai namco game. They seem like indi games made by people still learning how to make a game.
Their cutscenes arent even really cutscenes, they are really just slideshows. Yknow, i think ima take my copy to gamestop, and i just got it two days ago -_-
I happen to really like the game, but I get why you're pissed and I agree with a lot of your criticisms, especially those pertaining to the story mode and menu navigation. What particularly bugs me are the rush attacks. Not only do a lot of the returning ones lack a certain sense of style or brutality, but more importantly they miss way too often. Like, there have been so many times when I tried using a rush attack super, and my opponent was right there, was doing nothing, and did not visibly or audibly vanish, yet my character just zipped straight past them and slid clear across half the map. What's worse is that I think this was intentional because setting up your opponent almost guarantees that your rush will hit. Look, rush attacks were pretty broken in the first 2 games, which is why the 3rd rightfully nerfed them by simply reducing their pursuit range. And you don't even have to nerf them at this point because there are at least 5 different ways to stop a rush attack with sheer skill. I suppose I should clarify that I do not play this game competitively, I play against the A.I. or my friends, because I just wanna have fun. I'm a competent gamer with nothing to prove, who just wants to play some Dragon Ball. I'm not trying to be the most GOATED player ever, I just wanna beat the shit out of Jiren and Golden Frieza with Master Roshi.
Glad someone is speaking truth. Tired of the fanboys calling this mediocre cash grab perfect. I'm not even a pvp person my issue is the lack of effort put into the story mode.
If you don’t play online and don’t really like super, this game is literally just a downgraded from bt3. It has less characters and less to actually do with
Not really, it actually has the exact same amount of characters, remove all the transformation and variants and you get a total of 81 unique characters just like Budokai Tenkaichi 3 Also game modes are the same Both have Story Mode Both have PvP Both have World Tournament Mode Only difference is the change between one mode One has Dragon Sim while the other has Custom Episode Battles/Episode Maker.
@@TrueReverse74 Like Budokai Tenkaichi 3 story mode was any better, both rush through the story. The only good story mode in the Budokai Tenkaichi frenchies was Budokai Tenkaichi 2
Yeah, Sparking Zero kinda sucks. I've been waiting almost 20 years for it, and it did not live up to expectation. Any other DBZ game, I'd have clocked the campaign day 1, but i've barely touched it, it sucks. The complaints about the story are spot-on. I don't get why you've got this long path for every story chunk but can only access each contextually through menus you have to back out to. It takes too long to move between them, and teleporting to events automatically starts the fight you warp to. The UI is a mess, some buttons need to be held when others don't, and there's an overall sluggishness to menus where I feel like it's dropping my inputs, because I'm constantly pressing the wrong options. THE TIMER. Why bother featuring a timer if all it's ever gonna show is ထ??? Surely you'd use the timer and set it appropriately for those missions with timed requirements. Use the timer to show the time. Also they legit snubbed baby Garlic and Pikkon for wolf guy in ascot. who let the furries in and why are we okay with this? In terms of vanishing, it was always OP, but I feel like the windows used to be tighter in Tenkaichi, and it took away more Ki, so it had a higher skill floor you couldn't mash around, and you could do it less frequently. If there's one thing I'd change about combat, it'd be less vanish frames, or harder tells for when to vanish, plus a higher Ki cost, so you're not just stringing for minutes at a time. The issue too, is that if someone vanishes behind you, the only good response is to return the favour, there's little way out, and all alternates are inferior, in that they're either riskier, or more costly. First man to the bottom of the Ki pool is the loser, but that's kinda been an issue since Budokai 3. I will say, I like that it's still unbalanced, and it seems like they're not interested at all in changing that, but overall bad showing by whatever clowns were behind this piss-poor revival.
There used to be a stun mechanic that would force you to recover by pressing the guard button so they can't just vanish constantly. Unfortunately they took that away along with a ton of other mechanics that simplify things in the worst possible ways. I spent like 100$ and can't even bring myself to turn the game on at this point
The vanish avoidance sounds like the problem that was an issue with one of the first modern Naruto fighting games Clash of the Ninja (2003) with the substitute / clone thing. The thing with that game (assuming I am referring to the correct one) was that 1) the vanish thing teleported the dude BEHIND THE OPPONENT, meaning it was also a counter and a combo set up. There was no restrictions to spamming that move until the later games. It became fully silly when you could escape the combo by vanishing, so it was also a COMBO BREAKER! Most matches became weird turn-based matches where players would vanish to get to a better position, which would be constantly. Sure that game is a way worse that Sparkling, though the issue is the same. When one move starts to dominate the game, all characters start to look the same. For example, parrying in Street Fighter Third Strike.
Yeah pretty much. I get 1 hit in and then they have half a dozen ways to end my combo. I hit once, opponent counters, then they hit once and I counter. Rinse and repeat for 6 minutes. Sooooooo much fun.
OMG I feel you on the storymode bro.. especially restarting the game when you start getting comboed by the cpu 😭 Even with the cool branching what if paths, trying to trigger them it's just so annoying. If you don't resort to cheesing and try to play normally, the CPU will literally just tank your attacks and their combos will do twice as much damage.
The moment you reach S rank in DP battle, the game is just unplayable. Constant android cheese, dr wheelo cheese, afterimage strike, unblockable supers/ults, and insta spark all on the same team. Single battle isn't much better. Its nothing but SSJ4 Gogeta and MUI goku.
I’d have to agree with this video, the game itself, while fun, isn’t as great as it should have been, and I’m honestly kinda bummed out that the game is the way it is. I grew up playing Raging Blast & Tenkaichi Budokai, but when I play Sparking Zero, I don’t wanna be playing or reminded of those games, I wanna play the game I bought, and not compare to any old game in the series, as well as be blinded by nostalgia. To say this game has a “skill issue” is just dismissive of the actual problems the game has, and lack of content. We’re lacking costumes, we have too much cheese, we wanted stuff that we asked for & didn’t get and stuff we didn’t ask for that we got anyway. I don’t regret my purchase at all, but I’d be lying if I said I’m satisfied with the current state of this game.
I remember seeing a video of two guys just constantly vanishing on twitter one time. And I get shit for playing Guilty Gear -Strive-. Some people's complaints about -Strive- are most applicable to Sparking Zero.
So heres my unfiltered, and almost incoherent thoughts because im sleep deprived. This game really couldve been the best, i fucking thought it was at first. Turns out I've been played for a chump by Spike Chunsoft. The whole system is just... Bad... Its not even that its "unbalanced" (it is but thats not what i mean) its the fact that all the mechanics dont promote interesting or cool or fun fights. The combos seem so open at first but theyre really not, because almost everything can be interrupted. Perception, super counters, sonic sway, revenge counters. These are all mechanics that stop the flow of gameplay, they're way to easy to pull off or strong. I could win an engagement and start comboing, but that doesnt matter because my opponent will just mash up square to eventually get off a supercounter. I try to do a heavy triangle, well UI goku here knows that all he has to do to counter that is hold the good ol circle button. And i know there's ways to combat these, but its a bandaid for a larger issue. The game is a constant and unsatisfying tug of war, who ever can abuse these half baked mechanics wins! Oh and im just going to say it, the vanish wars look so dumb... Was there ever a fight in Dragonball where it was a full minute of two people teleporting behind eachother, not trying anything else? Hell no. This game would like you to believe that you can have cool Dragon Ball Z brawls, just like in the show. But it is so far from it. Not to mention the cheese... Unblockable Ults, afterimage strike, yajirobe. This makes the game so unfun. Aside from mechanical stuff, the game is also incredibly unfinished. Its clear that they reached their deadline and had to shit it out before daima. Here's what im predicting, in about 2 years, they'll announce and release sparking zero 2, itll have almost everything that everyone wanted and the gameplay will be marginally better, it'll just be the complete version of this game, just repackaged and sold again. Don't believe me? Look at Xenoverse, game comes out, mechanics are almost non existent. Very bare bones. The very next year xenoverse 2 is announced and then released. It has pretty much the same story mode, same everything, but everything is polished and its actually decent, dbz fans think its the best thing ever for doing the bare minimum. This is their strategy with their games when they can't finish them in time. Release the unfinished crap then release a "sequel" a year or two later. Im not even mad over this game, it just makes me depressed, especially since i fell for bandai's bullshit again... Feels bad man, there was a good game here... At least potential for a good game...
@@hurricane7727 no we wouldn't because bandai obviously is allergic to the bag😭 they never give the fans what they actually want they keep throwing everything BUT what we ask for at us until they finally cave in and give us a watered down wip of what we ask for for years then try to patch it up and STILL barely listen 😞
Couldn’t have said it better myself THERES TOO MANY GODDAMN DEFENSIVE OPTIONS THE GAME LITERALLY PUNISHES YOU FOR TRYING TO BE OFFENSIVE IN A FUCKING DRAGON BALL GAME!!!!!! GGGGRGRRGRRRRRAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
9:22 exactly it's just annoying also the being out of energy thing. After an ultimate. It should not to a full 30 second to a minute for my character to be able to move.
I think a solution would have been a "universal vanish" to be available to all characters at the cost 2 ki bars so you are limited to 2 "get out of jail free cards" when you were in a pinch with max ki which is similar to how back in DBZ Budokai 3 vanish cost 3 bars so you could only do it twice (assuming you had the max 7 bars) In DBZ Budokai 3 if you were caught with less than 3 ki bars and got hit with a big combo then it was entirely your fault. Alternatively if you had 3 ki bars and your opponent had 3 ki bars then they could "vanish" your vanish and still put you in a bad position (or vice versa). I think Sparking Zero would have benefited from a similar system. Since a common strategy is to "spam" the ultimate which leaves you with no ki...requiring vanish to cost 2 bars of ki would add a touch of "risk/reward" On one hand if your ultimate hits you can do massive damage however on the other hand if it missed then you would have no ki and potentially at the mercy of your opponent if you miss or they counter. Similar for blast 1/2 attacks that cost 3 ki bars. You could use them and lose 3 ki bars then only have 2 ki bars left for a single "vanish" in a pinch and your opponent could have a counter offensive. Rinse and repeat. Whoever has the most ki should have an advantage in a DBZ game however good defensive gameplay from someone with with lower ki should be able to turn the tide in their favor. For example if the "revenge" was a universal "combo breaker" that cost 1 ki bar to use (limiting you to at max 5 combo breakers using ki) and to prevent/punish spamming the revenge a successful "revenge counter" should be like the sonic sway and drain 1 ki bar from the opponent (which could potentially cost the opponent 2 ki bars for being predictable or just prevent them from vanishing as a punishment and reward the other player for good defensive play) In my opinion Ki should have been the primiary resource used in Sparking Zero for defense and not the skill bar. If ki had to be used for both offense and defense then you would have to consider your actions more carefully because recklessly attacking could put you at risk and being too defensive would drain your ki so you could never mount an offense. Would have added more tension to battles in my opinion. I think the only time you should be "defenseless" in any DBZ game is when you don't have enough ki to utilize defensive options. It's fair that you are unable to block if your opponent is hitting your back otherwise you should always have an option, even if the opponent is behind you, just like in DBZ Budokai 3.
I don’t know about you guys, but me personally I really like the game, the gameplay is much better than any of the other games, and the character models are soo good despite the weird dragon ball anatomy. Also, even if you don’t like the what ifs, it was @ really nice addition that they didn’t need to add.
I already talked about the flaws of this game and the community is disgustingly stupid. My main gripe is the beam clashes. They removed so much depth from it. Explain on why it locks both into horizontal positions. Or why you can’t tell who’s actually winning until it’s over. It’s ridiculous how they removed features from BT3
@@ChitinChazz yes. I voiced my opinion on TikTok about it so many times and I get ratio’d by the hundreds. I think it’s just the idiocracy of Dragon Ball fans blinded by hype.
30:01 my bro told me this waa skill issue on day 1 and 2. Just yesterday he apologized and said this game is sparking bunz and broke. Now he's copping T8 😂
@IamTealeaf to each their own buddy, T8 doesn't reward spam if you know what you are doing. I like sparking zero it's just mindless and not rewarding to play imo.
Just got my game and the AI is so cheap, doing the Frieza story and beat Goku as Golden Frieza easy but Vegeta owned me never got a chance to counter, and when I do the AI counters you so fast you cannot counter that. This game is made for cheese, I find myself spaming big moves, and locking what ifs behind the higher levels is for crap, I give this game a 5 out of 10,
Just to be clear: I did not want a Fighterz 2. I wanted Sparking Zero to be better and a bit more refined. Maybe they'll fix it up with patches, but at the time of making this video: I think Sparking Zero is very flawed and unbalanced in ways that are not fun. Games can be unbalanced and fun at the same time, but right now I don't think Sparking Zero is all that fun to play.
@@ChitinChazz na we all want dbfz 2 man
But at the very least I wanted sparking zero to be the best arena fighter but it’s a disappointment
@ChitinChazz Idk I saw this coming the campaign and character interactions are the main selling points of the series also the sheer amount of characters. About the half assed non goku campaigns should have been fixed but has always been an issue.
You clearly haven't played a tenkaichi series. if you can't handle unbalanced stuff on here these games are known to be unbalanced from the start but I do agree that they need to fix the p1 and p2 controls I heard about the controls being swapped for players who want classic then changes to standard mid game. We already getting a character adjustment for yajirobe for the senzu bean spam which I agree needs some type of nerf because that's way to powerful for one character they can just put 1 or 2 senzu beans or lower his hp to balance that because the other characters heal for like a bar and half while his gets full bars of hp. As for the super counter it's not as easy doing online because everyone internet is different much easier to pull on offline so maybe they should make the window a little easier not to much tho
@@killerjames78 this game is made to target the older and og people like us, not modern type of players focused on competitive and balance fighting games like Tekken. It's made to be fun and entertaining and that's all a game needs to be, people are something else
@@killerjames78 Why does it matter if I've played a Tenkaichi game or not? Why does this game's issues get a pass because "That's how it was 17 years ago". I'm judging sparking zero solely based on what sparking zero does, and I think it's really flawed.
The game literally feels like an unfinished tech demo or even a fan project half the time, I genuinely don't understand how it got published besides rushing it to capitalize on the hype of Diama
2 of the Dlcs coming are Daima
@@hurricane7727 yes, but, the preorder character was Diama goku and it dropped the same day as daima iirc so all in all, it's fair to assume it was timed to coincide with daima's release
Visuals are good rest of it is TRAAAAAAAAAAASHHHHHH
@@Zargex Metal Cooler ' All Show and No Substance'.
@@Zargex based take tbh
My favorite part of this mess is that there were people on Twitter genuinely trying to make a case of this game being at Evo.
With out balancing and cool downs on abilities.
Like imagine they have the main abilities and then a sub ability that you could use while the thing is on cool down. Sorry to say a key blast spam XD
typical db fanboys community, they even wanted this crap to win game of the year award 🤡
But don't we already have a db game at evo?
@MetalHopper yup. The one that actually makes sense to be there. Honestly the amount of people who for some reason think that the release of Sparking Zero means that its ok to shit on DBFZ just because its not what they fancied is annoying lmao
@@SolKaka-p7elmao it will for fighting im thinking tekken is also a canditate but it means nothing they still gonna make super 17 dlc 😂😂😂😂 cashgrab game
This video is Frieza Force propaganda
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA
Nah, it’s really not.
most of the playerbase died within a month, 90% of it even, legit the game HAS to suck for that to happen lmao
I take it the honeymoon phase is over
You say that as if it even began. It was over before it started.
@@ChitinChazz Damn…
Its not a bad GAME, its not a good fighting game at all
@@Ner0Rev0lverright who would've thought adding a rank would make a game competitive and then it just being a online game also competitive. So no one thought about balance cause they wanted to make it more like the anime but if it was a lot of these fights would be over in like a second... Ok I say a minute. There be 0 chance they would win so that's a lie. Anyway where the balance patch.
@@ChitinChazzyou really cannot say that with all the hype that happened, correct/deserved or not, it existed for a moment of time
Remember guys, Vanish, Vanish, and Vanish some more.
Oh and remember!!! Just super counter out of a combo once your opponent outsmarts you!
@@RUUGOOLEthe cpu acts so dumb yet it performs super counters almost perfectly.
@@RUUGOOLEwait forgot to say just spam dash with giants cant do nothing
@@somedude3314 why its trash? Give me 3 reasigna
@@RUUGOOLE You definitely tried a zero skill combo and got punished
I remember before this game came out, folks everywhere were saying it was “guaranteed to be the best DBZ game”. Posts everywhere on Reddit about people preordering and shooting down anyone who had criticism and concerns.
Tough.
After watching this i have determined that sparking zero is not a game its just watching animation and a qte
The pace of the fighting, the lighting, the menus, the lack of game modes, the lack of stages, this game is a disappointment. It's a disgrace to the Budokai Tenkaichi series.
@@theemotionalremixfacts glad i didnt buy this crap
I dont get the “incel” in the title, I agree the game is not so good but why for incels?
@@castortroy5399 why its trash? Give me 3 reasons
I like this game but I also think it’s very flawed and has so many problems gameplay wise that I genuinely feel like it wasn’t play tested
The fact that the cpu doesn't block the sparking combo baffles me. It makes it so easy to plow through every cpu fight.
@@ChitinChazz My biggest problem is the Camera is awful when you are close to the opponent and the controls just sometimes don't work for no reason
@@alexwagner23 same. Like when I get knocked down I don't get up for a bit. It's so frustrating.
@@alexwagner23 bruh, THIS literally everyone I know personally has had the problem with inputs not working. Then when I acknowledge how dogshit it is that a modern day AAA $70 title can't have simple button inputs work, ppl start looking at me like I'M crazy and suddenly become white knight paladin apologists for dogshit. Like I get game development is hard but this game was clearly rushed out for the holiday sales. The entire budget went to the animations and virtually nothing else (except the music apparently cuz that shit is hitting) Clearly the game wasn't play tested before release and the RUclipsrs that did get to play it before release seem to have been paid to me because everyone I fucking know who has this game talks about the button inputs not working. Also the lack of basic options in the world tournament mode is fucking abysmally dogshit in this game (only 8 man brackets, no option for NO giant characters, no option to make a CPU tournament?) literally the previous games did ALL this shit better. This game simply didn't live up to the hype AT. ALL. At least for me personally. If ur having fun tho I'm happy for you.
okay yea it can be fun but if your gonna charge $80 for a game with no original story or characters then maybe it should play well
This game made many of my friends/family rage like crazy 😂
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Well that’s fighting games in general
I dont get the “incel” in the title, I agree the game is not so good but why for incels?
70 dollars for an incomplete game
It's not incomplete.
@RumiLockhartLMAOO. I told my friends 2 days after release, the best things about this game is. 1. It’s Dragonball and 2. The graphics. Nothing else is a plus
@@informer3481it’s incomplete. It’s laggy and the hit detection is terrible. The camera loses the opponent for no reason and the inputs are terrible and don’t register from your controller. Everyone cried for a big roster and they all use the same 5 characters. All they do is get their ass beat their they can use sparking and then spam ultimates. Man this game feels like a beta
@@tonetalks7484yea even pc port is terrible optimized like they make it only for rtx 3050+
@@tonetalks7484thx you for your info my friends keep glazing this game they try to compare black ops 6 to sparkling zero and that don’t even mix on top of that you right about the hit detection
Haters won't watch to the end.
This was absolutely deconstructed to the point where only mid players would reeeeeee.
Wtf is reeeee?
@@tyler6971autistic screeching
@@tyler6971 the high-pitched noise a frog makes when upset. Early 2010s meme reference.
@@DMMDestroyerFUKING NORMIES
REEEEEEEEH
I feel old 😂
"Haters" = people with actual comprehension skills and sense.
I was considering getting this game in the future, but theres two problems.
1. There is Yamcha Slander in the game which I will NOT stand for in ANY form of media.
2. Theres Yamcha Slander.
Yamcha is NOT a cheater! I don't care how many games or whatever else push that narrative!
Didn't Toriyama literally confirm Yamcha was a cheater? Doesn't get more canon than that
@BrainUsage493 No, because he never cheated on Bulma. Bulma saw a girl kiss yamcha but he never kiss her back, he was caught by surprise and Burma just assumed he cheated
Bulma is hyprocite. Even when he is dating Yamcha he immediately ready to hope on any men that is on screen. Yamcha as far as we know never even get off from his fear of women properly so. Theres literrally make no sense that he cheats!
@@edogawaconan945 100% bro is spitting facts!
i had a problem with the lack of any real customization/costumes
The amount of costumes that are just ripped up clothes is wild, lol
Why can't everyone put on the halo?
@@bradskag3007 And some of them cost like 90k zeni.
Oh, don't worry. They're gonna add the rest as paid dlc in a patch soon.
@@ChitinChazz Or the Fucking Lightning aura. We should be able to put any item on any character
I sadly just deleted this game off my console, I wasn’t having fun winning, wasn’t having fun losing, I’m Z rank btw so I put some time in, player matches was where it was at but there’s no way to quick queue for those, I also can’t stand the vanish wars, too many happen in one match, and the Z counter and vanish options on beams are way to inconsistent with input delay, it’s like every match has slightly different input delay I gotta factor in when I fight someone
I sadly just reinstalled this game
I sadly just red this comment
For bro The games that one toxic lover who you can't stay separated from for more than 3 days
@@pimpstaajackI feel you bro I hate this game but the dragon ball nerd in me won’t let me quit
Bro I spent 70 dollars and it’s not even good 😭😭
I pretty much avoided all content about the game until I was done with all the branching paths of the story and yeah, this is pretty much the strategy I developed through trial and error. Actually fist-fighting the CPU is fun but it doesn't do shit to their HP bars. Sparking attack spam 2-3 combos + ult is how I won most of the episode battles.
Yep. Fighting CPUs is boring, but trying to play online sucks too. You'll run into people using annoying starts like that yajirobe crap. It's not fun to fight an ai or a person, so who can you really have fun playing against?
Exactly!No skill what’s so ever !I just spammed ults to beat the majority of the battles
Why can't they just remaster OG Budokai 3? Or make a perfect 1:1 recreation of Budokai 3 in the style of Tenkaichi, with the characters from Tenkaichi/Sparking, but the capsule system and character costume select from Budokai so the roster isn't artificially inflated with 20 Gokus?
I've been preaching this for ages brother.
Sadly people will eat whatever slop the gaming industry tries to feed them though
No fuck Tenkaichi we want a fucking Budokai 3, way more competitive than tenkaichi. Period
What happened to burst limit? I thought that was awesome, it wasn't perfect but if they actually gave it a sequel or 2 it could have been so good.
I’m glad you said that, I thought I was alone in absolutely hating the style of sparking zero compared to BTK 3 it’s so cartoonish and reminds me of db super and nothing like dbz. Also the stages just seem so artificial, and there are so many cutscenes for every move.
Lmao people are so sick of Sparking Zero they want Budokai 3 to make a comeback 😂😂
If it doesn't have Maron on the roster i'm not buying
bro maron could have been on the rooster too!! have her simps attack for her
She yells "save me" and two simps on a boat crash into you as a super.
@@ChitinChazz And then Freeza pushes her down on the water like in your video lolz
They should give her Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack where she summons the ghosts of her abortions.
Chazz is just mad that every time he looks for Big Foot or evidence of Big Foot (his other video), Big Foot just uses vanish.
Bigfoot whispers "Skill issue" before vanishing into the forest.
I'd watch a live stream of Chazz spazing out to Bigfoot videos. 😂
Big foot is just cheeky like a bbl
😎👍
Eyes jerk too far in one direction and it's disorientating.
Richard Cheese strats are the only way to win online matches.
I hate the losers who say we should be happy with the roster having only 1 db character since we have to pay for them later on. I dont want to be forced to pay $ for a monkey
No no no you should only be judging a game based on assumed DLC that isn't announced. DB character are going to be added later, so it's not a problem that we wanted them now... all sarcasm aside, we really should have gotten demon king piccolo at the least.
Nah fuck this game. Corrupted my save data after 80 hours
That sucks man. Genuinely I'm sorry to hear that.
Its technically little big planet 4
I dont get the “incel” in the title, I agree the game is not so good but why for incels?
This game definitely needed some more time in the oven. Its great but it DEFINITELY has its flaws.
They’re obviously gonna patch it but imo you need to get it right the first time.
Game that makes you want to fight in real life bcs it’s more balanced than the actual game
Bro can vanish all my kamehamehas, but no one's vanishing this WWE style powerbomb!
I think its good, except for the fact that counters are basically nonresponsive.
I can feel the passion in this review. Great job, Chazz. I hope the game gets some improvements. DragonBall fans deserve better.
Thank you. I tried my best to talk about the game/ my thoughts in a way that even someone who hasn't played the game can understand what I'm saying. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
This man didn't even play the past Tenkaichi games, how can he say it's for the Dragon Ball Fans?
Fake gamer alert@@Android-Twenty-One
@@dcj991 How am I a fake gamer? Sparking Zero is still a good Dragon Ball game at the end of the day? Is it perfect? No, but it's made with love for the fans. If it wasn't then they shouldn't have put so much effort at making every move feel straight from the Anime or Manga, especially unique grab animations if certain characters grab characters that interacted in the anime. ( Vegeta SSJ Blue grabbing Goku Black Rose is one example. )
@@Android-Twenty-One I'm trolling bro. I'm making fun of the opinion that a game can't be judged by it's own merits.
I wanted Sparking Zero to be a more polished, visually stunning version than BT3. But even that a Ps2 game, feels more responsive, snappier and well tuned than this game by a long mile. Sparking Zero just looks pretty. With tons of unpolished core gameplay and bugs that SHOULD NEVER have been missed and made it past testing. And personally, Revenge counter and Perception didnt need to be added to the defensive options to this game. Z counter and z vanish were plenty enough for defensive options. And even then from Z vanish to Z counter to Revenge counter, they are inconsistent. At least on classic controls , it probably could be more consistent with the button layout and combinations but I dont enjoy the game enough to care to find the hell out. Rush Attacks have HORRID tracking, Beam attacks have OP tracking...idk how they messed that up. Fighterz is not my biggest cup of tea but the least I can say was on day one, thatt gameplay was smooth, responsive and snappy which made the gameplay fun for a while until I got over the 1 touch death MVC3 feel it had.
I dont have an issue on the Z Vanish stuff, the tenkaichi games and even Budokai games, this was a staple move that required you to get good at. You could Z vanish when thrown and a beam is coming at you, you can Z vanish when sent flying by a super hit, it was all done before. Its not new in sparking zero. HOWEVER the ki usage of Z Vanish is too small in this game. You cant Z vanish rush combos. Its again, all the other bullshit added that makes comboing now virtually annoying to do.
At 13:40 with the Z vanish tug of war, compare how slow that is, compared to Tenkaichi 3 in looks AND feel. Completely different. Its too fucking slow in this game.
Perception spammers can get with regular ki blasts( It doesnt have to be charged ki blasts) and forces you to deflect or block, then theres other things like side stepping ( again delayed in input) and z vanishing mid rush chain ( fucking delayed again when doing so).
Yeah idk who is saying its just like the old games that has chazz worked up in the commments. I hope he sees this abd injects positivity :) its not good to fill yourself with negative commentd
THIS Bruh, YES. I've come to the conclusion that anyone telling me the game feels BETTER than BT3 or RB2 is either a paid shill (globku) or just a delusional try hard with nostalgia glasses playing yajirobe in ranked and coasting off broken mechanics. With almost no in-between. The amount of "shut up and consume product" I've come into contact with while presenting legitimate issues that EVERYONE playing the game is feeling has been genuinely astounding. It is mind boggling that ppl really think they are so much better than other players at such an obviously broken game. smh.
@@ozziewhite6428 I had so much high hopes for the game because I always wanted to play the BT series bc of its roster and I couldnt. I had the Raging blast series and Ultimate Tenkaichi. And after playing them the attention to detail in cinematics of attacks and being able to customize I had it better than I realized. Theres this empty unfinished feeling with the game, with a lot of cool stuff still but just they dropped the ball on a lot of shit. They needed to take more out of Raging Blast since its natural progressed from BT days to RB to post Xeno era.
@ultimate7293 Exactly. Summed up how I feel about this game perfectly.
Finally, a Dragon Ball fan that isn't just glazing this game lmao
Calm down, Chazz, we know you loved it
I'm gonna love the haterade this video generates. Along with the shekels that come with it.
@@ChitinChazz Jokes aside, I agree with you, some things could have been done better. But I guess the nostalgia hits hard and probably people would complain if some shit got changed, even if for the better.
@@ALittleOfMusic "It was like this 17 years ago; therefore it's good and shouldn't be improved".
Tenkaichi 3 was soooo much better and had more modes and so much fun for single players they turned sparking zero to an online only game and barely any modes on there I get so bored and story mode is bootyy wish they had sim dragon or battle 100 💯
This is why I didn't buy it. I don't play online. If the single player sucks, it's a waste of money.
Why don't you play online?@@cartoonvideos5
Sadly we live in 2024-2025 where the online environment is a priority Marketplace. Most kids don't go to each other's house and play on the same TV anymore.
Let alone an unbalanced game Online where people these days will take anything as competitive .
BROOOOOOOO I MISS BATTLE 100 SOO MUCH THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS
@MinusThePrevail bro that's why I love tenkaichi so much because of battle 100
Incel fighting game, now that's something i've never heard before.
Can't deny that it's a good clickbait title
6:01 You sounded like Michael from Rage Quit there 💀
Sparking mode is sooo much stronger in this game compared to BT3. That’s one of the exploits people love to use
Last comment ill leave. The mechanics I think that need to go:
- Perception
- Revenge Counter.
Both of these ruin most offensive play, its two too many defensive mechanics to the already extensive defensive options that were taken from BT3 and put in this game. Super Counter and Z Vanish are MORE than enough as it was all you had in BT3. OH Also, Rush Attacks couldnt hit you on the ground in any of the Tenkaichi games... long story short....Tenkaichi 2 and 3 are better balanced and functional games.
Yeah, I agree. Them adding perception and revenge counter was unnecessary. It just makes the game more guess-like.
Didn't expect a cameo from America's sweetheart DSP 😂 haven't seen the TIHYDP on sparking zero yet
this was epic WHEN I buy this it will be like 1-3 years from now when its like $10
sad
@@romart03 Why is it sad? Is it that I'm not willing to pay full price for a mid AF tier fighting game?
@@sapphireglaceonhonestly based decision.
@@sammydray5919 Yea especially since this this is nothing more then mid I'm not spending lots of money on MID.
@@sapphireglaceonYoure not wrong. Theres so many gaming sales now and having just a big ass library and buying new games you feel like overwhelmed playing and then regretful if you get full priced games.
Lets be real, Chazz is just sad he 100% Dustborn and he cant play it anymore
Dustborn?
here's a better title: " How Sparkling Zero Turned Me Into An Incel"
"How sparking zero blackpilled me"
@@ChitinChazz And that is how Goku Blacked came to be. :)
I love how Vegeta said "It's Vegetin' time!" And proceeded to Vegete all over Buu.
Outside of the graphics and music, I can’t think of a single aspect that this game did even okay on.
Like the game isn’t even mid. It just sucks.
100% The core gameplay just sucks ass.
you should stop smoking whatever you are, the games nit perfect but saying it sucks is next level delusion
@@ChitinChazz the core gameplay is literally near identical to bt3
@romart03 I was JUST thinking this too! Like it's literally the sibling of BT3 it's been weeks and he hasn't replied even knowing this he still dookies on this game, that's so weird he must've hadn't played the other games which is sad, like at first he made some points after that he was literally complaining for what? Honestly this seems like a skill issue and playing 40 hours isn't enough to make these silly judgements
@@datboishoop2274 You want a reply well here you go: ruclips.net/video/KnArkuv09Do/видео.htmlsi=iWcly4hXBNasReHS
WHY cant we play as INJURED VEGETA during his attempt to CLUTCH AGAINST GREAT APE GOHAN?!
I saw someone do a sparking rush combo with Dyspo after a dragon dash and the combo never ended. They did a 92 hit combo for 43k damage. I'll say this for certain, that was never possible in any older game. This definitely needs some balance patches.
"Perfect" Dragon Ball game my ass. This rewards the cheesiest and laziest strategies. I can't understand why anyone would say it should be played at Evo.
@@ChitinChazz people gaslighting themselves into believing sparking zero is a competitive game is honestly hilarious
@@denisn8336 nah it’s the competitive
Tryhards that played Tenkaichi 3 for the past years and act like this is a walk in the park
@@JodaroKujowouldn't that just prove their point even more? They see where the balancing is and they seem to agree it needs fine tuning.
You can break out of a rush combo broseph
Dude that Yachirobi rush attack gave me war flashbacks to "Tenkaichi 2" where me and my brother would die to Kid buu's rush attack. In the time when the attack ended to when you regain control of your character. He can charge up his ki and do the same move, catching us in an infinite loop until we died. The fact that can still happen in this game lower's my opinion of this game greatly.
Gameplay is garbage no combos a lot of spammer, defense system is so broken story mode is garbage, half the roster are Goku and Vegeta. Customization is garbage every character have the same chain rush. This game was made for incel correc.
When he says "GT goku's tail doesn't turn gold- 0 out of ten" 😂 true
you're gonna show us that adachi mod sometime though right?
Being honest, I’m loving sparking zero, but if y’all don’t like it, that’s fine, imma just have my fun with my type of games, and y’all have fun with your type of games, if criticism was that easy, so many things would be better
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@@Randomlad56 👍
Hell yeah dude. Wish more people acted this way
@@R.V_Gaming94for real, most people will just say "skill issue🤓👆" or "you’re just bad" instead of actually listening to the criticism or just accepting an opinion
I love this game, it hits home so hard for me but the amount of half baked mechanics and content makes me think this game wasn’t ready to release, it had to have been rushed. Clearly the customization options were meant to be way more flushed out and the Story Mode as well. The mechanics could use some work too as well as the balancing but nonetheless this game is Imo the best dbz game we’ve gotten in a LONG time and there needs to be praise left for that.
I was drunk and could not sleep so I watched like 4 hours of this game, and I have to say that I was not terribly impressed. The chains are too easy to keep up and vanishing was broken as fuck. Since we always get half baked games these days, I think they will improve things, but it was still pretty disappointing. Also too easy to just charge up things as the AI dont try and stop you.
Yapfest of idiocy.
It's not disappointing.
Just so everyone knows the high majority of these issues were not in the older game and were actually balanced mechanically properly
we're mad too, give it a try on an emulator
He's wrong on the sparking mode because non of those people properly dodged dragon dash or any other counter but he is correct about everything else
He's not correct on shit.
@@informer3481how so?
@@informer3481 Either refute the points or dont bother saying he is wrong without throwing any counterpoints like a dumbass
@@informer3481 Lol
4:40 Bro if you ever try to play a visual novel that has multiple routes and endings, you're going to be COOKED!
I already experienced something like that with persona 4 lmao
GAME IS OVER 100 DOLLARS BTW
For ultimate edition, standard is 70 dollars I believe
Glazers are going to say your hating but as a guy who's spent over $115 dollars on this game your spitting facts and every criticism you gave is valid thanks for the honest breath of fresh air review 💯
$115? You a dumb ass 😂
I wonder why none of them are in this comment section🤭
How much did Frieza pay you?
He offered me $420 but I told him I'd do it for free. I have integrity.
Game is flawed, but still fun to me 🤷🏾♂️
Fair
How can u explain it may help other have fun
Finally someone spitting some facts about this game literally all my friends that played the game has been meet riding it non-stop and I thought I was losing it
Anyone would lose it after all the vanishing they'd have to do! 🤣
Your friends are right and you aren't.
@@informer3481no WE'RE right and YOU aren't. Checkmate.
@@ChitinChazz You're agreeing with an incest fan.
@@shaynehughes6645"cry about it"
No features no story terrible pvp terrible models no stages no stage destruction no angle beam struggles characters being completely watered down no outfits no body disintegration this game fucking sucks bro
I dont get the “incel” in the title, I agree the game is not so good but why for incels?
This is exactly why I dont play the game this game is not the best dragon ball game sparking mode should be limited to only 2 to the very least 3 times a match because you literally can't do anything when there in sparking mode yes you can block it but once they get through that your done because usually your getting hit in the back so that's why when I play I like to combo and yes your right vanishing shouldn't be a option all the time
Great video! Funny and informative. Glad to see people demanding more than just bare minimum. Also no local multi-player in a FIGHTING GAME is psychotic! (And no, one stage does not count.)
Actually you bring up some good points at first I thought it was just me I was like I know I've been a little bit rusty on playing the dragon Ball z Budokai Tenkaichi games but damn this game is on some bullshit
Nah it's not just you. This game does have some bullshit for sure.
@@ChitinChazz Yeah especially the CPU cuz it's just like their recovery time is so quick and I was disappointed with the lackluster story mode I'm like what the hell hell dragon Ball z Budokai Tenkaichi 4 the fan mod that they made years ago and get a better job than dragon Ball z sparking zero Yes parking fear has this moments but like you said it it's a lot of issues on the inside that needs fixing
@@treymykel that mods cpu is way more fun than Sparking Zero! I fought Sparking Zero Cpu at Super difficulity and always win. I play BT4 mods for a very long time byt my win vs the hardest Cpu in that game is still 50/50. The single player in this game is really lacking!
A lot of these games are overhyped, after a while people will eventually realize just how bad it is. The honeymoon phase doesn’t last long with these fighters.
I thought this video was gonna be ass, but as a game designer, thank you
Edit: I like the game but so much of it is just bullshit
Everything you're saying is everything I've said about every bandai namco game. They seem like indi games made by people still learning how to make a game.
I dont get the “incel” in the title, I agree the game is not so good but why for incels?
Their cutscenes arent even really cutscenes, they are really just slideshows. Yknow, i think ima take my copy to gamestop, and i just got it two days ago -_-
It's not even been a year and they already started saying the game isn't good!?
Spittin. Game is ass and only smart people caught onto it early.
Agree people who like sparkling zero are on galaxy gas
Nice opinion bro
skill issue
how many matches did you lose
Me when I’m ass at the game
I happen to really like the game, but I get why you're pissed and I agree with a lot of your criticisms, especially those pertaining to the story mode and menu navigation. What particularly bugs me are the rush attacks. Not only do a lot of the returning ones lack a certain sense of style or brutality, but more importantly they miss way too often. Like, there have been so many times when I tried using a rush attack super, and my opponent was right there, was doing nothing, and did not visibly or audibly vanish, yet my character just zipped straight past them and slid clear across half the map. What's worse is that I think this was intentional because setting up your opponent almost guarantees that your rush will hit. Look, rush attacks were pretty broken in the first 2 games, which is why the 3rd rightfully nerfed them by simply reducing their pursuit range. And you don't even have to nerf them at this point because there are at least 5 different ways to stop a rush attack with sheer skill.
I suppose I should clarify that I do not play this game competitively, I play against the A.I. or my friends, because I just wanna have fun. I'm a competent gamer with nothing to prove, who just wants to play some Dragon Ball. I'm not trying to be the most GOATED player ever, I just wanna beat the shit out of Jiren and Golden Frieza with Master Roshi.
I’m ngl I want a refund lol
I just tried but did not get accepted ☠️
Drooped Facts when everyone else acts Blind
I've enjoyed the ps2 dbz games more than sparkling zero
bruh I enjoyed raging blast 2 more than sparking 😂
Congrats on being stuck in the past.
@@plasmagear4652Congrats on being "different"/dumb.
@@informer3481 ps1-ps2 dbz games better than sparkling zero
"Sparkling"
Great vid describes everything wrong with the game rn. high ranked is just timeouts with yajirobe and after image strike with defensive play
And cpu battles are just sparking mode spam. Can't have fun fighting cpu's or other people.
@@ChitinChazz facts, the cpu is also dumb on super in battle, so you have to go to custom battle to even get the "hard" ai.
Glad someone is speaking truth. Tired of the fanboys calling this mediocre cash grab perfect. I'm not even a pvp person my issue is the lack of effort put into the story mode.
real, I bought this for single player because the Budokai Tenkaichi serie and Raging Blast had PLENTY of single player content
@@plasmagear4652 This joker thought a fighting game would have solid single player content in The Year of Our Lord, 2024. 😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡
@@youcantbeatk7006 ok, and?
@@youcantbeatk7006this is incredibly ironic considering this is the first tenkaichi game to even have online matchmaking
@plasmagear4652 This has great single player content and is a good game in general. You not seeing that doesn't make it true.
If you don’t play online and don’t really like super, this game is literally just a downgraded from bt3. It has less characters and less to actually do with
Not really, it actually has the exact same amount of characters, remove all the transformation and variants and you get a total of 81 unique characters just like Budokai Tenkaichi 3
Also game modes are the same
Both have Story Mode
Both have PvP
Both have World Tournament Mode
Only difference is the change between one mode
One has Dragon Sim while the other has Custom Episode Battles/Episode Maker.
@@Android-Twenty-One Having a story mode doesn't make it the same, the quality is not nearly the same.
@@TrueReverse74 Like Budokai Tenkaichi 3 story mode was any better, both rush through the story.
The only good story mode in the Budokai Tenkaichi frenchies was Budokai Tenkaichi 2
Yeah, Sparking Zero kinda sucks. I've been waiting almost 20 years for it, and it did not live up to expectation. Any other DBZ game, I'd have clocked the campaign day 1, but i've barely touched it, it sucks.
The complaints about the story are spot-on. I don't get why you've got this long path for every story chunk but can only access each contextually through menus you have to back out to. It takes too long to move between them, and teleporting to events automatically starts the fight you warp to. The UI is a mess, some buttons need to be held when others don't, and there's an overall sluggishness to menus where I feel like it's dropping my inputs, because I'm constantly pressing the wrong options.
THE TIMER. Why bother featuring a timer if all it's ever gonna show is ထ??? Surely you'd use the timer and set it appropriately for those missions with timed requirements. Use the timer to show the time.
Also they legit snubbed baby Garlic and Pikkon for wolf guy in ascot. who let the furries in and why are we okay with this?
In terms of vanishing, it was always OP, but I feel like the windows used to be tighter in Tenkaichi, and it took away more Ki, so it had a higher skill floor you couldn't mash around, and you could do it less frequently. If there's one thing I'd change about combat, it'd be less vanish frames, or harder tells for when to vanish, plus a higher Ki cost, so you're not just stringing for minutes at a time. The issue too, is that if someone vanishes behind you, the only good response is to return the favour, there's little way out, and all alternates are inferior, in that they're either riskier, or more costly. First man to the bottom of the Ki pool is the loser, but that's kinda been an issue since Budokai 3.
I will say, I like that it's still unbalanced, and it seems like they're not interested at all in changing that, but overall bad showing by whatever clowns were behind this piss-poor revival.
Well said. I agree.
There used to be a stun mechanic that would force you to recover by pressing the guard button so they can't just vanish constantly. Unfortunately they took that away along with a ton of other mechanics that simplify things in the worst possible ways. I spent like 100$ and can't even bring myself to turn the game on at this point
The vanish avoidance sounds like the problem that was an issue with one of the first modern Naruto fighting games Clash of the Ninja (2003) with the substitute / clone thing. The thing with that game (assuming I am referring to the correct one) was that 1) the vanish thing teleported the dude BEHIND THE OPPONENT, meaning it was also a counter and a combo set up. There was no restrictions to spamming that move until the later games. It became fully silly when you could escape the combo by vanishing, so it was also a COMBO BREAKER! Most matches became weird turn-based matches where players would vanish to get to a better position, which would be constantly. Sure that game is a way worse that Sparkling, though the issue is the same. When one move starts to dominate the game, all characters start to look the same. For example, parrying in Street Fighter Third Strike.
Yeah pretty much. I get 1 hit in and then they have half a dozen ways to end my combo. I hit once, opponent counters, then they hit once and I counter. Rinse and repeat for 6 minutes. Sooooooo much fun.
OMG I feel you on the storymode bro.. especially restarting the game when you start getting comboed by the cpu 😭 Even with the cool branching what if paths, trying to trigger them it's just so annoying. If you don't resort to cheesing and try to play normally, the CPU will literally just tank your attacks and their combos will do twice as much damage.
A fitting title, I do admit
It's the perfect title!
The moment you reach S rank in DP battle, the game is just unplayable. Constant android cheese, dr wheelo cheese, afterimage strike, unblockable supers/ults, and insta spark all on the same team.
Single battle isn't much better. Its nothing but SSJ4 Gogeta and MUI goku.
I dont get the “incel” in the title, I agree the game is not so good but why for incels?
Honestly lock in gang.
Gotta get into my "leaning forward" gamer pose.
Cringiest title ever designed by another (technically) thinking individual
Thanks for commenting about the title.
Love the Gohan thumbnail
He just like me fr fr
this video was very informative and funny asf, keep up the great work fr 🔥🔥🔥
The Glazing for this game is ridiculous. The Mechanics are so garbage and doesn't even feel rewarding to play
Watch out, some man children in the comments might say your opinion doesn't matter because you haven't played 2000 hours in the 17 year old games.
That's because it's dragon ball. If this was any other Anime franchise it wouldn't get this much praise I bet you.
I’d have to agree with this video, the game itself, while fun, isn’t as great as it should have been, and I’m honestly kinda bummed out that the game is the way it is. I grew up playing Raging Blast & Tenkaichi Budokai, but when I play Sparking Zero, I don’t wanna be playing or reminded of those games, I wanna play the game I bought, and not compare to any old game in the series, as well as be blinded by nostalgia. To say this game has a “skill issue” is just dismissive of the actual problems the game has, and lack of content. We’re lacking costumes, we have too much cheese, we wanted stuff that we asked for & didn’t get and stuff we didn’t ask for that we got anyway. I don’t regret my purchase at all, but I’d be lying if I said I’m satisfied with the current state of this game.
I remember in budokai tenkaichi we had to time perfect to deflect the ki blast
That repetitive vanish could’ve been solved easily if it just sped up like the old games.
This is the best video I've ever seen (not even being sarcastic) , you earned a subscriber
And btw your criticisms are spot on perfect // true 💯
I remember seeing a video of two guys just constantly vanishing on twitter one time. And I get shit for playing Guilty Gear -Strive-. Some people's complaints about -Strive- are most applicable to Sparking Zero.
So heres my unfiltered, and almost incoherent thoughts because im sleep deprived.
This game really couldve been the best, i fucking thought it was at first. Turns out I've been played for a chump by Spike Chunsoft.
The whole system is just... Bad... Its not even that its "unbalanced" (it is but thats not what i mean) its the fact that all the mechanics dont promote interesting or cool or fun fights. The combos seem so open at first but theyre really not, because almost everything can be interrupted. Perception, super counters, sonic sway, revenge counters. These are all mechanics that stop the flow of gameplay, they're way to easy to pull off or strong. I could win an engagement and start comboing, but that doesnt matter because my opponent will just mash up square to eventually get off a supercounter. I try to do a heavy triangle, well UI goku here knows that all he has to do to counter that is hold the good ol circle button.
And i know there's ways to combat these, but its a bandaid for a larger issue. The game is a constant and unsatisfying tug of war, who ever can abuse these half baked mechanics wins!
Oh and im just going to say it, the vanish wars look so dumb... Was there ever a fight in Dragonball where it was a full minute of two people teleporting behind eachother, not trying anything else? Hell no.
This game would like you to believe that you can have cool Dragon Ball Z brawls, just like in the show. But it is so far from it.
Not to mention the cheese... Unblockable Ults, afterimage strike, yajirobe. This makes the game so unfun.
Aside from mechanical stuff, the game is also incredibly unfinished. Its clear that they reached their deadline and had to shit it out before daima.
Here's what im predicting, in about 2 years, they'll announce and release sparking zero 2, itll have almost everything that everyone wanted and the gameplay will be marginally better, it'll just be the complete version of this game, just repackaged and sold again.
Don't believe me? Look at Xenoverse, game comes out, mechanics are almost non existent. Very bare bones. The very next year xenoverse 2 is announced and then released. It has pretty much the same story mode, same everything, but everything is polished and its actually decent, dbz fans think its the best thing ever for doing the bare minimum. This is their strategy with their games when they can't finish them in time. Release the unfinished crap then release a "sequel" a year or two later.
Im not even mad over this game, it just makes me depressed, especially since i fell for bandai's bullshit again...
Feels bad man, there was a good game here... At least potential for a good game...
Itll proably take a While for a New Sparking game otherwise we would have Fighterz 2 with how sucessful Fighterz was.
@@hurricane7727 no we wouldn't because bandai obviously is allergic to the bag😭 they never give the fans what they actually want they keep throwing everything BUT what we ask for at us until they finally cave in and give us a watered down wip of what we ask for for years then try to patch it up and STILL barely listen 😞
Couldn’t have said it better myself THERES TOO MANY GODDAMN DEFENSIVE OPTIONS THE GAME LITERALLY PUNISHES YOU FOR TRYING TO BE OFFENSIVE IN A FUCKING DRAGON BALL GAME!!!!!! GGGGRGRRGRRRRRAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
9:22 exactly it's just annoying also the being out of energy thing. After an ultimate. It should not to a full 30 second to a minute for my character to be able to move.
god damn it chazz i was watching joker's livestream!
lies he finished streaming hrs ago! Beta!!
@@ayrton146 ik. i just wanted to make a chronic-esk joke.
Rip bozo
@@ChitinChazz ive been had.
I think a solution would have been a "universal vanish" to be available to all characters at the cost 2 ki bars so you are limited to 2 "get out of jail free cards" when you were in a pinch with max ki which is similar to how back in DBZ Budokai 3 vanish cost 3 bars so you could only do it twice (assuming you had the max 7 bars) In DBZ Budokai 3 if you were caught with less than 3 ki bars and got hit with a big combo then it was entirely your fault. Alternatively if you had 3 ki bars and your opponent had 3 ki bars then they could "vanish" your vanish and still put you in a bad position (or vice versa). I think Sparking Zero would have benefited from a similar system. Since a common strategy is to "spam" the ultimate which leaves you with no ki...requiring vanish to cost 2 bars of ki would add a touch of "risk/reward" On one hand if your ultimate hits you can do massive damage however on the other hand if it missed then you would have no ki and potentially at the mercy of your opponent if you miss or they counter. Similar for blast 1/2 attacks that cost 3 ki bars. You could use them and lose 3 ki bars then only have 2 ki bars left for a single "vanish" in a pinch and your opponent could have a counter offensive. Rinse and repeat. Whoever has the most ki should have an advantage in a DBZ game however good defensive gameplay from someone with with lower ki should be able to turn the tide in their favor.
For example if the "revenge" was a universal "combo breaker" that cost 1 ki bar to use (limiting you to at max 5 combo breakers using ki) and to prevent/punish spamming the revenge a successful "revenge counter" should be like the sonic sway and drain 1 ki bar from the opponent (which could potentially cost the opponent 2 ki bars for being predictable or just prevent them from vanishing as a punishment and reward the other player for good defensive play) In my opinion Ki should have been the primiary resource used in Sparking Zero for defense and not the skill bar. If ki had to be used for both offense and defense then you would have to consider your actions more carefully because recklessly attacking could put you at risk and being too defensive would drain your ki so you could never mount an offense. Would have added more tension to battles in my opinion.
I think the only time you should be "defenseless" in any DBZ game is when you don't have enough ki to utilize defensive options. It's fair that you are unable to block if your opponent is hitting your back otherwise you should always have an option, even if the opponent is behind you, just like in DBZ Budokai 3.
Zenoverse coming out on top again
Man I knew Dragon ball fans can't read but they can't type too
That's crazy
I don’t know about you guys, but me personally I really like the game, the gameplay is much better than any of the other games, and the character models are soo good despite the weird dragon ball anatomy. Also, even if you don’t like the what ifs, it was @ really nice addition that they didn’t need to add.
I already talked about the flaws of this game and the community is disgustingly stupid. My main gripe is the beam clashes. They removed so much depth from it. Explain on why it locks both into horizontal positions. Or why you can’t tell who’s actually winning until it’s over. It’s ridiculous how they removed features from BT3
I hate how it doesn't tell you who's winning. That's just so stupid!
@@ChitinChazz yes. I voiced my opinion on TikTok about it so many times and I get ratio’d by the hundreds. I think it’s just the idiocracy of Dragon Ball fans blinded by hype.
I agree, i kinda feel like this game was specially designed for people who are exprets at beating hardcore games
Overall though. Sparking zero is amazing
30:01 my bro told me this waa skill issue on day 1 and 2. Just yesterday he apologized and said this game is sparking bunz and broke. Now he's copping T8 😂
Buddy is switching to a worse game
@IamTealeaf to each their own buddy, T8 doesn't reward spam if you know what you are doing. I like sparking zero it's just mindless and not rewarding to play imo.
Finally an actual FGC take on sparking zero, looks like i did not miss anything and can enjoy the goldlewis apocalypses in strive.
Just got my game and the AI is so cheap, doing the Frieza story and beat Goku as Golden Frieza easy but Vegeta owned me never got a chance to counter, and when I do the AI counters you so fast you cannot counter that.
This game is made for cheese, I find myself spaming big moves, and locking what ifs behind the higher levels is for crap, I give this game a 5 out of 10,
Game has a lot of issues but this one is on you fam. Gotta get better. The ai helped me learn super counters and vanishes.
I love playing online where the opponent is literally right in front of me and I miss combos because it won’t lock on.
I dont get the “incel” in the title, I agree the game is not so good but why for incels?
@ People abusing cheesy mechanics and characters with broken moves/an extra health bar just to win instead of having fun
@@ITakeFromTheHomeless and how Thats is incel?
@@Alphaa-vd3ww I dunno I didn’t make the video, that’s just my guess