Comparing the Budokai Spin-Offs

[@coreytrevor1920]

Infinite world gets my love cause it’s one of the very few games to include base GT vegeta. He just looks so cool in the red shirt and vest

[@Paulinho_66]

I hope sparking zero gives us entire gt saga

[@jenshansenhavde]

@@Paulinho_66 DLC city

[@Paulinho_66]

@@jenshansenhavde probably Honestly i prefer paying for a complete GT saga in DLC instead of having just the same characters from tenkaichi 3 Imagine having all dragons from last GT arc? Or fighting baby in all of his forms

[@sky-oq5mr]

​@@jenshansenhavdeit's already confirmed by the voice actors and they said the only dlc is daima and super this this year and the next. Also next to gogeta in his transformation slots he has an open slot lol so not dlc

[@sky-oq5mr]

​@@Paulinho_66it's not dlc, voice actors said they voiced the characters in what ifs already. Also gogeta has an open transformation slot next to his ssj1 self.

[@HiyokoSupiritto]

I really enjoy Infinite World aka the unnofficial Budokai 4 and I find it really underrated.

[@quarter_cab]

It's my favorite, but it's sooooo hard lol

[@merlincalibur6562]

It's ridiculously hard but I agree sometimes I prefer it over Budokai 3

[@meliantex]

Maybe it's because i grew with the game? But it consider IW much easier than Budokai 3. I could beat any character in Z difficulty without any item in IW without major problems but the very first mission of Budokai 3 is a pain to me, even at the easiest difficulty... I could not get used to it, it was just too hard for me

[@PensFan96]

​@@merlincalibur6562Bruh the game is soooooo hard

[@joshuaperezmartin2553]

i find it really copypasted game

[@ItsOver9000Productions]

Infinite World is the definitive Budokai Experience imo. Shin Budokai 2 is pretty great too. I think those two are what people should continue to play today. Burst Limit was a bit underwhelming but I loved the art direction.

[@KegOfMeat]

It can’t be because it has no World Tournament Mode.

[@ItsOver9000Productions]

@@KegOfMeat it's not that deep

[@JDot124x]

@@ItsOver9000ProductionsI fucking love and was raised on shin Budokai 1&2. I bought infinite world but how similar is it??

[@ItsOver9000Productions]

@@JDot124x it's actually pretty similar although s bit more advanced. It's hard asf tho. Definitely the best Budokai game imo. Give it a try

[@The_grill_master]

It's funny cause my first ever dragon ball game was shin budokai. Even though I did have a ps2

[@bobby7836]

I think Infinite World was intended to be Budokai 4 considering all the mechanics that are there from 1, 2 and 3! I loved when Dimps Had Dragon Ball in the gaming industry. I feel like that they actually did their best to grasp everything from the Manga/Anime and give us what we wanted and that is a full exploration of Dragon Ball in all their games!

[@Neiii]

Dimps actually still plays a huge role in the Dragon Ball gaming landscape, they developed not just the Xenoverse series, but simultaneously maintain the mobile game Dragon Ball Legends, the Super Dragon Ball Heroes arcade machines (Which are being replaced by Super Divers later this year) and The Breakers- They never left

[@ssjgoku78966777]

Infinite World feels more like a Shin Budokai 3 since it carries over more mechanics from those games than from budokai 3

[@MinhLe19303]

@@ssjgoku78966777 I think it's more accurate to say a final Budokai game that cumulated all mechanic and assets of past Budokai games.

[@kryskiller666]

As someone who had Another Road: Fucking hell that game was such a steal. Got it back in the day for 10 bucks, played the living shit out of it. Had a friend living nearby who also had it and we played together a lot. It was REALLY fun that they expanded in what-if material with that game and showed how they thought the Majin Buu events would've been like in Future Trunks' timeline, much earlier than Dragon Ball Super did. Also gave Future Gohan a lotta development, dude even got the Z-sword and uses it in combat!

[@TheSayanTurtle]

And I really love the soundtrack

[@ErickGTRZ]

it is a cool concept but in retrospect the "future trunks what if saga" eventually just gets dumbed down to a slightly altered retelling of the majin buu saga but with weird time traveling shenanigans mixed in with movie characters (+ bardock and future gohan) thrown into the story just for the sake of it. The game fails at really explaining why a lot of the things happen in the story besides just being fan service. I'm not complaining, it was really cool in concept but when you really look at it objectively, some of the story feels lazy. Just my opinion though!

[@kuirivito]

​@@ErickGTRZit's made for an SRW type audience "here's cool ideas with every character we got the rights to. you're not supposed to think about it very hard because this is riding on rule of cool" this is a totally valid way to make stories.

[@ErickGTRZ]

@@kuirivito idk what SRW means and yeah i think it's cool and all, it's just very lazy and not much of a story lol.

[@Thebinsonn]

infinite world is so slept on mechanically, not sure most people even realize you can special cancel and chain combos to a nice degree and it took me years but i finally figured out how to make yourself invincible like the computer does sometimes so much tech in the game that’s slept on, underrated 🐐

[@RemnantCult]

Infinite World always felt like the most competitive budokai. Learning to cancel a charge attack opens up the opportunity to just clown on folks and juggle them around in this series. Favorite character has to be Krillin for this reason.

[@elicapri6918]

@@RemnantCult you can literally cancel charge in every Budokai...

[@onthedre]

Shin Budokai Another Road just feels so fast and speedy to play. Even if the gameplay is a little repetitive the base combat is so speedy and fun that it isn't too much of a chore.

[@Coffee_Vegeta]

Shin Budokai was literally my childhood

[@X9PITTE]

Yes me too 😂man

[@Amine_XL]

Me too i was addicted to it

[@saqib5532]

Always played it together with my cousins, game was fire🔥

[@senormarston]

Infinite world should be part of the Budokai HD Collection

[@Sly9192]

No, let it keep its stolen music

[@eyalamit5120]

​@@Sly9192 I like that we all collectively agree to turn a blind eye to the music being stolen because of how good it is for the games lmao

[@Sly9192]

@@eyalamit5120 I know right

[@InsaniaTHEGREATONE]

@@Sly9192 So you literally crying over something that does not really affect you in any way ?

[@ErickGTRZ]

​@@InsaniaTHEGREATONEwhat do you mean?!?? The music makes the budokai games 100x better. It's the reason so many people prefer original budokai 3 over the HD version

[@ComicKino]

Infinite World is much closer to what I'm looking for in a Dragon Ball game, than any of the other games in the Budokai series. My main gripe with Budokai 3 in particular has to be the Dragon Rush mechanic, which Infinite World thankfully removed. I don't want the action to grind to a complete halt, just so I can play some rock paper scissors.

[@ErickGTRZ]

removing dragon rush was nice, but can i just say FUCK the burst mode in IW. Being able to have super armor and spam Z-Vanishes/Special moves with no limit until your ki gauge runs out is absolutely nuts. You basically become an unstoppable monster for a short period of time if you know how to utilize it well (The CPU looovess taking advantage of it)

[@Gogeta2501]

Get good bro​@@ErickGTRZ

[@ErickGTRZ]

@@Gogeta2501 i mean i can beat the cpu at hardest difficulty, but i wont lie and just say its easy

[@TjazzSyn]

Amazing video, I personally Never understood the hate for infinite world It honestly is a complete upgrade over budokai 3 in almost all segments And it also removed the pace breaking RPS segments from budokai 3

[@HiyokoSupiritto]

Plus, it has a complete story mode, even covering GT

[@TimeDoptimus-1885]

I just don't like Infinite World because it's the exact same but they slimmed it down a lot by removing beam clashes, the warp kamehameha/final flash, and the AI is SUPER hard to beat.

[@TjazzSyn]

@@HiyokoSupiritto I don't know if I'd be lynched by the dbz community for saying it But the open world story mode in budokai just wasn't very good, most of the time it was just you flying through one point to another in the barren overworld, occasionally coming across a secret or two In dbz infinite world the story mode while having flaws, it's much much more intuitive and fun imo

[@maxxximum_productions]

I completely agree. The only thing that's a downgrade from B3 to IW is the removal of the world tournament

[@davion4777]

@@TimeDoptimus-1885those moves weren’t removed at all. All the dragon rush special moves were added as separate moves that you can equip and use in real time.

[@Hogan231]

Rest In Peace Akira Toriyama.

[@KamehamehaSuperStyle]

Your a little late bud

[@bigkmoviesandgames]

@@samTmadeUmad it's actually pretty easy to forget about characters especially when you're making so many of them. Hell in an interview he even admitted that he thought Super Saiyan 3 was Super Saiyan 2, he just doesn't keep up with all the stuff. As far as the Buu saga he didn't really want to keep the series going past cell and he was kind of just winging that one. He's not a Flawless Storyteller but Dragon Ball was a pretty damn good manga and I don't think him forgetting a character or making a less than Stellar Arc makes him a poor storyteller.

[@davion4777]

@@samTmadeUmadyeah, let’s talk trash for no reason of a dead person who literally created the most popular manga ever, that basically every shonen manga after took inspiration from.

[@ClaytonPBrown]

@@davion4777I talked about how trash his work was when he was alive. Not gonna stop now that he’s dead. If it was shitty then it was shitty! Glad they used Dragon ball to make other anime great!

[@BenzPharaoh]

@@samTmadeUmadshut ur moufg

[@francescocherchi3069]

Shin Budokai 1 and 2 for PSP were my first Dragon Ball games, they were for me like the Budokai trilogy for previous generations of fans who I never played for age reasons. I still remember the soundtracks, the character's renders and their iconic movesets. This video made me want to play it again, it was a pleasant blast from the past.

[@Niosai]

This is what I've been waiting for! Can't wait to see your dive into Evolution 👀

[@karrotkake8918]

Just who I wanted to see in the comments

[@Niosai]

@@karrotkake8918 Top-tier profile picture and username Kakakrabby Patty

[@Dogmaguy74]

Infinite world is Budokai 4 more than a spin-off.

[@RyuEmatsu]

Nope. It basically was a “best of” game. Or at least that’s how it was advertised.

[@hunchodinero9057]

@@RyuEmatsui had the game and it said “forth installment to the budokai series “ on the case

[@RyuEmatsu]

@@hunchodinero9057 I’m talking about how the advertised. The back of the box isn’t advertisement.

[@ErickGTRZ]

i want to agree with this and say IW is budokai 4, but i can't fully agree knowing that IW took away some features (beam clashes being a big one) AND characters that were present in budokai 3. It really feels more like a budokai 3.5 to me

[@n4ginata]

Eh, it's more like a 3.5. It doesn't have that much added to it so yea.

[@christiangermanowski4859]

Maybe it’s just me, but I find something just so charming about the original budokai graphics/ art style

[@shahanrashid]

Especially the Gamecube version! Cell shaded but without the outlines and seemed quite polished overall. Budokai 1 gave me the cosiest feeling ever, good times!

[@raud5106]

I think Shin Budokai another Road and Infinite World are my favorites, but Budokai 3 is also fun with the flying around the world map.

[@dark_nightwing_xl2797]

Facts shin budokai 💯

[@iczev]

I love how ultimates work in shin budokai 1 and 2. There you have to connect with the technique itself instead of a startup hit. Furthermore, some characters can perform special follow ups if you have enough ki.

[@Smitty_Werbenjagermanjensen111]

Peekon is hilarious.

[@drawinglrykyu]

I always loved shin budokai, I was hospitilized and my brother came up with 2 shin budokai copies in 2008 and since then its in my heart. Completing it countless times and all the shin budokai 2 and budokai games too I never heard or found infinite world... Definitely trying this out soon! Good video!

[@rov-0250]

I always found it hard to consider Infinite World a spinoff. It's a Budokai 4 in almost everything. Great video

[@Hirotara]

The Shin Budokai series holds a special place in my heart. Ah memories of playing my PSP and having Metal-Cooler spam “ ⬅️ + ⭕️”

[@Banana-ej5ji]

Infinite world is basically the final patch of Budokai, if you want to play Budokai it has the the best gameplay and design overall, it had years to refine and build off all the previous ones... A great game.

[@agentbuckshot4697]

Honestly liked these more than Burstlimit, Especially Infinite World. Really felt like a fully realized fighting game without any gimmicks.

[@bigkmoviesandgames]

I really enjoy infinite World and I think it's something of a Hidden Gem due to its late PS2 release.

[@Fuchsfeuer]

It's a shame it wasn't included in the HD Budokai version

[@bigkmoviesandgames]

@@Fuchsfeuer true.

[@coolguychapman6685]

Nah the game wasnt that good has the same gameplay as 3 same graphics no crazy story changes or new characters/ stages and lackluster mini games that didn't fit in at all the game was basically budokai 3 part 1.5

[@EWOODJ]

​@@coolguychapman6685Yes, game was *that* good.

[@coolguychapman6685]

@EWOODJ you think a game that uses nearly everything from its predecessor if not using even less is a good game? With bad and time wasting mini games? No wonder gaming is in the shitter now

[@Turtle3000]

Dude... you cover all the games of my childhood.... Thank you

[@jonathancordero4465]

Infinite world was the last game I bought for the ps2 & it didn't disappoint! Super fun game 👊🏾💥

[@tytanwhite2576]

I had all of these games growing up gameplay wise infinite world was the best but I did like the concept of Trunks Boo Ark from Shin Budokai Another Road They did it before Dragonball Super and DBZ Kakarot

[@JBeanus]

I played the hell out of both Shin games back in the day.

[@Kangiru_Noah]

a nice touch is that these mini games are taken from the anime itself too, like the frieza shooting picolo mini game, or the cell training scene with goku and gohan, i like it

[@blondesummer7980]

As a huge fan of Budokai 3, I regret missing on Infinite World back in the day. I didn't know it was basically a Budokai game.

[@Vegito26]

The Shin budokai 1 and 2 is my childhood:)

[@pendranomechannel6786]

3:09 Bardock was in fact in Budokai 3. He was a lot of fun to play too

[@Lozzu]

I feel like Burst Limit also counts

[@TheDarkFuryKnight]

Yes definitely

[@TheSayanTurtle]

Yup it's basically Shin Budokai 3 minor some feature's

[@TheDarkFuryKnight]

@@TheSayanTurtle I haven't finished or played both of them (neither did I finish the Budokai series) I haven't finished a lot of DB games honestly

[@Mr.Henry_25_26]

He mentioned it.

[@anthonyroman218]

4:23 i literally died piccolo from “Wish” Bruh!!!!!🤣😄😄😄😂😂😂😄👍

[@CFLaughs]

Personally I never played infinite world before. I definitely can see why people liked it from this video and I wish I grew up with it like the old Budokai games.

[@understood.that.reference]

Infinite World deserves so much more love! Soundtrack was great (most taken from Budokai 3), roster was great, and the miniganes were so much fun. The story mode was nice, and covered GT as well!

[@michaels2077]

i played shin budokai on psp as a kid with my friends in school and that's one of the best memories of my childhood

[@CHATNOCEDA]

Piccolo from wish LoL 😂

[@Gakki_Aniki]

I'm glad people giving Infinite World the love it deserves in the comments, i played almost all of the dbz budokai games but Infinite World scratched an itch other games didnt, it was fun to play and felt like an adventure with those mini games. I loved it

[@ahmed.hasan_]

I got to play shin budokai another road on my potato mobile with an emulator when I was in 8th grade. Those were the days 😅. I used to play the game for hours and hours till I got enough of it. These character selection screens take me back. Those games were pinnacle of DB games for me at that time.

[@Tasuke]

I liked the Shin Budokai games for what they were, though I never unlocked all the forms in Another Road. I also liked Infinite World though I wish it had more content, like some extra game modes and a all the character from the previous Budokai games.

[@lulukomadori9651]

Ah the rage people have when playing Infinite, great quality taste Also burst limit quality - specially super saiyan goku vs frieza - was top notch 7:06 Song Twilight Harbor

[@meliantex]

Thank you for the song name And yes i was stunned the first time i saw Goku's transformation in Burst Limit, i just couldn't believe a Dragon Ball game could look THAT good... I still think it's amazing

[@lulukomadori9651]

@@meliantex not just the transformation but the skills? Like those events that can activate in the fight, him shouting krillin was where the budgets shows

[@jedigamer9935]

I love this video. All those DragonBall games were great! 💙

[@mkb285]

Loved the Shin Budokai games; still play 'em on my phone. Never heard of infinite world though

[@annadyke259]

i played Another road so much that the disc casing split open. i still pick it up every few months on emu if i need something i know i can just dive into

[@thety8fie]

Another road was the first psp dbz game i got loved it played it for years

[@brandonanderson4128]

I never even knew infinite world existed. Insanely impressive seeing it run on the PS2.

[@WACKYYACKYMAN]

this game is a fever dream for me, i have faint memories of it but i swear i never owned the game but i remember playing it hahaha

[@gs2004gengar]

After Sparking Zero I miss these games in my childhood

[@aldali724]

Budokai 1 cut scenes still look the best out of all to me, the 3d character models looked so good and

[@lordenma4449]

Please talk about dragon ball fusions a underrated masterpiece

[@shahanrashid]

Such a fun game! I randomly picked it up on launch for my 3DS cos I quite liked Extreme Butoden. And wth, the combat was awesome, the fusions were fantastic and it has quite a lengthy campaign. I think I will have to revisit it thanks to seeing your comment!

[@nicholascooney]

I'm pretty sure Bardock was in Budokai 3

[@tpx7414]

He was.

[@Sandino-dx6lh]

And omega shenron too.

[@GeteMachine]

Never getting a Burst Limit 2 was the biggest disappointment for me. You could tell they set up for it.

[@Pain-1985]

Bruh.....freaking quagmire from Family Guy poppin up when Flandrew talks about Frieza "finger blasting" Piccolo.....hehe....he popped up and all i heard was "giggity" in his voice

[@blackZ34all]

For handheld games, the two Shin Budokai look fantastic. And I find it perplexing why they would take out beam struggles from Infinite World.

[@LouisOrangeCat]

I grew up with infinite world on PS2, such an amazing game

[@Cluvr]

In gameplay, Shin Budokai games feel very much like a proto Burst Limit, or like a mix of it and Budokai 3

[@eyb0ss]

I remember finding a US copy of Shin Budokai Another World in the UK a few days after release. Played the hell out of the first one and loved it.

[@Choppygobrrr]

Infinite World was my favourite PS2 game aside from BT3

[@idk-wo1nz]

Tenkaichi also had a psp spinoff called Tenkaichi tag team its unique and I grew up playing Tenkaichi 2 and it feels just like the console games except with battles having 2 character on each side actively fighting

[@VitasVarnas]

I recall pre-ordering Infinite World at my local EB Games but it never arrived. I was able to randomly find a copy for sale in a store located hours away whilst in the area. It seemed that so few copies were made available in Australia.

[@arnelquindoza2654]

I actually grew up with anither road in a psp and me and my brother really loved playing it.

[@TheSayanTurtle]

Shin Budokai 2 still play it to this day

[@greenfalcon2316]

Great Video, Again ❤❤❤

[@Hamza-sn1xq]

It's funny that I played all of them a lot when I was a kid, but I didn't know their names except for Dragon Ball, of course.

[@neoniccortessjrsmith9223]

I loved infinite world mini games

[@dangalfthedruid]

“Piccolo from Wish”. Ouch, you done killed Pikon all over again

[@TheForever206]

I remember playing the Shin Budokai games back on the PSP in Middle School.

[@hitokiribattousai7703]

Wow I forgot Shin Budokai even existed

[@stevenhamel7922]

Loved the psp game back in the days

[@SuperMasterJefe]

They even kept the Tri Beam mini game accurate with square craters

[@Billyblue98]

I wish I had Infinite World so I could have had a first hand experience with it while it was new

[@anon_y_mousse]

Since I didn't know they existed before your videos, I'll tell you after I find copies of all of them. Of course, I didn't have a PS2 back when these games were new and didn't play that many games back then because I was busy with other things.

[@fox-milessavioroffoxes3782]

Ah Shin Budokai, my childhood

[@impactrc6427]

My story with shin Budoki… I was a 20 years old and in the United States Marines. We just got out orders that we were getting deployed to Fallujah Iraq so I got the psp and as much games as I could get.. I was a huge dbz fan (still am) and I got shin budoki. For that whole deployment I played this whenever we got down time. Sooo many hours sink into this game lol… horrible deployment btw we lost 25 marines in that year 😢.. Semper fi 0311

[@jlkc1993]

The magnet in my pocket that could absolutely destroy this 😂

[@arttus1287]

Bittersweet to know that Infinite World was this good and diverse, because me and my brother never got the whole experience as we never got pass Frieza's final fight.

[@L3thalsaiyan15]

No beam clashes in infinite world is the only thing it has budokai 3 over it looks so dope

[@Faming59]

never heard of any of these. it's nice to see these games actually did well. though i think 3 is still the best but infinite world is a close second. u can honestly play both of these and feel like both are the definitive games for budokai. just cuz of the differences between the 2 and some replaced characters

[@leonardoreis4308]

Really cool video, but a small errata to it: Bardock is not a new character to Shin Budokai Another Road, he was already an unlockable in Budokai 3. As well as Syn Shenron, he was unlockable in the Budokai 3 as well as was then reused on Infinite World.

[@bbletsplays1130]

Curious if you'll also do a video on Dragon Ball Evolution, as it uses the same engine is Shin Budokai 2

[@AkiDave]

Burst Limit is my childhood DBZ game but Shin Budokai is my childhood PSP games

[@Abdo-elhadi_abdo-elwahab.]

Infinte world will be always my favourite

[@berbas7769]

I remember playing Infinite World without a memory card 😅😂

[@joynelbonet194]

Technically even Burst limit was a budokai spinoff. The last one actually since then the Tenkaichi spinoff took over in raging blast to Kakarot and the online games with all the characters

[@pezyg]

I love you Another Road

[@MarbleThumbs]

Let's not forget Dragonball Evolution for the PSP, uses the same engine as Shin Budokai but with all the wonderful charm of the movie...

[@butterccm]

I played evolution, gameplay is honestly fun. Love Shin Budokai and Another Road, super fun games.

[@Ant90210]

I always saw gameplay for Infinite World just as another Budokai money grab, but after watching your review I'm definitely going to check it out now

[@Accion_y_Pasion]

I had a few of them on my psp. Best memories

[@borttheattorney6012]

Infinite World probably has the best soundtrack in the Budokai series just for the credits theme and Namek world theme alone.

[@yummyfries08]

I grew up playing all of the PSP dbz games but my favorite has to be infinite world, it has the best minigames ever.

[@MajinAsuraPath]

7:34 Budokai 1 had better body proportions for Goku.

[@LaSane20K]

Infinite world was a real gem through and through

[@gIokk]

broo i actually wish i played IW, gonma try and get it soon, probably gonna get a new controller for my ps3 and get it

[@jakobxr]

what about Dragonball Evolution on psp? its a budokai game

[@joseurbina3835]

It's a real shame that we never got a new "Budokai" Installment since 2008 where both "Burst Limit" and "Infinite Worlds" were very Underperformed and Poorly Received leaving it completely Dormant for a very Long Time, however though, the Spirit of the "Budokai" series still Lives on in the "Xenoverse" series, Since Spike Chunsoft is going back to their Roots of the "Tenkaichi" series with "Sparking Zero" on the Horizon, I hope that Dimps would do the same thing for going back to their Roots of the "Budokai" series again.

[@X9PITTE]

Dbz SB 2 AND infinite world is the best budokai games I grew up on it was amazing no matter what 💯