Does Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Still Hold Up?

[@DEUS_VULT_INFIDEL]

Man, back in the day me, my brother and dad took turns trying to kill 100% power Frieza in story mode. We sucked so bad, it took forever, and I can't even remember who took the actual W, but it was great.

[@tondrone9124]

Perfect cell was my wall 💀 me and my brother would take turns each time we got our shit kicked in 😂😂😂

[@blackpunisher92]

I didn't have that problem

[@gogomarioloshi]

Is it just me or did freiza teleport and then attack you before you can even block?

[@ObviousGoat2]

Frieza was hard asf in this game, so was kid Buu in budokai 2 mf would throw “windmill” punches.

[@WhentheBehelitScreams]

@@tondrone9124 he was all our wall. I remember beating him after days of leaving the game on and didn't have a memory card. After I won, I watched Caillou

[@drownedcancer4180]

When I was little, trying to beat final perfect cell with an injured gohan was rage inducing. Beating it was a nightmare.

[@fireeaglefitnessmartialart935]

It was.

[@erikortega3186]

no seriously shit made me pissed

[@keiyousu7454]

Having to suddenly learn Gohan was already baffling. Injured, low ki AND Cell has Power-Weighted transformation? That was tilting as a kid.

[@galaxian9664]

@@keiyousu7454 As infuriating as it was. Knocking him back as imperfect cell made you feel so powerful.

[@chloemotsinger2987]

It only took me once same with Android 19 fight when I played it recently but as a kid took me and my brother forever.

[@r1decoy]

My lord that spinning part with Radditz killed me as a child

[@acecashman1237]

And then the Piccolo version said "hold my beer"

[@ShaneMchit]

Should have kept your eye on the birdie.

[@tylersmith9868]

It's ps3 lol not that old bro if you were a child then you're still a child just bigger

[@theredangel8]

Same, I had such a terrible time doing this D;

[@TomSFox]

@@tylersmith9868 That was twenty years ago.

[@higiniomorales459]

That Intro hit hard my boy lol, I'm 32 and can remember playing this game in my mid teen years. Lord how time flies yet I can remember those days like it was yesterday, good times.

[@ComicalRealm]

Fun fact: So we know there are 153 episodes of the original Dragon Ball series, and 291 episodes of the follow-up series Dragon Ball Z. Over the course of both series, Goku uses the Kamehameha a total of 97 times. That comes out to around one Kamehameha every four or five episodes

[@uhhhidkwhatthuashouldsay]

Ok lol

[@davidmcgill1000]

Kai cut it down to 167 episodes, so yeah majority of the time they accomplished nothing in the story.

[@brejvarr5993]

You lied. That was not a fun fact, that was just a fact. False advertising.

[@andrewweber9930]

What the hellate 😂😂😂😂😂 there Frieza fight lasting for 50 episodes

[@NeckJohnsonNash]

Um thanks, Comical Realm Animations, that's certainly some useful information.

[@Gorette66]

Dear gawd, I was sooooo obsessed with DBZ back in the day. The yelling, the hammy voice acting, Toriyama's distinct art style, freakin' hot muscle-y space monkeys capable of vaporizing entire planets...etc. What more could a blerdy chick possibly want?! And don't even get me started on Freiza & Cell...!😍 That aside, I was super-stoked when I received Boudokai (PS2 ver.) as a belated Christmas gift (in early January 2007). It looked great and the voices & dialogue was spot-on. But, damn it, it was hard. I never finished it.

[@CertifiedNEETClassic]

Frieza got everybody feeling some way. 👀

[@BaconNCereal]

I remember being stuck on that damn special beam canon part.

[@ShannaraTech]

Uhhh what

[@PaintedHoundie]

@@ShannaraTech *she said she likes muscley guys YELLING*

[@badopinionsrighthere]

My favorite DBZ fact: Goku going Super Saiyan is a Christmas miracle. Vegeta and Nappa land on earth on 3 November. Next day, Goku's in the hospital, they find Kami's ship. It takes 10 days to re-program it. They get to Namek 34 days later. Same day, Goku leaves for Namek in the Capsule Corp ship. Gets there six days later. Has one really long day fighting the Ginyus and Frieza. We're now 51 days past 3 Nov. It's christmas eve. Merry Christmas

[@juswavvy9634]

So in other words goku went from a power level of 400 something to over millons in the span of a year(counting around the time his fight with raditz the 1 year the z fighters spent training for the saiyans and goku dead training with king kai)

[@jacobandrewsmusic]

More than one day probably spent on namek, namek just has 3 sons so it could have been Christmas Day.

[@ISolicitous]

Well even if it was, just because it happened on Christmas doesnt mean its a miracle.

[@jamescadet4450]

Christmas? Don’t you mean Frieza Day

[@jacobandrewsmusic]

@@jamescadet4450 this is Goku’s miracle not vegeta’s 😂

[@diamondbac22]

The AI in this game were so brutal. Took me way too long to beat frieze on normal difficulty. If you come back to this game you should do Hercules mode.

[@TekkenOnlineFights]

yeah freezer was not so hard but Cell on final fight was really annoying even on normal.

[@HearthenRealms]

JFC that intro statement had my 30 year old ass dying. I remember watching DBZ when I was 9 years old after school. Literally look forward to it all day, run home and kick the tube on.

[@antoniogarciacallejero6012]

Maybe the best cutscenes ever in a dragon ball game. Also I loved the art style. I unclocked everything at the day and left me wondering where the f*** was the Buu saga

[@MrSkullMerchant]

That last part i was thinking when i played dbz burst limit.. lol

[@Brandonrios365]

I think Burst Limit has better cutscenes, some of the best out all Dragon Ball games. Kinda unfair tho comparing a PS2 game vs. a PS3 one tho.

[@MrSkullMerchant]

@@Brandonrios365 burst limit is still to this day one of my favourite dbz games but the lack of buu saga was weird

[@chloemotsinger2987]

@@MrSkullMerchant I actually bought it recently and unlocked every character and that game is gorgeous even though it's kinda limited

[@MrSkullMerchant]

@@chloemotsinger2987 agreed 😆 i wanna replay it again now

[@tariquetulloch6643]

This was absolutely amazing. It wasnt just a game, it was an experience. Music and everything. It was so close to the anime styling too.

[@operator8014]

The most impressive thing about Vegeta is that he went through all that fighting, and he didn't even break his iPhone.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

Oh, a Nekomajin reference. How rare.

[@ledvapour6937]

Micky you know how to hit where it hurts in the first moments of your vid. Love what you do, cheers.

[@Von_D]

3:15 Anime can actually be a great way to supplement Japanese learning because everything has good clear enunciation and there's plenty of memorable contexts for what you hear. Unfortunately, shonen anime like Dragon Ball and Naruto aren't the best to start out with since one does not get plenty of chances to issue a promise to kill someone via punches, kicks, and explosions, or declare that someone will become a ninja president all that often.

[@jangleleg117]

13:38 Yajirobe is a master at hiding his tiny power level. You can see in the dialogue, he sensed Krillin behind him before the attack was even launched. He had no idea Yajirobe was there. DBZ fans know this. But in the Tenkaichi games, Yajirobe can't be locked onto as easily as other characters. You have to have an open line of sight on him. A pretty cool and small detail added to the games for us who pay attention.

[@coytus94]

This game is what got me into Dragonball in the first place. I definitely give it credit where credit is due

[@Darkchao_berserko22]

The same for me. This game got me hooked on dragon ball z to the point where it encouraged me to watch the anime when it was still airing on toonami. The uncut one they announced

[@jindo5]

Micky: "People get so frustrated playing fighting games with me because I just don't block" Me: "Wait, you can block in fighting games?"

[@TheBandoBandito]

This game was one of my first PS2 games I'd love to see more for the nostalgia.

[@GamerShen98]

i played this game 20 years ago on my ps2 when i was a kid, i really loved playing the tournament and earning dragon balls.

[@whitemale1725]

Just so everyone knows, you can add the original soundtrack to the HD budokai 3 (maybe budokai 1 as well) using Multiman, putting the files on the PC, swapping out some sound folders, and putting it back on the PS3. I did it many years ago, so look into it if you're interested.

[@randallmart92]

Budakai 3 was my childhood! Me and my brother and sister would go at it for hours and then running the story mode to get every character. Damn this brings me back...

[@JamesBarnes-q2z]

Man I remember holding this case after I picked it up from the store. Such a great feeling reading the manual on the way home and the anticipation! Unmatched and the digital kids now will never know this feeling 🥺🥺

[@FierySpiritMaury]

You think you’re old, how do you think the Japanese fans of dragon ball in the 80s feel

[@zigfaust]

Good point about Raditz. It took the two strongest people on Earth at the time to take him down and even then they were both fucked up and had to sacrifice Goku to even manage it.

[@acecashman1237]

And it took Gohan's rage boost to weaken him enough to create that opportunity

[@zigfaust]

@@acecashman1237 AND they had to abuse the "Saiyan Tail" weakness. If Raditz had been clipped Earth would have been fucked.

[@scrollingdownonlytofindcom2663]

and also had to take their weighted clothing off too

[@ProbablySunky]

I played budokai 1 so much being younger lol i actually loved this game so much I 100% it and today I still play the game with dueling

[@omegabossking]

Same. Just played it today on PC. Just needed buu at least haha. I love 2 also and budokai 3 didn't need that dragon rush at all lol

[@ProbablySunky]

@@omegabossking So true!!! Budokai 1 - 3 we’re such great games! Although I wish it had online dueling, maybe I could fight you if it had that!

[@omegabossking]

@@ProbablySunky Indeed Hahaha Bandai had a HD collection but they messed up honestly. Missing online and budokai 2. I think it's possible to do it because I remember a KZbinr called underlordtico doing it a very long time ago

[@ProbablySunky]

@@omegabossking Actually, I have the HD Collection in my PS3 Today, I Never played budokai 2 tho, Altough I still wish that they added Online Dueling Or Multiplayer Even Online Tournaments! I will check out that channel and I’ll see if I can do it, if I could I could add you on my PS3 if you have one!!

[@PikachuParty]

I broke my gamecube joystick during the Raditz minigame back in the day. Good times.

[@sentimentalmariner590]

Radditz is my boy thanks for talking about him I actually made a few cocktails after his move names lol. Shining friday is a sparkling pink lemonade with orange vodka and a cherry with chipped ice. Saturday crush is a deep red sangria with sprite and sliced oranges and lemons. Double sunday is pink lemonade, grape soda cherry vodka and sweet schnapps of either peach or apple, Weekend is a combination of these three drinks with the alcohol halved, Where as vacation delete is these drinks with the alcohol doubled watered over ice guaranteed to make you forget a week. My favorite is the shining friday.

[@acecashman1237]

Yeah the difficulty spikes were nuts. I remember multiple instances of having my hands be sweaty as fuck, especially when fighting Cell

[@sheeemt399]

"The one who will die, is you!!!...... Scram!!" ~Frieza

[@caelummeyers3531]

Thank you Micky for being such a amazing person we don't deserve you

[@humangamer4614]

I would love to see you finish this game before moving on to 2 or 3, its really entertaining

[@SheaStyles]

I oddly love the art style of this game

[@406mark]

Me too if you ask me for a anime fighting game created when video games period werent that graphically advanced, they did an amazing job no body could have done it better.

[@johnwise4341]

I remember hearing the 2nd one was more cartoony because these graphics were too real for a dbz game. It’s funny because lots of games have these cakey looking graphics today.

[@rbrimk3874]

6:59 damn that minigame was so difficult the first times

[@foxiestofstoats]

Best Frieza voiceover was LittleKuriboh and nobody can change my mind

[@Eldrick_]

I specifically skipped this HD release because of the omission of 2. I really liked the weird boardgame story mode

[@MrSkullMerchant]

Me too 😆

[@pimpstaajack]

The board game was so fun bro

[@doctorsilva1345]

Yeah, they tried that also with fighterz but it was ass.

[@deltaforcegamingcorp.2232]

thank you for this, very enjoyable video takes me back, the nostalgia is heavy here

[@theisaacpigg27_32]

As someone who has never seen or played anything Dragon Ball related this is a real trip to watch

[@allthatisj8900]

The amount of hours I poured into this game long ago. Don't even wanna think about it really.

[@HaloManTheSpider]

Raditz is clearly always in SSJ3 mode.

[@Sean-sn9ld]

Christmas morning circa 2002.... I come down stairs to a large box and a dvd sized parcel wrapped up... I open the box first to find a second hand fat PS2 (single mother , not a lot of money) and a copy of Budokai 1 in the small parcel. Played it nonstop for a long time and then Budokai 2, then I got Budokai 3 for my birthday , I still remember my friend Roy coming over after school to play it, then Tenkaichi and I even pre-ordered Tenkaichi 2 from GameStop (the one and only game I've ever pre-ordered) I liked Dragonball Z already but now Dragonball Z was life. Now 20 years later , I've a whole shelf unit filled with the orange bricks, the Blu-ray's , the viz-bigs, the 3-in-1s and full colour manga , boxes full of bulk DBS cards and binders filled with the good cards... Play Fighterz on a daily basis and Xenoverse 2 and Kakarot get picked back up every few months, this game changed my life and it'll always have a happy place in my heart

[@omegabossking]

Love your comment. I got it in 2002 also. Blew me away after playing final bout for a while. I played this game today on my laptop. I prefer it more than all the ps4 and ps3 games.

[@angryalbertan9353]

Ah yes, I remember when nappa died due to vegetas superior thrust beam. God I missed this game.

[@skueky7896]

My favorite of all the games. Mostly because of the memories with the soundtrack

[@chloemotsinger2987]

Budokai 1, Xenoverse 2 and Raging Blast 1 and 2 are my top favorite dragon ball games

[@SiNKarnage]

3:38 Funny how this main menu selection is based off Buu Saga yet Budokai only covered Cell Saga

[@Infernoblade1010]

Such nostalgia! I had both 1 and 3 and beat literally everything. I probably burned thousands of hours between the two lol!

[@sammysalez1069]

Man bro nice video, I’m 2weeks late seeing this but I’m glad it got recommended for me to see today. You have gained a new subscriber and also a fan, I stayed up and played this game all night long as A kid. Infinite world, all the budokais and sagas. I think it would be really cool to see some more THROWBACK DBZ GAMES!!

[@thefrozenfire659]

This game introduced me to dragonball. I found that game in a store and thought it looked cool. So I bought it and it was great. It was good for me that it had such a good story mode for me to understand what happens. Now I am a big fan of dragonball. But without that game I probably wouldn't be.

[@wesleydenton8100]

We share the same intro to Dragon Ball 🙌🏻

[@ware8229]

11:18 I like how u say it like I use to bring back old memories

[@thebreakfastmachine6]

Thank you for featuring every formative video game from my youth that I haven't thought of in over a decade!

[@robindom.2186]

The radditz spin minigame thing was the reason i threw my controller through the room multiple times as a kid. I loved the game but this minigame always made me sick

[@gokushkameha-ha-ha9344]

You have anger issues and a lack of compassion.

[@ryukishi8492]

It's still the DB game that feels the most loyal to the anime with the most authentic cutscenes and the best music (Gamecube version)

[@Xamry]

Lmao the Mario wwwaaaaah! sound 😂 That was always my fave thing in that game

[@MildTabascofries]

This game actually introduced me to dbz. I’ve been a huge fan of the series ever since.

[@Kyrkis]

Dragon Ball Heroes, the japanese Arcade game that up until a few years now used old Budokai 3 models, has a card with Raditz SSJ3( one with nappa too, his, mustache grows bigger). The game also has a bit of a promotional going the last few years called Super Dragon Ball Heroes(the game has gone through a lot of updates since 2010-2011 when it was released). There's a lot of fan service forms that have come from it.

[@EWH815]

You can actually mod the HD collection to have the original music. Makes it actually playable😅

[@PsychH0e-]

ohoho yes. so this was the one I played when I was a kid. Realized it the moment I saw the "Spin the analog" minigame during the Raditz boss battle.

[@Dakisan22]

Raditz went SSJ3 in Dragon Ball Heroes, I know it's just a game and not canon but it'S still funny :D

[@TheMajinGames]

Also, the what if scenarios on this game are really cool. And I bet some people don't even know

[@BetaWolFGamer]

I loved the line after Goku went super saiyan and said “IT OVERRR FRIEZAAAAAA…!!!” Gives me chills

[@carlosgrimaldi9495]

The "IT'S OVEEEEEER, FRIEZAAAAAAA!", Legendary.

[@notsure1969]

You really started this off with a spicy fun fact didn't'cha?

[@Brave_New_Tube]

Considering Raditz had very little screentime in the series and the FighterZ movesets are directly referencing the manga/anime, I just don't think there was enough source material to design a full fighting game moveset for him. *YET.* If the Super Hero leaks are accurate at all, we might be looking at a comeback for Raditz, thus giving him more source material to design around, and he finally gets added to the roster for FighterZ 2? 🤔

[@reivunrantington9425]

He was in Extreme Butouden (3DS) which was pretty much similar to fighterz but a bit slower. That game was pretty damn awesome ngl.

[@Ryo]

I still remember renting this game when it came out

[@NecroBanana]

We are, Mickey. I turn 30 this year.

[@PokemonMasterMoney]

Bruh I spat when u said Yamaha was in his classic pose I wasn't watching it just listening to it like a podcast while driving. Shits hilarious knowing most dbz fans will know exactly what your talking about

[@kreiden8972]

I remember the broken combo system in this but it was so much fun. But sadly for whatever reason they never added a tutorial to explain it and they hid like 80% of the different combo strings characters can do.

[@nok4799]

I'm dead at the little Goku edit you did "Don't subscribe to this guy he sucks" ☠️

[@Adaell90]

I played Budokai 2 soooop much even if I get that it wasn’t that great. Made a custom Goku where he only had Super Saiyan up to Three, Kamehameha and Warp Kamehameha. The rest of the capsules were just those that that let the Chi level increase by itself. Also played the first game but it didn’t have that customizability I enjoyed in the second. Too bad it wasn’t part of the remaster.

[@ZeroX7649]

I liked Budokai 2 because the story mode let me and my friend both take turns playing different characters.

[@SailorRoseRed]

"It's just Monkey catching Monkey I sound like Frieza." hahahaha xD

[@fight_source_mma6994]

This is great my man you should most definitely do more

[@TheMajinGames]

This game still rocks. And I do like the 3D model. I'm glad they didn't put cell shading on it. Also, Budokai Series is the best series so far, specially on the ps2

[@holty1314]

At least we are getting old together

[@quincey3468]

Love this game the rage moments as a kid with my brothers were great! Difficulty was next level

[@DBswag_]

Once again I have no idea what's going on due to never watching DBZ but hey, it's still nice to see Micky D genuinely enjoying one of his childhood/teenhood games.

[@Youtubesuckscock]

Then watch it nigga

[@yeahnahman4217]

"We're all getting old at an incredibly fast rate!" ... just kick me in the teeth Mick

[@alwynjaegar1778]

I like to think that Raditz would have his hairline return bit by bit until super saiyan 3 fills it in completly!

[@alligatorsam5357]

Bought that game at Circuit City back in 04.Oh the memories...

[@narzfromnz9023]

This takes me back when I was a child

[@joshuacoomer4955]

ah the old ps2 memories after school lol damn i remember playing oregon trail in art class talking to my friends about turning on some toonami and watching the episodes only to play the game as well. how the days go by.

[@ALPHATOONSTUNNA123]

I tell you that the Raditz special beam cannon mission was the hardest mission of my life !! I still haven’t beat it my cousin did back in the day lol

[@AndrewAce.]

10:13 - Did anyone else hear that? That was definitely the OST -"Vegeta's Final Flash".

[@geezerton1404]

I needed to find a positive youtuber

[@juliorodriguez9746]

Recently started playing it again on my gamecube, i forgot how satisfying it is to pull off a good combo

[@Ray_Petree]

I went on a weeklong vacation with my Mom when I was 5, but my Dad had an intense allergic reaction and couldn’t join us. When we got home, he had started playing Budokai and unlocked all of the extra characters (shy of Great Saiyaman). It was so much fun to play with him - even though he constantly kicked my ass. When Budokai 2 came out, we spent so many weekends playing together to finish the story mode.

[@LPVince94]

Hey Micky after completion you can revisit the storymode for alternative scenarios and fights from the story that weren't available the first time around e.g. everything on Namek prior to Goku's arrival.

[@koolaidman10574]

No the infamous ocean dub started that bullshit, and some of the games even adapted it into in game lore such as budokai tenkaichi 3. The library on bardock suggests he was something of a scientist.

[@Scribbles69]

omg those menu sounds sent me through time

[@genkinType]

I'm playing the original budokai on a ps2 right now 😄

[@vincently1995]

Happy 20th Anniversary to DBZ Budokai series!

[@kjo2130]

Although the game has aged like milk imo, it’s such a classic! I remember when it came out man, everybody had to get it. It was truly the first big time DB game in America.

[@BiggRich95]

Super throwback !! Do the second 1!!!

[@kaylzshter6153]

My friends and i would have full tournaments in Budokai 3 back in the day. i miss those days

[@SAKVIII]

The reason why Kamehameha was yellow is probably due to homage of the manga. Most if not all Ki Blasts in the orginal colored manga were white or yellow. Not only up until the anime were ki blasts and auras different colors for embellishment reasons.

[@joemarchione97]

When I was 5 years old in 2002 my friend brought this game over to my house on a Friday night for a sleepover. I don't think we played it much, and he left it at my house when he went home on Saturday. I called him either that night or Sunday to let him know, and he said I could keep it for the week to play and he'd come back next weekend and make sure to take it with him. Well I was hooked. This was my very first exposure to Dragonball Z and I was in love with the game, mostly the art style of these 3D cutscenes. Next came the manga, which was being published in English by Viz Media in graphic novels. Over the years, I read those books so much that they're fairly worn out by now, a shame because this original run is no longer printed. My mom quickly decided she didn't like DBZ and it was a back and forth for years over it. But for Valentine's day in 2003 she bought me Budokai 2, and I was in love with the holo cover, as I hadn't seen any PS2 game cover like that ever before. Even as a 6 year old I remember that being special because even though she didn't like DBZ, she knew I loved it and put my love for the series over her dislike of it. This was my first introduction to Buu and Super Buu was very angry and that frightened the hell out of me at that age. Back in those days I had no problem taking my PS2 with me to different places, but one time we went to my dad's cousin's house and I brought Budokai 2 and left it there. I was more upset that I lost the game my mom bought me than actually losing the game itself, so I don't think I told her I lost it. A few years later I bought a copy in the clearance bin at Gamestop with one of those goofy generic Gamestop cases and no manual. Since several games had been released since then, I didn't even play it, I had it just to have it. Anyway, I remember the day Budokai 3 came out, and I remember after buying it I was sitting in the car while my mom was in Ulta or some other store and I was reading the manual and looking at the disc and wondering who that character was (Omega Shenron). I played the shit out of Budokai 3, definitely more than 1 or 2. and even when the Tenkaichi Budokai games came out (I started with 2, then bought 1 but barely played it because 3 came out and it was so superior), I still played Budokai 3 a lot. Budokai Tenkaichi 3 was one of the best games ever, and I even had the edition of Electronic Games Monthly where they did the cover story on it and I would read it over and over again. Between the video games, the manga, anime, action figures, and magazines, DBZ was such a huge part of my childhood. I'm 27 this year, but roughly a year ago I went on eBay and bought component cables for my PS2 for enhanced resolution, I bought a replacement Ocean Blue PS2 controller to match the one I had as a kid, and I bought a new case and manual for Budokai 2, then replayed those games on my PS2 to completion. It was great reliving the experience, but I left out the original. I just watched this video and reminisced those years and now I'm going to go back and play Budokai 1. Thank you.

[@dezt4903]

I still have this game on PS2 and literally played it a few days ago. Good game!

[@sebastiancuicatl8305]

Ngl that totally got me hahha, well done xD 6:25

[@YadonTheCat]

Heh, King Kai Fist, that's a very literal translation of Kaioken

[@Reaperx420]

You forgot to mention the main endgame challenge to this game, doing the World Tournament to get money or Zenni as they call it, collecting dragon balls and getting breakthroughs for your characters.

[@gorz859]

I always liked how in that game you could play as Goku wearing the jeans T-shirt and brown jacket and how there was the side story of Vegeta becoming super Saiyan first