Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO Is Disappointing

[@SolumOfSun]

People are highkey blinded by nostalgia when it comes to this game

[@Requiem8040]

Yeah after about a few hours on early release the nostalgia goggles came off.

[@TheRealNintendoKid]

I don't know if I'd say all that... It's missing a bunch of characters I never would have imagined would have just been left out, and the ones it added were kinda obvious ones to add(although I don't understand why we got those 3 girls from... was it universe 2?)... I was hoping for even more of the less significant characters like some of Slug's henchmen, members of bardock's crew, etc. I was expecting a story mode for Bardock and a whole lot more characters, but we only got maybe 10? I actually wasn't aware of the cell transformation thing, for him or anybody else, cuz I just haven't messed with those characters. I don't care on a personal level, but as a fan, it makes no sense and needs to be changed... And 99% of the video's complaints are valid, the only one I would argue against is that at least a few of the fights that he mentioned not being there I coulda sworn I played from the other side as Frieza... but the complaint still stands. All that said though, at the end of the day, the FIGHTING in this game feels incredibly familiar(and ultimately that's the part that matters the most because it IS a fighting game) and has been a lot of fun for me to play, especially now that online multiplayer is a thing, because I remember only having a small handful of friends who had any interest in playing back in the day, and now I can pretty much find someone to fight any time I want. I still hope they add and fix a LOT, but I'm not necessarily hopeful that they actually will. I don't want this game to be "live service," because quite frankly, screw subscription fees, but at the same time I was also kinda hoping this would be the kind of thing that sees support for a good while until it has every character and story a dragonball fan could possibly ask for, like a grand finale, a magnum opus, the quintessential dragonball fighting game.

[@Requiem8040]

@TheRealNintendoKid lmao the ribrianne girls are way better than some fodder ass goon characters we got too many copy paste bullshit characters

[@svens3722]

it makes great fun, but yes its kinda barebones. but im sure most of the story missions will come as dlc. vegeta vs toppo for sure. theyve learned from xenoverse.

[@masplacasmaschicas6155]

Raging blast 2 is what I grew up on glad to see it get a shout out

[@REALGotTheGlock]

Here's my take. I only played 61 hours and did everything. 100% complete and also 100% platinum trophy. The game has low replay ability. I get on for about 30 minutes a day to refine my tech and try new tech ive seen online and I get off its not compelling to stay on for hours at a time. But it was for the first week I played nonstop

[@blazypoo1723]

I believe an explanation was given as to why there's only one map for local play/split screen. I believe they said they were faced with a LOT of bugs, lag, and graphical issues, especially on the split screen play. Hopefully it does get fixed in the future, but they said they couldn't fix it before their release date.

[@leasorrows]

That sounds like a “it was too hard and we didn’t have time” answer which relates to my point about years of development being optimized poorly.

[@thealternatives2898]

Doing split screen is basically running the game twice, simulating all the destruction and effects twice would make the game laggy and unplayable, so it was scrapped until people complained so much that they added it for only Hyperbolic time chamber where there's almost nothing to destroy, we could see more maps if they add stages like sky or space but I doubt it

[@blazypoo1723]

@@thealternatives2898 We definitely need more maps. Honestly surprised at the lack of maps. We need Kame house, Kai's planet, Kami's lookout, Space, and the arena where universe 7 and universe 6 had that one tournament way before the ToP (Idk the name of the arena),

[@de6h0st]

I agree, Its a fun new Dragon ball game, the what ifs look really nice, and have fun new concepts (Gohan), but they leave way too much out and feels like they went for a more completive focused game development then story, I hope for more story related content in the future.

[@UnifiedEntity]

I rather a Budokai 1-3 collection as well as Tenkaichi 1-3 collection over sparking zero. I dont like Sparking Zeros tracking of moves, camera, delay input for attacks and especially special attacks to attempt to make creative combos, too many defensive options that are not well tuned to begin with and are unnecessary.

[@Requiem8040]

Naw an og Budokai collection without the Kenji score ain't worth it.

[@UnifiedEntity]

@Requiem8040 if music is all I lose, then that's fine. Idc for sparking zeros music in the slightest

[@servdv]

I been waiting since the first announcement played almost all the games in the past but I still have passed on this. The first thing that stood out to me from al the videos and reviews is they basically used the same old fighting engine like literally. When it was announced I kind of thought it would be created from the ground up at least the fighting engine.

[@TheRealNintendoKid]

99% of your complaints are completely valid. Some of the fights you mentioned that don't show up actually do when you play as Frieza, but you're right that there's a lot missing from it. One thing I didn't hear you mention though is the tiny number of characters that have any kinda story mode at all. I was REALLY disappointed that Bardock doesn't have one, especially now that we have a whole buncha extra Bardock content that came out over the almost 20 years since the last game. The other stuff you mentioned about characters like cell being split into separate characters, I'd never actually noticed because I don't do a lot of the transformations and whatnot, but that's really dumb. I'm fine with the custom battles to be honest. I mainly stick to story mode and regular battles in these kinds of games anyway. I barely messed with Sim Dragon, but the custom battles essentially are the ultimate battle section, just a little more fleshed out, plus now you can make your own. I don't care about making my own, and they definitely could have made some more of them, but it's not really a big deal to me either way. I'm more disappointed about how many characters are missing and how many of them are just Goku or Vegeta. I was hoping and expecting to have all the characters from BT3 plus a bunch of new ones(and not just new as in new content, but like maybe we'd get the rest of Bardock's crew, or at least Toma, or other henchmen and whatnot(I'd laugh my ass off if we got the farmer with the gun), you know, really go all out and make this their magnum opus). And where the hell is King Vegeta?

[@l0v3l4c3]

So little fun fact here: Many people have been complaining about the AI either being braindead or having godlike input reading. I'm someone who's personally interested in Budokai/Sparking for the CPU vs CPU matches; I like doing my "What If"s and letting "fate" decide of what alternative scenario happens, it's a fun little challenge in improvisation from the absurd scenarios that can happen. I've been doing this on emulated modded BT3 and obviously switched to Sparking Zero after it released. I was actually rather disapointed in BT3's AI to be honest, it had dozens of issues solely based on the fact it's incredibly dependent on it's input reading, which I guess was understandable for a PS2 era game made on a custom built engine... So... Could you envision how surprised I was, after messing with Sparking Zero's CPU vs CPU mode for a few hours, when I noticed that, 18 YEARS LATER ON A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ENGINE AND PLATFORM, THE AI STILL HAD THE EXACT SAME ISSUES DOWN TO THE EXACT SAME BUGGY PATTERNS AND MOVEMENT? 18 YEARS, COMPLETELY NEW ENGINE, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PLATFORMS AND HARDWARE AND YET... THE AI IS THE EXACT SAME DOWN TO EVERY LAST DETAILS??? WHAT??? So, long story short: Sparking Zero is a 70€ remake of a worse version of BT3 with modern graphics, music sold separately for +30€, worse story mode and the Custom Battle creator is not even worth it because of how arbitrarily limited it is. Thank god the modders are already trying to fix the game.

[@israelmorales2414]

My one complaint about the tournament mode is that i cant name my room like "sayajins only" so that when i finally get a room fukl of players, half of them leave bcus they cant use they yajarobis and master roshis!!! Wasting time and only like 2 to 3 people actually stay. You cant avoid meta but this is my one way of avoding playing w meta hungry virgins lmaoooo😂

[@leasorrows]

That’s the trouble with having a ranked mode there will always be a meta 😔

[@zekeburciaga2327]

well in my personal experience with this game it is based around pvp you want to play the full story mode of dragonball z play kakarot you want to make your own character play xenoverse 2 this game has only been out not even 2 weeks what do you expect ofc its not gonna be perfect they are still updating and working on all the bugs and im sure they have alot planned for this game considering the fact on how much dlc xenoverse 2 had that being said im glad i didnt have to play as gohan as a kid all over again i cant even count how many times i played as kid gohan and wanted to just get through it bc its boring asf bc i know what happens im glad we didnt have the full story for each character bc we already know the story we know what happens why put it in the story wen u can just make it yourself they gave us custom battle to make our own missions probably bc they are tired of making the same missions over and over again for us they are like make it ya damn selves i dont blame them

[@clanmcleod7811]

Nice video but to be honest I would worry about it to much I believe they will add all you mentioned and stuff we don’t won’t in later dlcs and patches when the game will be unplayable from what I tell they want this game to be “milkable” just take some time sadly

[@leasorrows]

I just don’t want it to be xenoverse 2 where they keep sending out paid dlc for 5 years

[@SuperPerfectFGC]

One thing that bugs me about the story mode... Its literally a big board game and they didnt take a moment to look at it and go "woah this would just be easier and better than a character specific episode menu"

[@dashawnstallings3169]

All I want is cells ultimate card see ya in this game

[@makotoamamiya2442]

Unfortunately I have to agree. The chaarcter roster is really disappointing they advertised it as 180+ characters, but half the roster is just transformations, no unique characters like BT3 had. What ifs are really disappointing not only cause of their requirements but they could've did alot more, they completely took away playing as what if fusions from bt3. lack of stages is really annoying, I hate that they continued the XV trend of forcing you to play with a time limit in single-player mode, the dlc is a complete joke Imo there's enough gokus and yet the pre early access character is a goku(mini)? Just a letdown.

[@afrogakill8637]

Gameplay wise this game is one of the best games i ever played, yes it has cheesy and broken characters but this is one of the few games where you can counter everything

[@wyattbhoffman]

Gohan didn’t have a great ape form in Tenkaichi 3

[@leasorrows]

You’re right I did portray that incorrectly it was kid Goku. What I was thinking of is when Piccolo has to fight kid gokus great ape form in the tk2 story mode and they call it Gohans great ape form

[@AlexLarson-j6g]

Yo one map only for local 1v1 ia crazy

[@robo1000]

I absolutely love this game. However, I totally agree with all your points. Hope they listen to the community and atleast add what they can. Still think they doing yajirobe dirty. It was funnier that he was weirdly over powered.

[@leasorrows]

Yeah I agree, it feels weird that their so focused on ranked anyway it’s a 3d Brawler lol

[@hueyrileyandjazmine]

Awesome vid bro!!! Already liked and favorited!! Loved the deep dive into the games obvious faults!! Fingers crossed most of these faults will be patched out quick! But until then, pc modders gonna fix it up lol 🤣😁

[@georgehernandez2156]

People really overhyped the game. But knew just by looking at the stages. It was gonna be half way done. Story mode only has one alternate route for each character, PowerPoint presentation is bad. Lets be honest, they just used custom episode to make the story mode. Difficulty is all over the place. Camera has an issue where your character hide the other person. Matchmaking is horrendous. Why add rank mode?

[@leasorrows]

Exactly it’s still a blast to play

[@georgehernandez2156]

@leasorrows they made some story paths really impossible because you can use the dragon balls to bypass the requirements. Otherwise, the dragon balls are basically useless .

[@josemartel773]

U complaining about things that this game shouldn't even gave, like story mode.. this game shouldn't have an story mode but they gave it to u.. of course it won't be that good bro. it's more about fighting friends and people online..

[@AlexLarson-j6g]

Match making isn't "horrendous"

[@jakeslamakowski6990]

​@@georgehernandez2156impossible paths? Sounds like a skill issue 😜

[@CyrusIsnt]

Its bt4... idk why anyone expected more 😂

[@y44ctt]

No it isn’t

[@IamInsaneFromEarth1218]

Underrated channel You deserve more subscribers, my friend

[@leasorrows]

Thank you! I really appreciate that!

[@BrutusAlbion]

All very valid arguments

[@MintSpaghetti]

From what I’ve experienced and not only heard but seen, the game only runs like a dream on console. On pc the optimization is utterly horrendous. The game stutters and feels like it slows down randomly, there’s a noticeable input delay literally all the time, and just generally doesn’t run smoothly at all. Not to mention the fact that sometimes the game will completely ignore inputs altogether. And before I get replies saying anything about pc specs, this happened to myself and people that I know personally that have fairly high end computers. A 4080ti with 32gb of ram and an i7 shouldn’t need to have the game on minimum settings for it to still feel unplayable

[@leasorrows]

To be fair all of my footage and comments are based on the console version. Thanks for your perspective

[@zekeburciaga2327]

they are still in development lmfao

[@OrangeAveng3r]

yeah for all the hype before release, i was a little let down by the lack of content. The What-ifs were ok but were like basic bitch levels of creativity. Nothing really got crazy. Goku's story is also fine but everyone elses was waaaaaaaay too short. Oh and the online meta is garbage.

[@leasorrows]

It’s wild that Piccolo doesn’t do a father son with Gohan complete missed opportunity

[@brandenwebb6232]

This isn’t gonna get your views up bud

[@leasorrows]

lol just putting stuff out I believe in!

[@augustopoliche8908]

Something I really dislike is you can see raditz designed like he was drawn in the anime but he is interacting with a full yamamuro drawn piccolo and this made up 3d goku that has never looked that way in an anime. The general design in the game is quite bad in that sense.

[@leasorrows]

I honestly had never considered this thanks for bringing that up!

[@jaredrodriguez7222]

Some of y'all never played Tenkaichi 3 and it shows

[@boatstr8018]

Honestly brother we both know RB1 is the superior game, though RB2 is still solid. Good vid 👍

[@leasorrows]

I still rb2 has more content and I can never get past how BRIGHT rb1 is for no reason! Still a solid game

[@nathonz]

WHY ARE TOURNAMENTS NOT 2 PLAYER EITHER

[@leasorrows]

Exactly

[@nathonz]

@@leasorrows loved the video man. I've also played every single game since Budokai and still do. I'm so thankful to still have my old consoles. I think sparking zero is fantastic and I hope the developers make good decisions with the updates. XenoVerse added more maps to there local mode. I think sparking could do the same

[@Alvl45Wizzard]

The moment i saw “unreal engine” I knew this game would not be worth the money 😢