You gotta see the actual cover art of US Budokai 2. It's not an off-white but a very shiny holographic silver. The image you grabbed doesn't do it justice.
@cozzyono6 ай бұрын
still one of my favorite cases from the ps2 era
@JO3BID3N-is-a-P3D06 ай бұрын
i remember my mom buying me that game , that cover art was EPIC!
@CourtneyWhitworth5 ай бұрын
I have the silverish budokai 2 and budokai 3 with goku and vegeta on the cover
@daseancedoesgeek26675 ай бұрын
Oh I remember it vividly
@hadramawut295 ай бұрын
Yeah it was hella shiny and eye catching
@toliveryoung67206 ай бұрын
This was one of the pillars of my childhood. I'll never forget how HARD it was to unlock 100% of the items in Budokai3.
@willlauzon37446 ай бұрын
I'm at 98% I have NO idea what I am missing.....
@kbolden73386 ай бұрын
I always just copied my friends saves. They worked hard so I could prosper 😂
@ElGaby3236 ай бұрын
@@kbolden7338but that’s not fun lol
@kbolden73386 ай бұрын
@@ElGaby323 fun for me 🤷♂
@cuoy136 ай бұрын
I figured it out. What you had to do was unlock every single character. Once that happens, you have the option to then purchase all their special moves and even their breakthroughs.
@jessedalewest6 ай бұрын
Continously going in and out of Popo's shop to get Dragon Balls unlocked a memory from over 20 years ago of doing the exact same thing for hours as a child lmao
@garrettchandler19485 ай бұрын
The intention of the developers was that you would trade items with friends. If you were playing with 4 or 5 friends you'd have every item in like a month or so.
@captaintogawa97364 ай бұрын
how trade @@garrettchandler1948
@Billyblue984 ай бұрын
@garrettchandler1948 Wait, that was a thing you could do? Still feels bad. I don't even trade Pokemon, why would I trade Dragon Ball capsules, lmfao Also, trading implies you actually swap them, how would you have everything in a month, then?
@garrettchandler19484 ай бұрын
@Billyblue98 if you had a few friends independently playing on their own files and unlocking different random items you could all get together one weekend and all trade your duplicates. Thus cutting the grind down by a multiple of how ever many friends you had.
@jessedalewest4 ай бұрын
@@garrettchandler1948 but I picked Dragon Ball instead of friends... 🤔
@EmperorBello4 ай бұрын
"you'd be burnt out and wouldn't even want to play the game anymore" sir. You under estimate the ability to grind when your parents don't buy you many games. Lol I had all breakthroughs for all characters on both budakai one and two.
@somesaiyanguy416 ай бұрын
the bit about Budokai 1 taking the place of DVDs and Blurays is such a good point. Kids are spoiled now compared to what it was like then. Must have played story mode repeatedly just to watch it
@Kenshiro3rd6 ай бұрын
Not really since a lot of us recorded them ourselves on VHS.
@kda9x6 ай бұрын
@@Kenshiro3rdnot exactly convenient 🤣
@sayjinpat4life6 ай бұрын
And when youtube started to have dbz fights. That's where I started watching them. All the ones that I missed
@wanavacoa6 ай бұрын
FMV with Linkin Park as background music? 😂@@sayjinpat4life
@sayjinpat4life6 ай бұрын
@@wanavacoa no actual fights like goku vs vegeta and so on. From the show
@Koburakage5 ай бұрын
I remember leaving our ps2 running while playing budokai 2 because we didn’t have a memory card. Looking back, I’m surprised that ps2 and game disk survived 😂
@JuanGarcia-ft7yd4 ай бұрын
Dawg why do I have this exact memory!!! Same game and same reason. I even remember my dad took me to buy one cause I told him that’s why I wasn’t turning the ps2 off but i think I actually turned it off before I got to save any after buying one and so I had to redo it anyway 😂
@Archeris3 ай бұрын
I did the same but with GTA 3 xD. PS2 crashed after 3 weeks hahaha.
@DreDre16tnn2 ай бұрын
😂😂😂mane let me find out we the same person cus I stg I got the same memory, same game & all🤣🤣
@AshyMuted6 ай бұрын
Budokai 2 is easily the weirdest one, but that's what makes it my personal favorite.
@chimeratcg076 ай бұрын
Budokai 2 is my favorite too.
@JO3BID3N-is-a-P3D06 ай бұрын
i liked the board game style, but back in the day when budakai 3 came out that story mode seemed so modern and mind blowing at the time. i was in 5th grade lol
@caliberaid85275 ай бұрын
B2 is my favorite because of the ultimate attacks that you could pull off easily on command, but on B3 you HAD to play the button guessing game, always hated that about B3. If they removed that, it would make it a lot more fun to play imo.
@Weezing3365 ай бұрын
I prefer playing the 2nd. If I'm not playing the 2nd, I'm playing the Tenkaichi 3.
@po726445 ай бұрын
Budokai 2 is special to me because it was the first DBZ game in the UK we got in English Dub. Even Budokai 1 was Japanese for us in the UK. Me and my brother also used to have a blast playing each other on Babidi's Spaceship. Kid Buu as the final boss is still to this date one of the hardest fights in any DBZ game
@PinkMawile6 ай бұрын
The thing about the Cell absorption is that in his first form he was just eating people, using them as food. But with the two androids (and krillian) he wasn't eating them, he was assimiliating them. He had been made to assimilate them and integrate their genetics and ki and components. He hadn't been made to assimiliate Krillian, so it's like installing a Potatochip into a computer and hoping it works.
@DigimontamerB6 ай бұрын
The Cell what if in Budokai doesn't have to make sense, because it's a dream. The "explanation" is that Cell's opinion of Krillin is low, so of course he'd have a nightmare about his absorption process about almost achieving Perfection only to somehow end up weaker.
@unclepaul19954 ай бұрын
Indeed. Why do people Complain when something didn’t make sense? Not everything is perfect.
@dziewiaty3 ай бұрын
I get it is a joke scenario, but devs still did Krillin dirty
@actuallymajor61022 ай бұрын
@@dziewiatyTo be fair, they did Yamcha evej dirtier with having him lose to Cell 💀 but it’s Yamcha to be fair
@DenverShoemaker-qm8tn11 күн бұрын
@@actuallymajor6102 "did Yamcha evej dirtier with having him lose to Cell " huh , yamcha never wins any fight XD
@lanelewis85976 ай бұрын
They didn’t have the buu saga in budokai 1 because we were just now getting the dubbed version of the buu saga in America when the game was released
@sonyvssnes6 ай бұрын
This is accurate
@xonact88555 ай бұрын
Actually not true. It's just theorized that's the case. The actual reason is that they simply just didn't have time.
@Chawinyaw5 ай бұрын
But the game was made in Japan? Do you think that Japan cared to not to not put the buu saga in to not spoil the US audience? Probably just due to time restraints lmao
@joseurbina38355 ай бұрын
It is True that the Buu Saga was still Airing on American Television around 2001 and 2002 prior to the release of DBZ Budokai 1, But that was completely False, the Buu Saga was originally supposed to be added into Budokai 1, the real Reason it didn't make it into the Finished Product was because of Time Constraints, the Hype for the Game was Wild so a lot of Content have to be Cut, that's why there were only 2 Mini-Game Sections for Goku and Piccolo on their respected Raditz Chapters, These Problems would eventually be Fixed in the Sequels like Budokai 2 and 3 where they finally add in the Buu Saga, also bringing in the Mini-Game Sections and Cutscenes for the Buu Saga into "DBZ: Infinite World."
@thetitostream5 ай бұрын
Right plus they gotta have content for the sequel. Budokai 2 was even more awesome because of that
@coopernut5 ай бұрын
Brother has such a HUGE passion and agenda for Android 19😂
@evprince5 ай бұрын
Vegeta fan I gotta get that iconic battle
@I-absolveyouofyoursins4 ай бұрын
I think he likes the way 19 sucks.
@blackopspro64552 ай бұрын
Hahahahaha fr I was thinking that the whole time
@ThePlasticBowlАй бұрын
Meanwhile he despises Great Saiyanman
@MaskedHeroLucky6 ай бұрын
Idk what you’re talking about, Budokai did give us a really cool hidden character, The Great Saiyaman.
@markhester65565 ай бұрын
I remember not owning a memory card when I first got the game and not being able to unlock him or Hercule. 😅
@unclepaul19954 ай бұрын
He wants Bardock, not this. He needs to warn us about His Rant next time.
@rainofkhandaq66784 ай бұрын
Such a pathetic complaint
@joseurbina38354 ай бұрын
Honestly though, it should've been Bardock instead of The Great Saiyanman (Adult Gohan) because it made way more Sense, he should've been the Hidden Character because he was more Iconic in the 3 iconic Sagas that were Adapted in "Budokai 1" (that's why Bardock's DBZ Special/OVA Standalone Episode connects well with both the Saiyan and Frieza Sagas at the Time). "Budokai 1" only covers the Saiyan, Frieza and Cell Sagas, the Buu Saga was supposed to be added but was Cut due to Time Constraints (and no, it's not because the Buu Saga was still Airing on American T.V. in 2002, all of that was completely False, it was already Concluded in Japan in 1995), wouldn't be until the Sequel called "Budokai 2" where it would be Majin Buu central focus Game.
@unclepaul19954 ай бұрын
@@rainofkhandaq6678 And so the Saiyaman Fans Vs Bardock Fans arguments begin. Complaint lead to Argument.
@zelegendarygamer96066 ай бұрын
Not sure if anyone mentioned it, but there is a secret ending with Broly in B3 where he defeats Gohan and destroys Earth.
@NeO_SaNdMaN40405 ай бұрын
He mentioned it in the Budokai 3 section… did you watch the video?
@Jeviok4 ай бұрын
@@NeO_SaNdMaN4040 No he didn't. Sounds like you're the one who didn't watch.
@DannyTaylor-Smith2 ай бұрын
I credit the Dragon Ball series as almost single handed lay nearly ruining my education. I was obsessed, daydreaming at school during the 90s. And when the original Budokai game was announced, I lost my 12 year old mind. I begged my parents for this game more than any other thing I’d ever wanted. They agreed on the condition I kicked a single field goal during my extracurricular soccer games on weekends. I have a heart condition, but I trained my ass off, but I was always put into defence. I was devastated that I would never get the opportunity to kick a goal. And then the morning of the final game, I woke up in hospital. I’d unexpectedly had several random seizures in my sleep and nearly died. When I realised I’d missed the game, I was so upset because it meant I’d never kicks goal, and therefore not score a copy of the game. But… My mother acknowledged how hard I’d been training and bought me the game anyway. I cried tears of joy. They bought me Budokai 2 the following year, then Budokai 3 the year after that.
@EWOODJ6 ай бұрын
Dragon World has an item that gives characters an extra turn when collected and can only be found by digging. Goku does not automatically get an extra turn, you’ve must’ve found one by luck. Super Buu in stage 8 has one in his spawn point and grabs it by digging it up if you don’t get to him right away.
@TheShadowspear26 ай бұрын
What about Dragon Ball Z Infinite World being the forgotten Budokai game? 😂
@TheTrueChuster6 ай бұрын
You answered yourself, lol.
@TheShadowspear26 ай бұрын
@@TheTrueChuster I didn't. It was my response to what he said about Budokai 2.
@rikudou9476 ай бұрын
It’s objectively the best
@johnschwalb6 ай бұрын
@@rikudou947i disagree
@JO3BID3N-is-a-P3D06 ай бұрын
its technically the 4rth game in the budakai tenkaichi series.i beleive the order is budakai 1 2 3, budakai tenkaichi 1 2 3, infinite world
@tylerthompson30756 ай бұрын
Sean Schmeal. Lmao
@frankiek_15 ай бұрын
Christopher Suhbat
@KingdomHeart5564 ай бұрын
How do you pronounce his name? Skimmle?
@rainofkhandaq66784 ай бұрын
@@KingdomHeart556Shem-ull
@SsjkidsSaveCosmo086 ай бұрын
I think The Great Saiyaman is a great hidden character, hes fun, surprising, and adding a Super early Buu Saga character as the only one is so funny, and kinda makes since in a way. Their may have been better choices but I think hes fun and I understand the choice
@KingdomHeart5564 ай бұрын
He wasn’t even hidden
@JogVodka5 ай бұрын
i love the running gag of android 19's absence in these games cause I've never seen anyone bring this guy so much up than this youtuber
@alexfraser83526 ай бұрын
I'm STILL mad they didn't include budokai 2 in the HD collection. Then again i do have all 3 games on ps2 now plus a glowing goku controller so it worked out for me in the end
@talibong95184 ай бұрын
It's false advertising to call that a collection, budokai 2 was the best overall and gets majorly disrespected.
@ResoluteCoyote3 ай бұрын
I think it was due to a copyright issue with the music.
@teezy7866 ай бұрын
I remember that Cell absorbing Krillin bit so well. I love it.
@ELPMCFlashFrame6 ай бұрын
"why did they do this, why did they cut it into two parts like this?" Replayability and rental game culture. You have to understand just how huge game rentals were in that era. Plus having an unlockable bit like that at the time made things FEEL more epic than they actually are, it was a marketing gimick at the time "Look how jam packed this game is with content!" while doing so with a relatively limited overall amount of content.
@cwooddirector6 ай бұрын
46:54 Yeah, I made this mistake as a kid and beat Frieza with Piccolo instead of Goku so I never got Super Saiyan. Instead I got "Fuse with Nail" as a skill for Piccolo. Trying to beat Kid Buu with a non-Super Saiyan Goku was a hurdle I could never get over as a kid.
@James111116 ай бұрын
The disrespect in Cell absorbing Krillin making him *weaker.*
@Sognafar6 ай бұрын
The disrepsect in bringing Majin Cell to be useless. Of all the characters a Majin Cell would have been nuts
@CaptainDemo7795 ай бұрын
I like to think that happens because, it being his dream, *Cell thought Krillin was so weak that absorbing him would have crippled him.*
@lightninstriker105 ай бұрын
All throughout the Budokai 1 section, you seemed to be under the assumption that the game was produced for Western audiences, however that couldn't be further from the truth. The game was developed for the Japanese nostalgia market, despite releasing in the US before other markets, which is why the games are just called "Dragon Ball Z" in Japan with nothing but numbers to differentiate them sequel-wise. It's by pure coincidence that the first game ends after the Cell Saga with the Great Saiyaman as a secret character likely due to a lack of resources for any much more complicated character (Notice he doesn't have his cape) and the relative jank can be chalked up to it being their first PS2 game, and for that framework, the fact that it contains almost every major character from the period it does cover as playable? I'd say that's pretty astonishing for any Anime game.
@FutureHHАй бұрын
In Italy Buu Saga already aired on tv and rougly ended a year prior the game release in italian stores and I think Gt too was already done. games like battle 22 and Final Bout in late 90's early 2000 were sold here and dbz was still on air and had buu, sjj3 and some movie characters iirc.
@MF_Loomy6 ай бұрын
The disrespect on gokule is crazy. Discovering all the different funny transformations was why this game was so unique, to me Atleast
@765craven45 ай бұрын
I think it's worth mentioning that in Budokai 1 the reason for the roster having almost no Buu Arc characters or story is because the English dub of the series was not that far along. IIRC in 2002 we were either in late Cell or early Buu Saga. Also, Budokai 2 for the GameCube was my jam as a kid. Me and my brother would each have our own characters on the map that we were controlling and we had a blast. I actually preferred and still do pref r it's Dragon World mode over the story mode of most every Dragon Ball game I've played since due to its originality.
@tritone22765 ай бұрын
I think Great Saiyaman is the best option for hidden characters from beyond the Cell Saga. Consider: the big moments of the buu saga would.have been partially spoiled since it hadn't premiered fully for the US if it was put in (Ultimate Gohan, any form of Buu, Goku with a Halo, Majin Vegeta (beyond the image in game but that seemed like an oversight tbh), Vegito, Supreme Kai, hell even Videl or Yamu or Spopovich would have been giving details away). By making it Great Saiyaman you get a cheeky reference to the early Buu Saga, another take on a character in game, and a means to kinda entice people to look for the sequel for more characters while having fun. I think it was a great choice even if it isn't the strongest or coolest character.
@BigOtakuGamerSHAWNY3 ай бұрын
If I remember correctly, the Buu Saga had just started on Toonami when Budokai 1 had just came out. The VHS' were released for it already but most people watched DBZ through Toonami and the Buu saga wasn't that far in to have SS3 or fusion
@kelliaa6 ай бұрын
Budokai deserves do much love. So sick to see people still making content about it. I can't sleep so I'm so glad I you uploaded this
@frankiek_15 ай бұрын
Fun facts with the Budokai 2 story, the Popo spots don’t actually teleport you to a random spot. It is predetermined and does not change. Also the item placements with the exception of the dragon balls do not change between playthroughs. Because of this, I have a whole guide in a sketchbook for each stage of the story for my playthroughs to plan my movements as I gather the dragon balls to get the breakthrough skills and “secret” fusions. ALSO Goku isn’t the only character you can give more than one move per turn to.
@Alexzeolite6 ай бұрын
Wow, he really hates Great Saiyaman. Every time he's mentioned Evan says he wished it was someone else.
@flameknightdragon6 ай бұрын
Dude cries like a baby for including gag characters in a dragon ball of all things.
@MultiDevon1236 ай бұрын
He rather have Zarbon or 19. Characters nobody even cared about.
@enenra64175 ай бұрын
@@MultiDevon123i mean you kinda need those two for plot
@tonyhakston5365 ай бұрын
@@enenra6417do you tho…?
@enenra64175 ай бұрын
@tonyhakston536 yeah you need zarbon without him Vegeta wouldn't be as strong as he is in the namek saga. 19 was there to show off Super Vegeta, how the androids work, and get goku out the story for a little
@CDLCinder6 ай бұрын
Reliving some old DBZ nostalgia recently due to Akira Toriyama’s passing and this video was just what I needed! Subscribed !! ❤️🔥
@bouncedefenser5 ай бұрын
Okay i deleted my previous comment, since you did hint at the tenkaichi retrospective series. :D As for my experience. Back in the PS2 days i got to play ALL the budokai games. Budokai 1 2 and 3. My most memorable memory is how cool super genki-dama looked. However i loved that there were a hidden mechanic that allows you to pull off dragon fist as long as you're in SSJ and above. I am honestly SHOCKED that games like Xenoverse 2 hasn't championed this mechanic where an ultimate attack changes depending on your transformation.
@Rixhm4 ай бұрын
The legend of Hercule was such a boost to maxing the game asap. GS was an amazing hidden character
@BrendenBarlow4 ай бұрын
The fact that budokai 2 wasn't included in the hd remaster makes me upset to this day😭😭😭😭
@justinrivera16185 ай бұрын
Actually, the opening of his tail does work like a fusion, which is why he had no choice but to cough up 18 when he took that hit to the stomach
@DefRevenge246016 ай бұрын
14:20 I think it's just dream logic. It's a nightmare scenario, so the mechanics of Cell's absorption work differently to justify it.
@timkrivacsy48556 ай бұрын
Not a important feature of DBZ b1 was the skill friezas spaceship. It let you play as cyber Frieza when you run out of health. Kind of like an additional character as well
@xeienar5 ай бұрын
Already in budokai 2 (only the gamecube and V2 version) and budokai 3. It's also the only way to play with Metal Cooler/Mecha Frieza. So it was not exclusive to B1 at all.
@Shamii6 ай бұрын
1:07:05 Genuinely fantastic video, but man I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows at "major players like Android 19 and Zarbon". I would definitely rather have fun and unique joke characters over them, personally.
@MultiDevon1236 ай бұрын
Literally. I didn't get the complaint. Budokai 2 was wacky with the multiple what if Absorptions and Fusions. Besides budokai 2 story wasn't really the usual one
@evprince6 ай бұрын
Just me being a hungry Vegeta fan wanting more of his story shown tbh.
@Darkmortal1004 ай бұрын
47:00 If you lose to Frieza as krillin, and he loses his last life, a "board cutscene" plays of frieza blowing him up, and goku unlocks super saiyan
@andrearovenski6 ай бұрын
great saiyaman is the ideal bonus character because its just fuckin goofy and thats amazing.
@unclepaul19954 ай бұрын
Yea, But He wants Bardock, not some Joke Characters. He hated Joke Characters.
@brunolima28446 ай бұрын
Love budokai 3, the only thing that ruins the experience for me is the Dragon Rush
@MegaTroySmith6 ай бұрын
Real, the ai spams that shit on higher difficulties
@Weezing3365 ай бұрын
Good to hear I'm not the only one who learned a lot about DBZ by way of the story mode in the Budokai games. I would eventually get to watch the series and read the manga, but my introduction to it all was through the games.
@Shift_Salt6 ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure the whole Cell absorbing krillin thing is just meant to be played for laughs as he thinks Krillin is so weak he'd only make himself weaker if Cell absorbed him. (Again, Cell sees it that way.)
@doublezeta20255 ай бұрын
Dude, you're overthinking the Cell-Krillin absorption. It's a gag. Just shut up and laugh.
@HelloIamgayactorMichaelDouglas2 ай бұрын
You okay?
@EmmaBonn965 ай бұрын
Budokai 3 was how I experienced the story of dragon ball z for the first time I wasn’t lucky enough to catch the show when it was airing and I had already given my family’s computer too many viruses trying to pirate it. It’s nice to hear that i wasn’t alone in this experience
@fftsp6 ай бұрын
Beating Broly wirh Videl on Z3, will always be a memory
@waynemetheny52795 ай бұрын
z 3 was a real bi34h to complete but it felt great when i did
@joshuakolton99556 ай бұрын
I’m excited to watch DB for the first time. Rip Toriyama bless you for being the father of anime.
@girthbrooks36406 ай бұрын
Anime and manga was around long before Toriyama. He's definitely on the Mt. Rushmore of anime but he's far from the father.
@NeO_SaNdMaN40406 ай бұрын
He’s more of a godfather to modern shonen anime. Modern shonen being stuff like Naruto, Bleach, Demon Slayer, One Punch Man, JJK- stuff like that- built for male centered audiences... Not the “father of anime” but he deserves his praise for putting a goddamn legendary manga and anime on the map.
@RoKKr023i6 ай бұрын
He is the father of western mainstream love of anime@@girthbrooks3640
@Cyberclone075 ай бұрын
He isn't the father of anime, that title's actually given to Ozamu Tezuka (creator of Astro Boy, Dororo, Black Jack, etc)
@j_c_934 ай бұрын
Please start with the original Dragon Ball I personally recommend watching it subbed for better voice acting
@HJ-ek6hn6 ай бұрын
Great video but slight correction: In budokai 3, certain characters other than Goku and Vegeta have hidden missions and endings on a second playthrough. For example, Uubs second playthrough ends with him fighting omega shenron. Krillin can also only reach the cell saga on his second DU playthrough, and so on
@redbeardkingdom68905 ай бұрын
Howdy, multi-hundred hour Budokai 3 veteran of 20 years this year (jesus), but I noticed you actually missed the secret Gogeta vs Gotenks tournament ending. Great video though! Love the retrospective! (Edit, i saw some footage of it on the Tournament section tho!)
@atticusstephenson28955 ай бұрын
The beam struggle analog stick spinning in budokai 3 was my brothers equivalent to the mario party 1 lawsuit 😂 Dude would go so hard he'd have bloody palms after us playing for a couple hours
@BrendenBarlow4 ай бұрын
Another thing to note. Characters do get specific skills by beating certain enemies in budokai 2, but beating certain enemies with certain characters unlocks new characters. Like beating vegeta on namek with goku, unlocks vegeta. Beating vegeta on namke with kid trunks unlocks future trunks.
@mordecaiplatypus43002 ай бұрын
Damn bro we get it, you hate The Great Saiyaman
@AbsolutelyJaked5 ай бұрын
Would LOVE a follow up to this talking about the Budokai Tenkaichi games!
@evprince5 ай бұрын
Stick around then because it's happening
@joeleriksson893 ай бұрын
@@evprince Tenkaichi was such a letdown after Budokai 3
@KigerrEE6 ай бұрын
45:00 Budokai 2 Will letting you use characters that aren't canonical to the story and have secret voice lines when you do so is a really cool Easter egg and definitely feels like it's keeping the tradition of Budokai 1 having the "what ifs"
@Heattokun6 ай бұрын
Damn dude.... Cell was having a nightmare it didn't have to make sense!! Also Great Saiyaman was the unlockable character was cus - as you said, Buu saga was debuting around this time, so Saiyaman would be the most relevant thing at the time, assuming the game development time assumed America wouldn't have adult gohan truly fighting or Buu being out
@andrearovenski6 ай бұрын
huge aspect of budokai 2 ps2 was the cover art on the actual game was HOLOGRAPHIC!!! Look it up! So great
@johnbob51376 ай бұрын
I still have the cover to this day!!
@STNKbone6 ай бұрын
wow the character select screen in Budokai 1 is so charming. I love all the Toriyama art that game uses for its UI. Also, for the Budokai 2 boxart, the US version had an iridescent metallic background, so all that white space on the cover would get this cool rainbow effect when you tilted it in the light. As a kid I was disappointed that budokai 2 didn't have the cutscenes of the first game, but looking back, I do appreciate what Dragon World had to offer. The one thing about the game I didn't like was that, as you mentioned, all the characters used the same few templates for their moves, and they all had identical stances.
@gabelopez7815 ай бұрын
Budokai 1 is so nostalgic. It is such a great game that I come back to play every now and then. 2 and 3 were my childhood and I couldn't think of any other series of games that can top them
@BreezyShadow6 ай бұрын
Really love the hard work put in the making
@nixuniverse5240Ай бұрын
The reason Cell changes forms when absorbing Krillin is because it’s a nightmare fueled by his own imagination. It’s not really supposed to make sense the same way we all pull up impossible stunts in our dreams/nightmares.
@Awesomebaconman1235 ай бұрын
Just found this channel, loving the deep retrospects. A lot of youtubers just gloss through the games, you actually go through ALL the modes and tell of your experience in completing it. Plus the funny tidbits brighten up the videos, Cell absorbing Krillin on repeat and Popo's store shop dialogue lmao
@evprince5 ай бұрын
Love to have you!
@Inuzumi5 ай бұрын
On the PS2 only played Budokai Tenkaichi 2 and 3, and Infinite World. So it was nice learning a little about the Budokai series.
@BlueBoy5ine6 ай бұрын
The only reason Budokai 1 ends at the Cell Saga, is because the Buu Saga hadn't aired yet on TV in America. They didnt wanna spoil it. But the Fandom had grew so large by this point, the demand for a decent video game was THRU THE ROOF. I remember having friends at School that had DBZ Final Bout for PS1, & they would always say how AWFUL the game was.
@Jacob1451_Kapnobatai5 ай бұрын
The only saving grace with final bout was the AMAZING soundtrack imo
@ZeedMilleniummon5 ай бұрын
Final Bout hate is so overdone. It's a fun game with an unique aesthetic, plus the first 3D DB game ever. Of course nothing starts ideal, but it's a better start than people give it credit for.
@FutureHHАй бұрын
the game was out in Europe too and Buu, in Italy for example, ended at least a year prior. GT too I think. Db aried 5 times a week so gt finished pretty fast
@FutureHHАй бұрын
@@Jacob1451_Kapnobataiall the audio department of that game was very good
@cwooddirector6 ай бұрын
Techincally there is a fourth cover for Budokai 3. When they re-released Budokai 3 as a Greatest Hits title, they used the JP cover as a basis for it, but with the Budokai 3 logo. This version also advertised having the JP voices as an option in the game, a feature that wasn't in the original release, so that's pretty neat. Unfortunately, there was an error where the wrong version of the game was put on the disc, so SOME Greatest Hits copies are missing this advertised feature. If I remember correctly, Atari had a program where you could send in your disc and receive a replacement with the correct version of the game.
@justinjenkins43015 ай бұрын
I remember my mom getting me budokai 2 Christmas Eve and played for like 6 hours ,this game was fire and budokai 3 was THEE DBZ GAME 🙌🏾🙌🏾🔥🔥🔥
@KeithG246 ай бұрын
100% hit it on the nail. DBZ Budokai gave me chills as a kid and definitely was how I learned the story of dragon ball z. New sub👍🏽
@Kenshiro3rd6 ай бұрын
5:42 Someone forgot about VCRs & VHS tapes. We recorded that ****. We also bought tapes, when/if we could afford it.
@RoKKr023i6 ай бұрын
bit of an early comment as yah boi says he had like 12 tapes
@Kenshiro3rd6 ай бұрын
@@RoKKr023iYeah I jumped a little early, Still he ignored the fact that we taped that **** ourselves... easily get 10-12 Eps per tape using extended play. Lord knows I did...
@MikeJack206 ай бұрын
We also had limewire and bearshare downloads 😂
@yagamifire78616 ай бұрын
I even bought bootleg vhs tapes of the movies with fan subs from a local shop
@UltimatePower016 ай бұрын
Budokai 3 had the best story mode love he different branches and interactions you get after multiple playthroughs. Meeting Broly, having Uub fighting Omega Shenron. Just peak.
@BigHossAC5 ай бұрын
I’d love if this retrospective series continues with the Tenkaichi trilogy. This video was so awesome and filled me with so much nostalgia
@evprince5 ай бұрын
That's the plan!
@Mbdxwwe186 ай бұрын
You can also Unlock Super Saiyan Goku on Namek with you playing as Krillian and dying by the hands of Freeza. Goku will power up and you should unlock it from there
@josueruiz95665 ай бұрын
Gotta do a budokai tenkaichi breakdown vídeo like this one, for all three
@unclepaul19954 ай бұрын
He better make sure He warn us about His Rants before making a video.
@Dr.PaiPai2 ай бұрын
14:20 "This doesn't really make sense." Well yeah, it's a dream. A dream not making sense is fine. In fact, that's perfectly normal.
@aozorahaou26435 ай бұрын
Budokai 3 apparently also planned a Dragon Universe story for Future Trunks, which explains Broly's story Trunks was meant to be a prequel for that and he'd go back in time to warn Gohan and the others about Broly.
@evprince5 ай бұрын
That would have been fantastic.
@MultiWolfLink2 ай бұрын
The US Budokai 2 cover was shiny metallic and REALLY got your attention
@RedPandaTables5 ай бұрын
DBZ: Infinite World is basically Budokai 4 but without the name for some reason. It more or less Budokai 3 in terms of quality with the gameplay but with an awful tutorial and mid story mode to play. The saving grace though? No dragon rushes. Hyper Mode exist but you can directly use the hyper attack without playing rock paper scissors. Objectively better if you just want to play with friends just for that alone. Would love to see you do a full review on it if you are willing. No one seem to be aware of the game due to how late it release on the PS2 lifespan being one of the literal last games to be released on it.
@evprince5 ай бұрын
I'm gonna work my way to that one for sure
@ziongamer69055 ай бұрын
Was just thinking to comment this. I loveeeeed Infinite World. Best one of the four story and gameplay wise for me. Especially for the characters.
@NJ-sd9zb2 ай бұрын
I always loved the health bar art in that first game. Original, high quality, and the faces even changed with transformations. Wish I knew who’d done artwork for those.
@thatnekoalastor6 ай бұрын
Was randomly recommended this and I'm hyped. Also really sure 19 being left out of this was a time cut. But infinite world not having him makes it feel malicious lol
@swordsaintmichael5145 ай бұрын
All of the Dragon Universe non-canon fights like Cooler, Broly, and GT are hidden because we weren't handed anything back then. They can be courteous to give us a vague hint and even rarer a decent hint. This era of secrets and finding out stuff for yourself is over these days unfortunately. Great video, took me back to the gloriousness of the PS2 days. Especially B3 since it came out in the best year of gaming, 2004. The year we got Halo 2, MGS3 Snake Eater, Metroid Prime 2, and GTA San Andreas. So all games released in the holidays had to go all out if they wanted to compete with those four GOTY games. You really couldn't go wrong if you skipped on those major games and got Budokai 3 or Ace Combat 5 instead.
@Sognafar6 ай бұрын
Tenkaichi next
@JoshHolden-Aka-evani5 ай бұрын
I would love a dragon ball games (Pre DBZ) made like a zelda game, where you play as goku go through the various sagas such as red ribbon, pilaf and king piccollo each with dungeons to explore and solve with items and upgrades to help you on your way.
@brandoncorrick33233 ай бұрын
Idk why but hearing Vegeta go “heh. Freak!” Was the most nostalgic thing in the world. I also have no shame in saying the track “a hero’s desperation” at the end of Budokai 1 made me cry as a child. The song still gives me chills as an adult.
@UncleAaron936 ай бұрын
Honestly this is such a wonderful video to watch and see your perspective of Budokai series, but I'm now left so curious what your thoughts on the true black sheep of the budokai franchise of Infinite world is now, seeing as it takes quite a few of the cut contents from Budokai and finally realises it in such a title.
@angusyoung1195 ай бұрын
I never caught the anime when it was airing. I would hear kids in school talking about DBZ and yelling “Kamehameha” in the halls, once the Tenkaichi games started releasing, I FINALLY got to experience the story in some fashion. I was so happy as a kid that I could finally know what this “Super Sayin” was, and figuring out it was spelled Saiyan, and just all the story beats, and UGHHH I LOVE THIS FRANCHISE WITH A PASSION
@TheTrueChuster6 ай бұрын
Budokai 1 was a blast but janky AF. B2 tried its best, but it was lambasted by the table board story mode. B3... I cannot say anything bad about it. Its just peak.
@MathematicPony5 ай бұрын
As someone who spent probably thousands of hours on the budokai series as a kid, the combat element of teleportation in 3 completely changes the whole flow of battle and ki management. Teleportation alone makes it jarring playing 2 or 1 after 3 even though I LOVE 2's story mode and 1's ambitious cutscenes. I remember unlocking all the highest difficulties in 3, learning what characters had the strongest AIs (Z3 difficulty kid buu is something else, but certain random characters also seem to have a stronger AI, like Nappa of all people). The intricacies of the battle style of budokai 3 will always make me prefer it over budokai tenkaichi 3, though I respect that game highly for different reasons. BT3's character roster is insane, and sometimes my brother and I would each pick a COM team to see who would win and watch it like sports lol.
@MarkSKristensen5 ай бұрын
Did you ever get Budokai 4 (Infinite World)? If not then you'll have some more fun to go back to haha.
@ryanbrissett91696 ай бұрын
We need a dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi collection on ps5
@MLPIceberg6 ай бұрын
No point since 'Sparking ZERO!' is the next in line of that series. Sure, you may think it'd be "Hype as fuck" to play through the older games to wait for the successor to release, but it'd only exhaust people and they wouldn't bother buying the new game. Or they'd skip the collection and buy the new game. Either way, the devs that would hypothetically work on said collection would lose money and so would Toei. It makes no sense to do that.
@lucidmind96765 ай бұрын
When you talked about the aspect of having to catch episodes of DBZ on Toonami because of streaming services being non existent at the time, it made me realize just how lucky this generation is because on top of not having streaming services, the season box set dvds also weren’t available yet so the games really were the main way to get caught up on anything you missed. Me for example didn’t get to catch the Z episodes until mid Android arc on Toonami so Budokai was actually my introduction to Goku’s Super Saiyan transformation on Namek and everything that had happened before Vegeta’s fight with Android 18. Looking back I thought “how the hell did we manage back in the 2000s?” But then i remembered back then we actually went outside, hung out with friends, and actually socialized. Being a 2000s kid myself, I’m iffy about social media and other advancements in technology but I’m also thankful that we now have access to all the shows and every episode of said shows we missed out on back then. Off topic but hell I never even knew there was an arc after The Dark Tournament in Yu Yu Hakusho until the season dvds released because of Toonami/Adult Swim changing the time slot after the Dark Tournament aired
@MultiDevon1236 ай бұрын
Theres some nitpicks that i didnt understand. 1.The Krillin absorption. Its a what-if dream. Not that serious 2. Great Saiyaman in Budokai. The game was rushed. It had Buu saga art in the game. 3. Complaints about the Joke Characters being in Budokai 2 over Zarbon/19. The Buu saga main focus was Fusions and Majin Buu. Plus there wasn't a accurate story anyways in Budokai 2. Also again complaining about Great Saiyanman seems like a nitpick. 4. Budokai 2 Cover Arts. Dont get the complaint. It has Goku, Buu, and Vegito. The 3 main selling points in the Buu arc. Japan loves goku. Shocker 4. Budokai 3 Dragon Rush. I dont have a problem but i understand if some dont like the rock, paper and scissors. 5. Budokai 3 Cover Arts - Really?
@maximumrisk2004Ай бұрын
Dragon World was a really fun way to play through the story. I had that memory of playing it burned into my brain since playing it with a friend.
@Slapped6 ай бұрын
Budokai 1 was released in 2002. The Dub released the Majin saga in late 2001. Little less than a year to animate and re voice over newer content plus add characters would have been tough. Which is probably why Sayiaman is in it, since he's at the very beginning of the saga.
@keiviroque56666 ай бұрын
That logic would’ve made sense for the American release but it doesn’t for the Japanese version of the game. DBZ ended in 1996 for Japan, 6 years before the release of Budokai which was developed by a Japanese company. Going off your reasoning, the Japanese version of the game would’ve atleast had Buu Saga content unless they really wanted to cater towards an English audience, which I doubt. The American version could have removed Buu content for the reason you’ve given but they didn’t because no such content existed in the first place. The more likely answer is that the studio just did have the time or budget to implement the Buu Saga.
@Slapped6 ай бұрын
@@keiviroque5666 could it have been that was it focused on the American audience? Db in general was down at the time everywhere but the big boom in America wasn’t it? GT was kind of a failure. Final Bout was 97(?). 5ish years later they get a huge boom in the states, make Budokai, it’s a hit, and then they release it in Japan. Guess we’ll never truly know though.
@trevorroberson80526 ай бұрын
The dragon ball franchise is KNOWN for rehashing sagas.
@MaudsValentine2 ай бұрын
Homie has a real vendetta against peak saiyaman
@NeO_SaNdMaN40406 ай бұрын
2:00 Sean shmeal?…. 12:20 If you’re really that mad about an early 2000’s dbz game- you gotta realize they probably did only have so much time and money to work with. The minigames pop up way more in the dbz infinite world budokai game than anywhere else. They probably just tested the waters because they thought they’d have good mini game ideas. As for the story mode splits between Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, Vegeta and others- I honestly couldn’t care. The fact that the game lets you replay missions, get MORE story context and more capsule characters/skills- was easily the coolest shit ever back then. Hell even the what if scenarios where Frieza beats Goku, or Cell’s nightmare about Krillin are some of the wackiest but interesting things in that game. Why are you so torn about it? 45:00 Blows my mind that anyone still thinks Budokai 2 is good at retelling the story. It’s kinda cringe. 45:40 I will admit that the retelling here in B2 is “unique” but it doesn’t all mesh well with my taste, tbh.
@TheOnlyGuy696 ай бұрын
Bro isn't shy 😭
@NeO_SaNdMaN40405 ай бұрын
@@TheOnlyGuy69 I’m just being constructive and talking about my views. Ultimately his video is a fucking good one, else-wise I wouldn’t have watched it all the way 2 times already. I just had some different opinions.
@12thRoundBoxingАй бұрын
growing up while toonami was first showing the saiyan saga and watching goku go super saiyan was really sum else
@StayMadLmfao6 ай бұрын
I remember me at 3 yo and my lil brother at 1 got stuck at the Raditz mini game of my dad’s copy of Budokai 1. Weird that that’s the reason I’m into dragon ball. Saw my uncle watching Z on a Saturday morning once and recognized it and it all went from there
@pacecory15 ай бұрын
there were entire dragon ball z vhs collections. they did actually port every episode onto vhs, and the side covers look really nice altogether.
@ARichSociety3 ай бұрын
Game reviews blatantly gave anime games bad reviews all because they hated anime and was force to have to review them back in the day
@deejmeht23383 ай бұрын
Budokai 2 was my introduction to DBZ games ❤ one of my favourites!
@Alex-o-tronАй бұрын
the Popo shop loop gave me traumatic flashbacks i didn't know were there.