Comparing the Budokai Spin-Offs

in this video, we're taking a look at the Dragon Ball Z Budokai spin-offs: Shin Budokai, Shin Budokai 2/Another Road and Infinite World

[@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

[@meliante-]

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

[@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

[@MegasXRL]

I hope sparking zero gives us entire gt saga

[@jenshansenhavde]

@@MegasXRL DLC city

[@MegasXRL]

@@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

[@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

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@Milo34210]

Shin Budokai was literally my childhood

[@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

[@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)

[@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. Favorite character has to be Krillin for this reason.

[@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

[@xlrrockmusic]

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

[@ErickGTRZ]

​@@xlrrockmusicwhat 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

[@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

[@Smitty_Werbenjagermanjensen111]

Peekon is hilarious.

[@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 💯

[@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.

[@Turtle3000]

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

[@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

[@CHATNOCEDA]

Piccolo from wish LoL 😂

[@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

[@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.

[@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 🐐

[@rodre0250]

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

[@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!

[@Vegito26]

The Shin budokai 1 and 2 is my childhood:)

[@jedigamer9935]

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

[@greenfalcon2316]

Great Video, Again ❤❤❤

[@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.

[@Hirotara]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@thety8fie]

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

[@lordenma4449]

Please talk about dragon ball fusions a underrated masterpiece

[@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.

[@christiangermanowski4859]

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

[@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

[@bbletsplays1130]

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

[@Choppygobrrr]

Infinite World was my favourite PS2 game aside from BT3

[@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.

[@TheForever206]

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

[@Ogmudbone43]

Love these games

[@Cluvr]

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

[@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.

[@Spiderlet]

This was a greate comparison. It would have been nice to have infinite world or budokai 3 on the psp.

[@agentbuckshot4697]

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

[@stevenhamel7922]

Loved the psp game back in the days

[@TheSayanTurtle]

Shin Budokai 2 still play it to this day

[@nicholascooney]

I'm pretty sure Bardock was in Budokai 3

[@tpx7414]

He was.

[@Sandino-dx6lh]

And omega shenron too.

[@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

[@Dr._Doppietta]

Glad to see someone giving to the Budokai series the spotlight it deserved. Kinda wish you covered BL as well, since it's basically B1 mixed with SB2.

[@aldali724]

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

[@obitoxshinobi8978]

Miss this game i was a beast

[@butterccm]

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

[@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

[@yunaka_gaming]

I love you Another Road

[@Billyblue98]

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

[@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

[@AkiDave]

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

[@TramiNguyen-oi3kp]

I love these Dragon Ball Z games!

[@L3thalsaiyan15]

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

[@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...

[@fox-milessavioroffoxes3782]

Ah Shin Budokai, my childhood

[@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.

[@arrownoir]

They had so many of them.

[@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

[@meliante-]

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]

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

[@goranisacson2502]

I have mever played Infinite World, but any game where Free,a gets to finger Piccolo to death is a sublime experience I have GOT to try.

[@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.

[@thewisetzar5363]

PsP games were my favourite despite it's small roster

[@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.

[@dangalfthedruid]

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

[@kennedylon6720]

I loved Shin Budokai. I was sad when I lost my PSP and I couldn't play them anymore lol

[@Deamons64]

Infinite world was the one I had as a kid. It was honestly really fun, and I played the hell out of it. It was REALLY grindy though.

[@TheSayanTurtle]

That's the one DBZ game I want to play I might have to emulate it

[@jesser5138]

​@@TheSayanTurtle gamesgx

[@SuperMasterJefe]

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

[@lordrealashemtov5818]

dragon ball infinite world i play it in my past on ps2 😎👍🏻 & it was fun

[@Abdo-elhadi_abdo-elwahab.]

Infinte world will be always my favourite

[@yakari3311]

I loved the another worlds story

[@borttheattorney6012]

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

[@yugouzumaki996]

Infinite World is literally the perfect budokai game ! My fav of all times !

[@romusa10]

Mmmmm, we're eating good with all these dbz contents!! And there are more coming!!

[@LaSane20K]

Infinite world was a real gem through and through

[@RyanHaney55]

7:17 Deadgum, that's a lot!

[@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.

[@etemonkeyxd]

I played Infinite World more than Budokai Tenkaichi 3. Loved the minigames in story mode.

[@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

[@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

[@spongebobfan78]

I was about to mention Evolution but then it literally gets mentioned just before I typed my comment.

[@BigJoe2.0]

The psp games were pretty good honestly. They are mostly forgotten about now due to basically no replay value since very few even own a psp.

[@MrCed122]

I played all of those , way more than the actual Budokai series. At the time, I only had Saga and Budokai 2 (which is arguably the worse of the series, still played the hell out of it) and went directly to Budokai Tenkaichi 1 (and it was way later than most people, probably around 2008 or 2009). I played Shin Budokai after I hacked my PSP (I was a poor kid, don't judge) and I got Infinite World after a friend literally gave it to me because he hated the combat system (he had only ever played Budokai Tenkaichi and couldn't get into the more 2D system of Budokai, we were dumb teenagers that liked flashy fights) and played the hell out of it. To this day, I actually never played Budokai 3, I don't really see the point when Infinite World is so similar. I also barely tried Burst Limit, it was so weird to release a game that seemed so dated (not on the graphical front, it looked amazing) on a new generation after Budokai Tenkaichi 3. Also, f*ck that Syn Shenron fight, literally took me hours.

[@rli97]

"Where frieza finger blasts piccolo to death" 😭 bro please retract that statement 😂

[@Lbnl548]

Please make James bond games video 😏

[@dudearnav]

I prefer Budokai 3 over Infinite World. Although, I appreciate some of the additions made in IW.

[@dark-xh7fs]

Same character models were used in dragon battlers and dragon ball heroes, i belive

[@ChillWildLife12345]

Before Dragon Ball Fighterz those games were popular

[@elquequieredarsuopinion5372]

Burst Limit mentioned 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@GeteMachine]

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

[@lewisgrant7622]

I honestly wish burst limit hadn’t come out half finished

[@kitsune_gt]

OH MY GOODNESS YESSSS, SHIN BUDOKAI GETTING ATTENTION

[@Vic4vendetta]

7:04 that tune is from Barry white

[@1chibanKasuga]

We needed busrt limit 2

[@Vrory77]

Budokai 3 is pure Love