The Worst Dragon Ball Z Game Ever?

[@sobari745]

I had like no standards as a child. I actually remember enjoying this game, and how I got a tremendous sense of satisfaction when you could launch enemies into the background scenery on some levels.

[@Mope333]

Well do anyone has standards as a child? lol

[@jjjacer]

i liked it as well, but i didnt seem to run into half the issues showed lol. also played on gamecube. but then again this was a game rental for me and i never bought it till it was a few bucks used

[@Sarkkoth]

Yeah I had fun with this game as a kid growing up. Even though it was pretty poorly made. I liked using the scouter on all the enemies to find out what their power levels were. Was a rental for me as well but I remember beating cell and Broly before returning it.

[@EthanW56]

Same

[@Acemancello]

I enjoyed playing it co op but even as child I knew it was a garbage game. I put it up there with Spiderman: Friend or Foe, and Nick Toons Unite 2

[@FiscoDiaz]

Say what u want, I freaking loved this game.. The flying, the unlocking new skills such as throw, collecting dragon balls, the stress of not being able to fly 1 meter higher to reach a new place of the level... Good times!

[@Vulpas]

Ehhh... decent times lol

[@hardeeharhar18]

This game tapped into the most depressed souls. Then turned those souls from severely depressed, to severely violent. Ever since that fateful say I bought Rascal by mistake, I made sure to avoid this treacherous disaster 🤣

[@enerc2333]

What console was that game on?

[@Vulpas]

@@enerc2333 GameCube for sure, others probably.

[@demarcusm40]

That’s what I’m sayin I love this game

[@ReavinBlue]

I do have nostalgic memories of it. I knew it was terrible waaay back when. still played it, the Trunks saga kinda worth it tho.

[@mrpc3]

I could never beat cell

[@TheInfectiousCadaver]

same and after beating the game and getting to redo the entire story but as Broly was really fun. that game got some longevity with me lol

[@Shleepin]

Me and my cousin would play this all night knowing how bad it was lmao

[@HollowRick]

This ^

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

Me too. I unlocked Broly and loved the novelty of him always being SSJ.

[@IzzySarru]

I saved up money and bought this game. My first reaction was definitely disappointment. I knew immediately it was gonna be bad...but then I started playing co-op with my dad and honestly had a blast with how janky the game is. It's just one of those games that's so bad it's good. I also never realized that there were only two tracks in the whole damn game. I'm not sure how that even got approved.

[@Vulpas]

I don't remember noticing the 2 track thing either,how oblivious we were lol.

[@IzzySarru]

@@Vulpas Too busy putting in jank combos and stun locking everything.

[@hunterguzenski2443]

I loved this game growing up. I feel like an old man but its truly a case of “it’s all we had!”. It was the only dragon ball game that wasn’t a normal 1v1 fighting game so we had to love it even with its flaws and use our own imagination. But i have many fond memories of it and always wished the improved upon this format.

[@mikhailhunter5277]

You feel old? I played had this game when I was 14 or 15. I was kid, Sagas was The worst DBZ game I ever played. In fact it was rated the worst game of that year. I was sooo disappointed, I desperately played this so many times to see if there was some secret to unlocking a much better gameplay. The only thing that sagas got better than previous DBZ games was the scale of the super saiyan transformation. Super Saiyan actually made a difference in strength, speed, size of energy attacks. But the gameplay was just terrible

[@carlosrsolrac]

I came here to say exactly this.

[@cameronpitcher6562]

Exactly i remember loving this game too. Kakarot finally fulfilled me on what something like this could be.

[@hardeeharhar18]

I could not imagine playing this game. It caused the severely depressed to become severely violent (in hiding)

[@lotuseater2184]

The funny thing about the Yardrat bit is that it's closer to canon than Garlic Jr., whom you suggested. That brief flashback was crucial to explaining why Goku learned instant transmission

[@johnzahm193]

Even so there's no saga for it in the manga or anime, plus a lot of casual fans don't even know what is and isn't in the manga (I haven't read much of it but I can pick out filler pretty well) and for those casual fans the creators honestly could have included garlic Jr and I even thought it was canon when I was first getting into Dragonball, I even used to think the movies were canon until I figured out that they can't be with the exception of maybe 3 that could fit into the main timeline, and of course we all know that the movies weren't written by Toriyama and I wish they would include that saga in one of the games cuz I actually enjoyed it even though it's easily the weakest of all Dragonball filler and hated by a lot of fans

[@lotuseater2184]

@@johnzahm193 Okay, it's not that Toriyama didn't write it, it's that it cannot happen within a logical timeline. The events of Dead Zone are supposed to occur after Goku has Gohan yet before the events of the Saiyan Saga. During the Saiyan Saga, everyone at Kame House makes a really big deal about the fact that Goku has had a kid in the time between their previous meeting. However in Deadzone, the movie starts with Garlic Jr. kidnapping Gohan and Goku going to Kame House to get Bulma, Krillin, & Roshi to help him track down the location of this child they've apparently heard of before. More importantly, Garlic Jr. uses the Dragonballs to become immortal, which can't be true because Goku has already gathered 3 Dragonballs by the start of the Saiyan Saga. Deadzone can't take place before the Saiyan Saga because Bulma, Krillin, & Roshi wouldn't have known about Gohan and the Dragonballs would've been inactive, it can't be between the Saiyan Saga & the Freiza Saga because Goku would already know Kaioken, & it definitely isn't after the Freiza Saga because Goku can't turn into a Super Saiyan in Dead Zone.

[@johnzahm193]

@@lotuseater2184 I know that the dead zone doesn't fit, the movies that can fit into the main timeline are the cooler movies that take place during the 3 year training period, Bojack unbound and wrath of the dragon

[@Megaritz]

@@johnzahm193 There is a KZbin video called "Why the movies can't happen" that argues why none of the movies can fit into the timeline, not even the Cooler movies. All the movies contain at least some details that contradict the main series (though some less so than others).

[@Vulpas]

Yeah but that still doesn't mean much, they took 5 seconds of canon and duct taped a whole saga of filler to it. But it was interesting, I like anything new.

[@franciscoalvarez5121]

Playing it as a kid I can say it was enjoyable enough to play with my brother.

[@Flandrew]

Playing this game with a friend does make it a much better experience

[@JadenYukifan28]

@@Flandrew Now the worse DBZ game I have ever played was Infinite World for the Ps2, not worth the money

[@jaider_rojas667]

@@JadenYukifan28 why? :(

[@JadenYukifan28]

@@jaider_rojas667 The game skips a lot of the fights, plus the animation is bad

[@jaider_rojas667]

@@JadenYukifan28 because it's a PS2?

[@bengetsitwetwet]

I loved this game as a kid! My dad surprised my brother and I with it when he came back from a deployment. He was pissed off to find out that we beat it within one day (one all nighter). But I’ll always remember me and my brother putting a blanket over the tv so my parents wouldn’t see the light coming from our room while we beat that game.

[@womp6338]

Pro gamer move

[@Dime_time333]

And now you shop at ulta. Oh sorry sephora.

[@mcnlj24]

That’s awesome. 😎 My brother and I would do similar things.

[@Naroxas44]

I remember playing this on Gamecube with my brother growing up, and it's definitely a lot of nostalgia over actual quality looking back, haha! I did really like the local co-op and finding collectables / exploring the levels (even if they're linear) for Z-Coins and stuff, but overall it was just OK-ish. This is definitely one of the more forgettable titles, and I put it with Taiketsu, which I did not really like growing up, and they both score rather low on review sites too. I'd say it's fun to play once with a friend and just laugh about it; the story is rather short and the replay value is kinda bad, and it definitely doesn't age well but still holds a spot with me solely for nostalgia.

[@amuroray88]

Taiketsu is way worse dude. Sagas is actually playable, where as this Taiketsu may be a top 10 worst game of all time.

[@Metalwario64]

@@amuroray88 I agree.

[@Jreaddy]

Exactally max fun playing with my brother hahah. Fuck it we had fun.

[@jacktheprince5524]

I remember getting to the final stage with my brother and getting to the last cell fight. I didn't go super Saiyan in enough time so only my brother could go ssj 2. It felt like I was holding of cell so my brother could go all out. I love this game despite the flaws

[@bellowingsilence]

They really should have just tweaked the story to allow two characters to be involved in any fight. I can’t think of a situation in the story where that couldn’t have worked.

[@chaoscontroller316]

I played an Avatar The Last Airbender game that did this concept better. The entire Book 2 was rewritten just to excuse the co-op focused gameplay. It's double the effort -- and framerate -- of this game, as if the devs played it and spent a year or two making sure to do it better.

[@luckyducky7819]

Especially since its not a hard rewrite. Krillin, Gohan, and Goku all pitched in to fight Vegeta, so just alter the script a bit so that one of them was still healthy enough to fight Vegeta with Goku. I'm sure Vegeta would be arrogant enough to think he could beat Goku and his plus 1 up at the same time.

[@fromtheh3158]

It would be goku-ception i guess? They also can use one of the other characters always with goku in these fights, i wouldn't offended if it wasn't exactly how the cannon story went.

[@TheStaffinator]

Broly just screaming "BROLY!!!" every 5 seconds is all I remember from this game

[@asgth6147]

I never played this but i do like that there is the Yardrat saga, i really like whenever games take places that where only shown for a little bit and make them fully fleshed out levels.

[@Acemancello]

Fully fleshed out is being a little generous

[@asgth6147]

@@Acemancello In this case then sure it is not quite fully fleshed out but more like exists at all, however i was more so thinking more like for other games where it is fully fleshed out, not my best worded comment i will admit.

[@mosescosme8629]

I have nostalgic memories of this BECAUSE of its flaws. Clipping behind a wall of rocks I wasn't supposed to access and endlessly falling for ages while I paint the sky with my character was the greatest memory of my childhood. It was so utterly hilarious that they messed up this bad with something that I loved so much that its a core memory.

[@ParallaxSound315]

I have nostalgic memories, really only because it was the closest thing we had to the LoG games on console. I was so tired of DBZ that were just your standard 1v1 fighting game type. Also the mode you could play after beating it where you could play any character you wanted throughout the story was pretty neat. Playing through the Frieza saga as Broly was a lot of fun

[@TheLastInferno]

I forgot about that! Playing as Broly, Bardock, future Gohan, all of it felt so innovative and creative back then!

[@DrPwN131]

I remember playing this game a few times at a friend's house when I was a kid, I distinctly remember the robots in the Trunks Saga levels, he and I called them "chicken legs" when their torsos were blasted off.

[@superbeanx2]

my friend and i called em leggings

[@DemonicAkumi]

This game was terrible when it came out too. It was fun for the first 10 minutes or so as it felt like a very "Open World story driven" Dragon Ball game... until you played enough to realize, "This... this is the whole game isn't it...?" I think it was a blessing it only went to Cell and not to Buu.

[@FishSkeleton-]

I pre-ordered this game as a kid. I must've been ten or so at the time based on the release year. I beat the game the afternoon it came out and found it to be a really unfun, regrettable buy. I'm not sure why I didn't resell it too gamestop, but I remember being really disappointed with it, thought the combat was mashy garbage where the best option was to stunlock bosses into submission with kicks and jabs, and overall I was really angry with myself for getting excited for that game and wasting money on it. I had pre-ordered it with three other games I was looking forward to at the time (all four were on GameCube): Shadow the Hedgehog, Spyro a Hero's Tail, and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness. Of that lot only the Pokémon game was any good if you ask me. That experience taught me to stop pre-ordering, wait for reviews before buying a game, and do research before spending money.

[@30cal23]

huh i actually liked shadow the hedgehog and spyro, i loved this game and spyro along with rainbow six lockdown. nostalgia for back when i actually had a gamecube and game collection before it was stolen from me

[@ThatCreepyReading]

Worst rental I ever made. Ruined my weekend, I had to return cans for several hours to be allowed to rent this game which I thought would be like a coop budokai. I also was a dipshit kid.

[@Tanner85800]

I also made the mistake of renting this. Except I blocked its existence from memory and was dumb enough to buy it a year or two later

[@infinitesheldon5710]

I remember this as pretty much the only game where you can play as one-armed Future Gohan. And yet, even though his arm clearly isn't there, he still punches with it all the time, since they didn't bother changing any of the fight animations for him.

[@WhiplashPuppet]

Future Gohan so OP that he can punch you with a non-existent arm.

[@opheliastanghelleeriksen8053]

@@WhiplashPuppet lol XD

[@zarthus2623]

While the nostalgia is very heavy on this one, I was also rather young when I played this. So all I had for it was that it was DBZ related. IT was a game I could play and distract myself with, and ultimately get pissed at how the combat wasn't like in the show. Did I have fun? Kinda? I rented it and it killed a weekend.

[@SamKH1]

I played it when it was released. At the time I loved it. I think as a kid you don't really care much about how bad the gameplay is, you just enjoy whatever you have

[@HaxStudio]

I remember this game being awful but the only two player thing we had so… gotta live with it. I really hope some crazy fan remasters this thing the same way they did Sonic 06.

[@HoldenHardman]

I love this game for the couch co-op. It's a janky game for sure, but it was always a good time playing with friends before online gameplay was big. I'm starting to play more simple games with my 7 year old son, and this is one that is simple enough for him to play and fun enough for me to enjoy playing with him.

[@PosthumanHeresy]

I rented this game from Blockbuster. Out of sheer fandom obsession, I beat it. Beating Cell was one of my first rage gaming moments.

[@MrShadow1995.]

This game was actually pretty fun as a child. I remember after beating it, my oldest nephew would use broly just to spam his special and try to get more kills than me since broly is op in it. Good times.

[@SithLordC3P0]

Holy fuck. I remember playing this with my brother when I was 7. he told me that bardock was a custom character he made, and he used up the only slot for it. I was so fucking pissed. and I remember I managed to get super saiyan 2 as gohan once when I was 7, I felt so accomplished. it lasted for like 3 seconds then died Tho. good times. I legit thought the game was a fever dream

[@DerGrafLP]

There is no way this one can be worse than Ultimate Tenkaichi. At least there is 'a game'. Ultimate Tenkaichi was essentially Rock Paper Scissors with cutscenes.

[@BBBB-vq8jn]

I mean to each there own, I really enjoyed this game as a kid. Wasn't perfect but still had a lot of fun

[@Pinkarmada01]

I remember the game being fun but hard af especially multiplayer. You could even play boss fights together you had to take turns most of the i think. But now i notice the framerate is awful and the mechanics didnt compliment the gameplay very well. But i seen what they were doing. Tbh i actually do like this style of dbz cause but it was just handled awful

[@KC-bg1th]

I bought it, but it was the only one I didn’t feel bad trading in to GameStop. Budokai 3 was king in hindsight; Tenkaichi 3 I played the most though.

[@famitronic9870]

I remember playing this game when I was younger and had a blast playing co-op. Looking back, it looks much worse, but nostalgia is sure to give me a somewhat more enjoyable time than someone who has never played this game before.

[@BrianHarkness]

I will be honest I have nostalgic memories especially since I played it as a kid and even with the flaws you mentioned it was still quite fun, the boss battles weren’t too horrible when switching players but definitely could have been better

[@khalidmuhammad1991]

Yes, still some nostalgia, and the music is part of it🤣 This was the 1st dragon ball game that made me feel the difference in power when transformed, so I loved it Yes, I complained about the limited flight hight even back then, and was waiting for sagas 2 to complete the story!😅 but still a lovely experience at the time and the game has its special place in my heart

[@mr.protagonist5639]

See when you only have an Xbox as a kid you realize sagas is your only options for a dbz game

[@bananamutnuffin1667]

So funny that u mentioned that. When I clicked on this video and u had said DBZ Sagas was probably the worst DBZ game. I was taken back and offended lol. I remember having alllooottt of fun with this game. I'm 25 years old now. And after watching this video. I now can see how it did not age well. But I can't help realize how much I miss being bliss and having no standards as a kid. Great video man 🔥👍

[@dstinnettmusic]

Me: I can’t wait to fly through the world of dragon ball Me, immediately: why can they only jump 5 feet in the air

[@rhiram3681]

I would have gone crazy if i played kakarot in that time

[@TheItachiIshtar]

When you mention why didn't they have the Garlic Jr. Saga instead of creating this Yardrat Saga, there's actually speculation that they originally were going to do Garlic Jr., but decided not to. If you look closely at the Yardrat boss, he looks suspiciously a lot like Garlic Jr. So they very well might have originally modeled Garlic Jr., and then tweaked him a little bit for this "new character".

[@martindaza6222]

I live in Colombia and grew up playing this game! And honestly... I had tons of fun! It might not be the best game but for 8 year old me it certainly did its job

[@bplenzner]

This game had one cool feature: until DBZ Kakarot DLC 3 it was the only game where we could play Future Gohan with one arm.

[@Dekomata]

I played this when it was new. And let me tell you, even back then I thought the whole game was dull and would rather be playing Budokai 3. Those same 2 tracks that played over and over just screamed budget title to me. But the bad part was this wasn't a budget title. It was a game that had the same pricepoint as games like san andreas.

[@YogertPC]

I distinctly remember being five years old with my grandma sleeping near me when I finally beat Vegeta in the third level. I remember the game being fun but tedious with all of the quirks you mentioned. I really liked how you got to play as all sorts of extra characters after you beat the game the first time through, but I never replayed as those new characters because the game lost its spark after you beat it the first time through. I replayed through it recently with my partner, and it was just as grueling as I remember.

[@endlesswanderer1753]

I will argue, that fighting the Yardat boss is a really cool idea. I've literally played through the Saiyan saga probably 100 times by now. At this point, if some dev wanted to make the first boss Goku's sister Turnipz I'd be down. Just make the game better than Kakarot for Kami's sake.

[@MaleficWeegee]

What's wrong with kakarot? I haven't played it

[@RichieJimyt]

As an Xbox owner at that point, this was my only DBZ game so it was basically "either this or nothing"

[@SC-cx9ti]

Its for kids and was good enough to have strong nostalgia with many. It was designed for kids. It entertained and managed to become sentimental. While these are low goals, I think it did its job and was therefore a good game. It wasnt high in quality but there was nothing too much to stop me from having fun with my friends

[@roxas4]

I rented this as a kid and absolutely loved it. I don't remember it being so janky but I remember how much fun I had replaying missions with my cousin as Broly and Gohan. It may not be great but I still loved it.

[@Negajoe]

My cousins rented this game from Blockbuster, and that was actually the perfect timeframe since after a while the jankiness was the only enjoyment we derived from it. It was a blast at the beginning but the initial amazement from playing a co-op DBZ game faded quickly, and I think we just ended up using a cheat code to access all the characters before returning it early.

[@imnotblindbutiloveblindfol8449]

I also ordered this from Blockbusters as a child

[@rogaken]

Same. I miss blockbuster. I never owned this game but rented it a couple of times.

[@guccimalcs]

I loved this game and it’s why I was so excited when Kakarot was released. I always just wanted a DBZ game that went through the main story that WAS NOT an arcade fighting game. Sagas scratched that itch for me as a kid and I had a lot of fun playing it.

[@TheLastInferno]

I loved playing this game, especially with my cousin. We seriously treated all the glitches as features and would die laughing doing the wonkiest things on each stage. Plus, the super attacks where time slowed down, and the teleportation too, were all really good concepts! It was a refreshing divergence from Legacy of Goku and Budokai, and my cousin and I were fully expecting a new and improved DBZ Sagas 2. We were so disappointed that never happened! It had potential!

[@EternalDahaka]

I played this a ton as a kid. I knew it was jank then, but a console beat-em-up Dragonball title was unique compared to the fighters. I'd make it a game to see how many enemies I could lodge into background buildings. I'd still really like to see an action game with more polish. Platinum could probably make something incredible out of it.

[@TerraverseCo]

Since I played Sagas before Legacy of Goku 2, this game gave me exactly what I wanted out of a dragonball game back in the day. I wanted an adventure game, instead of a ruddy fighting game all the time. To be fair, I love the Budokais, I have all 3 and infinite world. I have all 3 tenkaichi games. But I also still keep Sagas in my collection for some things they tried to do that may not have worked as well as we'd like, but were still pretty fun. Parts of my favourite aspect of these games were adding these little new segments like the Yardrat level. I know it's probably absolutely nothing like how Goku's training actually went on Yardrat, but it helps play with your imagination and lets you think that you're actually doing something on Yardrat this time. I also would have appreciated letting you play as the villains in Pendelum Mode... and have the Broly fight in the story mode somewhere. And the Bardock story in the story mode somewhere like the Trunks arc was. I also like that the Saibamen have various colours and each colour represents a certain different power. Some colours fire these toxic blasts, others self destruct, others hulk out, etc. I liked that variety. I also kinda enjoyed an Android Army that Gero could have also made to terrorize cities that you had to fight through before meeting the main Androids. The RoSaT levels kinda felt like tutorials for learning how to fight that you probably should have had at the start of the game somehow like mission 2 have a Piccolo trains Gohan or Kaio trains Goku segment where you're learning the movesets and stuff but... I guess that was too much to ask for. But every single character as you'll quickly come to notice has the exact same fight animation (although... so do the Legacy of Goku characters pretty much), fire the same generic ki blasts (Legacy of Goku?), and have various recolourings of a beam or a blast type attack for a special (Oh hey! Legacy of Goku, how ya doing?). Maybe it's my inner cry, crying at the loudest for my dream Dragonball Musou game. But this game comes as close as I'm probably gonna get to that. One Piece got it! Naruto had that Uzumaki Chronicles 1 and 2 thing (Which I also have. AND LOVE! THOSE GAMES ARE AWESOME!) which was a pretty good adventure beat em up style game! Why can't Dragonball get a GOOD adventure game? I dunno, man. I have a major soft spot for this game. I played it the year it came out renting it from blockbuster and managed to beat it the week I rented it back in the day. I was struggling on the Cell Fight but ironically, contrary to how you did it, I COULDN'T beat it single player. I plugged in a second controller so that I could build ONE of the gohans' ki up while I fought cuz I kept messing up and having his Ki keep draining while as a SSJ so I couldn't reach SSJ2. It took having my Ki freeze when swapping through co-op to be able to build up enough Ki to manage to do this with two controllers sitting in my room. I absolutely love. And hate. The Pendulum Room. Sure, you can form your dream team of Yamcha and Broly. But only Broly (or other characters with a transformation) are going to amount to anything in this game. Cuz characters who can't transform are going to do frag all damage to bosses, who are far more aggressive with their attack spamming, and you'll eventually fail, or take a reeeeeeeeeeeeaalllly long time to win. You should also mention this is also the only game with a PLAYABLE one-armed Future Gohan. While Future Gohan has been playable in other games (WITH A BLOODY MOVESET CENTRED AROUND USING ONE ARM!) he always has two arms for some reason. This is the ONLY game that gives you a One Arm option. And I LOVE it for that. They even SLIGHTLY modify his moveset so he attacks with one arm! For THIS game, I have to give it credit for THAT! In Conclusion, or Tl'dr: Dragonball Z Sagas represents the wasted potential of my ultimate dream adventure game that tided me over until I got to play Legacy of Goku 2. I loved the aspect of a slightly open area to run around in, an adventure style beat em up game where you could fight your enemies how you like. Did they stick the landing? Did this come even CLOSE to Dynasty Warriors 4? Oh, my, no. No. Hell no. But it's the closest you'll ever get to that type of game. I'm still holding out for a Dragonball Musou game. Can you just see it? Dragonball: Saiyan Warriors

[@cusped33]

I used to spend my tortilla money on the maquinitas to play this game

[@RealMacJones]

Got this as a kid and was so pissed, went from playing Budokai III to this, it was pretty disappointing.

[@MacStatic]

Nah man i had a blast playing this game when I was a kid. Probably one of the funnest besides the budokai series

[@MellowFelloh]

I remember the ad for this game on TV as a kid and the announcer said "Go anywhere!" I was so excited. Instant regret when I started playing.. this game right here was the reason I started looking up reviews, gameplay, or anything really before buying a game going forward lol I was scarred for life.

[@abdullahgamer7575]

Even as kids we noticed the reused osts and cluncky combat so that's something

[@Jaded_Infidel]

I never thought I’d see a game in this series worse than Ultimate Battle 22

[@SaviorLight]

"You can only carry three Sensu Beans at a time" the one thing I remember when I was 8. I finally remembered the game I loved quoting.

[@MrSupersonic2012]

I remember having this game back in the day. I also really remember enjoying it, despite knowing how janked it was. A little over a year ago I was collecting PS2 games, and decided to add this back into my collection, considering it was only like 10 bucks for a copy. It's definitely as good and bad as I remembered. This game despite it's flaws is very interesting, and I feel like if the dev team could have taken a second stab at this concept they probably could have improved upon it immensely because despite this game's issues it could still be fun to play. Especially if you had a good friend to play with, and laugh at how bad the game is together. It's a kind of so bad, it's a good game.

[@BrutalPlanetComics]

Decades later and I still hate this game. What a waste of potential.

[@sw0leymammoth]

I had a neighbor who worked on the game and got to go to Avalanche studios to play the game while it was in development. I thought it was the coolest thing as a kid

[@superfzzbigmuff7375]

I was 6 or 7 when I got this game. I loved it, and spent many days of my childhood playing it religiously. Beating the game and unlocking ALL of those additional characters really was a highlight of my younger years I remember when I was 10 I started reading reviews for it online and saw how everyone hated it. It confused the shit out of me. Did we even play the same game? Tried to go back when I got older and realized everyone else was right.

[@rhiram3681]

I had a lot of fun back then, dont care what anyone says

[@SomeLonelyShmuck]

The problem with the endgame unlock mode was the characters were scaled accordingly. For instance Broly could one or two shot most enemies while Yamcha could be one or two shot by most enemies. And the ones you unlocked depended on the version of the game you had... I think. That part I only vaguely recall

[@papapiplup]

I have a ton of nostalgia for this game, playing co-op with friends while they tear through everything with Broly. It was also my first PS2 game (or maybe it was Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles), but that added to it being a nostalgic game to me

[@Qwark909]

Lol saw the thumbnail and immediately knew it was sagas. Funny enough I absolutely loved the game as a kid. Played it nonstop, especially when I unlocked Broly. Tried it again as an adult and holy hell kid brains are weird cause this game is...well its a game.

[@FarCritical]

4:14 That Vegeta impression was top notch lmao

[@TheNutshaq]

As a kid, me and my brother would play this all the time. We didn’t have a memory card for our GameCube so every weekend we would speedrun to the end to unlock Broly and then play it again. It was easier for us to play the regular levels coop and then have one of us do the boss fights, it was prettt fun

[@Dark_Tale_2077]

I do have good memories of playing through the Future Trunks saga as a kid with a friend. It was cool as we both loved both Gohan and Trunks at the time and we used to geek out over which could win in an all out duel. We knew even back then that this game was frustrating but it was the only co-op Dragon Ball game up till that point. So if we wanted to play Dragon Ball together, this was it.

[@TebbleTV]

My brother and I tried playing this on the PS2, we got like 5 minutes in before the game froze and we never played it ever again.

[@Alienldr]

I never played this, but even though it's clearly bad, I can see some sort of a charm in the game. I can imagine how it would be nostalgic.

[@Margrave_of_Brandenburg]

I remember this game fondly. I remember getting a PS2 for Christmas with Budokai 1 and Sagas. I remember finding the game frustrating, but thinking I was just bad at it. That being said, I think back fondly on the adventure elements. But how did I never notice that there were only two tracks??!!

[@justjoshingaround]

I played this game when I was in Elementary School. I didn't know much about the storyline, but I thought it was so cool I could play with my friend. I do remember the Cell fight being one of the most difficult parts of the game for me.

[@robertcuevas3062]

I played this in middle school with one of my friends. We got through the Frieza fight where you have to wait for Piccolo by falling out of the map.

[@MMDTrxsh]

I still remember this game as one of the only remaining sources which acknowledge the fact that Future Gohan actually loses an entire arm other than the actual anime. So glad that Kakarot fixed the nightmare that was Future Gohan with his limp noodle arm.

[@jaredc5791]

This is a good example of how much a game can be carried with even the barest inclusion of local multiplayer. I only remember the good times of playing with my cousins and playing so much to unlock everything and replaying levels with different characters. When kids can share something with a friend, the quality matters a good bit less and those kids will remember it fondly because of the company they shared. At least that's the case for me and my memories of this game.

[@EldritchRex]

I played this game with my brother and we were having a blast together. We got up to the Frieza fight but Frieza glitched out and never actually spawned in. So we just ran around the battlefield for like 30 minutes waiting for something to happen. We finally decided to cut our losses and reboot the game but it turns out our save corrupted so we were going to have to start from the beginning. We never played the game again after that.

[@kelplink8532]

DB Tenkaichi 3 was honestly my favorite as a kid

[@TrueKilljoy]

I adored this game as a kid. My cousin had all of the Budokai games, but I was terrible at those, so I tried to get him into this game, but he was woefully underwhelmed. I do remember him laughing uncontrollably at how Bardock says his own name in the most ridiculously nasal way, and how you can kill Frieza in about 5 hits as Broly. On a less fun note, I also remember that I got so obsessed with beating Vegeta when I first got the game, I turned off my mother's alarm and she was 2 hours late for work as a result. She wasn't happy.

[@azziyhightmen5866]

I loved playing sagas as a kid. My favorite games were story driven platform adventure games; especially when they were based on movies like Spider-Man or that hulk game that wasn’t based on the movie. The only thing I didn’t like was that the beams each character blasted never clashed and struggled against each other

[@jameshalldorsson9695]

I hated this game but it was one of the first games I owned for Gamecube, so I ended up playing it a lot with my younger brother but it frustrated the hell out of me and my younger self destroyed my original Gamecube controller getting pissed off at this game. I do still have nostalgia more from the time I spent with my brother playing it, less because I actually liked the game.

[@EZdelFresco]

I saved up my own money to get this at launch. It was so bad that the only nostalgia I get for it is when I’m reminded of the enthusiasm my friends had when rejecting offers to play it with me.

[@IgnorancEnArrogance]

I was so pumped to play this game as a kid. I was expecting it to be a massively epic 3D version of Legacy of Goku it was gonna be perfect. I got my brother to co-op with me, and we were so surprised how plain and short it was. It wasn't a bad experience, just super underwhelming.

[@kcjc]

I remember when I was a kid I had Budokai 1 & 2 for the GameCube, there were multiple times where I saw this at GameStop and considered getting it but never did. As I got older I realized I dodged a bullet.

[@southerngamer98]

I would have to say my enjoyment of this game, even today is from nostalgia alone. My cousin and I were Dragon Ball fans growing up, and we would often play the budokai series. As a child being able to team up with my cousin, instead of beating each other and playing ping pong with ki blasts, was a nice time.

[@nintendogamer3227]

I remember somehow grabbing Vegeta right as he unleashed an energy shot permanently attacking him to one of Goku's hands like a spikey haired sword. XD I thought it let you configure/remap the button layout? Anyway your complaint doesn't apply because I had no problem playing it.

[@nik021298]

I remember playing this as a kid on the gamecube. I got it borrowed from a friend and I even played on the PS2 in my cousin's house. Does anybody knows if the south american market was so small back in the day that just didn't count? Or maybe it was counted as the same as North America for some reason?

[@blugetsbusy4508]

I’ll never forget being like 8 years old. My cousin bought it, and we played it when I went over…we didn’t even make it past raditz and I just paused the game and politely asked him “why didn’t you just get Budokai?”…he said idk..I gladly gave him back the controller. That’s how ass the game was back then and it’s still ass now baby.

[@Firball01]

"Do you still have nostalgic memories for it" Hell no T_T. Budokai 2 was my first dbz game to play, and this was after, and this BLOWS in comparison to even that

[@Thorvald9666]

I don't think I've ever heard Piccolo say his own name, even when referring to his evil counterpart.

[@brickmaster1841]

PS2 is more of local multiplayer oriented game console compared to the current ones, so back in the day if there was a game that can make me and my brother play together at the same time instead of fighting to decide who gets to play is really a blessing and that includes this dragon ball game. I actually remembered that i had a great time playing it, it actually is the game that made me understand the power levels of the villains such as raditz with 1200, nappa 4000, vegeta 18000, captain ginyu 120000, so it really had a special place in myself

[@stantonmccain7725]

I remember getting this game with my cousin on a roadtrip home from mexico (we stopped in texas to visit family before going back to illinois) We were so excited to play it and I can honestly say we enjoyed it for the most part. I even replayed it a few times in high school still having some nostalgia for it before putting it down. I definitely remember having a lot of issues or desires with the game but not having a playstation growing up I didn't play the "good" dbz games and just accepted it as (games are still not quite there yet) and go back to playing Halo lol

[@UltimaJC]

I had it as a teenager. It was never my first choice of DBZ game. I only played it when I got sick of Budokai 2 and 3, but I remember unlocking Broly and using him everywhere the game would let me after that point.

[@lud_ledmil7739]

Hearing the characters yell their name in the selection unlocked a memory from when I rented this game, I think I never got past the first stage lol

[@kamesennin4444]

I knew this game was terrible as a kid but flattening almost any opponent in the game with one strike from Broly will always be nostalgic. This game was my introduction to dragon ball when I was about 3 years old or so, crazy where interests come from

[@FadeIn2Obscurity]

I remember playing this game back in the day, I had quite a few DBZ games back then and I played it once and never again. I don’t even remember the music or the final battle having a gauge for you to go SS2

[@webs.a3460]

This game is my first ever intro to dragon ball, and it changed my life. The first time I heard the Kamehameha, mind = 💥. I had zero complaints about the game, loved the cut scenes but I was young and didn't know. But I still look back with found memories.

[@EddiePReacts]

As a kid I loved this game. Me and my brother completed it maybe 10x over the summer. It's not great looking back on it. One thing I would want to point out is the gripe about them adding an original boss that you complained about. People really play games and want it to stay true to what they already know? New content is usually a plus

[@notmiscares3918]

I remember renting it, and I remember not being able to have a long sitting playing this one without getting stuck worst part is when I played a bad game I always thought I was the one who was playing it wrong so I keep giving the game a chance, but never found it any better

[@MusikByImma]

Am I the only person who remembers selecting 2 players for boss fights and not having to switch

[@Puminasu]

I liked the game since when I played when I was a kid some of my family play the game with me and we had our fun The only bad part that I REALLY disliked was the gimmick about needing to transform to hurt the bosses, it really make the fights way longer