It doesn’t matter if the story’s presented with full cutscenes, text in place of FMVs, or structured like a mission, chances are you’re going to be playing from Raditz to Buu or sometimes Cell if the dev team were on a budget. While not all DBZ fighting games are created equal, there is one recurring trend throughout almost all of them: the story. Whether you’re a fan of Dragon Ball, fighting games, or just someone who clicked on this article because you wanted to get mad at me for complaining about FighterZ, strap in. It’s an incredible game, one absolutely worth owning and playing, but many aspects could have been improved. While Dragon Ball FighterZ is easily the best DBZ game in ages, it does have some real flaws that detract from its overall quality. From the first trailers, fans of the series and the genre were lavishing the game with praise. None of these are bad games, per se, but they didn’t grab the general audience nearly as powerfully as Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi did.įighterZ has managed to reinvigorate the idea of a Dragon Ball fighting game with new life. Since then, we got Burst Limit, Raging Blast, and Ultimate Tenkaichi. If it weren’t for Xenoverse, Budokai Tenkaichi 3 would have been the last DBZ fighting game worth making note of. ArcSys is no stranger to making a good fighting game, but the last few Dragon Ball fighters have been a bit hit or miss.
Dragon Ball FighterZ is finally out and, to no surprise, it’s been getting some amazing reviews.