Recent reviews by Not a Girl

Pretty good.

Great storytelling.

TLDR: If you didn't buy the first game, I'd recommend this as it's not required to play the first in order to understand this one. However, since I'm certain most people who are buying this played the first, I wouldn't recommend this one simply because it doesn't feel like a game on its own. It feels like Dragon Ball Xenoverse 1.5. It's everything the first game should have been. It is the first game with a few added materials. Overall if a 5/10 is an okay game (not terrible but certainly not interesting either), this game is just that. A 5/10. The positives outweigh the negatives in most places but it this game certainly isn't worth the $50 I bought it for. Buy it on sale if anything.

The positives-

• It is tons of fun to run around the Dragon Ball universe fighting all the villains I grew up watching as a kid with my own created character. Growing as a character and creating my own backstory while fighting against major amazing like Frieza is amazing. I'm glad I was able to play as myself rather than as Goku or any other character.
  
• Creating the character I always wanted to see in the Dragon Ball universe with all the moves I wanted to see is great. The number of skills in this game are diverse enough that you can truly make the exact character you envisioned being as a child.
  
• There is a large improvement in the hit detection for PvP from the first game. It's not the best and it's not precise, but it's much more manageable now.

The negatives-

• Either buy this game or buy the first, but not both. A large majority of this game is taken directly from the original, so much so that I question how much effort truly went into making this game. Perhaps 70% of the parallel quests, story, and cutscenes are exact replicas of the first game. Speaking of the story...
  
• There are villains who are added to the game in such a way that it doesn't make sense why they're even included. It feels as though the story was written (mostly copied and pasted from the first, but I digress) first and the movie villains were later dropped in simply because they had to place them somewhere.
  
• If you're like me, you won't play the storymode all at once but rather in conjunction with side quests. The side quests are numerous, so much so that if you do them all you'll be overleveled once you get back to the story. This isn't so much a problem with the game as it is with the way I played it. I wanted to finish all the quests from the Saiyan Saga before moving on to future sagas, but doing so made me far more powerful once I returned to the story, so much so, in fact, that I had to stop fighting the enemies in order to not mistakenly defeat them before the characters were done talking thus skipping the rest of the dialogue.
  
• The RNG. My God, the RNG. To learn a skill from a character, you have to defeat them. This means you land the last blow on them (from what I can tell). That makes sense. If you want to learn the Kamehameha, you need to be the one to defeat Goku. That seems logical. What doesn't make sense is the fact that at times, you're required to complete a quest over 30+ times to get a skill. Granted it doesn't happen often. Most skills are dropped within the first 5 times and some are even learned in the first attempt. However, there are several skills that are obtained only after 30+ attempts. This starts to get frustrating when you aren't the one to land the finishing blow or when certain quests are 10-15 minutes long. Additionally, you don't know you've learned a skill until after the battle. There were less than 10 times throughout my playthrough that the game alerted me that I obtained a skill immediately after defeating an opponent.

It's a good game if you like to place traps and have several options to win.