Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is a little difficult to recommend depending on your situation. It's best played with friends, who you can mess around in and not take things too seriously.

The single player is fun, but, as of release, fairly short. The AI is predictable and very easy to cheese for an easy win doing things that wouldn't work on a player who can learn. Yet at the same time, some things you need to do to 100% the story mode are extremely infuriating, and will most likely require you to look things up. The what-if scenarios range from absolutely amazing, to meh. Hopefully with DLC it can be improved.

I have not played online against random people as that doesn't seem like it would be fun to me. I've seen people report it's just a lot of people tryhard-ing, which is fine for some people, but in a game like this, doesn't seem like fun.

The actual game is fun. Playing it with a friend where you both try to win yes, but there's no salt. No one picking overpowered characters or employing cheese strategy to win. Just to have fun. That's where this game is great. Some mechanics are annoying, such as vanishing wars that can go on until someone runs out of ki, or where you launch someone, but you cannot launch a super attack despite having the ki and button held down to do one but your character just simply guards a few times before deciding to do the attack, but at the core, it's a very fun, fairly well put together game.

The game's visuals are, for the most part, very well done. Effects in battle look great. Some animations are off however. The few story cutscenes that actually are animated, all have an over-animated aspect to them, where they look exactly like they've been motion captured and look extremely out of place for a Dragon Ball game. In game, some of the transformation scenes also look off, where it would've been fine on old PS2 hardware, as it jumps from frame of a model, to a different model the next, but with some animations looking great, these stand out as looking...off. (Looking at you Super Frieza transforming to Golden Frieza) However, in actual combat, the super attacks, regular attacks, movement, everything works very well.

Overall, I'd say the game is good and I do recommend the game on the grounds you have friends who play it too. The singleplayer isn't too much with some interesting ideas on how what-ifs can work. Otherwise, maybe wait for a sale.

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is a little difficult to recommend depending on your situation. It's best played with friends, who you can mess around in and not take things too seriously. The single player is fun, but, as of release, fairly short. The AI is predictable and very easy to cheese for an easy win doing things that wouldn't work on a player who can learn. Yet at the same time, some things you need to do to 100% the story mode are extremely infuriating, and will most likely require you to look things up. The what-if scenarios range from absolutely amazing, to meh. Hopefully with DLC it can be improved. I have not played online against random people as that doesn't seem like it would be fun to me. I've seen people report it's just a lot of people tryhard-ing, which is fine for some people, but in a game like this, doesn't seem like fun. The actual game is fun. Playing it with a friend where you both try to win yes, but there's no salt. No one picking overpowered characters or employing cheese strategy to win. Just to have fun. That's where this game is great. Some mechanics are annoying, such as vanishing wars that can go on until someone runs out of ki, or where you launch someone, but you cannot launch a super attack despite having the ki and button held down to do one but your character just simply guards a few times before deciding to do the attack, but at the core, it's a very fun, fairly well put together game. The game's visuals are, for the most part, very well done. Effects in battle look great. Some animations are off however. The few story cutscenes that actually are animated, all have an over-animated aspect to them, where they look exactly like they've been motion captured and look extremely out of place for a Dragon Ball game. In game, some of the transformation scenes also look off, where it would've been fine on old PS2 hardware, as it jumps from frame of a model, to a different model the next, but with some animations looking great, these stand out as looking...off. (Looking at you Super Frieza transforming to Golden Frieza) However, in actual combat, the super attacks, regular attacks, movement, everything works very well. Overall, I'd say the game is good and I do recommend the game on the grounds you have friends who play it too. The singleplayer isn't too much with some interesting ideas on how what-ifs can work. Otherwise, maybe wait for a sale.