Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero

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• Recommended Posted September 6, 2025 on Steam Sparking zero could easily be the best Dragon Ball game ever made, if only the developers had taken more care and fully embraced its potential. I’ve been waiting this game for years, probably over a decade. My favorite Dragon Ball game is Budokai Tenkaichi 3 and I played it a lot. This new game feels like BT3 with Super characters, some minor gameplay changes and unfortunately a few missing characters that really should’ve been added as DLC by now. The story mode was fine, it included some what if scenarios that I really enjoyed. Honestly, I wish the game focused entirely on this direction, because replaying the same story over and over in every game is boring, at least for me. Still, it’s better than nothing. Custom Battle is amazing. I knew right away I’d spend a lot of hours into it, recreating the what ifs I used to watch on YouTube, imagining in my head or discussing with friends. It could definitely be improved, but even as it is, it gives the game infinite replay value for me. Now for the negatives. Online was ridiculously unbalanced at launch and the developers took way too long to fix it, which drove away 90% of the player base. The game desperately needs more gamemodes (like Survival, Mission 100 or additional what if stories) as well as new outfits and accessories for all characters. The customization potential would be incredible: imagine Goku in old Saiyan armor or Frieza dressed as Goku with a saiyan tail. Some characters don’t even have a second outfit, which is unacceptable considering even BT3 gave everyone at least one alternate color. The DLC situation is also very bad. The release time is way too slow. By now, we should’ve had most GT characters, full Daima, and maybe even some unique what if fighters like Gohan Black or Gohkan. Do I recommend this game? Yes but only on sale. It’s still a great Dragon Ball experience and it has the potential to become probably the best. But unless the developers do something, mods are the only way to experience the game’s true potential.
• Not recommended Posted August 26, 2025 on Steam Historically bad post launch support. If you are willing to mod the game to add new characters and stages you will be entertained, but the basegame, while solid, has incredibly little content for such an expensive pricetag. Incredibly diappointing, I almost feel bad for it.
• Recommended Posted January 27, 2026 on Steam gets better and better with each update. a good game for when u got nun else to play and just wanna press some buttons with your music on and theres nothing wrong about that
• Not recommended Posted November 2, 2025 on Steam I don't regret pre-ordering the ultimate edition of this game, as I genuinely had fun within the first week of its release. I truly believed, at the time, that we had a dragon ball game that would last us a generation, and be a milestone within the dragon ball community. I, along with many other people who believed in this game, turned out to be wrong. I cannot recommend this game because its developers do not believe in it, because simple tweaks and additions, like costume changes and quality of life updates that would make the custom battle maker actually usable, are still not added even a whole year after release. Instead, what we have gotten since then are DLC characters, and not even all of them either. It is not worth the money, even on sale, and if the people who made this game don't wanna put in time and effort into making it better, then why the hell should anybody do the same when it comes to playing it? This will not go down as a generational DLC game, it will go down as a generational disappointment, and I am tragically glad that Akira Toriyama is not alive to see what his IP has turned into.
• Recommended Posted November 16, 2025 on Steam I love Sparking Zero. That's why this hurts. This game could've been something incredible. The foundation was there from day one! However the Devs waited too long to fix obvious balance problems, and by the time those updates finally hit, the community had already died out. Today in my opinion the game is fantastic... but it's too late. The customisation we were promised was never expanded, the roster all be it big never grew the way fans expected, and online is a ghost town unless you bring your own group. It's wasted potential in the purest sense. Fun with friends, but heartbreaking for anyone who hoped for longevity. Solid 7/10
• Recommended Posted March 31, 2026 on Steam My biggest issue with the game is the huge lack of impacts, i'm talking about every punch, kick, they don't look nor sound painful like in BT3 and especially super/ultimate attacks, while graphically beautiful they lack impact, and also lack the huge dome like explosions like in the anime. Doesn't have that Dragon Ball Z feeling to it(BT2 and BT3 had it)