Dragon Ball Sparking Zero GAMEPLAY BREAKDOWN & MORE INFORMATION! 

Doto's intro should forever be everyone's intro every time new tenkaichi info gets announced

I love that Goku and Vegeta have their Broly movie designs and transformation sequences.

That's the part about the forms that I love in Tenkaichi. We say form, and people think we are just trying to gas up the roster number, but when you would transform, your characters' moveset and combos would change completely. It literally was a different character, like you were changing characters mid-match!

Couldn’t agree more about the ps4/ps5 conversation. This is the first time ever when this much time has passed and almost every game still gets released for both. It’s actively holding back games. I’m sorry, but someone has to say it. If you can’t afford to buy a PS5 after 3 years and price drops combined with black friday deals, your priority really shouldn’t be worrying about games. It’s about time to let it go, embrace PS5 as the current gen.

6:10 actually if you look at a few milliseconds before it cuts, you can see two button inputs on screen during the beam struggle, one is for X and another for O

I agree with beam struggle it should be buttons otherwise like. You said controllers sales will go up.

I'M SUPER EXCITED FOR THIS!

As an idea for beam struggles: For those who have played the ultimate ninja games on the PS2, there was a mechanic where you had to press a series of commands for a good 5 seconds or so when an ultimate jutsu was used in order to increase the ultimate's damage or completely interrupt it. For this game, they could implement a similar thing where you press a random series of commands and as you do it, the center of the beam moves towards you or your opponent. Whoever's side it is on after 5 (or 10) seconds, loses the beam struggle. It makes beam struggles less taxing for us and less destructive for our controllers.

I love when dbz news drops news. The whole community is happy. Nobody is complaining (at least not as loud). Its just peace. Keep up the speculation vids

I’m glad you highlighted the word change on historic to incredible 🙌🏾 Kinda agg they reworded that post

7:10 For the Dualsense, maybe they could use the adaptive triggers in some way? I wouldn't mind a button mash either and I agree on the sticks probably being a bad idea, but I think at least for the PS5/PC version it would be cool if there was an option to make use of the triggers so you can feel a bit of that force with the clash. As for how you win or lose the clash, there could be some kind of sliding bar or something you have to keep lined up based on how much you hold it down. They did some stuff like that in the new spider-man game and I thought it was neat.

During the beam clashes, players that have enough Ki remaining during the struggle should be allowed to transform for a major power boost like the anime.

I don't find it strange to not see Gohan in this trailer. Wanna know why? 'Cause they're probably saving his reveal for another trailer, either at Battle Hour or closer to release (which I honestly think will be in Q1 or Q2 of 2024, I know, I'm crazy) and give everyone a SSJ2 Gohan (Kid) and a Beast Gohan transformation scene in-game, either story-mode related or just in a fight, like Goku and Vegeta in this one.

This game has been in development since the release of fighterz which is 5 years and i hope this game is an actual next gen variation of the series

Don’t forget, in tenkaichi 3, we also had what if scenarios like Gogeta vs Vegito so maybe we’ll get Broly vs Kale and many more what if scenarios and if they’re also taking from raging blast, they have Broly and Vegeta ssj3 so MAYBE if they’re ambitious, they’ll give us more what if transformations/fusions and maybe even obscure characters like Tarble and Hatchiyak

I'm pretty sure that this game will serve as a reboot to the series seeing as they want to reach out to everyone and the other games did already have a bunch of mechanics built upon each title

I'm really hoping jump fest can give us more info on the game. Literally anything we don't already know would be great.

That intro made me think it would be awesome for them to bring back the battle replay and also give us a photo mode. Imagine the insane photos

I need world tournament mode. Also several stages for the tournament of power for each level of destruction it went through. An online tournament free for all in the vein of the tournament of power would be epic too.

The only thing I will say about the PS5 is remember during prime covid, people were buying them up and reselling them for crazy ass prices and they were sold out in most stores for a year and a half. They are easier to get now but 2020-2021 it was tough

lotus how are you breaking your dualsense, ive been using mine to play raging blast 2 , bt3 and ultimate tenkaichi for the passed 2 years and i have no drift or issues at all.....

I think it’s because they must’ve released DB games content per year, and XV releasing dlc content each year help them with that

It looks like you mash the buttons, rather than the Joy sticks Lotus! If you pause at the beam struggle, look bottom left and right! 😁

It's not necessarily that the games are correlated, moreso that a ton of people actually didn't even like xenoverse. It was the closest thing to budokai tenkaichi, and the only half-decent dragon ball game out there so that's what people played. So, those people that didn't really like xenoverse but played it because it was what we had are realizing that they can finally let the game die and are memeing about it. Also, despite their gripes with the game, it did provide them with some fun while they played it.

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I do want to say that Ultimate Tenkaichi only got that name through a poll, and the Japanese version doesn't have "Sparking" in the title. Which is why it isn't counted. Sort of a similar situation as the Tenkaichi games themselves, which got their name to bank off the popularity of the Budokai series. I think that's why they just decided to go with "Sparking" this time for international release. They don't need to bank off another game's name. Sorry if I rambled.

The opening cutscene with Goku & Vegeta fighting might be a pre-battle intro, if they're taking influence from DB FighterZ. I hope so, because that added a lot to feeling like you were setting up an anime fight, and the director said, thats what he wanted from how well received FighterZ is with them.

Beast Gohan gonna go Crazy🥳

Budokai Tenkaichi opening animation and music are fire I'm looking to it.

The transformations look great.

Fully agree in regards to button press over stick twirl for the beam clashes. Not to mention we're just BEGGING for those N64 mario party permanent injuries to peoples' hands if you're tryin to win XD

The last DBZ game made by Spike was Ultimate Tenkaichi, and they changed beam struggles to button mashing rather than spinning the analogue stick

5 years in the making, I think it was 2017 when everyone was watching Super episodes Japanese dub b4 English dub aired on television. I hope we don’t have to wait too long

Xenoverse 2 getting DLC and more enticing updates fed into increasing the budget for Sparking Zero, because of the revenue it built. Bandai I'm pretty sure is contracted with Toei to release yearly a Dragon Ball game whether bad or good, BREAKERS is a clear indication that's true since it's really DBD but DBZ. Another example of this is GTA V and it's insane level of monetization and new content for the last 13 years. Not many fans notice but most of the income from GTA V went into what RDR2 turned into. RDR2 is a game that has a lot of loved poured into it by it's devs but also clearly a lot of money poured into it. RDR2 also doing extremely well and GTA V still making money hopefully is bringing GTA VI with a lot of heat. But yeah, Xenoverse 2 still making BANDAI money over the course of it's lifespan is what probably helped this game stay in development and had it making steady progress.

The fact that showed Broly so early, makes me hope that superhero stuff will be in at launch. Will be happy with SS4’s though.

Bandai was contractually obligated to make yearly games to keep the license for their anime games, namely Naruto and Dragon Ball. This meant we’d get our Tenkaichi and Budokai’s that had to come out every year and get better each time, but anything completely new like RB or UT weren’t allotted enough time to cook, so you’d get poo. Bandai found a workaround for this in the form of DLC as that counts as a “release”. They seemed to figure it out when XV2 was released, and as a result it’s how we were able to get FighterZ, Kakarot, and Zero. These are all games that need FAR more time than a single year to develop, so people are praising Xenoverse because it being what it is allowed for this game to look as good as it does.

I believe that Character like Android 21, beast gohan, the gamma's, etc will be dlc

If you pause on before the screen changes you can see x and o on the the screen

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This looks great and it would be really cool to do transformations during a match but I would have preferred a sequel for FighterZ

I know this sounds stupid but I think to win beam struggles is shaking the control, I think it's safe and you really can't damage your controller in anyway... unless you accidentally throw it

Beast gohan gonna look crazy in this game

i want the What if stories to come back, and have charactters from spinoff games like, A21, shallot, giblet, mira, towa

Wassup Lotus-sama!

I feel like they should do the beam clash like they did ultimate attacks in dbz budokai 3

On the change to the name Sparking, if anyone doesn't know, the game Yakuza did the same thing this year, rebranding to the official Japanese name, Like a Dragon. Seems to me there's a movement in Japanese marketing that Western audiences are more alongside the Japanese audience than in the past, so they're not differing names anymore to accommodate a separate audience, we're all now in the same boat. It all gets advertised the same, so no name changes that might cause confusion with how accessible the internet is nowadays. That's at least my take on it.

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I love love LOVE how when Vegeta reflects the Kamehameha wave, the rock he is floating over actually is affected and breaks apart! Incredible detail!

I think they’re holding on Gohan because we’ll probably get Beast Gohan. That would be worth showing in another trailer for the hype. We also didn’t get see Blue Gogeta or Vegito and those 2 are arguably the most popular characters outside of just Goku and Vegeta. They’re almost every anniversary unit in both DBL or Dokkan

X and circle popped up when the beams collided you gotta go frame by frame to see it tho

Wonder what’s with Gohan being left out of trailer’s recently

For Xenoverse it is just a meme mostly but the thing is the game has been milked for soooo long people just wanted Xenoverse 3 but people are saying it held us off, kept us fed, until Sparking Zero.

i pray for a good and bigger Multiplayer man. We should get a tenkaichi tag team gamemode.

With the quote of earth and heavens, I strongly believe they may involve Canon and non Canon anime. I feel like super DragonBall heros will be involved in some shape or form giving the fact of heavens quote

I actually hope for the sake of our controller sticks AND buttons its just a button timing minigame maybe?

For the first goku-vegeta fight, they both turn into sj blue later in the same fight, so wether or not it is a cut scene or an actual fight, it is most likely not from their iconic first fight And for the actual gameplay, we see very little, but the few things we see seem to be coming straight up from the old Ragin blast/Tenkaichi games, so I have hope the developers will really bring back the exact formula and make it better, and not just try to do something that inspires from the old games

Let’s call it, DBSZ❤

Hopefully, the beam struggle mash button is just the center. Either press it in a lot or rub your fingers across it like a Cl!t

This game just gon be it

If u slow down the video when the beams are about to hit, there looks to be a button or hud for mashing beam struggles

How many characters are ya predicting

Gohan was left out of DB Daimas trailer as well👀

Lotus I say it all the time but anytime you play Lost Courage? I'm BOPPING haha

For one, jp devs are no strangers to -Zero games having a number for their sequels. We don't even have to go very far: Street Fighter Alpha 3 is known as Street Fighter Zero 3 over there. My take/hope/wish is for the beam clashes to be something similar to what Ougis used to be in Narutimate Hero 3 back on PS2: a random sequence of buttons to both players. It's way safer on the controller than mashing or spinning sticks.

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Am I the only one that noticed the shot with blue goku rey punch Broly he was battle damaged and his orange gi was completely tore off

I wonder if Gohan was excluded from the trailer so they can use Beast Gohan for a second trailer?

If the beam struggle comes back i wouldnt mind if they gave us the budokai 3 meter versus they had for supers. Idk the correct terminology for it but you guys know what i mean right?

honestly yeah I would prefer if beam clashes require button mashing instead of the stick spinning cus the controllers do be expensive and I messed up wayyy to many controllers in the onlder BT games

For beam clashes i would prefer the “press different buttons when they show up 5~ times, faster than your opponent”. Ngl, i was never a big fan of mashing buttons. Like sure, its there to show that your character has to put effort into doing something, but man… let the character put in the effort and leave me alone lmao. As for the analogue spinning… nah, my ps5 controller already has a slight drift from just being more than 1 year old, and i’m pretty sure it would break in a week from spinning it nonstop. If they decide that they go with the spinning, i will actively avoid beam clashes and just lose the ones i can’t.

A lot of people seem to think after the Spike merger, the staff just packed their bags or something? A lot of the Tenkaichi devs worked on Burning Blood, Jump Force, and OPM. So I think it’s literally just a matter of them only being able to make good DB games. Also Ultimate Tenkaichi was never a Sparking!/Tenkaichi game. It was just a name exclusive to the west that we as players voted on.

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They're pretty much saying that Xenoverse 2 has been dropping DLC and all this content over the years so that we can bide our time with that while Sparking Zero gets all the development it needs in order to truly shine. Now while I don't know if it's actually true or not, them dropping DLC knowing Sparking ZERO was in the chamber, if my math is right, DBSZ shoulda started development around DBFZ's first year of release, so we also gotta shout out that game, Kakarot, and Breakers for keeping us busy too over the years. Then again this whole thing could be a meme and I'm just over thinking it

If you really think outside the box, I think the constant dlc for xenoverse 2 is funding the money to develop sparking zero. It may sound dumb, but it could be true.

They really showed yamcha and bergamo before gohan😭Also Rose about to look beautiful asf

The only cool thing ultimate Tenkaichi did was the QTE's in the game. I hope they add a movie saga like in BT3 with qte moments to recreate those cool scenes.

Could we get in game fusion to. I hope we can cause that would be insane.

Beam struggle should just be simple quick times

Did you notice when they showed characters at the end they showed Dragon Ball, then Z, then Super or was that just me?

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I believe the praise for Xenoverse 2 being upheld within the past 5 years comes more so from the fact that it was the only “arena 3D” style dragon ball game all this time. People ig are just showing appreciation for holding down that genre of db games even though we still had fighterz kakarot etc. I understand it though

I think its because XenoVerse 2 crawled, buying time with dlc so Sparking Zero could run, if that makes any sensem

So I saw someone, I don’t know what relation he has toward the game, but he said the game has been in development for 5 years. They are showing videos that seem like the game is getting there and almost done. I’d say the earliest is maybe summer 2024.

As far as beam clashes go I’d actually prefer something more akin to ultimates in Ultimate Ninja games. Where it’s random buttons generated and whoever hits more wins the clash. So that way it’s still speed but it’s also a bit more skilled based. And I won’t have to buy 18 PS5 controllers every two weeks lol

This game looks better than fighterz only makes sense tho this is built for ps5

Im sure the biggest reason for them using Sparking universally now is just to save time and money on development and marketing. Not having to make multiple game and marketing assets saves more money than you would expect.

I want all the gods of destruction playable in this😭💯

I'm super hyped for this game. This template should actually be used in other fighting manga games, BLEACH would work amazing in this format. But in the game's info says that it's a 1 player game unless it's online?? I hope we have 2 player couch mode. I don't mind the split-screen at all. Come on, give us 2 player offline mode.

If I’m being honest the only reason if you don’t have a ps5 or next gen is that you really can’t afford it but other than that it’s way easier to get now compared to a few years ago

How we feeling about cacs, yall think they in this?

Lotus if you go frame by frame, right when they beam clash one side is pressing X and the other is Circle

pray for beat gohan

We shouldn’t worry about Gohan, he’ll be added.

I'm gonna keep it a buck. I've never been big on the Tenkaichi games. I was a bigger fan of the Budokai games, because of the more traditional feel of a fighting game. When it got to all the arena type fighting I had already checked out, not to mention I was already left behind. That being said, because it's Dragon Ball, it's an automatic buy. I grew up on Dragon Ball so I have to buy it off rip. I don't see myself sticking with it, but I'll support it as much as I can. If my 10 year old nephew wants to play it, we'll boot up. Other than that, I hope the game is as good as yall want it to be.

I am so concerned about this game's gameplay. I hope they give it some skill expression. Doesn't have to be developed for esports or anything but even BT3 (which is my favourite in the bt series) with its 100+ characters had all those characters do the same things. You could do a combo with Vegeta and do the same exact combo with krillin and goku and videl and frieza etc. Transformations changing character normals was crazy. They can change animations of the light attacks but not the combo enders on the triangle button. These things kinda make the 100+ characters feel... samey. Totally removing what makes them unique. For beam struggles they can give us another mini game. For the sake of controller longevity a guitar hero style mini game would probably be best where we input one of the face buttons in a random sequence in a small timeframe. Or they could remove the minigame all together and make the winner be dependent on ki or blast stock (assuming it will have them). Also think it's better to make the winner of the beam struggle win big (assuming it even is in the game) so that a beam struggle really feels like a last resort hail mary. An all or nothing that can turn the battle if you were losing or conclude it if you were winning. TL;DR: The game looks amazing and will feel like the old budokai tenkaichi games with a modern twist. I just hope they don't lean in too much into the old games gameplay as that gameplay formula was awesome but could be executed waaaay better.

Tbf ult tenkaichi isnt called sparking in japan so its not apart of the series (if im not wrong the name was chosen by fans)

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I think the idea is that xenoverse 2 and its dlc "kept us fed" while sparking zero's in development, because to be fair, we all know how long they've been supporting xenoverse now

My first controller drifted litterally 3 months in.. so yeah please no stick spinning

The number one thing I'm afraid of is that this game will play like Ultimate Tenkaichi or feel as stiff as zenoverse characters hitting each other.