Dragon Ball Z Budokai Trilogy Retrospective 

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I'm a bit too young to remember Budokai 1 and 2, but Budokai 3 still ranks along with Tenkaichi 2 as one of my favourite Dragon Ball games. It's also pretty cool to see these types of reviews from a woman. Looking forward to seeing more!

I really loved Budokai 2's board game story mode. I thought it was a unique way to tell the story and the fact that you could slightly change events based on who you chose to fight the enemy with gave the game some replay-ability, oh and lets not forget the fusions! The first time I saw Cell and Frieza fuse as a child I was terrified!

32:43 the reason Budokai 2’s opening looks a bit off is cause they got a top key animator and directors on Z - Kazuya Hisada - to key animate scenes. However, due to his time transitioning to One Piece’s style and getting rusty on Dragon Ball, it retains some One Piece qualities such as proportions, eye width, and big mouths Hisada continued his work on Super as well :))

Budokai 2 never gets the love it deserves. The "what if" characters were a great addition.

The script for this video is a masterpiece

I can explain the Future Trunks warning about Broly that Gohan explained. At one point. Future Trunks has going to have a Dragon Universe. And he was going to fight Broly. There are some voice lines unused. In one of them Future Trunks says "I have to warn Gohan". Cell Jr was going to have a Dragon Universe where he betrays his father. Saibaman was also going to have one, in which they join the Z-Fighters. If Future Trunks Dragon Universe was included. Broly's story would make more sense

Gotta say, seeing Piccolo hold off Super Buu would’ve actually been really awesome in the anime. It would’ve been cool to see Piccolo muster up everything he has and use his experience to give Buu a run for his money. Instead of him, you know… standing around doing nothing.

The Budakai 3 intro is so iconic, when Goku and look vegeta look at eachother and the fade of them fusing...never fails to give goosebumps!

Love how much effort you put into this. Love how you still have so much experience to share considering you didn’t have as much access to media as you could have.

Good ol burst mode. The reason why my controllers had split at the seams, which resulted me in needing to buy more lol.

That intro music just hits me in the feels

Kaioken roughly translates to "Fist of Kaió" Solar flare is called Taiyoken which is "Fist of the Sun" (If you read the Viz manga it tells you this each time) Kaioken wouldve made more sense , but calling it King Kai Fist makes it closer to the manga so maybe that's why? Weird choice either way tho

Man, Budokai 2 and 3 were awesome. I played through 2s story mode recently and it was so fun and overall a real step up gameplay wise. 3 had the most fun combat (except for Dragon Rush) and the GT and movie additions were really nice. I wish 2 and Infinitie world got remastered.

Okay why isn't this girl's vids and channel not more big!? She deserves it!!!!

In for another ride.

I had the North American version of Budokai 1, and you could actually see that PAL opening if you stayed on the start menu long enough. The first time you'd get a fight demo, but the second time you'd get that video. Always liked that more personally. Never knew it was the main opening vid in the PAL version.

Despite all the DBZ games that have come out over the years, BT2 and BT3 in my opinion still remains the most Unique and the best DBZ games in terms of content, quality and fanservices. And from the gameplay perspective aspects, these DBZ games that I mentioned are very close to the anime itself because of the Vibe and Charm, I don't know how to describe it but it was, and still is the most Unique DBZ experience you could have with the combat factor. (- Sheer amount de of characters - Transformations mid-battle (powering up and down) - Fusions mid-battle - Fast gameplay that has that "woah" feel - Tons of extra content - Story mode covering all sagas + movies - What If sagas - Shenron having permanent impact on game (character unlocks and whatnot) - Great tournaments that rotate availability - Edit characters with items (buffs) - 5v5 battles - Really Great and Epic Soundtracks - Destroyable environments - Entire stages could be blown up into their "destroyed" alternatives - Mission 100 being a great challenge - Artwork is 10/10 - Sound effects are great - Combat feels heavy and satisfying) Only Budokai 3, Infinite World and the Raging Blast 1 and 2 are still considered also very solid DBZ games, also the hidden gem that a lot of DBZ fans missed from PS2 Era of DBZ games is "Super Dragon Ball Z" which is also a real Unique and DBZ game, especially for the different gameplay aspects perspective. ✌☯️

Your editing and sense of humour is awesome!

Burst mode or power struggle you're supposed to rotate both analog sticks not mash the face buttons. You can tell if you're winning by seeing the character guarding more or being on the attack more. If you're guarding more attacks you're losing and if you're attacking more you're winning

I love how you use abridged sound bites😭🖤

Goku: Just relax, or you won’t be able to unleash your full power. Uub: Yes! Goku: *completely brutalizes him* lmao

you got me signed up for the whole ride at 0:44 with mutual adoration for green boy

Your videos are so authentic. You make great points about every game and keep it grounded. It's like listening to a friend talk about games. Always enjoyable to listen to

4:21 Thats a pretty good distinction. I dont think I have ever seen hair physics for individual strands of hair on that level in any dbz game ever.

Seriously one of the best videos I've seen in terms of a retrospective review on some of my old favorite games. You have no idea how much I love these when RU-vidrs make them. You put so much effort into it and I really appreciate you. Nice job dude

Just rotate the analogs in burst mode. Don't mash the buttons👌🏾 And the indication is when you strike, the white shocks are on the opponents body.

When I was a kid, my friends and I would bet on computer vs computer battles in Budokai 3. We had a tournament board, and we'd bet things like snacks since we were all poor. One time, I bet everything for Krillen winning the whole thing, and somehow he did. It's one of my favorite memories.

Alright! I've been looking forward to this! Here we go! You have quickly become one of my favorite DBZ content creators on RU-vid. The passion level is over 9000! Raging Blast retrospective in the works after Infinite World? That's funny, I watch CPU vs CPU battles all the time. That Saiyan Armor shirt is awesome! Budokai 3's opening theme is where it's at. These games look great on PCSX2 at 3x native resolution. This is comedy gold! I don't think I've been more amused watching other DBZ content on RU-vid.

I am so happy I found this channel. I love all the budokai content. I’m currently playing them again + for the first time Infinite World. 10/10 content. Thank you!

You've covered my favourite series of dragon Ball games in such great detail, and I loved your sprinkles of humour throughout the review's, my favourite games out of budokai would definitely be the 1st and 3rd and budokai tenkaichi would be 2 and 3, I grew up with these games and the anime so I appreciate seeing other takes on these games from someone else who has had similar experiences growing up. Also hoping bandai namco come out with a new dragon Ball kakarot sequel as that's probably been my favourite game so far adapted from the dragon Ball series.

These video's are great! I could seriously sit from top to bottom, from the first second to the last hour of these videos. Keep up the good work!!

A couple days ago i saw your tenkaichi budokai video and loved it, can't wait to see this later

Amazing video, its so clear how much you care about these games. Grateful I get to here you talk about the whole trilogy, looking forward to more :)

Just found your videos and was wondering why there wasnt a Budokai trilogy video yet and here we are Lmao Its amazing how timing works

It’s great to see your channel blooming ❤️ thank u for the content

King Kai’s Fist is a approximation of what Kaioken 界王拳 means in Japaneses which translates to The Fist of the Lord of the Worlds or World King’s Fist. King Kai’s name in Japanese being Kaio-Sama 界王様 or Lord of Worlds or World King. I was confused by this as a kid as well but studying Japanese gave a bit on insight on that particular translation.

Love your dry humour, thanks for making this. Gave me a good dose of nostalgia

the burst mode in budokai 1 actually only requires you to rotate the joystick. i too had the same problem for years pressing buttons while burst was happening. i understand the struggle.

Budokai 3 aged the best out of all the older DBZ games. Still holds up incredibly well

This video is so information dense! You can tell lots of care and love went Into making it.

Infinite World video coming soon… Edit: Watch it here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1_ra_FPyJvM.html

Watched Tenkaichi serise and jump to this one. Your videos are fun! Keep the work.

Love these games! Played them so much as a kid! Your content is top tier! Please make more! ❤

How did I just find your channel, you deserve way more subs!

I love this video! thanks a lot and im really impressed, subbed hard.

The amount of effort put into this review is incredible

This is awesome!! Love the content!! Please keep up the good work!

So far love your retrospect on one of my favorite games and to top it off you play kh which is another and your edits are cool 🤘🏾😭 thank you for this I miss dbz games like this.

Ma'am you have earned a new subscriber, I also used to play KH and budokai 3 on repeat every time!

Definitely need a 1 hour loop of you dancing to the level up music. 👍🏼

I want my phone assistant to sound like you Loved the gameplay and commentary! Informative 🤠

As for burst mode, I've gotten it really consistent, but the problem lies in how they explain it. The tutorials tell you you're supposed to mash buttons while rotating, when #1 it's mash buttons OR rotate (concentrating on one over the other generally will make it easier on the player) #2 I found rotating to be the dominant strategy overall (It might just be because I'm better at rotating but it seems to work exactly like clashes in Tenkaichi this way) My recommendation for you (If you even want to get it consistent or care about it at all. It's such a small part of the game after all lol) is to treat it like a Tenkaichi clash and just rotate. The clashes themselves will end much faster too.

Stumbled on your videos with Infinite World, just been watching since. Really enjoying your content! Hope you keep growing. Also, the nostalgia is huge.

you are getting subscribers like crazy!! congratulations ! my new favorite channel with dbz content 👽

I don’t know how to explain it but when Trunks got “got” it looked so cool because of the camera angles used and how quick it was to the point that Trunks got it and the slo mo and music was dare I say? Perfect.

Found your channel when trying to go on a nostalgia trip for the old budokai games, its very charming! I miss-remembered the games I played as the budokai tenkaichi series. Then I realised its just the budokai series and I never played the tenkaichi ones LMAO

That Budokai 3 theme just touched my soul 🥹. Great content, I've been binging all day while working, please keep it up!!!!

your retrospectives are a ton of fun to watch!! looks like we grew up with a lot of similar games too :o

im looking forward to the lninite world video soon i love your videos keep up the good work can,t wait for more new videos.

Yooo I really appreciate this! 👍

Now genuinly excited to see your thoughts on Infinite World :).

Keep up the great work. New sub for you. Really like these break down vids.

I haven't finished watching the video yet, but I love it so far. Just some things I'd like to mention though. You can actually tell when you're winning in Burst Mode. I'm not sure about Budokai 1, but in Budokai 2 you can tell by which character is attacking (or in the case of the losing side, blocking) more. You can see that in 38:43, where Goten is forced to block as Tien continues to go on the offensive. Also you can trigger the SSJ transformation in Budokai 2, but only if you choose Krillin and make sure Frieza is the one who takes his last health point. The game never tells you how to trigger this though, and even then you don't get rewarded with a fleshed-out cutscene. I only knew this because of a RU-vid video I watched years later.

Loving your Budokai/Tenkaichi reviews

After hearing you discuss the shortcoming of Budokai 2's story mode I was shocked. I had so much fun with it when I was younger but it clearly has some major drawbacks, and odd design choices that I didn't realize as a kid haha.

I'm writing this before even pressing play on this video , but just wanna say that I'm buzzing with it being a long video, I'm just about to get up and start my day and with this I've found the perfect video to listen to while making me brekkie and the likes :P So glad I've found this gem of a channel , but I doubt it'll stay Hidden for much longer if ya catch my drift ;) So yeah, thanks for the awesome videos ... Loving the content so far , and I'm really looking forward to seeing some Kingdom Hearts stuff in the future 😎 🇮🇪❤️🇳🇿

Ahh a fellow dbz abridged fan loved the edits 👌🏾

LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!

She’s done it again!!!!🔥🔥💪🏽

Really been enjoying your content these past few days as I get back to rewatching and playing the anime and games (would be nice if I could find a PS2 copy of Tenkaichi 3 for less than a billion dollars tho forreal). Also really enjoyed your Jak trilogy retrospective. Keep up the great work! Oh and obligatory TENKAICHI 4 HYPE WOOOOOOOOOO

Love ur dance segments❤

Love your content keep going

41:45 these Buu absorptions only ever appeared in this singular game. 😢 Such a shame.

Screw the popular opinion, I LOVE Budokai 1's artstyle, with characters looking like clay dolls, I LOVE the menu art, using hand-drawn illustrations, and I LOVE how story cutscenes are full of love for the source material, trying to retell the original story with arguably more passion than any other dragon ball game released after it. I don't even feel nostalgia for it: my first DBZ game was Budokai 3, and yet I love Budokai 1 more than any other DB game.

The heart medicine was exactly that, medicine. You dont take medicine before you get a cold. You take it when you have a cold. Too many DBZ fans think its an antidote but it was only medicine to make sure he didn't pass

Love your channel

watching this while playing thru the Tenkaichi 3 Story. good time

Great video, you've earned a subscriber

the beginning of the video OMG that’s the opening music from ERASED ! I LOVE THIS!!

58:00 Its pretty insane because as an American I had the same experience going to the rental store every week. I remember I would often rent jackie chan and dbz movies when I could find them. And finding those dbz movies was a real treasure. I think it meant more to me then because now because of the internet everything is easily accessible, but back then it was like finding a treasure.

Hi, I'm Alex. I love your videos!

In the original manga trunks says to start taking the medicine when the symptoms start. The symptoms started mid fight unfortunately

You forgot to mention the Great Saiyaman being in Budokai 1 but frfr this is an amazing video overall keep it up💪🏽.

it bothers me that goku didn't teleport cell quickly and then just teleport back.

I still have my copies of these games these games bring back so many memories I even have the soundtrack to these games and you have a nice voice

I thought I was tripping when I heard Erased’s Opening LOL That’s awesome and I love Budokai 1 it started it all for me my first introduction to Dragon Ball franchise

The fact that you need to do ultra specific things in order to unlock characters, means that you have to run through it more than twice. Unlocking some of these peeps was a F*CKING NIGHTMARE ^^^ Budokai 2

You can dig in budokai 2 holy shit i dumped at least 200 hrs on this game as a kid had zero clue you could dig

I remember when I first got a ps2 back in the day, Budokai 2 had just come out. I only played Budokai 1 a few times at a friend's house and absolutely loved it as a fan who watched DBZ on YTV back in the day. I wanted Budokai 2, but my mother couldn't find it, and brought me Budokai 1. I played the hell out of that game. Bought Budokai 3 myself, and played that even more. To this day, Budokai 3 is still my favorite. We need a Xbox Series/PS5 port with online multiplayer ASAP

When you did the Vegeta face spasm you took me out 😭😭😭🥴🥴🥴🥴

Guilty pleasure, I really love Budokai 2... The Dragon World sucks, but at least it's short enough to run through and even play basically whoever you want after unlock them. Admittedly I never played Budokai 3, so I really should close off my childhood trilogy... Really loved this video actually, I'm liking the energy you have. It's nice to click on a video and not have someone YELLING the entire time or trying to make a joke every 5 seconds- It makes your videos easier to binge and enjoy casually!

Funny enough, Dragon Ball Z Budokai games are just called Dragon Ball Z, DBZ2 and DBZ3 in Japan, and DBZ1 uses Cha-La Head Cha-La, which makes sense since it's a recreation of the anime's first opening.

erased OP for the intro lol nice

IIRC the best way to get the Dragonballs in Budokai 1 was to grind the World Tournaments ... I think it took forever cause it was a RNG that decided if you got a Dragonball ... I could be mistaken tho it was almost 2 decades ago Edit: Actually i think it was farming zeni from the tournaments in order to buy the random item from Mr popo that got you Dragonball

Something i noticed playing the hd collection, that you can mash all buttons during a beam strugle or whatever that clash is called. Saves the sticks and makes it an easy W on higher difficulty

Sick dance moves

These games are amazing

Budokai 2 is my favorite of the trilogy. The what ifs made it for me.

Personally I loved the story mode in 3, but I can see how the lack of explanations would hurt the experience for someone unfamiliar with the story.