Is Dragon Ball Z: Sagas REALLY That Bad?! 

The power trip of playing as Broly was cool for about 5 minutes. Also, playing as one armed Future Gohan was neat.

Playing co-op was where this game shined. It was a little bland and repetitive but there's no other DBZ game quite like this. Had a lot of fun playing this one with friends

My cousin sunny and I would play this all the time and beat it over and over again so we could play as Broly

I loved this game as a kid. To me it was the perfect DBZ game. I bought it again a few years back, mainly to just have in my collection, but it was not as great as I remembered it lol.

As a kid most people will play just about anything and have a good time because you don't know any better, but this was the only game I remember playing from my childhood that made me think "huh, video games can be bad I guess."

I’m 22 now. I remember when I was in elementary school my mom showed me this game and said if I behaved in school she would give it to me. I still have it upstairs lol I used to be addicted to this game

Was anyone else shook for a sec at how good Matty can emulate perfect cells voice?? 😂😭🤣👌🏾

I reallyyyyyy like how u cover the physical and other aspects of the game such as the box art, back of the box writing, the disc art and manual. Love that! Never seem that in a review!

Finally, some respect gets put on DBZ: Sagas. At the time, it was a gem. Every other game was a fighter, rather than this open-area brawler.

It's funny how sagas was the first dragonball game I ever played and what gave me my first exposure of dragonball and what got me into dragonball. My father got this for me when I got my PS2 and i didn't knew what to expect. But hey, since them am a dragonball fan. The whole cutscenes from anime helped me understand dragonball story. And i was shocked that there was buu saga after the cell saga, because I thought the anime ended after cell saga.

Sagas was exactly what I was asking for at the time. It could have been better, and I even remember thinking that then, but it was still super fun to finally get to go all around as these characters

Duuuude Matty, I sincerely appreciate you and your videos! Your energy had me in stitches this episode. This WAS the dragon all game of the year for me. I got it just because it was multiplayer, and me and my big bro got through it quickly. What a chore to get through too. It’s hilarious hearing you pick apart what I thought was very jarring as a kid. UR NOT DAT GUY, sagas

Love these videos on more obscure, less than perfect games! They're super interesting to learn about. I played this one as a kid and remember really wanting to like it, but couldn't do it.

Yooo this was my “FIRST” PS2 game and my “FIRST” video game I ever played that I fell in love with. I loved this game to death because I didn’t have any prior experience with “better” DBZ games.

LOL this game 😂 Honestly I really liked this game growing up. Had tons of fun with it even owning budokai 1 and 2. My favorite for GameCube was budokai 2 but also enjoyed sagas

I remember playing this on the original Xbox and having such a blast. I haven't played it recently to see if it still holds up, but I am highly tempted to go play it again

It was fun as a kid but really short, glad I rented it lol

Dragon ball fusions is in a HEAVY NEED FOR A sequel on the switch.

Glad you are checking this out, played it as a kid and had my fun with it. It sure was a flawed game though. Great video!

I loved this game as a kid! This game and the Legacy of Goku series fueled my DBZ love. Great video Matty!

it's funny as a kid I absolutely loved this game played it a lot. now as an Adult I won't even touch it just goes to show that when you can't afford video games as a kid you deal with what you have. kids today will never know what it was like to not get a new video game every day and to appreciate what you did have.

Funnily enough. This game taught me a lot of general game mechanics, it being one of the very first games ive ever played. I mostly remember struggling trying to follow instructions but then when i got past all of that, it turned into probably my most played game. I look back on it fondly

The really 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 and much more.. ✌☯️

Lmao, they straight up gave Vegeta a reverse donkey kick in his combo at 1:26

Man I remember playing this as a kid and I really loved it, I would even play with my brother and we had so much fun. I didn’t know everybody else hated this game 😂

I remember being so hyped for this game when it came out. Might've even bought it on release. I remember picking that up, along with Xenosaga Episode 1....One of those games was returned about 48 hours later. I'll let you guess as to which one.

This was actually one of my favorite games growing up

I played this game, rented it from a hollywood video and beat the entire thing within the 3 day rental period. I remember giving it back and forgetting about it.....until now. Thanks for the memories mate

I tried this game not too long ago because I remembered it being really cool! I was little when I played it and I was soooo hype to replay it only to find out it was actually pretty bad… literally everything your saying it’s facts. It’s the classic run thru through the first sagas and this game had major potential but it just didn’t execute how we wanted it too.

This was a game I always saw on the shelves growing up but never bought for whatever reason, as I got older I realized I unintentionally dodged a bullet

I was honestly surprised to learn this game was hated when I was younger. I definitely knew it wasn't perfect, but I remember having a blast playing through all of it in like 2013

I always disliked how we were in the Buu - Gt era timeframe in the anime, But new games released would only go up to the Cell Era 😒🙄

Man.. I remember seeing the ad for this one on the xbox demo pack repeatedly and being mesmerised. But all my brain remembers is "This March" and "Everywhere"

I remember buying this game very excited. My friend and I played through the coop and while it had some slight fun it was just poorly made beat em up.

I thought about that game not 2 minutes ago. Impeccable timing

Hey some Dragon Ball Fusions recognition during this video, thank you. Here's hoping that you might possibly do a future video on it, especially with the 3DS (and Wii U) going to be on its way out eShop-wise in early 2023. I believe the game is still on the 3ds eShop (that's where I got it when it was released at the time). And don't forget about Super Dragon Ball Heroes World Mission as well (As of me posting this comment, it's currently on sale for $8.99 on the Nintendo Switch eShop, that's a steal at that kind of price. Please don't sleep on this game everyone.).

As a kid this game was pretty realistic for its time and back then I loved it👍 haven't played it in forever but yeah it hasn't aged the best. I remember it being pretty repetitive and hard towards the end. I think playing as Bardock and Broly in a somewhat open world at the time was some of the best things I think the game offered

This brings me back when I was kid in Mexico and at my house we had a store attached to it, and it had an arcade machine and this title was one of em I always played

That Vegeta boss fight is for the birds.

its a pity how bad it was because i still would love a game like this with local and online co-op...but better! :D

That cell impersonation threw me off it was actually really good 😂

I really enjoyed this as a kid, it was a nice change from the budokai series which were all really good. I completed this with 3 different friends on CO OP. It was not 'amazing' but I have allot of fun memories. Future Gohan having 1 arm, the way the rocks rise wheen you power up, playing as Goku in Yardrat, unlocking moves and characters were really fun for me. I did not often play this game on single player so that probably gave me a more positive experience

Also would love to see you do a video on DBZ Taiketsu.

matt quick question how do you get your GameCube and older game footage to look so clean and HD. av to hdmi converter component cables. please and thank you

Man, i was and am a huge Dragonball Fan and i remember that i allways wanted to play this as a child but couldn't afford it, glad that i didn't missed anything and instead replayed Budokai 1&2 thousand Times 👌

Bro, you're about to make me dig up and dust off my 3DS just to play Fusions. I got into it just as I was starting college and only put in 10 hours, but I could tell it was an AMAZING game

That cell impression like "don't come near here Gohan" had me dead lol

I really hope you have a review of THE THING lined up for Halloween 👻

I rented this game as a kid, but I remember absolutely loving it. Nostalgia glasses are a hell of a thing.

DB Sagas is an Underrated Gem, It got hate for not being a Dragon ball GTA , I understand that, people expected that because it had false advertisement, BUT, The game it is is pretty fun like when you do supers it slows down time, You have to admit thats pretty cool , AND when you unlock all the moves and stuff the combos actually are there, NO its not an open world game , not at all, But what it is is not as bad as the Dragon ball community has made it out to be for years. OH and when you use the cheats to play all the levels and have all the characters unlocked and stuff is super fun

I agree with pretty much everything, yet you forgot to mention how insanely tough it is to go Super Saiyan. Don't even get me started on SSJ2 Gohan vs. Cell.

This is in my top 3 all time favorite DBZ games have so many memories with it

I played this with my best friend back when we were in elementary school, and that game rocked!

This game definitely has its flaws but when I was a kid I had a blast playing it with friends and it was the game that introduced me to DBZ and anime as a whole so it has a special place in my heart.

The biggest contribution this game made was the way Broly calls out his name when you select him.

11:21 Nappa mixing in that handstand front kick threw me off guard. When did he learn capoeira? lol

The amount of hits to beat Nappa was, OVER 9000!!!!

This was the first game to let you play the history of trunks with one arm gohan 🔥 it was good for me, still got this in my collection

I remember being hyped for this game back in 2005. Man what a bummer

I used to play this with my brother and friends all the time and never had a bad memory of it. I honestly feel like I could play it now and still feel the same love I did then

This is on the one game out of the entire DBZ franchise that I would happily skip.

Always loved this game as a DBZ fan. Awesome how it has the Future Trunks/Future Gohan arc. Wouldn't play it solo though, definitely a co-op game.

Bro how the hell did I not know you were mattyplays I was like this guy looks familiar until I realized today

I remember when I got this game… it was the only dragon ball game on the OG xbox console and I had played budokai 3 on a friends console so I was itching for some dragon ball content like that, you can imagine my dissapointment when I popped that bad boy in and seeing the gameplay on the first level, even the music was soo passive and I remember it cost like 40 dollars so not even cheap, I played it over and over just trying to like it and get my parents money worth 😅

First game I ever returned. Truly awful.

I actually really enjoyed this game. My only 2 problems were the laggy attacks and that it was wayyyy too short.

Using cheats to unlock all moves made it super fun, also was a fun little adventure game with epic show edits and narration

Ha i remember me and my brother playing this mess of a game so much and saying man this is pretty terrible but being huge fans of the game we kept playing it. we ended up unlocking hidden characters like broly, tien etc turned off friendly fire and start fighting each other in the most clunkiest combat I've seen lol 😂

I remember beating this game in less than 24 hrs. There's not much to do post game but replay the story as Broly and kill everything in your path

I like the Mass Effect background. Probably my second favorite game series in terms of stories, only beaten by Legacy of Kain.

Best part of this game was playing as one armed future gohan. To this day there has been no game where you can play as him that I know of.

Just popping in to say I LOVED this game. Way ahead of it’s time

I enjoyed this game playin together instead of always fight against each other was a fun game n would love a part 2

I remember wanting to play this game so badly when it first came out but I didn't have a current gen console to play it.

I remember that I did the spirit bomb once with Goku but I never figured out how to do it again. I was button mashing lol

I had fun playing this game co op. It’s a rusty game but I would like to see an updated version

this is my childhood game behind, sniper, starfox 64, arkham asylem and cod 4 mw

I remember going thru every mission breaking everything so I can go and find the z coins or whatever or the senzu beans maybe. Good times lol

I was a huge dbz nerd, this came out when I was 12 and I played the heck out of it. I loved everything about it.

Co-op was fun!

Craziest thing to me is that I remember liking the game. Just because you could move around in a 3D space, unlike the bodukai games. Oh boy how I miss the bodukai games now.

I have to go back and play this game, because I LOVED this game as a kid. I wanna see if I still like it

I loved this game as a kid, I played when I was a kid with my little brother, it is so nostalgic for me

This game was actually fun af when I was a kid, if you had a friend/sibling to play co-op with but solo it does suck

This was one of my fav DBZ games when I was younger used to spend hours playing it I liked it for how different it was from DBZ games before it

My cousins and I stayed up all night playing this game from start to finish and honestly had a blast playing but we were super young so playing now would probably be horrible but that whole night was awesome playing that game lol

I like it though I always felt that Dragon Ball sagas was like the precursor to Dragon Ball Z Xenoverse

It was not a bad game, why did everyone hate it so much! Me and my brother rented it and were so addicted to the co op gameplay that my parents got worreid that we were too much into video games and took away the ps2 for 3 months so we would play outside during summer.

This game was great! It was simple, and fun. I loved this game as a kid.

Hey I'm collected for the dreamcast I was wondering if you have that maybe you should start making a series out of that

The Cell picture on the backcover is literally from another picture that is also on for example Legendary Super Warriors and they just changed his mouth.

I remember getting sagas 2 days after release on ps2. Sadly i played about 45 minutes and never touched it again. I was a kid of course but i believe the reason i stopped was because i couldn't understand what to do or where to go in one of the early parts. 4:33 depending on how this video makes me feel i might play it again.

I played this game after years of its release and actually enjoyed more then I thought I was going to and more then when I first played it on release date

I remember always wanting this as a kid😂 Thank god I got BT3

I always loved this game growing up. It may be mediocre, but I always enjoyed going for all the collectibles and stuff. The only thing that actually annoyed me is that Pendulum mode nerfs every character's damage down to base for the levels, so you can't actually tear through levels as Broly, despite him being the only permanent super saiyan. Speaking of which, you actually can do decent damage to bosses when transformed, it's just reaching that super saiyan transformation that's so difficult and they're basically half dead at that point anyhow, and that's when that option is available. Fighting Cell with Gohan where you can only hurt him as SSJ2 also sucked since the transformation only had half of the SSJ bar and they didn't actually extend it to have a full second bar and SSJ drains it while you're trying to fill it all the way, and you can't fill above SSJ1 without doing that transformation. I still enjoyed going through the levels though and all ths different types of saibamen, even if the boss fights were pretty trash. Knocking them into the rocks in the background was fun too. I actually wish it went harder on the power level scaling so that you took less damage against enemies who you were canonically stronger than and strong bosses who won their fights, like Nappa vs not Goku, should've only had the player fight til they were at half health or maybe even only done 1/4 before switching to play as Goku who could wipe the guy out. There's a lot of ways the game could be better, but maybe that was a part of the fun. It's also possible to glitch underground in a few places like one of the Future Trunks levels when you're climbing over a partially collapsed highway (or maybe I should say partially standing considering how little is not total rubble)

I loved this back when I didn’t know what a review was lol simpler times.

I love The Opening Cut-Scene of This Game.

I used to have this game and I loved it because I got it on release and as a kid it was awesome. I only have good memories of it. I can’t tell if I didn’t like it in the end.

One of my most played gamecube games, it was amazing. Never beaten it tho bc I only borrowed it from a friend once and rented it from blockbuster twice

I played this a lot growing up. Not gonna lie, THIS game is what made me fall in love with Broly. Playing as him and smoking every bad guy you come across is so awesome 😎 DBZ's Broly was my favorite character for years. And then Super's Broly came along 😇