Sparking Zero Is Absolutely Broken, and Players Can’t Get Enough Of It

Key Takeaways

Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero balances characters based on lore, allowing strong characters like Vegito to dominate.
Bandai Namco doesn’t level out characters for fairness, staying true to the franchise’s essence.
Sparking Zero offers challenging gameplay with adjustable difficulty.

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero has sold over 3 million copies in its first week, earning its place as a video game blockbuster, a position that is nothing new for the Dragon Ball franchise.

Among the many elements of the game that millions of true DBZ fans seem to love is how it does not balance out its characters and instead sticks to the power leveling given in the story itself.

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Raising the power level.

This means that characters like Vegito, a fusion between Son Goku and Vegeta, absolutely demolish anyone in their way.

Being a fighting game, many were expecting Bandai Namco to include leveled-out characters, providing a fair fight for the players, no matter whom they choose to fight with.

However, that would also have taken away the whole essence of the franchise, which is also seemingly the reason why the creators kept the difference in the power leveling intact. This means someone like Krillin would have a hell of a time in a battle against Beerus, the Literal God of Destruction.

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Apart from lore-accurate characters and the PvP that fans love, the game also covers a lot of ground with its campaign mode, going over the story in its own unique manner while providing a decent challenge to those players who call for it.

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Since its release last week, Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero has exploded on the internet for many different reasons, one of which is the insane difficulty players face in the game’s story mode.

The difficulty is so ridiculous that it is also acknowledged by the creators, giving you the option to tone it down and retry again after failed attempts against the game’s bosses.

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Ultimately, while the game offers a challenging experience on par with that of Hidetaka Miyazaki’s Elden Ring, its uniqueness also makes it a very different type of experience.

And unlike the controversy surrounding Soulsborne games and their difficulty settings, Sparking Zero seems to have come off more positively for players, with many taking it as a challenge to complete the game without toning it down.