14 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting Dragon Ball Sparking! ZERO

On the surface, Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is the long-awaited follow-up to Budokai Tenkaichi 3. There are new modes like Episode Battle and Custom Battle, but otherwise, it's very much akin to the previous games, right?

Well, yes and no. Sparking! ZERO retains its predecessors' solid gameplay and over-the-top spectacle but infuses several new mechanics into the mix. The Skill Count now determines several things like Transformations and Fusions and is required for techniques like Revenge Counters and Super Perception. Then there's the addition of Sparking! Mode, which can turn the tables in a fight.

It's a lot to grasp, even for long-time fans, but it's equally inviting and exciting. Here are 14 things we wish we knew before playing Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO before it launches on October 11th.

[FearlessOrb]

For all the great ape victims. R2+X dash the second the fight starts.

Use Kioken then Sparking mode as often as possible.

Spam upwards charge attacks directly into Kamehamehas.
The X+□ instant transmission punch works pretty well too.


Gotta think of it like a boss fight. Its gonna take time, don't rush and run away/guard when not attacking.

[TheSuperf]

really wished you showed the buttons or an example of what you speak of instead of just mentioning things...

[po]

2:58 - Sparking mode isn't a new edition, it's in all the previous Tenkaichi games, plus Raging Blast on the PS3 🙈

[immeasurablyme]

New to the franchise and had 0 trouble with great ape vegeta on normal difficulty. Just backed up spammed kamehameha and dodged

[henrikrdland]

I love the game dont get me wrong. But the battle training and torturials are not good at actually helping you learn the game. They teach you the mechanics but go into a real fight and boom all of a sudden your almost never able to do the things you learn because no its not a braindead cpu. They should have a cpu way more realistic to just pummel you with one significant thing ur trying to learn. Thats my only gripe. Game is a solid 9/10!

[bigjeff]

HOW TO BEAT GREAT APE VEGETA:

stay high up in the air, spam Kamehameha, use dashes to avoid his super attacks and guard if he gets close, keeping your distance gives you plenty of time to avoid his blasts

[Tamaromarou]

Another note, that should probably be added for transformations if you go straight to the strongest one. You don't get as much of a stat boost as if you build through all of them. I'm pretty sure at least

[Ziggyvu]

Great Ape Vegeta keeps crushing me like a grape 😢

[voodude]

Lol everyone saying Ape Vegeta is too hard is in for MANY rude awakenings further down the line ... Game is hard as hell, and Ape Vegeta is NOTHING compared to what comes later.

[Chronocrits]

Finally finished my Goku campaign today. Damn, some of those fights… crazy tough. Great Ape Vegeta, Goku Black, Kefla, and Jiren all make you work for it. The game is brilliant! Hard at times, but brilliant!

[RTX-iuzi]

Fine the odd one out -

-Malenia blade of miquella
-Consort Radahn
-Isshin ashina
-Ape vegeta
-You

[amaruhouston]

I just can't seem to grasp the timing with the counters😢

[Kakkarot]

The vegeta great ape battle sucked, but I eventually got it

[oldskol]

Sparking Mode, Skill points, Skill count, are all not new mechanics. Literally, every single mechanic mentions as "new" in this video, has existed in the older Sparking!(Budokai Tenkaichi) games. This video, is nothing but view/click farming.

[imamakeit]

Game real strick about timing and rank match connection sick somtimes

[criticaledge]

I really hope there is a button configure option. Dnt know about the rest of u but I like to keep the tenkaichi controls.

[badaboom]

My biggest issue in this game (never played the older ones) is the reversing or dodging attacks. Once they start punching you it’s impossible to reverse the hits or dodge/vanish out of the way. I know holding R1 blocks but once ur getting hit R1 doesn’t work mid attack

[jakeorion]

Why fuse or transform when you can just pick the character? Someone explain please?

[andrzejkrawczyk]

There's not enough slots in the custom battles mode. There's only 50... You probably think 50 is plenty but as someone thats trying to recreate og dragon ball, dragon ball gt, vegetas story from dbs (for some reason it wasn't in the episode battles) and a lot of movies and Trunks story z with his past there just not enough slots.

[terrencepoinsett]

Step your game up guys...skill point meter isnt just passively gained. Swating small ki blasts and vanish strikes also fill said bar actively 😂