2.5/5 ★ – Empyrean's review of DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO.

Worst menus + tutorial of the year award! The 2024 curse strikes again and once more I’m punished for breaking my no pre-order rule. Speaking Zero is, somehow, both a needlessly convoluted and tediously basic game that I couldn’t even bring myself to finish. It is neither a satisfying evolution of the Tenkaichi series, with perhaps the worst story mode in any game that I’ve played in a while and pathetic excuses for What If scenarios, and is also left in the dirt by things like Kakarot and FighterZ in basically every single department. If you’re more of a fan of the Super era and just want to play Tenkaichi online (before you hit the sweaty ranks) I guess I could see this scratching an itch. For me, though, this is the most disappointing DB game since the PS3 era.