5/5 ★ – K_Strass's review of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2.

I bought my first console ever specifically to play this game. I'm not sure what it was that drew me in, as I'd never seen anything Dragon Ball related at the time, but when I used to hang at my neighbor's house in elementary school, this was our go-to 100% of the time. Even though Budokai Tenkaichi 3 is technically the better game, this was the one I sunk the most hours into, to the extent where even the minute details of the game elicit some degree of nostalgia. I'm sure this series has been made irrelevant multiple times over by all the DBZ fighting games that have been released since, but as someone who was, as a kid, more than happy having only one game for their PS2, I've gotta give recognition to Tenkaichi 2. Playing this was a formative experience