History VideoGame / DragonBallZKakarot

** A lot of new material, whether it be in the Z-Encyclopedia or various substories, were all approved of by Toriyama itself.

The ''Bardock: Alone Against Fate'' [=DLC=] lets you play as the young Prince Vegeta during the events of ''Bardock – The Father of Goku'', which includes a fight against Cui.

*** Gohan also had a huge stamina problem in the ''Resurrection of F'' movie and its anime adaptation, but from a ''lack'' of training in the roughly five years between between the Buu Saga and the movie, Pan has already been born, barely able to maintain Super Saiyan. But since the game's version takes place not long after the Buu Saga, Gohan still has his full power, on par with Super Saiyan 3 Goku.

** Gero actually manages to fight against Piccolo, and has some pretty devastating moves to work with, canonly, he wasn't much of a fighter and went more for hit-and-run tactics, not to mention it only lasted as long as it did because Piccolo was toying with him.

** Golden Frieza in the ''Resurrection of F'' movie and its anime adaptation had a huge stamina problem that caused the form to drastically lose in power after a little while of fighting, leaving him weak enough for Goku to kill with a Kamehameha after Whis rewinds time. In ''Kakarot'''s telling of the story though, the weakness doesn't come up and he keep the form, meaning that Goku has to beat him down one more time before he can kill him with a Kamehameha. Justified as Freeza was revived much sooner in this game than in ''Resurrection F'' so he's had more time to train.

** The cinematics tend to make changes to certain fights to look like actual fights instead of [[CurbStompBattle the complete beatings]] they were. A specific example is that Frieza actually rushes and has a brief BrawlerLock with Super Saiyan Goku when he transformed.

** If Piccolo is in your party, he won't eat any food [[note]]he just sits by other characters that do[[/note]] and will instead have a glass of water in front of him, since Namekians [[EatingOptional don't need to eat]] but ''do'' need to hydrate. The same will apply to Android 18.

** If Piccolo is in your party, he won't eat any food [[note]]he just sits by other characters that do[[note/]] and will instead have a glass of water in front of him, since Namekians [[EatingOptional don't need to eat]] but ''do'' need to hydrate. The same will apply to Android 18.

** If Piccolo is in your party, he won't eat any food (instead, he's sitting by other characters that do), since Namekians [[TheNeedless don't eat]]. The same will apply to Android 18.

** True to form, Goku's Kaioken is this. It eats your life bar gradually.
** The Skill "Unbridled Power" is available for all non-supports to learn and it's higher forms grants up to a forty percent increase in damage while draining your health and, unlike Kaioken, it can't be activated or deactivated manually making it a literal DeadlyUpgrade if you're not watching your life bar.

* DiskOneNuke:
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The ''Battle of Gods'' DLC becomes this if you bought the DLC while ''Resurrection 'F''' is a post-story content. Story progress is carried over from the Main story and the DLC, and you can even become Super Saiyan God ''before Raditz''. Whis himself naturally lampshades that this is technically cheating.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:

** There is censorship regarding nudity in the game. For example, when Gohan transforms into a Great Ape and then loses the transformation in the Saiyan Saga, he ends up naked due to the giant form destroying the clothes. Here, Gohan somehow keeps his pants.

** Gero actually manages to fight against Piccolo, and has some pretty devastating moves to work with, canonly, he wasn't much of a fighter and went more for hit-and-run tactics, not to mention it only lasted as long as it did because Piccolo was toying wit him.

* AdaptationDeviation: With how the game adapts the two canonical films into the game:

** Tien's Tri-Beam attack on Cell is markedly less impressive in the game, whereby all appearances he only gets off a handful of shots before going down compared to the prolonged assault in the anime. Notably, it doesn't leave any damage to the environment like it did in the source material.

** Gohan is portrayed as a much more willing combatant against the Saiyans in the game fighting against the Saibamen alongside Yamcha and facing Nappa with Krillin and Tienshinhan, while in the original manga and anime he was too afraid to fight for much of the early portions of the battle.

** Gero actually manages to fight against Piccolo, and has some pretty devastating moves to work with, canonly, he wasn't much of a fighter and went more for hit-and-run tactics.
* Strange as it might sound ''Goku'' got this treatment as well. During the Cell saga, Goku can fight Semi-Perfect Cell, who in this state actually dwarfs Goku in terms of raw power due to recently getting power ups that put him above 16, 17, and Piccolo, who were all actually stronger than Goku at this time. Downplayed in that Goku doesn't do any damage (and lampshades he feels the power gap between them), but the fact he's able to trade blows at all plays this trope otherwise straight.

* Strange as it might sound ''Goku'' got this treatment as well. During the Cell saga, Goku can fight Semi-Perfect Cell, who in this state actually dwarfs Goku in terms of raw power due to recently getting power ups that put him above 16, 17, and Piccolo, who were all actually stronger than Goku at this time.

* NeverLiveItDown: Yamcha, of course, and his death pose. In one side quest, two girls who he had been flirting with (actually Puar disguised as Yamcha) get angry at him for flirting with both of them. They send robots to attack him, who grab and explode, "killing" him and leaving him in his infamous death pose.

* [[AmbiguouslyGay Ambiguously Lesbian]]: An NPC character named Kooky Cook is this due to Chichi resuces her whenever the former gets attacked by wolves and beasts while getting ingredients.

* [[AmbiguouslyGay AmbiguouslyLesbian]]: An NPC character name Kooky Cook is this due to Chichi resuces her whenever the former gets attacked by wolves and beasts while getting ingredients.