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- Arc System Works created a 2D Dragon Ball fighting game that almost looks exactly like the anime, using the same graphics engine and visual art style that was used for Guilty Gear Xrd. The phrase "Visual Effects of Awesome" couldn't be more of an understatement.
- In addition, intros and finishes to a match using specific opposing characters on specific stages will show specific climactic scenes from the source material proper. For example, Super Saiyan Goku and Frieza starting on Namek will trigger the classic Super Saiyan Goku scene. Ending the fight with Super Saiyan Goku defeating Frieza on Namek (Destroyed) will have Frieza take one last blast toward Goku, but Goku retaliates with his blast defeating Frieza for good. The attention to detail in these scenes is fantastic, to say the least.
- These deserve extra credit as they're not story mode cutscenes; they're easter eggs to reward the player for doing it. That is a lot of effort and care for something a player may never even see if they're not trying to find it.
- Along with ones that mimic iconic scenes from the series, some are entirely new and serve as fanservice. One example is shown above, where beating Nappa with Yamcha allows for some well-needed vengeance.
- In a similar vein, there is one where Bardock deals with Frieza himself, instead of leaving it to his son.
- In a similar vein, there is one where Bardock deals with Frieza himself, instead of leaving it to his son.
- After being a Memetic Loser and the butt of countless jokes, this game made Yamcha of all people into a Memetic Badass, thanks to a fast, physical rushdown playstyle that's earned him comparisons to Wolverine.
- As said before, there's a Dramatic Finish where Yamcha gives Nappa a VERY Karmic Death, putting him in Yamcha's place.
- To reiterate, after years of getting flack for having been killed by a Saibaman, Yamcha finally gets a chance at payback! By winning a match by landing a hard strike on Nappa, he subjects Nappa to the cruelest Ironic Death imaginable!Yamcha: Guess I showed you that I'm not playing around! Didn't I?
- To reiterate, after years of getting flack for having been killed by a Saibaman, Yamcha finally gets a chance at payback! By winning a match by landing a hard strike on Nappa, he subjects Nappa to the cruelest Ironic Death imaginable!
- As said before, there's a Dramatic Finish where Yamcha gives Nappa a VERY
- Beating one of the stronger characters such as Frieza or Cell with a canonically weaker one such as Krillin or Yamcha, since, even with Power Creep, Power Seep allows them to keep up, the latter characters are designed to be better for assisting than for fighting directly to keep with the series canon.
- Moreover, this can be done to give said characters some well-deserved vengeance (like killing Frieza with Krillin, Nappa with Yamcha, Cell with Android 16, or Vegeta with Nappa).
- After Cell defeats 18, Krillin utterly loses his shit and tries to kill him, despite the vast power difference. Goku's there to fight as well, but Krillin can battle the Bio-Android one-on-one and win!Cell: Ooh, someone's confident.
Krillin: Damn right! I don't care how strong you are! You touch my wife, you're going down! - The Intro/Attract Mode. Words do not do it justice.
- If you use Beerus's ultimate attack on anyone else, he simply flicks them away at full strength (epic in its own right), but if you do it on Goku Black? He uses his 'Destruction' ability to annihilate him. He doesn't get serious often, but much like the show, Zamasu has crossed a line that Beerus will not tolerate.
- In the Story Mode's Villains Path, once the heroes bring the villains back to Bulma's ship and explain that she needs to use her machine to give power to them, she's, understandably, reluctant to give power back to the villains that have threatened their lives. Cell responds by threatening to destroy her if she doesn't hurry up. Bulma's response? She laughs in his face, and tells him that him that threatening her life won't work on her, because she knows that she's the only one who can neutralize the waves, and she then literally walks up to him and says to his face that he could, if he wants to be stuck with The Artificial Soul inside of him forever. And the look on her face, and the tone of her voice really shows how in control she knows she is, and how she's daring Cell to destroy her. It is incredibly satisfying see such a Smug Snake like Cell just get shut down effortlessly by Bulma talking him down with logic.
- In a bit of Fridge Brilliance, Bulma wins even if he did snap and kill her. Her best friends/husband are standing right there, and could all likely take down a weakened Cell with the power of the Link, and would be quite willing to find the Dragon Balls to revive her, since she was never revived with the Earth's Dragon Balls.
- Following in the footsteps of Yamcha vs. Nappa, the game features another "redemption" Dramatic Finish. If Bardock beats Frieza in space, the scene plays out just like his canon death... except that when Frieza uses his Supernova attack, Bardock manages to destroy it with sheer force of will. He says that it's pathetic to just give up and rely on someone else note and declares that he's going to take revenge himself. He then goes Super Saiyan and nails Frieza with his Riot Javelin energy ball, carrying the tyrant off into space where he explodes, with Bardock raising his headband triumphantly.
- Super Saiyan Blue Vegito confirmed for in-game DLC! And his entrance is pure and complete awesome; he fuses, basked in brilliant light, flips onto the battlefield with an awesome landing, and strikes his signature pose before transforming. Not only is it as fantastically animated as the rest of the game, ArcSys didn't just pick and choose which of Vegito's two entrances to use; they chose both and merged them splendidly!
- And he gets a spectacular Dramatic Finish against Zamasu as well:Zamasu: This Cannot Be!! A god losing to a mortal? This can't happen! I am a god...I am justice given form...I am the world! The most noble, splendid immortal...and supremely powerful god! Za—(gets clobbered)
Vegito: GOTCHA! (Zamasu gets knocked away)
Zamasu: DAMN MORTALS!!!
Vegito: It's over! Final...KAMEHAMEHA! (fires)
Zamasu: (screams as he's erased)
Vegito: Come on! Get serious, already!
- And he gets a spectacular Dramatic Finish against Zamasu as well:
- Also from DLC are Goku and Vegeta in their base forms (mainly calling back to the Saiyan Saga, and Base Goku has a dramatic finish against Base Vegeta: The original and insanely iconic beam of war.
- Base Goku against Frieza also includes the iconic Super Spirit Bomb scene.
- The Reveal of the next two fighters for Season 2. The first fighter was Jiren, naturally as expected. However, the next one was a big surprise. It's Videl, bringing along her husband Gohan in his Great Saiyaman attire. And just like Krillin, Yamcha and Tien beforehand, she's able to go toe to toe against the most powerful beings of Dragon Ball despite being an even more ordinary human than them.
- After showcasing the gameplay of Jiren and Videl they revealed the last two of the six DLC fighterz of the pack. It's Broly and Gogeta from Dragon Ball Super: Broly and from the looks of Broly's artwork, it seems that they are going for Broly in his Rage Form instead of the Full Power form. Also we now can have a battle between Vegito and Gogeta both of them in their Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan form! Another reason this is awesome is the fact they just showed it. They could have just revealed them at last, but no they decided to reveal them immediately after Jiren and Videl since they knew full well that it wouldn't be surprise and leave the fans wondering who the middle two fighterz are.
- Not a fan of Videls' short-hair look? With a certain button input at the character select, you can use Videls' pigtail look and attire! It'll also give Great Saiyaman his helmeted costume instead of his tournament one.
- Gogeta's Dramatic Finish towards Janemba is hilariously brutal as he prepares to perform the Soul Punisher attack, he powers down to Base form then powers up to Super Gogeta. Many fans have taken it to suggest Gogeta decided Janemba wasn't worthy of being defeated by the power of a God.
- This can also be applied to Young!Gohan's Dramatic Finish against Cell. His arm isn't even injured like in canon (nor is his power diminished by about 50% due to injury), he's just using one arm to prove that Cell ain't even worth using two arms against.
- Gogeta's Dramatic Finish against Broly (DBS) is more or less a recreation of the climax of Dragon Ball Super: Broly complete with Cheelai wishing him back to Vampa.
- Patch 1.21, coinciding with the release of Fighters Pass season 3 a few days later, essentially reworked the game from the ground up - making it closer to Dragon Ball Fighterz 1.5 with how much had been changed. Among a dozen buffs to most of the existing cast include:
- Every single character gets three different assist moves now, choose-able from the select screen. Every fighter has an A, B, and C move, with the C move being a very powerful chain attack that knocks the opponent down (but as a result, puts that assist on a longer cooldown).
- Captain Ginyu was given an entirely new level 3 super attack, giving him a "true" level 3 to round out his character.
- 'Fuzzies' (a technique involving being stuck blocking an overhead move) have been removed, and the hitboxes of larger characters (e.g. Broly) have been adjusted, instantly making bigger characters more viable.
- With Master Roshi being a new DLC Fighter, expect everything he does to be this. He is probably the weakest character amongst the roster, but this does not stop him from laying a beatdown to the likes of Jiren, Beerus, Zamasu, Goku (especially at Ultra Instinct), and Hit, among many others.
- Master Roshi is the only fighter that currently cannot fly. How does he make up for this? By using a kamehameha as a boost!
- Master Roshi can seal opponents up using the Evil Containment Ray as a Super Move. If it results in a knock out, he seals them up permanently.
- His intro quotes against Goku Black/Zamasu (Fused) and Hit are no slouch either.Master Roshi: (To Goku Black/Zamasu, pissed) How dare you misuse the body of one of my students?!
Master Roshi: (To Hit, with restrained anger) I don't think much of those who kill for a living... - If Master Roshi teams up with Jiren, he imparts the same lesson that Goku has bestowed to him:Master Roshi: You're without a doubt extremely strong, Jiren. But true strength is not something you obtain on your own. It's a team effort.
- Super Baby Vegeta 2 is coming to FighterZ complete with the ability to turn defeated characters into puppets and transforming into a Golden Great Ape, which is not only his level 3 super attack, but also becomes part of the background of his wicked victory pose alongside the resurrected Planet Tuffle.
- After Super Baby Vegeta 2's trailer, they reveal the last fighter of season 3 and they decided to throw a huge curveball by showing it is Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta!
- During a trailer for Super Saiyan 4 Gogeta, it was teased that he has a Dramatic Finish available to him, only difference is this isn't a reference to the Anime, Movies or even What-Ifs like Yamcha's against Nappa. No, this time the Dramatic Finish links both his Super Saiyan Blue counterpart and himself as they both prepare an Ultimate Kamehameha against each other. It needs to be seen to be believed.
- The scene itself is nothing short of spectacular. For starters, the Dramatic Finish has a variant for both Gogetas, depending only on who won. The winning Gogeta starts by standing in the Kamehameha charging position with a smile, waiting for his counterpart to accept their last duel, to which they do and take the same stance.
- The charge-up that follows takes a few visual cues from the Ultimate Kamehameha scene in Dragon Ball Super: Broly to better build up for the climax that follows: Both fully charged Kamehamehas collide, causing not an explosion or a ball of energy, but a third beam of their combined strength that bursts out from Earth. It's sheer energy breaks and rips the blackness of space apart - not unlike Broly and Super Saiyan Gogeta's beam struggle from the aforementioned movie - and its shockwaves quickly reach out and blow the Sun's flames aside as its surrounding space turns colorful.
- As the dust settles, the losing Gogeta is showcased already defused - a tired Goku and Vegeta laying on the ground - while the winning Gogeta boasts about their Super Saiyan form's power.
