Examining the Budokai Trilogy - A DragonBall Z Retrospective
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- Let's take a look, at one of the most iconic anime video game adaptation trilogies ever produced.
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Intro 00:00
Budokai 1 0:00:53
Budokai 2 0:37:59
Budokai 3 1:17:18
Join us on a nostalgic journey through the Budokai Trilogy in this thought-provoking CZcams video. As we explore the DragonBall Z games that make up this trilogy, we analyze their significance and enduring popularity. From the intense battles to the faithful recreation of the anime's world, we examine how the Budokai Trilogy has captivated fans for years. Get ready to reminisce and gain a deeper appreciation for these beloved games. #dragonballz #BudokaiTrilogy #nostalgia - Hry
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You gotta see the actual cover art of US Budokai 2. It's not an off-white but a very shiny holographic silver. The image you grabbed doesn't do it justice.
still one of my favorite cases from the ps2 era
i remember my mom buying me that game , that cover art was EPIC!
I have the silverish budokai 2 and budokai 3 with goku and vegeta on the cover
Oh I remember it vividly
Yeah it was hella shiny and eye catching
This was one of the pillars of my childhood. I'll never forget how HARD it was to unlock 100% of the items in Budokai3.
I'm at 98% I have NO idea what I am missing.....
I always just copied my friends saves. They worked hard so I could prosper 😂
@@kbolden7338but that’s not fun lol
@@ElGaby323 fun for me 🤷♂
I figured it out. What you had to do was unlock every single character. Once that happens, you have the option to then purchase all their special moves and even their breakthroughs.
Brother has such a HUGE passion and agenda for Android 19😂
Vegeta fan I gotta get that iconic battle
I think he likes the way 19 sucks.
Idk what you’re talking about, Budokai did give us a really cool hidden character, The Great Saiyaman.
I remember not owning a memory card when I first got the game and not being able to unlock him or Hercule. 😅
Budokai 2 is easily the weirdest one, but that's what makes it my personal favorite.
Budokai 2 is my favorite too.
i liked the board game style, but back in the day when budakai 3 came out that story mode seemed so modern and mind blowing at the time. i was in 5th grade lol
B2 is my favorite because of the ultimate attacks that you could pull off easily on command, but on B3 you HAD to play the button guessing game, always hated that about B3. If they removed that, it would make it a lot more fun to play imo.
I prefer playing the 2nd. If I'm not playing the 2nd, I'm playing the Tenkaichi 3.
Budokai 2 is special to me because it was the first DBZ game in the UK we got in English Dub. Even Budokai 1 was Japanese for us in the UK.
Me and my brother also used to have a blast playing each other on Babidi's Spaceship.
Kid Buu as the final boss is still to this date one of the hardest fights in any DBZ game
Continously going in and out of Popo's shop to get Dragon Balls unlocked a memory from over 20 years ago of doing the exact same thing for hours as a child lmao
The intention of the developers was that you would trade items with friends. If you were playing with 4 or 5 friends you'd have every item in like a month or so.
how trade @@garrettchandler1948
@garrettchandler1948
Wait, that was a thing you could do?
Still feels bad. I don't even trade Pokemon, why would I trade Dragon Ball capsules, lmfao
Also, trading implies you actually swap them, how would you have everything in a month, then?
@Billyblue98 if you had a few friends independently playing on their own files and unlocking different random items you could all get together one weekend and all trade your duplicates. Thus cutting the grind down by a multiple of how ever many friends you had.
@@garrettchandler1948 but I picked Dragon Ball instead of friends... 🤔
the bit about Budokai 1 taking the place of DVDs and Blurays is such a good point. Kids are spoiled now compared to what it was like then. Must have played story mode repeatedly just to watch it
Not really since a lot of us recorded them ourselves on VHS.
@@Kenshiro3rdnot exactly convenient 🤣
And when youtube started to have dbz fights. That's where I started watching them. All the ones that I missed
FMV with Linkin Park as background music? 😂@@sayjinpat4life
@@wanavacoa no actual fights like goku vs vegeta and so on. From the show
The Cell what if in Budokai doesn't have to make sense, because it's a dream. The "explanation" is that Cell's opinion of Krillin is low, so of course he'd have a nightmare about his absorption process about almost achieving Perfection only to somehow end up weaker.
They didn’t have the buu saga in budokai 1 because we were just now getting the dubbed version of the buu saga in America when the game was released
This is accurate
Actually not true. It's just theorized that's the case. The actual reason is that they simply just didn't have time.
But the game was made in Japan? Do you think that Japan cared to not to not put the buu saga in to not spoil the US audience? Probably just due to time restraints lmao
It is True that the Buu Saga was still Airing on American Television around 2001 and 2002 prior to the release of DBZ Budokai 1,
But that was completely False, the Buu Saga was originally supposed to be added into Budokai 1, the real Reason it didn't make it into the Finished Product was because of Time Constraints, the Hype for the Game was Wild so a lot of Content have to be Cut, that's why there were only 2 Mini-Game Sections for Goku and Piccolo on their respected Raditz Chapters,
These Problems would eventually be Fixed in the Sequels like Budokai 2 and 3 where they finally add in the Buu Saga, also bringing in the Mini-Game Sections into "DBZ: Infinite World."
Right plus they gotta have content for the sequel. Budokai 2 was even more awesome because of that
I remember leaving our ps2 running while playing budokai 2 because we didn’t have a memory card. Looking back, I’m surprised that ps2 and game disk survived 😂
Dawg why do I have this exact memory!!! Same game and same reason. I even remember my dad took me to buy one cause I told him that’s why I wasn’t turning the ps2 off but i think I actually turned it off before I got to save any after buying one and so I had to redo it anyway 😂
"why did they do this, why did they cut it into two parts like this?"
Replayability and rental game culture. You have to understand just how huge game rentals were in that era. Plus having an unlockable bit like that at the time made things FEEL more epic than they actually are, it was a marketing gimick at the time "Look how jam packed this game is with content!" while doing so with a relatively limited overall amount of content.
Sean Schmeal.
Lmao
Christopher Suhbat
What about Dragon Ball Z Infinite World being the forgotten Budokai game? 😂
You answered yourself, lol.
@@TheTrueChuster I didn't. It was my response to what he said about Budokai 2.
It’s objectively the best
@@rikudou947i disagree
its technically the 4rth game in the budakai tenkaichi series.i beleive the order is budakai 1 2 3, budakai tenkaichi 1 2 3, infinite world
I think The Great Saiyaman is a great hidden character, hes fun, surprising, and adding a Super early Buu Saga character as the only one is so funny, and kinda makes since in a way. Their may have been better choices but I think hes fun and I understand the choice
I'm STILL mad they didn't include budokai 2 in the HD collection.
Then again i do have all 3 games on ps2 now plus a glowing goku controller so it worked out for me in the end
Dragon World has an item that gives characters an extra turn when collected and can only be found by digging. Goku does not automatically get an extra turn, you’ve must’ve found one by luck. Super Buu in stage 8 has one in his spawn point and grabs it by digging it up if you don’t get to him right away.
Not sure if anyone mentioned it, but there is a secret ending with Broly in B3 where he defeats Gohan and destroys Earth.
He mentioned it in the Budokai 3 section… did you watch the video?
The thing about the Cell absorption is that in his first form he was just eating people, using them as food. But with the two androids (and krillian) he wasn't eating them, he was assimiliating them. He had been made to assimilate them and integrate their genetics and ki and components. He hadn't been made to assimiliate Krillian, so it's like installing a Potatochip into a computer and hoping it works.
I remember that Cell absorbing Krillin bit so well. I love it.
I’m excited to watch DB for the first time. Rip Toriyama bless you for being the father of anime.
Anime and manga was around long before Toriyama. He's definitely on the Mt. Rushmore of anime but he's far from the father.
He’s more of a godfather to modern shonen anime. Modern shonen being stuff like Naruto, Bleach, Demon Slayer, One Punch Man, JJK- stuff like that- built for male centered audiences...
Not the “father of anime” but he deserves his praise for putting a goddamn legendary manga and anime on the map.
He is the father of western mainstream love of anime@@girthbrooks3640
He isn't the father of anime, that title's actually given to Ozamu Tezuka (creator of Astro Boy, Dororo, Black Jack, etc)
The disrespect in Cell absorbing Krillin making him *weaker.*
The disrepsect in bringing Majin Cell to be useless. Of all the characters a Majin Cell would have been nuts
I like to think that happens because, it being his dream, *Cell thought Krillin was so weak that absorbing him would have crippled him.*
46:54 Yeah, I made this mistake as a kid and beat Frieza with Piccolo instead of Goku so I never got Super Saiyan. Instead I got "Fuse with Nail" as a skill for Piccolo. Trying to beat Kid Buu with a non-Super Saiyan Goku was a hurdle I could never get over as a kid.
great saiyaman is the ideal bonus character because its just fuckin goofy and thats amazing.
i love the running gag of android 19's absence in these games cause I've never seen anyone bring this guy so much up than this youtuber
Not a important feature of DBZ b1 was the skill friezas spaceship. It let you play as cyber Frieza when you run out of health. Kind of like an additional character as well
Already in budokai 2 (only the gamecube and V2 version) and budokai 3. It's also the only way to play with Metal Cooler/Mecha Frieza. So it was not exclusive to B1 at all.
Budokai deserves do much love. So sick to see people still making content about it. I can't sleep so I'm so glad I you uploaded this
Reliving some old DBZ nostalgia recently due to Akira Toriyama’s passing and this video was just what I needed! Subscribed !! ❤️🔥
I think Great Saiyaman is the best option for hidden characters from beyond the Cell Saga. Consider: the big moments of the buu saga would.have been partially spoiled since it hadn't premiered fully for the US if it was put in (Ultimate Gohan, any form of Buu, Goku with a Halo, Majin Vegeta (beyond the image in game but that seemed like an oversight tbh), Vegito, Supreme Kai, hell even Videl or Yamu or Spopovich would have been giving details away).
By making it Great Saiyaman you get a cheeky reference to the early Buu Saga, another take on a character in game, and a means to kinda entice people to look for the sequel for more characters while having fun. I think it was a great choice even if it isn't the strongest or coolest character.
Good to hear I'm not the only one who learned a lot about DBZ by way of the story mode in the Budokai games. I would eventually get to watch the series and read the manga, but my introduction to it all was through the games.
Great video but slight correction:
In budokai 3, certain characters other than Goku and Vegeta have hidden missions and endings on a second playthrough. For example, Uubs second playthrough ends with him fighting omega shenron. Krillin can also only reach the cell saga on his second DU playthrough, and so on
I remember my mom getting me budokai 2 Christmas Eve and played for like 6 hours ,this game was fire and budokai 3 was THEE DBZ GAME 🙌🏾🙌🏾🔥🔥🔥
Beating Broly wirh Videl on Z3, will always be a memory
z 3 was a real bi34h to complete but it felt great when i did
DBZ: Infinite World is basically Budokai 4 but without the name for some reason. It more or less Budokai 3 in terms of quality with the gameplay but with an awful tutorial and mid story mode to play. The saving grace though? No dragon rushes. Hyper Mode exist but you can directly use the hyper attack without playing rock paper scissors. Objectively better if you just want to play with friends just for that alone. Would love to see you do a full review on it if you are willing. No one seem to be aware of the game due to how late it release on the PS2 lifespan being one of the literal last games to be released on it.
I'm gonna work my way to that one for sure
Was just thinking to comment this. I loveeeeed Infinite World. Best one of the four story and gameplay wise for me. Especially for the characters.
Would LOVE a follow up to this talking about the Budokai Tenkaichi games!
Stick around then because it's happening
Budokai 3 had the best story mode love he different branches and interactions you get after multiple playthroughs. Meeting Broly, having Uub fighting Omega Shenron. Just peak.
Just found this channel, loving the deep retrospects. A lot of youtubers just gloss through the games, you actually go through ALL the modes and tell of your experience in completing it. Plus the funny tidbits brighten up the videos, Cell absorbing Krillin on repeat and Popo's store shop dialogue lmao
Love to have you!
Actually, the opening of his tail does work like a fusion, which is why he had no choice but to cough up 18 when he took that hit to the stomach
wow the character select screen in Budokai 1 is so charming. I love all the Toriyama art that game uses for its UI.
Also, for the Budokai 2 boxart, the US version had an iridescent metallic background, so all that white space on the cover would get this cool rainbow effect when you tilted it in the light. As a kid I was disappointed that budokai 2 didn't have the cutscenes of the first game, but looking back, I do appreciate what Dragon World had to offer. The one thing about the game I didn't like was that, as you mentioned, all the characters used the same few templates for their moves, and they all had identical stances.
100% hit it on the nail. DBZ Budokai gave me chills as a kid and definitely was how I learned the story of dragon ball z. New sub👍🏽
Really love the hard work put in the making
Love budokai 3, the only thing that ruins the experience for me is the Dragon Rush
Real, the ai spams that shit on higher difficulties
U make incredible videos! Concise and really well written. While keeping this easy to understand and engaging. Cant wait to see what u make next Evan!
It's insane how it's been a decade and a half since I've played Budokai 3 and I have forgotten most of it but finding the super saiyan 4 capsule as Goku was such a memorable experience as a kid and when the clip played in the video, the memories of that feeling I had as a kid immediately rushed back and I remembered that interaction almost perfectly. Thanks for including that part in the video.
Thank you for letting me relive it all again! What a time it was
I will 100% watch another type of this video if you cover the tenkaichi series! I really liked how you set up the video and it feels like you tackle everything while also showing clips!
Great video!!! I watched the whole thing ! I love the vibe keep it up bro !
Gotta do a budokai tenkaichi breakdown vídeo like this one, for all three
I think it's worth mentioning that in Budokai 1 the reason for the roster having almost no Buu Arc characters or story is because the English dub of the series was not that far along. IIRC in 2002 we were either in late Cell or early Buu Saga.
Also, Budokai 2 for the GameCube was my jam as a kid. Me and my brother would each have our own characters on the map that we were controlling and we had a blast. I actually preferred and still do pref r it's Dragon World mode over the story mode of most every Dragon Ball game I've played since due to its originality.
I love that you made this video bc I used to play this growing up with my brother. Much love & I dropped a sub, & shared this with my besto friendo
I remember me at 3 yo and my lil brother at 1 got stuck at the Raditz mini game of my dad’s copy of Budokai 1. Weird that that’s the reason I’m into dragon ball. Saw my uncle watching Z on a Saturday morning once and recognized it and it all went from there
Great vid. Knew pretty much all of these things, but it was great to listen to when I was gaming and your editing was nice. Thank you.
More DBZ game breakdowns coming!
Howdy, multi-hundred hour Budokai 3 veteran of 20 years this year (jesus), but I noticed you actually missed the secret Gogeta vs Gotenks tournament ending. Great video though! Love the retrospective! (Edit, i saw some footage of it on the Tournament section tho!)
Was randomly recommended this and I'm hyped. Also really sure 19 being left out of this was a time cut. But infinite world not having him makes it feel malicious lol
I’d love if this retrospective series continues with the Tenkaichi trilogy. This video was so awesome and filled me with so much nostalgia
That's the plan!
Good video! I grew up with Budokai 1 but didn't play 2 and 3 until a few years ago, always loved them though. I actually started a replay of Budokai 1 recently for the nostalgia! The story mode in 1 and 3 are fantastic, and the board game in 2 is really fun.
your hard work is appreciated
Damn dude.... Cell was having a nightmare it didn't have to make sense!!
Also Great Saiyaman was the unlockable character was cus - as you said, Buu saga was debuting around this time, so Saiyaman would be the most relevant thing at the time, assuming the game development time assumed America wouldn't have adult gohan truly fighting or Buu being out
Love this video bro!! Budokai 2 was my main and like you said I used the first game to watch the entire story
When you talked about the aspect of having to catch episodes of DBZ on Toonami because of streaming services being non existent at the time, it made me realize just how lucky this generation is because on top of not having streaming services, the season box set dvds also weren’t available yet so the games really were the main way to get caught up on anything you missed. Me for example didn’t get to catch the Z episodes until mid Android arc on Toonami so Budokai was actually my introduction to Goku’s Super Saiyan transformation on Namek and everything that had happened before Vegeta’s fight with Android 18. Looking back I thought “how the hell did we manage back in the 2000s?” But then i remembered back then we actually went outside, hung out with friends, and actually socialized. Being a 2000s kid myself, I’m iffy about social media and other advancements in technology but I’m also thankful that we now have access to all the shows and every episode of said shows we missed out on back then. Off topic but hell I never even knew there was an arc after The Dark Tournament in Yu Yu Hakusho until the season dvds released because of Toonami/Adult Swim changing the time slot after the Dark Tournament aired
Honestly this is such a wonderful video to watch and see your perspective of Budokai series, but I'm now left so curious what your thoughts on the true black sheep of the budokai franchise of Infinite world is now, seeing as it takes quite a few of the cut contents from Budokai and finally realises it in such a title.
45:00 Budokai 2 Will letting you use characters that aren't canonical to the story and have secret voice lines when you do so is a really cool Easter egg and definitely feels like it's keeping the tradition of Budokai 1 having the "what ifs"
Budokai 3 was how I experienced the story of dragon ball z for the first time
I wasn’t lucky enough to catch the show when it was airing and I had already given my family’s computer too many viruses trying to pirate it.
It’s nice to hear that i wasn’t alone in this experience
This brings back some memories, man. I played the hell out of B3 and its by and large my favorite. I remember my brother and I working to unlock everything on his memory card, and by god, we did. I even remember a match I had with a friend many years later that basically put everyone else in my social circle at the time off from playing with me.
My favorite DB character is Vegeta, but in this match, I had chosen Goku (with Super Saiyan 2, Kamehameha, and Meditation as my skills). My friend chose Vegeta with Breakthrough. It was fairly even, and then he got a Dragon Rush off, hitting me with a SS4 powered Final Flash. I think that put me on my last bar of health? It's been so long. But according to him, it was as if something in me snapped, because after that, he didn't manage a single hit afterwards until he lost. It was after that that literally no one else wanted to play me cause they didn't want that to happen to them lol.
It is my personal opinion, that despite how well loved the Tenkaichi series is and how well FighterZ was received and developed, B3 is THE best Dragonball fighting game, hands down. Easy to pick up, no need to use a fight stick if you want to play 'professionally', and the roster doesn't have absolutely broken characters (I still have bad memories of my friend shitting on me with Super 17 when I *first tried Tenkaichi 3* and never thought to let me get a handle on the game). Speaking of Tenkaichi, I hate how its roster splits the transformations as their own 'character', but that's a topic for another day.
Great video and an amazing trip down memory lane!
Yeah man, b3 is another level of great! I'm working on Tenckaici soon though.
Amazing video! Can’t believe I was locked in for the full 2 hrs. Pleaseeee do the tenkaichi series next!!!
the point about experiencing the series through the games is really interesting to me, because i’m just now realizing that’s how i experienced 95% of the series and that speaks to how intrigued i was by the story, considering i was barely even watching the show.
This was hilarious and accurate. The Mr. Popo part 😂
It took me 3 days to finish this but it was worth it. Brought back memories
5:42 Someone forgot about VCRs & VHS tapes. We recorded that ****. We also bought tapes, when/if we could afford it.
bit of an early comment as yah boi says he had like 12 tapes
@@RoKKr023iYeah I jumped a little early, Still he ignored the fact that we taped that **** ourselves... easily get 10-12 Eps per tape using extended play. Lord knows I did...
We also had limewire and bearshare downloads 😂
I even bought bootleg vhs tapes of the movies with fan subs from a local shop
I can relate with you 100% with the watching the anime through the game part. I focused most of my money on purchasing the Buu series and filled in the rest of the gaps through the game.
Very good review of the 3 main games! I was a gamecube kid so I never got to play the 3rd in the series, but I LOVED 2 because of so much "what if" stuff being included. Would love to see your take on Burst Limit, which is like a pseudo-budokai game
Dubs! I love those types of bundled together videos into one long retrospective.
Can’t wait to see the Budokai Tenkaichi series retrospective (Even Tag Team Tenkaichi and ultimate Tenkaichi🤠)
Your section on the dragonrush mechanic was so validating to how i felt when replaying the game recently
Nice to see Budokai 2 getting some praise for once. It was the one I played most as a kid and I adored the board game style story mode. So many people seem to to skip it cause they look at the series as "you play 1 for the story and 3 for the gameplay."
Honestly I love dragon rush especially in multi-player I can't forget the hype and intensity when you do it and try to look at your friends buttons
Budokai 1 is so nostalgic. It is such a great game that I come back to play every now and then. 2 and 3 were my childhood and I couldn't think of any other series of games that can top them
I grew up playing both this franchise as well as the budokai tenkaichi.
I lean more towards BT due to the large and open the arenas were, specially on bt3.
Anyway, one of many aspects I really loved about the Budokai games shows right here at 3:34
I like how the characters could be 'knocked out' of their transformations.
Or how the Gogeta fusion was on a timer.
I would love a dragon ball games (Pre DBZ) made like a zelda game, where you play as goku go through the various sagas such as red ribbon, pilaf and king piccollo each with dungeons to explore and solve with items and upgrades to help you on your way.
This trilogy was the intro for me to DB games. Fell off after 3 so I never got to try the tenkaichi series that I've heard so much hype about. Still got them and my ps2, might do a run back for nostalgia sake 🤔
On the PS2 only played Budokai Tenkaichi 2 and 3, and Infinite World. So it was nice learning a little about the Budokai series.
I love watching these us centric videos about dragon ball. It was a world wide phenomenon since the 90s. In Europe we were playing super buttoden on our snes’s long before it came to the us.
We need a dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi collection on ps5
No point since 'Sparking ZERO!' is the next in line of that series. Sure, you may think it'd be "Hype as fuck" to play through the older games to wait for the successor to release, but it'd only exhaust people and they wouldn't bother buying the new game. Or they'd skip the collection and buy the new game. Either way, the devs that would hypothetically work on said collection would lose money and so would Toei. It makes no sense to do that.
Uub vs omega Z3 difficulty, such a hard fight… my teen self had to cheese that fight with the “poison” item… so proud of that cheese. Budokai 3 is one of the best games ever made
Budokai 1
I'm assuming the sections were broken up the way they were for a couple of reasons. The first is so that your first playthrough covers the main plot points of the show, and later, you can fill in the gaps. The second reason is likely for replayability. You cover the main story in the first playthrough, and then you can play "side quests" that fill in the gaps of the story, giving you a reason to replay the game multiple times.
The way Cell absorbs other humans is different than how he absorbs 17 and 18. With other humans, he injects his tail like a syringe and sucks them through that way. With the Androids, he opens up his tail and swallows them whole. So in that what if, he rather than using his tail like a syringe, he swallowed Krillin whole, resulting in a transformation. And if nothing else, it's just a dream, and dreams tend to be weird like that. In Cell's case, he explains it at the end. "I suppose ten days was just too long to wait for the tournament." (It's been a while since I've played the game, so forgive any mistakes as paraphrasing strictly from memory.)
Budokai 2
I don't hate Budokai 2. But like you said, I just don't think of it much. It's probably because it doesn't properly follow the show. It's more like a What-If scenario.
This game was also neet in how it created non-canon What-If verations of characters. Or at least, it does it with Buu. This game created Frieza Buu and Cell Buu.
As someone who spent probably thousands of hours on the budokai series as a kid, the combat element of teleportation in 3 completely changes the whole flow of battle and ki management. Teleportation alone makes it jarring playing 2 or 1 after 3 even though I LOVE 2's story mode and 1's ambitious cutscenes. I remember unlocking all the highest difficulties in 3, learning what characters had the strongest AIs (Z3 difficulty kid buu is something else, but certain random characters also seem to have a stronger AI, like Nappa of all people). The intricacies of the battle style of budokai 3 will always make me prefer it over budokai tenkaichi 3, though I respect that game highly for different reasons. BT3's character roster is insane, and sometimes my brother and I would each pick a COM team to see who would win and watch it like sports lol.
Did you ever get Budokai 4 (Infinite World)? If not then you'll have some more fun to go back to haha.
Fun facts with the Budokai 2 story, the Popo spots don’t actually teleport you to a random spot. It is predetermined and does not change. Also the item placements with the exception of the dragon balls do not change between playthroughs. Because of this, I have a whole guide in a sketchbook for each stage of the story for my playthroughs to plan my movements as I gather the dragon balls to get the breakthrough skills and “secret” fusions. ALSO Goku isn’t the only character you can give more than one move per turn to.
Personally I think that the first one overall was the best, and its mainly because of the story mode, because as mentioned in your video it allowed you to enjoy key moments in the overall DBZ story, and this was in a timeframe when DVDs were just released, which made DVD players expensive and DVD recording pretty much unaffordable, and collections of the anime didn't exist yet, so it was the best way to experience DBZ, and I also think that once you learned the combat system, you could easily cheese opponents, but I think the best combat was in Budokai 2 as it was the one that added the shortcut attacks, where pressing stuff like right+circle let you use beam attacks, and there wasn't a crazy dodge or teleport system like in Budokai 3, or stupid broken characters like Omega Shenron who could recover all his KI bars without doing anything.
A friend growing up had some dragon Ball z import games on the PS1 you had to put a little spring in the system it was a whole process but the game had characters that we wouldn't see on TV for another 10 years it was amazing
Budokai 3 is still my favorite dbz game (followed closely by DBFZ now). Hearing the Budokai music in this video felt so good… I might dust off my PS2
All of the Dragon Universe non-canon fights like Cooler, Broly, and GT are hidden because we weren't handed anything back then. They can be courteous to give us a vague hint and even rarer a decent hint. This era of secrets and finding out stuff for yourself is over these days unfortunately.
Great video, took me back to the gloriousness of the PS2 days. Especially B3 since it came out in the best year of gaming, 2004. The year we got Halo 2, MGS3 Snake Eater, Metroid Prime 2, and GTA San Andreas. So all games released in the holidays had to go all out if they wanted to compete with those four GOTY games. You really couldn't go wrong if you skipped on those major games and got Budokai 3 or Ace Combat 5 instead.
The legend of Hercule was such a boost to maxing the game asap. GS was an amazing hidden character
Techincally there is a fourth cover for Budokai 3. When tehy re-released Budokai 3 as a Greatest Hits title, they used the JP cover as a basis for it, but with the Budokai 3 logo. This version also advertised having the JP voices as an option in the game, a feature that wasn't in the original release, so that's pretty neat. Unfortunately, there was an error where the wrong version of the game was put on the disc, so SOME Greatest Hits copies are missing this advertised feature. If I remember correctly, Atari had a program where you could send in your disc and receive a replacement with the correct version of the game.
Should talk about the history and state of dragon ball fighterz next.
Wow, he really hates Great Saiyaman. Every time he's mentioned Evan says he wished it was someone else.
Dude cries like a baby for including gag characters in a dragon ball of all things.
He rather have Zarbon or 19. Characters nobody even cared about.
@@MultiDevon123i mean you kinda need those two for plot
@@enenra6417do you tho…?
@tonyhakston536 yeah you need zarbon without him Vegeta wouldn't be as strong as he is in the namek saga. 19 was there to show off Super Vegeta, how the androids work, and get goku out the story for a little
Oh God. The nostalgia! Hearing Linda Young's Freeza voice is a nostalgic gut punch!
The only reason Budokai 1 ends at the Cell Saga, is because the Buu Saga hadn't aired yet on TV in America. They didnt wanna spoil it. But the Fandom had grew so large by this point, the demand for a decent video game was THRU THE ROOF. I remember having friends at School that had DBZ Final Bout for PS1, & they would always say how AWFUL the game was.
The only saving grace with final bout was the AMAZING soundtrack imo
Final Bout hate is so overdone. It's a fun game with an unique aesthetic, plus the first 3D DB game ever. Of course nothing starts ideal, but it's a better start than people give it credit for.
The beam struggle analog stick spinning in budokai 3 was my brothers equivalent to the mario party 1 lawsuit 😂 Dude would go so hard he'd have bloody palms after us playing for a couple hours
The whole series 🔥😮💨 I had all of them including the Japan versions me and mom used to be up all night playing
Having only ever owned the PAL version of Budokai 1, it was quite shocking to see the Budokai 1 characters with their English VAs.
I forgot which of these games I played as a kid, now I know it was the first one. One of my favorite ps2 games and it was my first exposure to dragon ball.
I never caught the anime when it was airing. I would hear kids in school talking about DBZ and yelling “Kamehameha” in the halls, once the Tenkaichi games started releasing, I FINALLY got to experience the story in some fashion. I was so happy as a kid that I could finally know what this “Super Sayin” was, and figuring out it was spelled Saiyan, and just all the story beats, and UGHHH I LOVE THIS FRANCHISE WITH A PASSION