Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot - First Impressions

Episode Date: January 17, 2020

Blessing, Imran, and Andy play through some of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot and give their first impressions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny First Impressions. I'm one of your host's Blessing at Aalje Jr. Joining me, we got Imran the Don Con. How are you doing, Imran? Howdy. We also have, yeah, right? It's a great nickname.

You know, I'm adding my own nicknames for everybody, including Twitch.tv slash Andy Cortez. Wow. I mean, it's not really a nickname, but it's just a new way of introducing. It was going to be Twitch.com. It was going to be Twitch. It was going to be Twitch. Or, no, Andy, Twitch.

Twitch.combe slash Maximum, Cortez. but then I realized you got the Maxman in there. Changed it a while. Do you think anyone has their name legally changed to a URL? Oh, 100%. There has to be somebody. Well, our friend Lannin, Laserbeam, the big Fortnite streamer from over in Australia, he got a tattoo that says code laser for his epic store code, his creator code.

That's actually a good idea. He got a tattooed on him, yeah. That's like us getting like patreon.com slash kind of funny games. It's kind of funny. Twitch Prime. Twitch Prime. Of course, this is kind of funny first impressions where we take a look at the new games we're playing

and give our first thoughts. You can access it live right here on twitch.tv.tv slash Kind of Funny Games or later on YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games. Today we're playing Dragon Ball Z Kakar out for PS4, Xbox 1 and PC. And we're playing, Imran's going to be driving the ship as far as playing the game. This is a new thing we're doing here.

And so this is our first kind of funny first impressions. We're thinking of it along the lines as something like a giant bomb. A quick looking. You can probably put the game on the screen for everybody to see. Don't sue us. Yeah, please don't sue a giant bomb. Because it's different.

It's the first impressions. I'll sue you right back. I don't care for what. Exactly. You guys don't have Dan Rocker anymore to protect you. I'll sue your ass right back. We'll go all the way in. But yeah, the idea is that we want to have gameplay with you guys.

We want this to kind of be separate from Gamescast, KFGD, P.S. So think of it this way, right? Gamescast, we're doing big topics, big rounds. roundtable discussion reviews but usually for games cast we're having one focused discussion right KFGD obviously is news PIS LVX OXO is me and Greg Sting right talking about PlayStation specifically the PlayStation news PlayStation topics and our impressions on games and this right here we're giving our first impression on oh here is Greg Miller coming to you Greg Miller I heard you're talking about a show

PS I love oh yeah I want to come give you your first piece well for a show oh oh oh my god Look at this. Nice. When are these shirts out? I know. Fuck you. Fuck you.

Small. Okay, I'll get you. Fuck you. Cool. So there's no first impression shirt for you, you know what I'm saying? It's weird when there's not a Wadow mask. When can they expect these? Tuesday.

Wow. Over on we're at khanifling.com slash store. Yeah. That's it. See? That's it. It's like I've been here forever. Medium.

We're going to get into Dragon Ball's E Kackterot, Barry. if you can, can they see it? Yeah, they can. Oh, okay. It's a different setup. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. If you want to go ahead and let's get this game started. How many hours into it are you?

It says, I think, 18, but I, like, realistically, maybe, like, 15? Wow, you've played a lot. I played it only, like, three hours last night. I don't think, okay, we'll get into impressions in a bit. Sure. I don't think the game is bad, but I've been enjoying just making Dragon Ball noises at me for a while. And here's, that's kind of my thing, too, is I'm about, six hours. I think me and Andy are in similar places in the game, but I've just been

messing around, flying around, doing random stuff. It's been a hard thing for me to kind of get into. Like, I enjoy Dragon Ball Z games. I've played quite a bit of them. And I think this one being like a 40 hour long, and that's just me estimating. I don't know if it's confirmed how long this game is supposed to be, but... I'm like, middle of freezes song at like 20 hours. Okay, so like, yeah, 40 hours. I've heard it's around 40 for the main story and anyone. from like 80 to 100% for 100% condition. My thing is, as far as gameplay, there's some stuff in this game

that kind of keeps me coming back, but overall, I'm kind of let down by it. By the way, there's Dragon Ball spoilers in this. I don't, like... Yeah, if you haven't seen Dragon Ball Z, what are you doing here? First of all, what are you doing? I mean, it only came out last year.

You got, you know. Oh, that's what you do. You shoot those. Gotcha. I didn't know what you did. These are what you did. Got it, very cool. I didn't even realize key blasts in the main.

Is that just by pressing first person? So this game's controls are insane. But you're terrible. I don't, how do you feel about the fighting control so far? Fighting controls, I guess, are whatever. They're fine. Like, I just hammer a circle. And like, it's not exactly an end-depth balance.

Flying controls, I think, are garbage. It's really, really bad. It's bad. Descend is R2. Ascend is R1. I almost never actually get that right. Yeah. I always forget.

I was telling blessing. So for those of y'all who, you know, don't fully understand what the, maybe you're, you can listen to this as a podcast right now. So right now, Imran is flying as Piccolo. And, yeah, to ascend is R2, you don't use the right stick to control where you're aiming. It's just a camera change. So the only way to go up or down is with R1 and R2 elevation-wise. Yeah. And I think it's such a bad choice.

It feels like you should be able to turn your camera down and then fly down. Downwards or turn your camera up and fly upwards like every other thing yeah anything else that has ever had a dual stick I was telling blessing it reminds me of When you first played Mario 64 and the C buttons controlled your camera This feels like a solution that was put into a game where It's not really it's as if they didn't know that how to I mean I just want to change it. I want to turn ascend on the right or are just on the right stick. Yeah, and here's the thing I So I played a lot of Tenkaiichi three that has a similar

similar-ish kind of setup for flying where you can you press L1 and L2 for flying. Even that like I feel like felt better in that game for some reason. When you're controlling the oh man we're gonna cutscene here. I forgot about this free the form. It looks freaky. Yeah. It's really gross. But um yeah there's something about having a B R1 and R2

for the ascension and D dissension while also doing the camera with the right analog stick. It kind of makes everything feel off yeah. How is that pathetic worm still alive? My attack should have been fatal. My left arm looks really weird. There's a couple of things that are like, all right, his left. Overall, though, stylistically, I like this game.

Like, visually. Have you gotten to the Vigida fight in? No, I just defeated Napa, I was saying? Or not defeated Napa, but I got into a fight with Napa and I won. When I was playing is Gohan. You're fighting like six times. But like, the Vigida fight is on. is the first actual graphical showcase of this game.

Really? Because it basically, it looks like a modern rendered version of the animation. Oh, wow. I mean, even in the open world, I feel like it, for me, I think it looks impressive. At points, like, this I think, like, looks cool. Namik is not a necessarily great-looking place. Yeah, Namik doesn't look great, but, like, the characters and kind of how they're juxtaposed against the environment.

Yeah, I think it looked pretty good. Yeah, it reminds you of Tenkaichi, which is like, I remember thinking, oh, this is the best Dragonball games. Tank Aichi won. I remember seeing screenshots to that and being like, I didn't know games could look this good. I think it was like for me

the first cell shaded game I remember seeing. That was me with Madden. Yeah. The first cell shaded game. I think the game is really pretty, right? And I had some people in my chat room last night when I was streaming and say,

ah, this game looks older. And that's how cell shaded is. That's if you do anything else to the cell shading, then it no longer is cell shading. It's no longer an animal. It no longer resembles a 2D animated show. One thing that I don't really love is early on in the game, there are different fights that you have, and you win the fight,

and then the subsequent cutscene afterwards is you losing for the story purposes, right? And it just feels like nothing I did mattered. I really don't like that stuff. I think the main thing that's sort of keeping me on is just the story. It's nostalgia. I was a kid when I watched this, so I'm enjoying it for those purposes, but everything else feels, game design-wise, I feel like this, it's just really uninspired. Yeah, no, game design-wise, I think especially. Like, for me, in a lot of parts, it feels like a PS2 game, right?

When you're going around the open world and there's just like a bunch of collectibles that are scattered around, but with no rhyme or reason, it feels like they're just there just to be there. So you have something to do off-line? Yeah, it's there to call the world an open world. Right. You know what I mean? Like, that's the only purpose it serves. there really isn't an open world I was a little frame jitterating

I've had quite a bit of that Is that a base PS4 thing? Because I'm playing on pro And I've never seen that before I'm playing on a pro and I've still had it But really only when I Come in and out of certain cutscenes Have I noticed a image?

Yeah usually for me it is When I'm coming out of a cutscene Or if there's like a title card Coming on screen or something That's when it starts to freeze up I've had it be kind of battle quite a few times I have started enjoying the combat

More and more as I've gone along Same. I think I, once I've started getting the rhythm down and sort of understood what the game requires of me. The point where I am right now, I'm like, I'm actually really hard for, like, I guess not impossibly hard. It's just more difficult than it has been. I've died a couple of times at this point. Which is like one of the days I went into battle with like a cool of health, which is that. Good idea.

Because I didn't realize it's going to be four fights in a row. That was my issue while I was fighting Napa just now, like right before the stream. I was at my desk playing and I kept getting frustrated because I was playing as Gohan and I think I had like my last bar of health plus like you know like an inch or so And so I was going in I was fighting against Napa with little health and he had one move out just take me out and one hit every single time And so I would have to perfect dodge that move like four times in the battle in order to in order to actually defeat him Which I was really defeating him I was just like going on to the next custom I'll just like get his health a half But right it's a frustrating thing and it's the thing where it's like you know, I feel like a lot of minor issues in this game kind of build up in a way where I'm like, man, if this is better and this is better and like some of the fighting systems are better and the way to kind of construct the open world is better, I can see this game being a good game.

But so far, it just doesn't feel, gameplay-wise, it doesn't feel like it's pushing anything forward. It feels, to me, it almost feels like a license game. It feels like they're phoning it in, honestly. It does, yeah. This kind of occupies the same space in my mind that like one piece on the moon. did. What One Piece World Seeker did? Yeah.

Like that open world One Piece game, it's like, oh, it's super cool. They're doing an open world One Piece game. They're putting more effort into this than they usually do.

There were some moments early on that I noticed where, uh, it feels like they want you to get through the story, but don't really care how you get there. Yeah. In terms of what the gameplay actually is. So for those of you who,

you know, the game comes out tomorrow. and I'm sure people in chat wondering, and people in the comments wondering, what is the game? Of course. So I have some game facts here. Yeah, go ahead.

Right? So the game's releasing tomorrow, January 17th, for PS4, Xbox 1 and PC. Developed by CyberConnect 2, and published by Bain Dynamco. And boiled down into one-seventh, right? It's an open-world action and role-playing game based on the Dragon Ball franchise,

specifically Dragon Ball franchise. We're going from the Sayan saga, so when Goku and them meet Raddits, right, his brother and he comes down and kind of opens up the world in that way and then going all the way up to, I assume they probably said this somewhere but I assume it's up to boo, right?

It's up through boo, yeah. Up through boo, which I don't know if there's anything up through boo. I don't know if there's anything past. I don't want to be anywhere near there. I mean, you do go inside boo. Yeah, you're right, right. But I don't know if there's anything past boo that's part of the Z story.

In terms of like when it was originally written or do you mean for this game? For like, when during the original, like the show. Because like is Baby Vegeta, is that before? That is GT. Is that GT?

Yes. Okay. I'll never forget, guys, just, you know, being a young, Andy, being on Kazah, and like, searching illegally for photos of what GT was going to be. You thought I was going to talk about porn. Oh, yeah. I was waiting for a bit. Searching for concepts of what, and all it was is bullshit fan art that me and my friends

completely bleed were real. So it'd be like, go. Ku with like pink hair and Vegeta with like, I don't know, mullet. It's just weird shit like that. It would be like, whoa, like, GT's going to go in a crazy direction. And I just never watched it. Never watched DT.

So Amron, how, you played about 15 hours to get up to this point. How do you feel about the upgrade system and everything kind of around the, like, the community system? Yeah. Community, I think is really cool. So we'll look at community when I get a chance and like. Because so far, four hours in, I understand none of it. I don't know what I'm doing.

Good. Maybe you can explain all of it to me, Amund. There is so many fucking systems. in this game. Like, an unnecessary amount, and they don't explain any of it. They just show you a picture of a controller. It's like, all right, go for it. Oh, my gosh. The first 30 minutes of this game are just, oh, yeah, it's prompt after-pron.

It's just reading prompts. You get into a fight pretty immediately, and they just throw the controller scheme on the, on the screen. I'm like, oh, okay, so I'm just supposed to understand this immediately, you know, and jump right in. And like, a lot of those prompts, like, have you got to the part where you have to learn how to hunt? Yes.

So it's like, make sure you sneak up behind the deer or go up behind, like, I just ran up to it. Run up to a big match circle. It's good. It's stuff like that. But I think community, like with that thing where you have community leaders and you create relationships and that give you buffs, like that is super cool because it's like, okay, well, these three people trained under Master Roshi.

I forget about this former freezer, too. That's good. It's in there for like a second. Yeah, dude. Dude, Barrett. Dude, Jack Mose is great. Is it? Like I said earlier, stay away from me when it comes to anime except for my hero academia.

Do you like Superman? One Piece and Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. Do you like Superman Barrett? He's fun. The thing about Dragon Ball Z... Who is interesting Superman? No, Allmite is interesting Superman. Get the fuck out here, Bluff.

The thing about Dragon Ball Z is that, like, we tend to, like, revere it as this, like, super cool thing that was, like, incredibly well-made. But it's, honestly, if you look at interviews of the character Toryama, he was tap dancing most of this time of, like, oh, people don't like this shit? I'm going to train this up. Like, the entirety of the Android saga was him second-guessing himself.

Really? That one of his editors was like, you're not really going to have two kids as a villain. No, no, it was, you're not going to have two old men as a villain, right? It's like, no, no, I have another villain. It's like, oh, you're not going to have two kids, right? Like, no, I have another thing. And then he didn't like Cell, so he made a transformation. He didn't like that transformation, so he made Perfect Cell.

Man. He was like, he can't hate it. It's called Perfect. There's no way he can hate this shit. He's like, look out clean and prestigious. Yeah, I want to keep playing it, right? I want to keep playing it just to sort of re-experience the story again, in a more abridged sort of fashion.

Yes. Because that's what the game kind of is, you know. But I wonder if, you know, does it, does the open worldness of it even help out what the game should be, you know? For me, I want to know, and there's something I am wrong can probably tell me, right, if the fighting gets better than where I'm at at the moment. It's harder. Like, and does it get better as it gets harder?

Because for me, like, you know, it's been kind of a breeze so far, aside from one or two of, like, the big fights that I had to try a few times on. And it's not necessary. I've never really felt like how much effort I put into it mattered, right? Like, if, I can't remember if there was a difficulty selection at the beginning of the game. But I feel there wasn't okay, because so far I'm, like, blazing through. And I don't know if it's one of those things where I need to put it to hard or something. But as your face is more challenging fights, do you feel like you are having to think more

and have to be more strategic in terms of like the moves you choose or how you approach villains? When I lose, I tend to lose because I did something dumb. Like I walked into a set of four fights with 10,000 HP, which is a quarter of what I'm supposed to have. Or it's because I picked a fight with someone that's just way stronger. Okay. Like in terms of level. I haven't really experienced that a whole lot yet in terms of... walking into fights that aren't prompted by the game.

You know, most of my combat has just been straight up. The game is telling you go fight this, or you run into an NPC that wants to fight you or whatever, whether it's, you know, all the sains in the beginning where you fight, you know, Yamcha and... Oh, yeah, and TN. TN and all them, yeah. Krillin.

The, I'll tell you what really sucks. Having to hit the damn X button after every goddamn dialogue. Oh, my gosh. piece of dialogue. That is a really bad action. It's a weird. There's no like auto version. It's a terrible decision. It's weird because the voice acting flows as if it should be going auto, right? And so they'll finish the line. I'll be waiting for the next line.

I'm like, oh, I got to press the X button. Yeah. Which is weird and frustrating. So one of the things I will say I really like about this game is just like, it's clearly made by Dragon Ball fans. So there's like side quests that, like, there's a pretty funny end joke is that whenever Gohan comes across something new,

he's like, my, dad told me about that. I learned about the Red Ribbon Army from my dad, I knew you because my dad talked about you. When he meets Poir and Yomcha, he's like, I've never heard of you. My dad's never talked about you. That's hilarious. And like, there's a side quest of, hey, we haven't seen lunch in a couple of years. Isn't that weird? And so it's, because that's a reference to the fact that, I'm here Torayama totally forgot that character existed.

Oh, that's funny. So she just gone at some point. That's a reference I didn't understand because while I was playing the game, launch was just on the ground. And I sort of flew over her and I saw this character and somebody said a couple people in chat were like wow launch is just totally chilling out there like as if like it's no big deal and it didn't connect to me because I didn't

know that piece of information. Yeah like and there's like little pieces of art you can find from Dragon Ball and it like explained to you what happened Oh yeah I love those. Yeah I like those look really cool as somebody like was an OG Dragon Ball fan was like trading in like fifth gen tapes of anime conventions like that's what healing to me. And that's I mean that's me too like I like

I like Dragon Ball I like watching Dragon Ball than I liked watching Dragon Ball Z back in the day, just because I think I was younger, and so Dragon Ball felt like it was more appealing to me, I guess. But I also, I find it interesting. I tweeted this earlier today that I feel like this game, this game kind of assumes that you've seen Dragon Ball, but it doesn't assume that you've seen Dragon Ball Z.

Yeah. Which is interesting because, like, they're making references to characters, like, when you first meet Piccolo, right? And they kind of talk about him as, oh, yeah, he used to be Demon King Piccolo. And if you know Dragon Ball, you understand all that history there. When if you haven't seen Dragon Ball, you're just like, oh. No idea.

Yeah, they're like, oh. okay right and they explain everything like since this is dragon mall z right they're doing their best to like guide you through the story and actually like make everything kind of compelling but there's so much assumed past here like i i was um flying around and i think it was as piccolo right and it was one of those things where i think raddits or maybe it was napa or somebody uh had just reached earth and piccolo's flying around he's like oh i feel a power or whatever it might be like one of those world tournament guys. And I was like,

World Tournament, oh, yeah, from Dragon Ball. And it's weird how much they reference Dragon Ball. But I love it, though, because I love Dragon Ball. The two first side quests

are given to you by Ader, who enjoyed Aid and NOM. Yes, NOM, yeah, from the tournament. Goku barely remembers them. It's like, most people are not going to remember who this is.

Yeah, when I saw them, I was like, wow, this is like, this is really cool. And that's the thing is that, I'm going to keep playing this game for a little bit more, you know,

even though I'm not necessarily having the best time with it, but it is bringing, bringing me some good feels in that respect. Like you said, it feels like a game that is made by Dragon Ball fans, Dragon Ball Z fans. And I love the fan service here. And I enjoy, like, you know, we're going through the story bits.

At a certain point, I feel like Dragon Ball Z feels like, it's almost like the Bible where it feels like it's been retold so many times. They were like, not even just the anime, but the games. Like, I played, because I'm going to go through all the games I played, right? I played Budukai. Go for it. Boodtkaye, 2, and 3. Tank Aichi 1 and 3.

Raging Blast 2. Dragon Ball Fighters. Like half of Dragon Ball sagas. And then I probably like some old... What about the King James version? Yeah, I played the King James version of Dragon Ball. But, like, you know, you... At a certain point, you're going through these stories

over and over again in the video games because... And I played Xeniverse 1 and 2. You're going through the stories over and over again. And it's fun because it's Dragon Ball. But at a certain point, it's like, man, they're just... You're retelling the story and it's hard to make it interesting. And I feel like this game does a good job of making a lot of these elements interesting. Through the side quest, through bringing back characters that you might not have expected,

through having pretty good voice acting and pretty good style and pretty good collectibles, aside from the collectibles that are sprinkled around the open world that are like your currency or whatever. But as far as the Dragon Ball art that you pick up, that stuff I think is super awesome. It's when you get into the actual systems and actual gameplay and the actual active exploration, and the RPG elements and all that stuff where it kind of falls apart for me even though I don't, I still, I don't feel like I'm far enough in the game

to really make a good judgment call on the systems that are here. Like you talk about the community systems where that you said you dig. And actually since you're in the open world now, is there any way to kind of check that stuff out? Yes. Because I want to know more

because I don't really know how that stuff affects gameplay yet where I'm at. So the community board is, there's different kinds of categories of communities that all have different buffs This is, for example, the warrior community. It is led by Goku, who is the community leader.

Okay. So, for example, everyone has relationships. And I have him connected right now to Bejita, Krilyn, Gohan, and Yamcha. And we can look at the soul emblems and see what their relationships are. So he has the ultimate father-son team. He has a turtle school disciples,

which is him, Krillin, and Yamcha. Has an enemy from friend, which is him, Bejita, Piccolo, and Tijit Han. And, like, there's some that I... Wait, what you call? Tenshinhan? Tien? So the American Virgin called him Tien.

I'm going to use the Japanese names because that's the way I learned them. I didn't know that was his name. I apologize. Did you watch the... Did you watch the... The sub? You watch the sub?

You watch the subs. Wow. That's wild. That's such an Imran thing to do. I believe that. I believe that. But like there's a cooking one where Chi Chi is a leader.

How about the adult board? Go to the adult community board led by the pervert himself. And it is immediately referenced, by the way. Oh, my God. flying, they're flying to his place, I've already forgot his name, Maseroshi, they're flying to Maseroshi's

place and Goku is like, I'm going to take my son there and then he whispers to himself, he's like, ah, Massaroshi is a real pervert though. Dude, literally I was like, well, really the first side quest you get is like finding his lost, like, porn magazine. Yeah, which is awesome.

I like how the community of the gods, the founder, or the community leader is Mr. Popo. For some reason, they don't really explain this, But sure. Yeah, that's interesting. I would have thought it would have been, what's his name to the top, right? Yenma? Yeah, Master, like King Kai or somebody.

You think? I mean, I assume I would get them eventually. Like, where do I have King Kai right now? I think he's on training? So, what do these community boards do? So you can see on the right, you get these buffs. Okay. So this is engineering, which is Bulma's.

So because he's connected to Ploff and all his crew, I'm at level four with them. So for building things and like stuff like that, I get a minimum cost. What exactly are you building? I don't know yet. I'm not sure. Halfway through it, I was like, oh, wait, I don't know what this is actually about.

Yeah, so that's my worry with a lot of these deep systems that they're kind of really doing weird experiments with, where at the end of the day, I don't think I'm going to get into this game that much where I'm going to care about those other systems, and I'm just going to say, let's just mainline the story. Let me put everything on the fighters community board because I'm really only going to do combat and not much else. That's my thing right now is that so far in the game, I've not been in a place where I'm like, oh, I should go and check out my upgrades. I need to cook. Yeah, like I need to do something. Look at this damn skill tree.

Yeah. I didn't know there was a skill tree. This is your first time seeing it? I don't think I've seen this screen in the game before. I saw it. Now, granted, I did see it like halfway through my three hours of gameplay last night. But, yeah, so essentially all of the orbs you're collecting in the sky, that's what they go to. Oh, shoot.

So you, you know, you get to a certain part. It's like, well, you need more. these blue orbs. You need more of these green orbs. For those of you just listening to this podcast, all around the world, there are just, all around the world, there are orbs in the sky, and you have to fly on the nimbus, and you collect these orbs, thanks, man. You collect these orbs

that are different colored, and different movesets, different skills require different orbits, like different fighting moves, whether it's Special Beam Canon or all of the other ones, you know, all of your other favorite moves. Yeah, that's interesting. Like cooking that you get permanent stat boost from, so if you're not cooking.

Oh, they're permanent? Yes. So the status... Oh, wow, that's huge. The status boost below there is permanent. The meal effect is what lasts, is temporary. Ah, same. Any of the temporary effects, it's like Pokemon.

Like, I'm never... Yeah, it's like, I don't care. I am never, ever going to fucking throw dust in your eyes or whatever the Pokemon do when they're not attacking, you know? Unless the game makes me care. Because, like, that's my thing so far. And once again, I'm... Still an insane saga. Maybe by the time I could sell saga, that's when things really heat up.

And that's where I really need to dig my menus and really upgrade my character. So far, I'm like, I don't care about any of this because I obviously don't need any of this, because I'm blowing through every single one of these villains, right? I just Merked the Cybermen. Merck City. So these are like bases, which get you rare items. Theoretically, you're supposed to fight your way through these enemies. You can see them like dotted around there.

Alternatively, just stand outside it and just do this. Game design. That's great. So it's like the hunting thing where like Everything's broken in a weird way But it's a broken in a way that like The hunting thing is especially broken because they told me To sneak behind the deer to catch him and I immediately just ran up

Yeah, I super speed ran it And also those that I ran to a very interesting bug where At the very very start of the game You go take Gohan fishing or whatever With that weird tail thing and he's kind of twerking to the water And then I ran back and I found A secondary model of Goku just standing there Wait, really?

And I'm, I'm going to post it on Twitter soon. But I just, I ran all the way to the beginning, and there's just another Gohan standing there, like, idling. And looking at me, like, with the AI characteristics of an MPC, of, he's tracking me. It's really bizarre. Yeah, that's weird. Really weird. Maybe it's Goku Black. Yeah, that's what everybody in chat was saying, yeah.

I was flying around underwater earlier today, and, like, I just clipped through the ground at some point. It's like, okay, cool. I'm sure speed runners are going to love this. When you, so when you guys had to take Gohan fishing, did you guys go directly to the place where you fish? Or did you guys have to walk with Gohan? You had to walk with him. Okay. I didn't, I didn't know if I had a glitch.

He cried if you didn't walk with him. Okay. He falls. Because I just straight up just abandoned him and went to the location because that's where my quest marker was. And it wouldn't let me do anything. And I had to go back and actually find Gohan. I had to use like my L1 to go first person and track like his energy source and then go back, find him and then slowly walk with him to go through. He was just sitting there like kind of weeping.

Yeah, just like weeping. And I was like, is this a glitch? Or am I, is this what the game is going to be? And then the following moment is Piccolo being like, all right, well, I'm just going to leave you here. Yeah. You can defend for yourself. He's a five-year-old. He's like, I'm hungry.

He just leaves him in a forest all by himself. The thing I will say about this game, though, is that when you're in the overall and, like, flying around and, like, getting into, like, small skulls, all that stuff, I think the game does a good job of making you feel powerful or feel like a Satan or feel like a superhero. when you press the sprint button, you're sprinting super fast. I think it's a little too overdone. Yeah. When you sprint super fast and you jump, it definitely doesn't look great.

Yeah, you know what it reminds me of, and it reminds me of that one Superman sort of prototype game that that one dude is making in unity that you always see pop up on Twitter every once in a while. The guy in the black shirt speed running and he'll just like jump and fly. That's what I kind of got the vibes of. Yeah.

I like it because it, I feel like I'm not wasting it, time getting to objectives, aside from struggling with the flying controls. Aside of that, I feel like I can just zoom wherever I want and feel like that's... I don't feel held back by my traversal, but yeah, it doesn't look... It does look like a prototype of like, okay, this, we'll have this here for now.

When we get to the later stages of development, we'll polish this up and make this look better. Man, he just punted that beam. Friza just punted the shit out of that. The running always makes me laugh because like... Imposable! You never see any characters in a series run. Like, why would they? Yeah, yeah, right.

They're always just like flying close to the ground. It just looks like inherently awkward. That's true. Are you finished? I think I'll make the next move. Yeah. What are the voices that are different? Because I, uh, Aichi doesn't sound like herself.

Neither does, like, baby Gohan or young Gohan. I mean, I imagine at some point, like, some actors just not in business anymore. You're like 30 years later. They can't do the same voice. Or dead, maybe. Yeah, I didn't even do that. Yeah, I can't really. passed on to the great snake way in the sky.

It's been so long that I couldn't even tell you which voices were different. Can I say that was actually pretty disappointed than a game that has like a running system, you don't actually get to run on Snake Way. True. That's actually pretty true. But I was expecting it. Yeah, me too. I was like, oh, cool.

Like, they're going to make that out like an open world. It's like, oh, it's just a couple of cuts. I do also like that this game has a sense of humor. Like, I don't want to spoil certain moments, but there are certain things they do with like dialogue and, in gameplay, or not even gameplay moments, but story moments that I, well. Man, freezes just punched it back. Stuff like that that looks really dumb.

Like there's a lot of moments like that in this game where it's just, is it presented as a game that costs $60? You know? And it's like, I guess, I mean, this is kind of Bandai Namco's M-O with anime games is they try to make them a little, not cut rate, but on the cheap. But still put in a bit more effort than you would think. And like, this is not a bad, what's the word? It's like a yakuza game, honestly.

It's just a cut rate yakuza game. Yeah. And like, yeah, I wouldn't even say this is a bad game. Yeah, I don't think it's bad either. I just think it's, again, I think it's uninspired. Yeah, very, very uninspired. And I think, like, I think it's going to serve its audience, but it's one of those things where, you know, you see,

you see the trailer at the, I think it was the beginning of last year, where, you know, you see the Dragon Malsy Cat Cicrot trailer and you see how it looks and you see that it's going to be a Dragon Mosaic RPG from Bay Nanamco. Which is huge. Yeah, and you're like, if they're going to pick a game to, go all in on, right? Or like step up,

step up their game. It's going to be Dragon Ball Z. And so for us to get this, I'm like, all right, like, it's still, it's,

it's what you expect from a drag, from a bandai Namco anime RPG. And I haven't played any, any of the other ones. Like I haven't played like one piece world seeker or, uh, I forget there's a my hero. There's like two fighters.

One justice. My hero was just. Yeah, I think that's the fighting game. Yeah. But I haven't played any of their other RPGs. And so I don't know, I don't know how this one compares to those.

But, you know, Me compared to other Dragon Ball Z games, I'm like this is whatever is fine It's just stuff like this that's like I keep playing for it's like this is clearly a higher like fidelity scene Dad? Did it again did the thing It looks like I still have some trash to dispose up Are they gonna do the thing where like Goku just looks at the ground and makes a grave?

Because that's like weirdly one of my favorite moments of like oh damn he's so strong You just look at the ground and digs a grave That's hilarious. I intend to rid the universe of every last one of you. Master Steel asks, is this open world? Yeah. Yes, with like zones. Yeah, it's like zoned open worlds.

Like, or zoned worlds. Yeah. Like I said, like, Instanced. Yakuza is not a bad comparison for this, what the kind of game this is. Yeah, I can see that. Like you fly around, you get random battles.

Yeah, Yakuza is actually a pretty good comparison. I'm impressed. If I were you, you're finally face-to-face with you. See, here's the thing. I'm talking shit about this game, but I'm loving this. We're all quiet watching this. That's what I was going to say. I don't know if it's nostalgia,

but this is just so high. It's so high, bro. Nipples are hard right now. Bear, you're not feeling this, man? Bear, you've seen what I'm seeing what I'm seeing, man? No, I'm seeing Link climb up this tower right now. It's really does. All you're playing solid back there.

I will say this is a lot better than Jump Force. Oh, 100%. Like, of the games they've released like anime adjacent This is a lot fucking better than Jump Force. It just, I wish they somehow combine this game and Fighter Zee. Like, yeah, those are the two

Those are the things that should be combined. I mean, I wish, I don't know what I wish, man. Here's the thing. My wish is that they could have just like done the Tank HG-E3 fighting system because I think for a Dragon Ball Z game, I think that is the perfect fighting system.

I can tell you all the controls off the top of the head because they just felt perfect, right? I do think the fighting in this game just doesn't feel meaty enough. It's mashing. It's really, it's very, like, I feel like a lot of moves don't feel like they have weight behind them or consequence. Yeah. I don't want to do the whole Dark Souls thing, but like, yeah. I would appreciate more of a dodged for this moment, Perry. Yeah, like you feel more in control and like everything you do has like a consequence.

you're really thinking about like, okay, if I dodge here, right, I can, you know, get the upper hand on him here. And then immediately after I hit him, I'll, like, take my vita juice, which is the thing that heals your health. Yeah. Right, like, you're thinking on it on that level, but really, like, what it comes down to is mashing for the most part. Yeah, and, like, there's four playable characters so far. I'm going to guess they add trunks when that shows up. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. But, like, so far everyone plays exactly the same, which I guess makes sense because you're switching back and forth between them. Like, I was just Gohan and Bejita, and now I'm going to Goku. But, like... One of the problems that I have those, like, yes, they all feel similar, but they all have different skill trees as well. Which, I feel like progression kind of pulls you in different directions. Like, if I waste a lot of my orbs on one person,

are those orbs a community group of orbs? No. And also, I couldn't figure out if, like, the stat boost are for everyone or for just the individual person. Like, it doesn't tell me. Yeah. to carry on that pride of you. This gives you tutorializes so much except the shit I want to know. I'm a sain raised on earth.

And to avenge those you've brutally murdered. The sayans and the Nemecians. God, it's so good though. Like Dragon Ball Z. I'm going to defeat you. So hype. And it's in, and you, we know every single story beat that's going to happen.

Because there's something about it that just, it latches on to you. Like, a lot of the end of the freezes story is so muddy to me because that's where I jumped into the series because my cousin was really, really into it. And I sort of jumped in towards the end of the Friza beginning of cell, but I don't really remember

a lot of the Friza saga. Yeah. I stopped here. I wanted to get a little bit further originally, like, before I came in, because I want to at least get to the Super Sain part. Hell yeah. Because I just want to see that scene. You're like, that's just kind of mashing acts.

I stopped because I wanted to, I wasn't thinking. But I do love when they are charging up and you have that where you just appear behind them and fuck them up. I think that's really cool. So one of my complaints is that you can't, I don't think you can't switch out your controls, right? You can't go in there.

Yeah. I don't know why they wouldn't let you do that. Because, like, I do not do it. I do not like doing melee with Circle. Yeah, I think that's a very weird way to do it. It feels like it should be X. Like, I made that mistake a lot. See, I feel like it should be Square.

Like, I feel like for a fighting game or, like, a Dragon Ball Z game, Square should be melee. I'm fine with, I'm fine with, for your dash or in this case like your teleport dash but key blast should be triangle or circle and then like block should be like key blasts be triangle block should be circle or vice versa I do think it's really funky looking in this situation we might see it right here actually what I'm about to say maybe not when you blast them downwards and you are facing them downwards you're essentially parallel to the ground and you block you're just kind of like

floating parallel to the ground, blocking, and it just looks really funky. It's sort of one of those, it reminds me of how you never see spaceships in movies upside down. They're always, everything's always on an even plane in space and movies. It would look weird to have ships all different directions

because it doesn't really matter, but for, it just looks weird to have Goku blocking like this. Oh, yeah, for sure. I will say, this is actually a significantly harder fight than the last couple I've been doing. Everybody shut the fuck up. We're trying to do. I do. Which I'm going to use now because if you do this one and Kyokin at the same...

Whoa. Bear, just think of all the times that they told Midoria like... He's only at 5%! You know, like this is just full of that dude. Oh yeah. This is cool of those moments. Also, I don't like the camera at a lot of places when you're fighting. He's only a 10% of his power. The camera feels like it's all over the place at certain points. points. Like, what is this?

Yeah, honestly, like, I just, the only thing I paid to get you to do is the fist. Yeah. And I just, like, okay, I assume that it's going to operate it correctly. Wait, so if you hold your Dodge button, you continue to fly sideways? Oh, okay, I didn't know that. Like that. Oh, cool. Okay. That's helpful. I don't like how when you go in for a string of your standard melee attack with circle, and then you want to switch to a super attack, it requires a bit of a delay like if you if you hit circle circle circle

circle circle and then hold L1 for a special attack it doesn't just let you do it right off the bat and it would look so much cooler visually if you're just standard melee melee melee into Kamea there's like a bit of delay and it's like why do I have to wait it sucks

I've been trying to avoid comparing every single little thing in this game to Teng Kaiichi but Teng Kaiichi is so perfect because like you can do that right you can be in the middle of a middle of a melee combo and then if you immediately hold your charge button

which is L2 and then triangle which would probably do a Kami Hama Hama Haa with your character right you'll go from a combo and then you'll do like a step back and then Kami Hama Hama Hau immediately and it feels perfect it feels good but also those are fighting games

this is an action RPG so they're trying to balance it in some way real quick just I'm gonna pause real quick because this may not happen here I don't remember the exact moment of the storyline but earlier in past moments chat, if you're watching this right now, you go through a huge fight and you're fighting

Rattits or something like that, and you beat Rattis' his ass and you get like an S-ranking. It's like, fuck yeah, I won. But in the story of the show or the, or the manga or whatever, you're not supposed to win. So then you, after this long, grueling fight of you learning these moves and feeling awesome and powerful, the cutscene

starts and boom, you get punched, and Rattitz wins. And he's like, oh, I got you, go-kid. It's like, what the fuck did I just do? Why did I just waste five minutes doing this whole shit? And that's why, in Budakai, instead of doing that, they're like, hey, survive for two minutes. That's your goal, right? And the other characters trying to kill you or whatever.

You're fighting or whatever, but the point isn't to deplete their health. The point is to just stay alive for two minutes, and that's the objective. That would feel like it fit more in that case, where it's like, okay, you're not, you win the fight, you don't actually win when you win a fight here. They do make a couple of weird, like, not weird, but changes in the vein of, like, remember Goldo from the Guinea Force? Yeah. When Gohan and Krillen fought him, they lost because Goldos paused them in time. And this one, and then Bejita kills Golda while he's distracted. Yeah.

And this one is just like, all right, let's just have Krillian and Gohan killed Golda. Like, why not? God, I look fucking sick. Like, there are certain moments where in the anime, like, you know, they go through actual story beats. We're here, they'll pause and then put up a prompt and be like three months past and Gohan trained. And then they come back to like, okay, now you're back here with Piccolo. And then they'll do like another three months past and then this happened. And so they kind of skip over quite a few things.

Did you fight Ginnu? Yes. That's cool. I don't want to know how they do the whole Ginyu's ability stuff. Okay, I won't say anything, but like, it'll be disappointing. Oh, no. No. I swear to God.

Imran, no. I swear to God, if I don't play as Gingu fighting myself, I'm going to be mad. I'm going to be mad. What in the world? What are they doing? The only playable characters are Goku, Piccolo, Vegeta, Gohan, and probably trunks. That's it. Yeah, but like, even just for like a fight.

Like fake it and just let me play as game for one fight and I'm fighting. Oh, that's a bummer. That's a bummer. Like, Krillen is here. He just, you know, you can't play as him. Oh, you can't play as Krillen? No. He just, like, with you in battles.

So, like, you can use his solar flare, which is actually really great for Bossons. Does he have his destructal disc? Yes. Nice. God, we're nerds. Yes. I, yeah. Yeah, you are.

Nick came in here in the back, and, like, he was looking at the stream and I was like, Are you getting into this? He's like, no. I think he was just fascinated by how big of nerds you are. I think he's interested. Yeah, I think he'll... There's going to be a certain section of the kind of funny audience that's going to love this.

And everybody's going to get like 2,000 views on YouTube. Everybody else is going to be like, I'm going to skip this. Dad? Somebody said, you guys mispronounce Kamiamiha. I'm not going to say Kamehamea or whatever. I say Kamehameh. I say Kamehameh. I don't pronounce it the way he says it when he's fighting.

Yeah, when he's fighting, he says Kamiamiamiha. In Dragon Ball, they call it the Kamaya Maya Wave. Yeah. Say it correctly. Kamama Mia. Hey, I wonder what chapter we're on. I wonder what's going to happen as well. I used to love that fucking love that about Dragon Ball.

Is it like, it would just ruin the next episode? Yeah, I told me would. It's like, will Goku survive this? It's like, go on. Yeah, it's like, Gohan Kielsel. Oh, everybody, give it, everybody to chat. Oh, man. Everybody in chat.

Give him the power! This happens is like three times. Why is there not a spirit bomb? Like a global spirit bomb amount? I think there is. I mean, there's an emote of like a person kind of putting their hands to the sky. He's going to destroy the planet, bro.

Fraser doesn't appear to know what's going on right now. I don't understand why Goku doesn't just attack him. You also don't know what's not going on right now then. He's probably thinking that he needs more energy so that he can take Fraza down for God. Jubyaka just used an emote of a referee in a football game doing the field goal. That's funny. That's so good.

I'd like to occasionally re-experage the Dragon Ball story. I think I prefer it this way than to re-watch this entire thing. Definitely. Okay, here's a freeze-a-fight for 45 minutes versus 25 episodes. Yeah. No, that's me too. I think I saw some in chat be like, oh, this is what? too fast, but, like, you know, I

don't need to dwell. No, me of this. Like, this wouldn't be the first way I experienced it at all, but it's fine. Give me the hype moments. I don't need the bullshit filler, dude. Yeah. I'm, I turn 32 in a couple weeks, guys. I don't need this in my life right now. I really do

want, like, a Yu-U-Hawkes show RPG or game fighting. Like, any sort of Yu-Hawkes show game produced by, whether it's May Nightin'Amco or whoever wants to do it. Here's what I say. You know how Ubi is making a Bianca and Evil three or two or whatever the fuck it is.

Which one is? Who? Two. Just scrap all of it. Replace all the characters of Cowboy Bebop characters. Oh, man. And just make it a space outlaw game. And then scrap that, make them all outlaw star characters. It's an outlaw star game.

God, fucking Outlaw Star was so good. So badass, dude. Even that terrible ass song. And the kitty girl with the boobs. I was like, what's going on here? What's awakening in me right now.

Spirit bomb at him right now. He's just going to dodge it. Really high-res grass text. Yeah. What is Goku's mental thought, grunting? That's actually funny. That's super Jew. How pathetic.

But all of your idiotic planning and effort has gone to waste. You're it. Okay. I was going to be mad if they didn't have that part of Kicklo. like a pickle-a-kalo. A kick-a-k-low.

A kick-a-lowe coming in and kick-moon. Hurry up and finish that spirit bomb already. Thanks, Piccolo. Oh, yeah, I remember why this is a hype moment. This is hype as hell, yeah, it's super hype. And once again, right? Like, the game, it's not great, but it's, it's,

like, if you are a hardcore Dragon Ball Z-Z fan, and it'll bring a smile Yeah Yeah like if you're into what you're watching right now I would say go for it Or wait for a sale and go for it It's gonna get cheaper If you know versus Kind of like

Five bucks at some point Yeah Like I don't even say like you know Wait for it to get to 30 or 40s That's probably like Gonna be like a couple months Right and go for it Because like all this right here

Us watching it together Like this is cool This is awesome and this is fun Yeah Because it's like it's like a This looks horrible That's why it's not great. This is fun.

This is great. This is horrible. How terrible. How dare you? Wow. Yo, take the disc out, Barry. You've got to crack this thing. No, it looks tight right here.

Yeah, this is cool. That's space shot. But like, we're watching this. I'm like, I kind of want to just watch the rest of this fight versus playing it. Yeah, that's the thing. Dude, if they, if they wanted to get... Yeah, that's dope. Yeah, they're all like super finishers, by the way, too.

You have to get into a powered up state and also. be charged and then use like a finishing move like Kamaama maha. Recreate the whole show and see G, man. But don't, dude, that's the thing, if like, if this game was just cutscenes spice together, I guess I can just go on YouTube and just watch the... That's the thing about Fighter Z is like it does so much, like, so, are so many great cutscenes with the finishers, but they're not things that will ever attain, so I'll just go watch them on YouTube.

I wish Fighters Z had a better story though, or Fighters had a better story. I didn't really like... They can call whatever the fuck they want, it's Fighter Z. Yeah, it's right. I didn't like the fighter's story that much Yeah, no, this, oh wait, this is a Press button's one Oh gosh

They were right You don't think that they Hey, it's Goku and Picklow we're talking about That's a weirdly good Krillin voice A lot of practice On Earth when you call the dragon All kinds of crazy things happen

But I feel it You're right, come on, let's go Okay Your Gohan is constipated But it's just, no, my Gohan is just asked Pikachu. It's all the same. That looks great.

That looks great. That looks awesome. And everything was fine forever. Oh, fucking hell, dude. There's no way in hell. I'm really looking forward to the scene, actually. Yeah, I really want to... Bear, how long have we been in the stream?

Okay. Yeah. I'm going to let this happen, and then we'll wrap up. Because we can't spoil the final fight of the freezing saga for everybody. Poor family. Well, we should, like, do the fight because I'm curious of the Super Satan transformation work. So here's if it's during battle or I start two percent.

Let him go, Freezer. It's gotta be, because the Keel King's been about it, right? Yeah. Okay, so it has to. I would assume so. Aw. Yeah, bro. Yeah, bro.

They just kill him? Yeah, bro. Dude. It's actually a pretty cool part during, like, return of F or Krillen doesn't want to fight because he gets like PTSD about this moment. More like killing, you know? He's died like four times.

Oh shit. Oh, baby. Oh, baby. Oh, man. Like, how good does this look, dude? Once again, this game? I've got tears of my eyes, dude. Like, pros and cons with this game.

But the pros, there are pros. This right here. Yeah. This is a pro. Like, if everything looked this good, I would be, like, unabashedly recommending this game to every Dragon Ball fan. Oh, yeah.

But it's like, it's select scenes. If I choose the most important ones. Yeah. No, for sure. Oh, baby. I'm gonna hear this like one of those cinematic movies Hurry go on Take Piccolo with you and head back to Earth now

Hurry go on Alright, bitch Little bitch Super saying he's also me now What's going on? What's happening? Oh my god, all right I might have to cut it off here

Are you sure? Yeah You don't want to see if there's one of those cinematic battles Nah, let's keep it going on Let's keep it going, let's keep it going Just for a little bit I'm hive is hell, yeah I'm feeling the vibe right now

You will know your place you filthy Sayan Oh my god Battle of it man run you start you start off You go off king let him know Holy shit I like to malle shay at yeah oh my god Why does this game look ten times better all this game? And that game of the year dude yeah this game looks off I'm thinking a game of the decade at this point.

This looks great! Why can't it look like this regularly? I think we're just hyped as hell. We're just all horny and chatter. But the way like when you're dashing, the way he looks is... Those particle effects? Yeah, the particle effects look way better as a Super Sand. And this is just on a base PS4 right now, guys.

It's crazy to see you in the PS4 pro. Man, Freezer is just not backing down, bro. He's like, I don't care what color your hair is, bro. I can't take up enough. Yeah, I didn't show that. I don't know when it allows you to do that. When does it allow you to do that? To the charge all the way up?

Yeah, where it gives you the little mini-cutscene. Oh, I don't know. Tension meter in the bottom right? Oh, is that what it is? Yeah, if it's full, then you can't. Okay. Because, yeah, I tried doing it, and I try to do it the second time. I just can't do it, so I imagine.

I thought it was like a once per battle thing. Get out of the water. You gotta get out of the water. You gotta get a lot. Take this fight to the skies, bro. I was feeling the vibe, but I can't swim, dude. Come on for you. you.

Get out of here, dude. Man. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll go to end up defeating freeze in the end. Find out next time. Find out next time.

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