"Sparking! ZERO" Official Announcement, Pre-, & Post-Release Discussion Thread

[Makaioshin]

We already have a good idea of the other characters they had planned for this game including a lot of extra ToP characters. It is a safe bet they will follow up on that. You can tell all these characters in this release were planned already because they have way more voice lines compared to Daima or even SH.

Moro and such will still come but after the anime. They will milk this game for awhile just like XV2.

[JulieYBM]

"ZERO" the new Dragon Ball Sparking ZERO Opening theme song, performed by Kageyama Hironobu, has been released in full! It's really nice having Kageyama back for a new Dragon Ball song. Obviously, he's not as young as he once was, but he's still trying to bring that enthusiasm to the performance, which is nice. The song itself feels like the standard fair for a Dragon Ball video game song from Kageyama, but I imagine that that was exactly what they wanted given how long people have been asking for more Kageyama.

[The Dark Knight]

"ZERO" the new Dragon Ball Sparking ZERO Opening theme song, performed by Kageyama Hironobu, has been released in full! It's really nice having Kageyama back for a new Dragon Ball song.

Thank you for posting this; I absolutely love it.

[Grimlock]

Can't believe I actually lived long enough to see Chilled having interactions with other characters. Fifteen years of waiting!




Also King Vegeta's interactions and Bardock's interactions (there's a "Bardock finally...!" moment here). Loved them all. Heads-up: it is possible to use Kaio-Ken on top of False Super Saiyan, it changes a bit the overall hue. So check that out.

[The Dark Knight]

Can't believe I actually lived long enough to see Chilled having interactions with other characters. Fifteen years of waiting!

I really hope SZ continues to give characters like this one a chance to shine, as no other game would ever include someone as obscure as Chilled in it. The last time adult Chi-Chi for example was included in a game was 20 years ago in Super Dragon Ball Z back on the Ps2; these are the types of characters I want to see get included in the next expansion. Rildo is another example of a character who has enough going for him to include in a game, but wasn't big enough to justify including over anyone else; SZ can fix this by finally adding him to the roster which would be the first time he made it into a game.

[angeldreamZ004]

I think I prefer the original opening animation over the new one, but the new theme song by Kageyama absolutely rocks, the guy still got the pawah in his vocal cords, glad he's back (I placed the new theme over the original opening, and I think it works better with that than with the new one, so I think maybe they made the original animation with the song already in mind)

Video with Kageyama celebrating the DLC release:
https://youtu.be/qj1jM56iYbU?is=xi2s5nd0C8PXZc_H

Interview he made for the DB official site:
https://en.dragon-ball-official.com/news/01_4345.html

I like how he pointed out that the live performance version of the song he did at the Genkidamatsuri event had a intro, and indeed, I looked back on the event and the song had extra different initial seconds.

[gokugambitoptimus]

I think they will announce a new DLC (this time with Meteor in the title) on October

I think they will include the remaining characters from Budokai Tenkachi 3, new characters from GT (GT Goten, Riildo, Oceanus Shenron, Eis Shenron, etc), new characters from Daima (the three Tamagamis, the Elite soldiers, Arinsu, etc), new characters from Z (Yakon, Pui Pui, Cyborg Tao Pai Pai, etc), new characters from movies (Androids 13 and 14, Hatchiyack, Cooler fused with Big Gete Star, etc), new characters from Dragon Ball (Kami disguised as Shen, Officer Black, Drum, etc)

But, I think, they won't add any new character from Super because they will save them until Dragon Ball Super: Beerus is released

Of course, for the next DLC would include skins like Krillin from the Majin Buu saga, badman Vegeta, Trunks from the Bojack movie, etc

[Grimlock]

I really hope SZ continues to give characters like this one a chance to shine, as no other game would ever include someone as obscure as Chilled in it. The last time adult Chi-Chi for example was included in a game was 20 years ago in Super Dragon Ball Z back on the Ps2; these are the types of characters I want to see get included in the next expansion. Rildo is another example of a character who has enough going for him to include in a game, but wasn't big enough to justify including over anyone else; SZ can fix this by finally adding him to the roster which would be the first time he made it into a game.

Yeah, I hope so too. Only Kuriza, Neko Majin and Tarble are missing for me. Abo, Cado, Three-Star Dragon and Six-Star Dragon as well if Spike feel like adding them. Also King Vegeta with his Z outfit. Super Saiyan Caulifla and Super Saiyan 2 Trunks are glaring omissions, though... Other than those, it's pretty much it, I guess. Can't think of anyone else who would interest me.

[Hellspawn28]

Which characters does Akkuman (Spike the Devilman) interact with?

[The S]

Saonel, Pilina, and God are like my real "why haven't they been in this or XenoVerse yet" pushes now that we got Shin finally.

Oh and I guess GT Gohan.

I'd still like to see more like things like Shallot where we get other game character/incarnations. Honestly the other "Xeno" characters would fit better for the XenoVerse games due to their name and the concept but shoot, put a couple here too, why not.

[Scsigs]

I think that he's been in at least 1 other DB game before this, but Richard Steven Horvitz is PITCH PERFECT casting as Chilled. He sounds like Zim if he was functionally evil. Really makes me wish they'd dub that shitty Episode of Bardock OVA finally.

[The S]

Does anybody know why Andrew Chandler's credits are gone from the game now? They were there before, but now they only list the Japanese VAs (Chilled's also only credits Nakao, but at least he's new to the game).

Given that they've updated all of the credits they needed to for other characters but as far as I can tell Chandler's work is still there, this is baffling.

[The Dark Knight]

Have the developers accidentally broken this game's already broken combat system ? Not only is the game far harder than I remember, but the computer literally just spams rushing behind you and throwing you around like a pinball. Also, would it have killed them to include a timer for the battles that you have to either win or survive in a certain amount of time ?

[miguelnuva1]

This might just be me but I want SS, SS3, God and Blue for Shallot.

[The Dark Knight]

This might just be me but I want SS, SS3, God and Blue for Shallot.

I can see them at least giving us his first Ssj form; maybe as an end of the year/two year anniversary gift. Another thing I could see them doing is adding the other Saiyan character from that game; his name escapes me.

[angeldreamZ004]

Giblet, formely Saiyan in Red, and there's also villain Zahha, and I actually believe those two may eventually be added to the game, as they were designed by Toriyama. I can't say the same for their transformations though, including Shallot, given how Toriyama designed their regular forms only. Toriyama also didn't design Shallet, so I think we won't see him as well, as I believe the reason Shallot was added to this game was because Toriyama designed him. Android 21, Majin Android 21, Mira & Towa may be added in the future too I believe.

[goku the krump dancer]

I’m probably a little late to the party on this but MAN, the Invader Zim voice actor as Chilled is FUH-KNEE as fuck!! I’ve gotten a genuine kick out of his performance .

Overall I still think Episode of Bardock is dumb and the idea of SSBardock bores me to all hell but this has made me appreciate Chilled more. A goofball member of Freeza’s race/clan was not something I knew I needed.

[The Dark Knight]

Overall I still think Episode of Bardock is dumb and the idea of SSBardock bores me to all hell but this has made me appreciate Chilled more.

I personally don't mind these kinds of characters (be it Ssj Bardock or all the other what-if Ssjs we have) in the games, as it's all mindless fun, but I don't like it when that level of nonsense makes it into the manga and anime; I think those mediums should be held to a higher standard.

[goku the krump dancer]

Overall I still think Episode of Bardock is dumb and the idea of SSBardock bores me to all hell but this has made me appreciate Chilled more.

I personally don't mind these kinds of characters (be it Ssj Bardock or all the other what-if Ssjs we have) in the games, as it's all mindless fun, but I don't like it when that level of nonsense makes it into the manga and anime; I think those mediums should be held to a higher standard.

Yeah for sure, I don’t mind stuff like that for games (SS 1,3,4 Bardock or SSRose 2 &3 for Zamasu etc) and thankfully Episode of Bardock despite having a manga adaption and originally being an anime one off, hasn’t been referenced in any of the officially continuing stories, though Toyotaro came dangerously close with his storytelling in the Granolah arc.

[JulieYBM]

The kids that these shows, comics and video games don't care about what is or isn't 'canon' or created by Toriyama Akira. They don't care which Bardock makes them seem like a manly man because one of them has a different backstory from the other.

What they care about is getting to play the characters that they grew up on and think are cool. That might wind up being a Heroes character, a character from a special that Toriyama was not involved in or it will likely be Super Saiyan Blue Zero He's Gonna Help You Find the Way.

It really do implore adult fans to get away from word tribalism about these things because they just aren't important.

Now: I need this game to give me a sort of Super Saiyan Rosé for Kefla. Super Saiyan Spinach!