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

[JulieYBM]

Damn, I hope the actors get to give good performances.

[Mr Baggins]

Shintani not only being the inspiration behind the game's character models but also apparently the guy behind the cover art is like the best game-related thing I could have asked for in 2024

very cool

[Trouser]

Ugly cover referencing only Super. I know it's the "newest" series but it feels like this game is heavily occupied by Super characters and it's making me less hyped for it.

[Almighty Majin]

Seems clear to me that OG DB, GT, Movies, and Daima will all be DLC. Z and Super are the most popular series so it is expected that they will get the spotlight for the main release. That being said, I am way more hyped for the what-if scenarios and I really hope they get wacky with it.

[JulieYBM]

If they got Shintani for the cover art, I'm hoping that he'll supervise the Opening animation.

[omegalucas]

A Kageyama song + a 2D animated opening would be the cherry on top. That and a worldmap you can fly around in like Budokai 3 and Tenkaichi 2 would be the last things to make this THE Dragon Ball game.

[JulieYBM]

I doubt that we'll get a Kageyama song, but another Kiia song (DBS OP #2) would be amazing, assuming that they'll take work right now.

[tinlunlau]

Really tempted to get a full day head start by buying it online thru Hong Kong PSN. They're a good 12-15 hours ahead of us here in North America.

[DarkPrince_92]

Fastest $200+ I ever spent within moments of seeing something. Got it for PS5 and PC.

Finally got what I needed out of these trailers, safe to say we all feel the same way. Story mode should be a fun one. Curious what the DLC will be. Super Hero and Daima confirmed, still no sign of GT tho.

Side note, boxart looks fanmade. It reminds me of the PS2 era covers... but with less intensity. Could have been a little creative.

Still scrubbing through the trailer seeing what I can find. I did notice something I liked. Majin Vegeta's Final Impact is a blast like in the anime and not a beam.

[miguelnuva1]

Apparently Local Multiplayer is confirmed, but it's locked to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber for some reason. I guess consoles couldn't handle the other stages being rendered twice over.

It's confirmed but the wording is intreasting. It it only the time chamber map or is the versus mkde being called the time chamber?

Either way at least one map has local coop and hopefully they can create smaller local coop maps down the line.

[Koitsukai]

Create your own fucking what-ifs???????? is good to be alive

[miguelnuva1]

Just doing a test with 3 Dlc packs and 20+ characters

Super Hero

1. Gamma 1
2. Gamma 2
3. Beast Gohan
4. Orange Piccolo
5. Cell Max
6. Pan
7. Ultimate Gohan or Fat Gotenks?

Gt Pack

1. Ss4 Goku
2. Ss4 Vegeta
3. SS4 Gogeta
4. Baby Vegeta
5. Super 17
6. Nova Shenron
7. Omega Shenron

I could see something like this and the movie characters will be the next game selling point.

[Hellspawn28]

Create your own fucking what-ifs???????? is good to be alive

Holy crap?! Really.

[Bardock God of Time]

I'm going to guess the DLC characters:

1-4. Gohan (Superhero) (Base, SSJ2, Ultimate, Beast)
5-8. Piccolo (Superhero) (Base, Potential Unleashed, Orange, Orange Giant)
9. Gamma 1
10. Gamma 2
11. Goten (Superhero)
12. Trunks (Superhero)
13. Fat Gotenks
14. Cell Max
15. Daima Vegeta (I think Daima Goku is going to be the Pre-Order Bonus character)
16. Daima Piccolo
17. Daima Gohan
18. Daima Supreme Kai
19. Daima Villain

There's only so much we know about Daima but I think we'll get a few Daima versions of characters

Cool thing about Superhero being DLC, gives us more room for GT and OG Dragon Ball but I think the majority will be DLC though.

[Makaioshin]

Create your own fucking what-ifs???????? is good to be alive

I think this is misinterpreting what is basically a match replay share feature like with other fighting games. If they were actually adding something like this with story construction I think they would be making a big deal instead of it being in a small line in the promotional package. I would be glad to be wrong.

[goku the krump dancer]

Daima before GT is crazy work. But there’s still time for a few more trailers before October so we’ll see.

To be honest though, the potential to maybe create your own what-if scenarios by choosing different character paths is by FAR the most interesting thing about the game at the moment.

[Rafa Fast]

I don't know how the hell the cover art is ugly if it's literally perfectly in line with the cover arts for the previous Sparking games, it's the classic Goku in the center releasing the Kamehameha with other characters around also charging an attack or doing a fight pose. The difference is that this time the colors are more vibrant with a stronger shading on the characters, plus the auras and effects for the attacks, which is actually a huge approach to the cover art for the first Sparking game.
The execution here actually makes it look much better than the original Sparking trilogy cover arts, because the colors chosen for the characters and the auras helped them melt very well with the simple background, something that barely happened with the cover arts for the previous Sparkings (and specially the JP/Greatest Hits Budokai 3 art), they look photoshop-ish because nothing was made to make the two work together, just Sparking 1 at best.

You can dislike it but it's definitely not ugly, making a box art look appealing can be a hard time. I personally really liked it even though I prefer the more simplistic cover arts from the Budokai series (at least most of them) conceptually, but I still liked it, I don't like how there are only Super characters though, I understand the choice, Super is the most popular DB show in modern days, but still, it's not the Dragon Ball Super game, it's about Z and Super, no wonder why they removed the Z from the title, personally would've replaced Jiren and Mirai Trunks by Ultimate Gohan and Piccolo, and made Freeza without the halo.

Not sure about Naohiro Shintani's here, Broly definitely has a Shintani approach, maybe Vegeta too, but the rest just looks like the work of a artist (or artists) who used the Yamamuro style as basis, just as the official artists have been doing for the games these last years, but it's just a guess, based on how different Shintani's art looks nearly 6 years after his debut in the series, I wouldn't doubt if he was indeed the artist for this cover art, or that he was the character designer for this game (I still don't think he replaced Yamamuro, given how the single promotional art for Dragon Ball Super Divers still used Yamamuro's style)

Also, where it was said that you can create your own what-ifs? I could only find it saying that you can explore new possibilities in the story, unless that's how it's interpreted, which I undeestand, wouldn't say that something "scripted" is "create your own" but rather a "make your choice" but okay.

[Thanos]

Yeah, I quite like the cover. Purple is my favorite color, so perhaps I'm biased. The designs are really cool, like something you'd see on a Dragon Ball Heroes card or something. That's dope for a game cover. Interesting choice to have Freeza w/ halo representing on there.

Hopefully there will be subsequent DLC seasons, because evidently this one will have Super/Daima characters in an already Super-heavy roster. Do they really think Super should be that overrepresented from the beginning? I wouldn't mind getting more Super later after seeing some GT/movie action. Front-loading with Super isn't ideal.

[mecha3000]

Y'know, there's just something so cool about getting a new Dragon Ball game (Sparking Zero) that includes characters from the newest media (Super, Super: Broly, Super Hero) and characters from the latest anime that will even air alongside the release of the game, Dragon Ball Daima.

It reminds me of when I was a kid/teen watching Naruto on Toonami or Dragon Ball Kai on Nicktoons getting the latest PS2 and PS3 games. And even more recently, brings me back to how nice it was to have games like Xenoverse 2 and FighterZ release alongside Dragon Ball Super airing on TV in Japan and elsewhere (and those games debuting characters and content from Super like Sparking Zero will do for Daima).

Also, that cover art brings me back to the PS2 days and I'm glad that they're FINALLY having a cover that shows Ultra Instinct and Super Saiyan Blue for Goku and Vegeta instead of always their Super Saiyan forms. The franchise has moved beyond base Super Saiyan now and at least Trunks still represents it on the cover art.

[Nickolaidas]

Pre-ordering gives you 6 character unlocks (basically two and their transformations).

So I guess this either means that:

- they go with tradition and a good chunk of the roster is locked

or

- Gogeta (Super) and Broly (Super) are the only locked characters (like SSGSS Goku and Vegeta in FighterZ).