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Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero captures the fighting experience of the franchise better than the previous fighting games. The graphics are amazing and hold up to the intense movements. Several opportunities to play online and offline mean there's always something to do and an opponent to test your mettle against. There are some combat kinks to work out and some features only appeal to the hardcore fanbase. But for anyone who has an interest in Dragon Ball, this is a game you must have.

ComingSoon.net - Tyler Treese - 9 / 10

Developer Spike Chunsoft hasn’t missed a beat and has delivered the best game yet in the Sparking! series.

FandomWire - Osama Farooq - 10 / 10

Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero truly is the ultimate Dragon Ball experience in gaming, helping the franchise take the modern current-gen leap and marking a triumphant comeback for Budokai Tenkaichi that will be remembered for a very long time.

Game Rant - Liam Ferguson - 8 / 10

It has some rough spots, but as a love letter to this franchise's heyday, Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero hits hard where it counts.

Gamer Guides - Callum Self - 83 / 100

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is an excellent Dragon Ball game that delivers plenty of deliciously intense arena fights, with a great amount of content too. It feels familiar yet remarkable, but the performance issues are problems that need to be quickly rectified.

MonsterVine - Spencer Legacy - 5 / 5

Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is an incredible comeback for the Budokai Tenkaichi series. The roster is packed, the gameplay is satisfying, and the breadth of content is impressive, to say the least. This is the Dragon Ball game so many have been waiting for, and I can’t wait to see what content we get throughout the game’s assuredly long life.

Press Start - Matthew Zimmari - 8.5 / 10

Picking right up where it left off with Budokai Tenkaichi 3, Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is a return to form and a celebration of everything Dragon Ball. Reinvigorated with characters and transformations from Dragon Ball Super as well as your favourites from Dragon Ball Z, the game feels both brand new and classic as it brings fast-paced action and eye-popping graphics into the new generation. While some players may be frustrated or overwhelmed with the learning curve of the controls, the rewards lie in mastering your favourite characters, and crafting an experience that blends your imagination and classic Dragon Ball.

Pro Game Guides - Austin Manchester - 4.5 / 5

Featuring over 180 characters, limitless replay potential, and bombastic battle mechanics, Sparking! Zero is not only one of the year’s best games, but one of the best Dragon Ball games ever released.

Siliconera - Joel Couture - 8 / 10

I was pleasantly surprised with Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero. It looks spectacular in motion and really captures the scope of the franchise’s wild fights. With its many counters, fast movements, explosive field effects, and incredible blast moves, it makes you feel like you’re fighting for your life against relentless enemies.

TechRaptor - Robert Scarpinito - 8.5 / 10

Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is the ultimate Dragon Ball sandbox, giving you all the tools needed to satisfy your wild imagination. Filled with iconic fights, flashy animations, and delightful easter eggs, it's arguably the final form of Dragon Ball arena fighters.

The Nerd Stash - Julio La Pine - 9 / 10

Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is not only the best fighting game of the series but also the best Dragon Ball game we've had in years. With a huge roster, top-notch visuals, and impactful combat, it will be hard for new and old players to put the controller down.

The Outerhaven Productions - Scott Adams - 4.5 / 5

Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero evolves the Budokai Tenkaichi series into the modern era of gaming: Faster-paced fights, and more dynamic than it has ever felt before.

TheGamer - George Foster - 4.5 / 5

Its smart evolution of Budokai Tenkaichi’s combat, stacked and detailed roster, and near-endless amount of modes and features make it one of the best Dragon Ball games of all time and one that’s going to be nearly impossible to Toppo.

WellPlayed - Mark Isaacson - 8 / 10

As Dragon Ball games go, Sparking! Zero stands as one of the better translations of what it feels like to be a super powered hero, Goku or otherwise. It's not for everyone, but with a great set of modes and roster of characters, fans should find plenty to enjoy.

XboxEra - Genghis Husameddin - 8 / 10

DRAGON BALL Sparking! ZERO is a great 3D arena fighter. It’s got a sizeable roster, huge maps, and a fun combat system that I quite a bit of mileage out of over the weekend. A clumsy user interface and only one splitscreen map does suck the life out of the party a bit, but there’s still a great game here for Dragon Ball fans and arena fighter enthusiasts. ∎

Dev of slept-on tactical RPG says it "sold badly" despite glowing reviews: "My next project will be more focused on 'Does this sell'" by simple in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

[-] simple@lemm.ee 72 points 2 months ago

Excluding the game name from the title will surely help the developer

JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip by simple in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] simple@lemm.ee 71 points 3 months ago

Pretty much sums it up. JPEGXL could've been the standard by now if Google would stop kneecapping it in favor of its own tech, now we're stuck in an awkward position where neither of them are getting as much traction because nobody can decide on which to focus on.

Also, while Safari does support AVIF, there are some features it doesn't support like moving images, so we have to wait on that too... AVIF isn't bad, but it doesn't matter if it takes another 5+ years to get global support for a new image format...

Ridiculed Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror by simple in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] simple@lemm.ee 69 points 5 months ago

Stability AI crashed and burned so fast it's not even funny. Their talent is abandoning ship they've even been caught scraping images from Midjourney, which means they probably don't have a proper dataset.

Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch by simple in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

[-] simple@lemm.ee 67 points 5 months ago

I'm surprised the difference isn't much higher, but I guess there's a ton of shovelware on the Switch.

Israeli troops advance toward Gaza City as the Palestinian death toll rises above 9,000 by simple in c/world@lemmy.world

[-] simple@lemm.ee 73 points 1 year ago

This isn't a response, it's what they wanted to do for over half a century now. Killing Palestine or shoving it to nearby countries was always the plan, Israel was just waiting for an excuse.

God of War is coming to GOG by simple in c/games@lemmy.world

[-] simple@lemm.ee 73 points 1 year ago

Pretty awesome that Sony is embracing DRM-free. Now if only they would port Demon's Souls and God of War Ragnarok...

Paradox how could you by simple in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] simple@lemm.ee 68 points 1 year ago

We've been warned, I expected performance to be rough but ~35fps on a 4090 is a new low for me.

If I'm over 25, is it still too late for me to "learn" French or can I just watch French sitcoms for like a year and be up-to-speed? by simple in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] simple@lemm.ee 67 points 1 year ago

It's never too late to learn a language but it's a bit of an uphill battle, and you're not going to learn it by just watching shows. You need to practice regularly and understand the grammar and sentence structure. You also have to speak it with other people to get feedback, you can't only learn to listen.

What do you all think of Mental Outlaw by simple in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] simple@lemm.ee 73 points 1 year ago

He's very edgy, I don't like his content. If I want someone to talk about tech, I'd rather they just talk about tech and not make wojack thumbnails and constantly making fun of politics.

what are your opinions on lemm.ee? by simple in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[-] simple@lemm.ee 73 points 1 year ago

but it seems that no one uses it

No one uses it? It's a pretty popular instance. Just because it doesn't have many popular communities doesn't mean people aren't using it, we just spend our time on communities on other instances.

What non-technical criticisms do you have of the Lemmy/kbin/link aggregator fediverse experience? by simple in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] simple@lemm.ee 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Discovering communities is easily the #1 complaint, I don't think it's a technical issue, it feels mostly a conceptual issue with how everything works. I understand why duplicate communities exist because of how the Fediverse works, but in practice it's pretty annoying to the users. For example I tried to look for an anime community just to see if there's any discussion, but I had no idea where people were.

There's anime@lemmy.ml, this looks like the most popular but it's mostly repost bots. There's anime@lemmy.world and ani_me@lemmy.world, both of which barely have users. There's anime@kbin.social, which has some threads going on but few users.

Because of the amount of duplicates nobody knows where the users actually are. Since everyone's confused, nobody participates because they feel like nobody else is going to see their content. On Reddit you had one definitive subreddit for each topic, on Lemmy it feels like a guessing game at times which one's the right one.

We're settling into communities more as time goes on (like how !moviesandtv@lemmy.film is the definitive movie/tv hub), but I think we've got a ways to go. If Lemmy wants to go more mainstream it needs to tackle this, whether it's through multi-reddit style communities that combines feeds or some way to combine comments on crossposts or maybe some other way.

What is /c/196, and why does it show up so much on All by simple in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] simple@lemm.ee 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a meme community where the only rule is you have to post something before you leave, that's why a lot of posts say "rule". The reason it's so popular is because it used to be a super popular subreddit called /r/196.

As for why it kinda turned into an LGBT-specific community, beats me.