Dragon Ball: The Breakers

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  • Summary: Caught out by an unexpected temporal phenomenon, seven ordinary citizens find themselves stranded in a Temporal Seam; they share their imprisonment with a Raider, a menacing enemy from another timeline with overwhelming power.

    Their only hope for survival is to break out of the Temporal    Caught out by an unexpected temporal phenomenon, seven ordinary citizens find themselves stranded in a Temporal Seam; they share their imprisonment with a Raider, a menacing enemy from another timeline with overwhelming power.

    Their only hope for survival is to break out of the Temporal Seam with the Super Time Machine but the Raider is on their backs and getting stronger minute-by-minute.

    DRAGON BALL: THE BREAKERS is a 1-on-7 online asymmetrical action game in which a band of seven everyday humans tries to survive the Raider (a classic DRAGON BALL rival such as Cell and Frieza) who will hunt and evolve into an unstoppable force.    … Expand
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7
  1. Video Chums
    Nov 13, 2022
    63
    When it gets down to it, DRAGON BALL: THE BREAKERS has a clever premise that makes its gameplay occasionally fun but that often feels like the stars have aligned because otherwise, it's a generally repetitive and monotonous affair.
  2. Gamer Escape
    Oct 24, 2022
    60
    After so many Dragon Ball games repeating the same story arcs and putting players in control of the same characters, it’s a fun and refreshing experience (at first) to see what events on the scale of Dragon Ball Z would feel like from the perspective of a regular joe shmoe on the street. It’s a novel enough concept that makes for some great fun in the first few days of play, but it doesn’t take much longer for the cracks to start showing. This take on the asymmetrical multiplayer genre makes sense and there’s some appreciable execution outside of it simply being a Dragon Ball game, but it’s hard to see The Breakers really grabbing players thanks to its dearth of content, multiple grinds, and matches that start to feel a bit too familiar once you get past the new player experience.
  3. Hobby Consolas
    Oct 17, 2022
    60
    It seems a fresh Dragon Ball game, a new genre that hadn't been explored in the franchise before. The fact of using characters like Bulma and Oolong is a dream come true for fans, but after some gameplay the game turns into something monotonous, with lack of content and problems from the BETA that haven't been solved.
  4. Multiplayer.it
    Nov 7, 2022
    60
    Dragon Ball: The Breakers is a curious experiment in the world of Akira Toriyama, sadly full of defects.
  5. Screen Rant
    Oct 24, 2022
    50
    Dragonball: The Breakers is fun to play in short bursts, but might be somewhat lacking for players looking for a tense experience like Dead By Daylight. Hardcore fans of the franchise may have some fun trying to evade iconic villains like Frieza or obliterate entire sections of the map as Majin Buu, but anyone else should probably look elsewhere for a genuinely chilling asymmetrical survival title.
  6. Impulsegamer
    Nov 8, 2022
    48
    In theory, using the Dragon Ball universe as a setting for an asymmetric multiplayer game is an innovative idea, but The Breakers executes poorly on this idea, with a tedious gameplay loop and technical issues.
  7. Eurogamer Italy
    Oct 28, 2022
    40
    Dull gameplay, uninteresting action, shortage of game modes and characters, subpar graphics and bad performances, make this game one of the worst Dragon Ball games ever created.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 5 out of 9
  1. Oita75
    Feb 15, 2023
    10
    This game is clearly underrated.
    It's fun, dynamic and for the price ($15), I'm really enjoying it.
    Season is incoming with more bad guys    This game is clearly underrated.
    It's fun, dynamic and for the price ($15), I'm really enjoying it.

    Season is incoming with more bad guys (Vegeta, on top of Freeza, Cell & Buu) and more survivor.
    You take a lot of fun as a villain and as a survivor. I don't understand this DB-bashing except for the graphic environnment with a Xenoverse 2 vibes, but I'm not shocked at all.

    Try it, you'll like it !    … Expand
  2. Fab75000
    Feb 15, 2023
    10
    Très bon jeu. Honnêtement, c'est amusant, que ce soit en solo avec des joueurs inconnus ou aves ses potes.
    Ce jeu a été victime du bashing    Très bon jeu. Honnêtement, c'est amusant, que ce soit en solo avec des joueurs inconnus ou aves ses potes.
    Ce jeu a été victime du bashing ambiant et les testeurs officiels n'ont pas pris en compte le faible prix du jeu. POur 15 euros, on en a vraiment pour son argent !

    Je recommande, beaucoup plus fun que beaucoup de jeux !    … Expand
  4. FrostyKale
    Oct 25, 2022
    8
    I really like this game. While I would argue that the use of micro-transactions and a 20 dollar price doesn't feel right, it is still very funI really like this game. While I would argue that the use of micro-transactions and a 20 dollar price doesn't feel right, it is still very fun to play and games are rarely one in the same. You feel very free to move around and can actually defend yourself against a raider rather than just running away. Character customization is a little weak but doesn't sully the game too much. Connection and being able to get a match is strong. Great game for a dragon ball fan and a good game for a casual.… Expand
  5. Hacknaruto27
    Oct 26, 2022
    4
    In my opinion, this isnt that great of a game. My reasons are these.
    1. Gameplay loop can get repetitive fast. It feels barren and empty    In my opinion, this isnt that great of a game. My reasons are these.
    1. Gameplay loop can get repetitive fast. It feels barren and empty trying to get around the maps scaveging for gear and tools.
    2. Graphics are pretty basic. It is pretty colorful but cant help but feel like Bandai use Xenoverse 2 assets here but cheaper i guess?
    3. My biggest issues with this game is it is a $20-$30 game, (depending on which version you buy) and has a gacha mechanic. It is a live service game as expected with this kind of game and in order to get new abilities to help you survive longer is through their gacha. You can either grind out and save a LOT of your zennys to summon, collect some tickets to perform summons, OR skip the grind and pay your way to perform multiple summons! Please note the pulls are for the survivors only. So people can just drop tons of money and summon over and over until the players are satisfied. This screams pay-to-win.
    4. They have that season pass mechanic on here, but you dont have spend money or currency to get it It is available to all players at the start. HOWEVER, you can spend real money for their premium currency and spend them to skip levels on the pass and get the rewards instantly.
    5. The Raiders (villains) are pretty cool and really strong. They only need to hit the survivors 2 times to knock em out. Makes sense since we are playing as lowly humans. But unless you know what you are doing and too much time passes, you can get overwhelmed by the survivors and lose. Same for the survivor side. Take too long and the Raider will wipe everyone out.
    6. It isnt that fun playing the game alone. As i mentioned earlier, this game is too barren right? If you dont have friends to play with, it wouldn't be that great of a experience.. Which is pretty much the standard for all live service titles... it is too quiet and only way to communicate with others is through emote and pinging.
    7.For the life of me, I cant stand Trunks. Trunks is so annoying to listen to! Keeps saying the same dialouge over and over and over and over!!
    8. The customizations gear and items are too expensive!! Not earning enough Zenny ,(basic currency) for each match and so cant buy that much stuff without grinding over and over.
    9. To learn no abilities, you get them from the summons or through training. If you have the specific hero, but not have their super attacks, you can use their training mechanic to spend hero soul points or something to unlock an ability. The issue with this is these soul points is another form of currency that takes forever to grind and cost too much.

    For the time being, these are my reasons why i give this game a 4/10. The micro transactions should not be the key feature and they got too many currencies that take a long ass time to grind. The reward payout feels weak and not very rewarding. This a free-to-play mobile game withca $20 starting price tag. It is a very dissapointing game and i wish i could return it.    … Expand
  6. DarkenCroix
    Jan 10, 2023
    0
    Games are too in the favor of survivors. They literally just disappear, and good luck if you don't have the ability to sense ki. By endgameGames are too in the favor of survivors. They literally just disappear, and good luck if you don't have the ability to sense ki. By endgame you're dead if you aren't really good, and really fast at gaining transformations. And if you are good, and fast then playing hide and seek with survivors is boring, but once you find them they're pretty dead. Playing as a survivor is likewise dull if you don't know what you're doing to collect energy to kill the slow raider. And if they aren't bad slow waiting until endgame isn't all that hard so long as other survivors aren't feeding the raider to go to stage 3 where they actually start being a real threat. You're more likely to be the killer in this version of the game, but it's a pretty terrible experience regardless of which side you play due to bad cameras.… Expand
  7. BrenerMF
    May 11, 2023
    0
    Muito ruim o jogo é uma cópia de Dead by Daylight com personagens de Dragon Ball. Pior Dragon Ball que já joguei na vida.
  8. lucapiloto007
    Jun 23, 2023
    0
    O jogo e como jogar o jogo da cobrinha, simples, um pouco repetitivo, só que nesse, e como dar a sua vida para deixar o jogo horrivel, se meO jogo e como jogar o jogo da cobrinha, simples, um pouco repetitivo, só que nesse, e como dar a sua vida para deixar o jogo horrivel, se me obrigarem a jogar esse jogo pelo resto da vida, me machucar vai ser mais divertido… Expand

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