Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

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8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 939 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 99 out of 939
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  1. pangowomp
    Mar 15, 2023
    0
    this games fighting mechanics are terrible and the boss fights are so bad and annoying
  2. Fukkayuu
    Dec 29, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. You really want this to be a good game. You do. It looks beautiful, the game play is fun. Huge open world. But it sucks. It's literally one of the worst video games I've ever played in my life. I image it was programmed by a bunch of over the hill has beens. It plays like a piece of crap super Nintendo game. The controls are horrible. HORRIBLE!! Combat is boring. Spam spam spam spam. One button to do it all. And the bosses suck. First real boss you fight is Vegeta. He is not challenging to fight. But rather than fix this the "programmers" decided to have Vegeta cheat instead. Literally if you start winning the game spams and causes damage and knocks you out. You can be right in the middle of a special move, with a beam of energy with Vegeta slammed into the ground, doesn't matter YOU GET HIT instead, and then you lose you're power and can't move (something you CANNOT do to your enemy) and then one hit causes over 1000 damage. So it's practically impossible to beat him. I gave up after thirty minutes and asking myself, why am I doing this? Why am I getting frustrated on a D title game? This game isn't worth investing any time into whatsoever. I'm glad I got it on sale. Do not waste your money on this. This game sucks. I am not over exaggerating. It blows so bad. Wait, it will be free on game pass or psn. In about a year no one will be even willing to pay $5 for this hot garbage and it'll be free. Don't waste you're money. You'd be better off buy fentanyl over this. On top of the terrible 7 generation old game mechanics, the game constantly crashes. Yea, seriously, and it's not even optimized yet. This game is truly one of the worst games ever made. Made by people who used to know how to make games but didn't keep up with the times. If you're a Dragon Ball Z fan I would avoid it because it's going to put such a bad taste in your mouth its going to ruin it. Absolutely garbage.… Expand
  3. ZangBang
    Oct 24, 2022
    1
    16/100
    Dragon Ball Z Kakarot is a game clearly made with love and appreciation for the source material: the environments are faithfully recreated even when not integral to the gameplay, new original side-quests expand in charming ways on popular and forgotten characters alike, while many features are subtle references to various multimedial instances of the franchise's history. But sadly,    16/100
    Dragon Ball Z Kakarot is a game clearly made with love and appreciation for the source material: the environments are faithfully recreated even when not integral to the gameplay, new original side-quests expand in charming ways on popular and forgotten characters alike, while many features are subtle references to various multimedial instances of the franchise's history. But sadly, as much as this game is full of love, it is almost completely devoid of any technical quality. The Combat system is overly simplistic and excruciatingly repetitive, remaining static throughout the entire experience both defensively and offensively, as the same enemy attack patterns repeat continuously and the new abilities unlocked merely provide an increased damage output. To aggravate this boredom, the challenge is non-existent, not only due to fights themselves being too easy, but also because of the possibility to carry an unlimited amount of healing items to use whenever desired, totally trivializing any fight. For this reason, the many side-quests and side-activities around the map, of which the main reward is raising your stats, end up being entirely unnecessary to the main progression. This ultimately comes off as a blessing, since all activties are incredibly shallow and devoid of any real depth: time-wasters that either provide more ridiculously easy battles or embarassingly simplistic minigames that lose all appeal after a couple of minutes, copy and pasted throughout the entire game world without a hint of variety. Even the game's main strength, its faithful retelling of the original story, doesn't deliver properly as in the second half of the game it often skips iconic story bits.    … Expand
  4. knur
    Oct 9, 2022
    3
    Clunky gameplay filled with grind, boring content, unintuitive ui, pointless game mechanics and just overall lack of polish. I regret spending money on this game. I'm sure i'd have more fun just rewatching the anime. I fell for it because of the high review scores but now I know that they are just flooded with fanboys. The truth is that this game is much below average.
  5. N1ggers
    Feb 3, 2022
    0
    It's bad, sh1t controls on pc. Absolutely hostile to fun or convenience.
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  6. kyo85
    Dec 6, 2021
    0
    The game has its down moments, like loading times, looking forwards in hope of a kakarot 2 on ps5. It would be beautiful! The menus a a lil pain in the ass, but the overall game is lovely - especially when you are a dragon ball fan! A really good game when it comes to fandom. If you are hesitating about buying cause reviewes are mixed - if you are a fan of DB, dont hesitate and enjoy aThe game has its down moments, like loading times, looking forwards in hope of a kakarot 2 on ps5. It would be beautiful! The menus a a lil pain in the ass, but the overall game is lovely - especially when you are a dragon ball fan! A really good game when it comes to fandom. If you are hesitating about buying cause reviewes are mixed - if you are a fan of DB, dont hesitate and enjoy a 40hr story : )… Expand
  7. B-Bog
    Oct 23, 2021
    4
    Take the most boring and bland Open-World Action RPG you can possibly imagine and give it a DBZ coat of paint: Voila, you have created this game. The overworld is empty and lifeless (and looks terrible) and exists solely because Open World games are all the rage now and your character needs a space to fly around in. Encounters with regular enemies are incredibly repetitive, side quests areTake the most boring and bland Open-World Action RPG you can possibly imagine and give it a DBZ coat of paint: Voila, you have created this game. The overworld is empty and lifeless (and looks terrible) and exists solely because Open World games are all the rage now and your character needs a space to fly around in. Encounters with regular enemies are incredibly repetitive, side quests are as basic as it gets, and the game's systems are unnecessarily convoluted. Almost every feature in this game seems to have been put in not because it enriches the gameplay, but because other Open-World titles do something similar.

    So the one word to sum this game is: Uninspired.    … Expand
  8. Warwickandjosh
    Oct 7, 2021
    0
    My son pressed new game and reset the game losing all his progress, was really far through the game. He’s devastated to say the least. Should have a warning
  9. Empyrea
    Aug 17, 2021
    0
    After two hours playing this I got stucked with the first real enemy. I tried to beat him 5 times (I almost beat him the third one) but because I got this game borrowed and I don't like difficult games or games that force you to do sidequests to keep advancing in the game I think this game really deserves a 0 because finding such troubles so early in a game is really weird. And I'm used toAfter two hours playing this I got stucked with the first real enemy. I tried to beat him 5 times (I almost beat him the third one) but because I got this game borrowed and I don't like difficult games or games that force you to do sidequests to keep advancing in the game I think this game really deserves a 0 because finding such troubles so early in a game is really weird. And I'm used to playing games and yes, I tried different techniques and all, so I'm not going to waste my time with this game. Really disappointed indeed... It's a pity they didn't think about offering different kinds of difficulty.… Expand
  10. Ingleberg
    Jun 4, 2021
    3
    Easily the most frustrating, unbalanced game of all time. Tutorials teach you nothing, and 99 percent of the game is never explained. This deserves one of the lowest ratings possible. Oh and after frieza arc the difficulty gets ridiculous again. and every fight is against 12 dudes who just stun lock you if you don't blast them out of the gate and the exp they give is honestly anEasily the most frustrating, unbalanced game of all time. Tutorials teach you nothing, and 99 percent of the game is never explained. This deserves one of the lowest ratings possible. Oh and after frieza arc the difficulty gets ridiculous again. and every fight is against 12 dudes who just stun lock you if you don't blast them out of the gate and the exp they give is honestly an embarrassment. but don't worry you'll run into them every three seconds, whether you get rid of the ships and towers or not. this game isn't hard per se, but it does everything it can to make you want to throw it in the fire. oh and the food system is unnecessarily bloated.… Expand
  11. KupchinoGirl
    Mar 14, 2021
    0
    This game has no soul. You can definitly tell that no effort was put into this ugly bastard, they didn't try to create an interesting open world, make unique side quests and solid combat system - all they wanted was to slip a hand into ur pocket and grab sum cash. Dragon Ball has the most loyal fanbase in the world, they swallowed Super and now give grade "ten" to this garbage. PleaseThis game has no soul. You can definitly tell that no effort was put into this ugly bastard, they didn't try to create an interesting open world, make unique side quests and solid combat system - all they wanted was to slip a hand into ur pocket and grab sum cash. Dragon Ball has the most loyal fanbase in the world, they swallowed Super and now give grade "ten" to this garbage. Please STOP. If you clearly see that the game is piece of shat, just admit it and don't defend it. I really can't understand this phenomenon and I remember I was the same in my childhood days, when I almost beated Taiketdu, Shin Budokai 2 and Legacy of Goku I… Expand
  12. Txcritic
    Nov 15, 2020
    2
    Ser un gran fan de esta saga me permite ver qué tristemente están explotando a Dragón ball y su contenido, simplemente un falso RPG, un solo botón para golpear... Incomparable con el Storm Legacy de Naruto... Simplemente Kakarot va más allá de la decepción
  13. Megakrage
    Oct 19, 2020
    0
    The attention to detail this game gives on the original DBZ story is insane!. more story than any other dragonball game. that with fun combat and a open world. idk how people can't like this game. if you like dragon ball then you must play this
  14. Dead_Directed
    Aug 26, 2020
    1
    This is the worst Dragonball Game I’ve ever played. Don’t buy it, this ruins so many memories, for example he visits King Kais planet without any problem with the gravity and the fights are just boring.

    You can’t even share play the game.
  15. Juanchivazquez
    Aug 11, 2020
    0
    La verdad esperaba mucho mas, las convinaciones de golpes las haces apretando circulo, las diferencias de poderes solo es visible por la cantidad de vida y el mundo abierto es totalmente nefasto
  16. LefteeTris
    Aug 7, 2020
    3
    I've played every Dragon Ball game you can play. I love them. I don't care if it's just repeat of the same old crap. This game however is horrible. The difficulty scaling is intense. I barely made it through the first fight with Raditz. It took me almost 3 days. And now that friezas lame arc (not the game, but frieza is lame lol) is over the game is unapproachable with its difficultyI've played every Dragon Ball game you can play. I love them. I don't care if it's just repeat of the same old crap. This game however is horrible. The difficulty scaling is intense. I barely made it through the first fight with Raditz. It took me almost 3 days. And now that friezas lame arc (not the game, but frieza is lame lol) is over the game is unapproachable with its difficulty again. Im glad I wanted for a sale but I still want a refund this game sucks so bad.… Expand
  17. BigBroly
    Jul 27, 2020
    3
    Graphics are great but it falls flat with the combat, got real bored after a couple of missions. The RPG element of the game isnt there either too you cant really have connections with characters it's just side quest for the most part and even then still just doing the same moves with nothing new so that's just **** as well. All in all I just think something's greatly lacking
  18. ArthurJoelLeo
    Jul 26, 2020
    0
    this game is awful! There's still lots of bugs, force you to fight with enemies every moment for power up. I don't want to fight with enemies every mofo moment you fcking company! I HATE THIS GAME, I HATE SO MUCH!
  19. Elrooyy
    Jul 21, 2020
    3
    Etant un grand fan de Dragon Ball depuis ma tendre enfance il ne faut généralement pas grand chose pour que les jeux de cette franchise me plaisent. Mais là, je dois dire que je ne comprend pas l'avis des joueurs. Le jeu est extrêmement répétitif, les quêtes secondaires n'ont aucun intérêt et sont quasi toutes identiques ( aller chercher des objets et les ramener ) et les activités annexesEtant un grand fan de Dragon Ball depuis ma tendre enfance il ne faut généralement pas grand chose pour que les jeux de cette franchise me plaisent. Mais là, je dois dire que je ne comprend pas l'avis des joueurs. Le jeu est extrêmement répétitif, les quêtes secondaires n'ont aucun intérêt et sont quasi toutes identiques ( aller chercher des objets et les ramener ) et les activités annexes sont marrantes la 1ère fois mais ne se renouvelle jamais donc ne donne pas envie d'y revenir. De plus quand il s'agit de l'histoire principale, on retrouve beaucoup de missions fedex identiques aux quêtes secondaires dont l’intérêt est digne d'épisodes filler de Dragon Ball Super. Et pour couronner le tout, le système de combat est pauvre, ce qui couplé à la difficulté risible de ces derniers, les rends très vite ennuyant.
    Pour conclure je dirais qu'on se retrouve là avec un RPG pas vraiment RPG, basé sur un manga de "combat" dont les combats sont loupés. A fuir si vous n’êtes pas fan de Dragon Ball et si vous l’êtes, attendez de le trouver à 10$ en occasion    … Expand
  20. BlackLotus
    May 28, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So many great ideas for this game, poor execution. One of the more aspects for me was cooking setup. Only make one item at a time, takes way too long. The constantly switching between characters was also annoying. Artificially extending boss fights by adding lame mechanics that make them invulnerable almost. The power curve for levels and exp is way out of portions as well. The biggest annoyance was how bad the voice acting and lip sync was.… Expand
  21. Syfin
    May 1, 2020
    0
    Боевая система в этой игре перекрывает все её плюсы до 0 из 10. Это просто ужас какой-то. Ни в одной игре хуже боевки не встречал. И эта игра имеет оценки намного выше one piece world seeker? Не смешите меня. Да на фоне её ван пис вообще шедевр. В этом dragon ball ничего хорошегокроме сюжета сезона Z больше ничего нетБоевая система в этой игре перекрывает все её плюсы до 0 из 10. Это просто ужас какой-то. Ни в одной игре хуже боевки не встречал. И эта игра имеет оценки намного выше one piece world seeker? Не смешите меня. Да на фоне её ван пис вообще шедевр. В этом dragon ball ничего хорошегокроме сюжета сезона Z больше ничего нет
  22. zorkeon
    Apr 5, 2020
    0
    Db cacarot is a game of cheat, it's a fake rpg
    The game graphismes are so disgusting
  23. contomx
    Mar 15, 2020
    3
    Glitchy mess of a game. The publisher should be ashamed to have released a game in this state. Had 3 game-ending glitches, from falling through the map (and the game immediately autosaving, forcing me to reload a manual save from 35 minutes ago) to having essential quest giving NPCs fail to appear on multiple occasions. On top of all of that, it also fails as an RPG and as a DBZ game. It'sGlitchy mess of a game. The publisher should be ashamed to have released a game in this state. Had 3 game-ending glitches, from falling through the map (and the game immediately autosaving, forcing me to reload a manual save from 35 minutes ago) to having essential quest giving NPCs fail to appear on multiple occasions. On top of all of that, it also fails as an RPG and as a DBZ game. It's like Xenoverse combat except neutered.… Expand
  24. Gonoru
    Feb 28, 2020
    2
    TONS of stupid censorship, misplaced camera angles on key scenes, boring secondary missions, and lack of cut scenes in fights...It seems like they put some effort to ruin their product
  25. zamon8er
    Feb 24, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. i cant honestly believe all the 10/10 im seeing have you guys never played any other games or just fan boys to the end? I get being a fan , I love dragonball and games, but if you care about something you tell it when its done wrong, not pretend its all good and live in denial.

    the fighting mechanics are weak its like xenoverse had a regression of mechanics, all bosses have super armour and all training is 3 on 1 with them spamming you with projectiles, there is no challenge outside of that, most fights consist of one combo over and over and spamming special moves.
    the "rpg" elements are little to none and have little impact in the game its a action game with ridiculous numbers that don't mean a lot when you really look at it,

    some of the visuals are amazing and really show what this game is capable of like recomes ultra fighting bomber or vegeta loosing his temper at cell are 10/10 when it comes to visuals I cant deny that, but so many other story critical moments where either low effort cut scenes not fully rendered or straight up skipped and told to us by the announcer while we get a slide show if we get that, the recome scene got more love than the goku vs majin vegeta bit I mean...…….

    we was sold on it having new info to the series but any fan like me will know pretty much all this stuff and anything they do add like bulmas mums name are pointless and not worth your money

    the game called kakarot but it skips most of his time in the anime and focuses on gohan and the other cast, I think you play as goku the least in the story, its a misnomer it should have been called gohan.

    all in all a very average game if you never played a dragonball z game you might get some enjoyment out of playing the story but any older fans will get bored and frustrated with this game fast, as the combat is boring and gets stale fast and they cut so much its painful to sit though after you feel you been robbed of a great moment    … Expand
  26. molner
    Feb 16, 2020
    3
    it's a perfected jump force open world with the basic whole story of songoku but it is very slow at the voice acting and the story process
  27. LegitMan
    Feb 9, 2020
    0
    The game is nothing special but for some reason, people praise it because "nostalgia vibes" while every couple of years you get a dragon ball game that goes through the story, I already did this in Budokai 3 where I had a bunch of characters to choose from...
    cheap ass adventure fighting game that my 6-year-old son might enjoy, It's like those legos made for 3-7 years old.
    not worth 60$    The game is nothing special but for some reason, people praise it because "nostalgia vibes" while every couple of years you get a dragon ball game that goes through the story, I already did this in Budokai 3 where I had a bunch of characters to choose from...
    cheap ass adventure fighting game that my 6-year-old son might enjoy, It's like those legos made for 3-7 years old.
    not worth 60$ and don't believe the reviews, it's just full of fans praise, this game is not even close to this score.    … Expand
  28. syclone_x
    Feb 8, 2020
    3
    This game is incredibly boring. Yes, the story is very nostalgic and you get the experience of playing through very recognizable Dragon Ball Z moments but other than that there isn't much to this game. It's a very simplistic combat system that gets a bit repetitive and the "RPG" aspect of the game is almost entirely missing. If you like the story and just want to play through for it,This game is incredibly boring. Yes, the story is very nostalgic and you get the experience of playing through very recognizable Dragon Ball Z moments but other than that there isn't much to this game. It's a very simplistic combat system that gets a bit repetitive and the "RPG" aspect of the game is almost entirely missing. If you like the story and just want to play through for it, that's great, if you wanted a fun game to pour hours into then this isn't it.… Expand
  29. preuss
    Feb 5, 2020
    0
    altamente repetitivo e enjoativo, tornando a experiencia com a franquia dragon ball fraca, nao cativando novos usuarios a consumir dessa franquia
  30. Juvator
    Feb 5, 2020
    2
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 75 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 40 out of 75
  2. Mixed: 34 out of 75
  3. Negative: 1 out of 75
  1. RPGamer
    Apr 30, 2020
    60
    Despite the numerous flaws, Kararot still offers a wonderful retelling of the main story, above-average graphics, and a great soundtrack, so it’s worth picking up for established and new fans of the series alike.
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  2. GameSkinny
    Apr 10, 2020
    70
    Even though DBZ: Kakarot retells the same story the franchise has been telling for decades, it manages to do so in creative new ways for hardcore anime fans.
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  3. PLAY! Zine
    Mar 16, 2020
    90
    A very few games can compare to Kakarot in terms of sheer love towards the original series and storytelling qualities. Not without its set of flaws that leave only regret not being even greater, Kakarot still manages to be a great game for fans. No, scratch that. It manages to be an amazing game! May they not stop here, and deliver more and more of love-letters like this. If it goes in the right direction, the next one could definitely be legendary.
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