I remember getting this game as a kid expecting it to be like Budokai on the Gameboy Advance and was so disappointed. But I played it a lot anyway because I was a huge DBZ fan and just wanted DBZ on the go. Then as soon as Supersonic Warriors came out I put this game down and never picked it up again. Lol.
Yeah same here. I definitely beat the game as a kid just because I felt like I had to complete every dbz game lol. Supersonic warriors was peak! The multiple storylines was awesome
Taiketsu’s awkward models were ripped from a cancelled PS2/GameCube game called “Saiyan Smash”. Apparently this game was a rush job slapped together from the scraps of that project, which is why it’s weird and sucks.
@@mysteriousthirteen From a nifty reference, if Taiketsu is a player's first time working around fighter arcades, Kinect is the undercooked brethren that negates veteran expertise.
@@mysteriousthirteen Supersonic Warriors was one helluva starting point before they moved on up to Fighter Z! Supersonic Warriors 2 and Extreme Butoden was pretty cool too!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
As someone who's played more DBZ games than probably most people on this planet, I can say from experience that Taiketsu at least has that goofy dumpster fire entertainment value, unlike something like Ultimate Battle 22 which feels like pulling teeth. Still, I absolutely respect you for suffering through 100% of Taiketsu. That takes a special kind of commitment! Fun video, btw! Definitely subscribing. :)
Its been awhile since I’ve played UB22 but I can agree, some elements of the game were “so bad it’s good” and at the very least gave me a good laugh lol Also DUDE, I was just watching your Tenkaichi vid. So crazy to see you here. Glad you enjoyed the video
Man, I completely forgot that I had this game. I still don't remember it 100% but I can't forget that gameplay. I clicked this video like what game is this completely forgetting I had it as a kid😭
It's funny how webfoot developed both the worst and best Dragon Ball game on GBA. LoG2 is unironically the best Dragon ball RPG i've ever played, with Buu's Fury being a close second(would've been 1st if only it wasn't so god damn easy).
Im pretty sure this was my intro to Dragon Ball Z. I broke one of my shoulder Buttons on my GBA or DS (i had both, cant remember which one i was playing this on) so I couldnt do a bunch of the moves.
This was my first dragon ball Z game right before Supersonic warriors and Legacy of Goku 2 and man it sucked but I still play it on emulator and tbh idk I play for the nostalgia. The soundtrack was great and love the battle stages. I was kinda upset Yamcha wasn’t in the game. Yes I was a huge Yamcha fan back then. Working to hack him into the game 👌🏽 tho
4:28 "How would you EVER figure that out?" Permitting the publisher didn't cut a deal with Prima or Bradygames to keep special moves secret and have you drop another $15 on a strategy guide - which wasn't the case in this game; the guide for it is pretty much all redundant information - you would look in the booklet that came with the game, similar to most games made before it was commonplace to put full (or any) tutorials in the game. I don't know why this is always considered such a radical notion for people who were alive at the time. I will concede, however, that the special move inputs are completely out of this world, and absolutely terrible to try to memorize. It's like if in UMK3 you had to memorize six different Brutality inputs for Jax, for instance, to do all his basic special moves.
Ah dang, I could have sworn that the special moves weren’t in the manual for this one. If so that’s my bad, got my information wrong, I probably have the booklet/strategy guide around here somewhere lol. Glad we can agree, the inputs are an abomination
@@mysteriousthirteenAnd to be more fair to you: Even older kids, teenagers, and adults often didn't keep video game boxes and instruction booklets as much when they were cartridges in cardboard boxes. Even if someone saved their copy of the game from 20 years ago, it's far less likely they have the booklet and box than if it were a DS game from a couple years later, in a plastic clamshell case. I checked a little while ago and can't even find a PDF of the Taiketsu booklet, except for one paid site that I found a preview of it without having to pay.
Final bout was dog shit. Also, I remember in the early 2000's, the only reason I bought DBZ battle 22 on PS1 was because the cover looked sick. The cover and the opening intro before the title screen were literally the only good things about that game. lol But holyshit I completely forgot about DBZ: Taiketsu.... I haven't played this game since like 2004.... This game literally looks a shitty gameboy color game that was ported over to the GBA with slight improvements to the color. Dragon ball z super sonic warriors came out in 2004 and if you compare SSW to Taiketsu its literally night and day. Heck Legacy of Goku 2 (also a fire game) came out in 2004 as well. I just don't get how Taiketsu can be this shitty.
It’s mind blowing Taiketsu, LOG2, Buus fury and SSW ALL came out within the same 365 days (or just about). Which are all fire games that are super nostalgic for me, aside from Taiketsu lol. But yeah, UB22 and Final Bout aren’t much better. Only thing they got on this game is they came out in the 90s
The fact that you managed to highlight the good points of Sagas despite its reputation and had to concede to the overwhelming dunking on this one realy speaks volumes. And Android 18 being a discount Sektor has to be the funniest thing I've seen all day lmao.
To me it seems that this was just an attempt to jump in the bandwagon since dbz started picking up fast, especially after LoG2. Seems rushed and uncared for
I remember my best friend gave me this game in 5th grade i git this game and supersonic warriors confused i genuinely liked this game at first bur over the course of 2 weeks i came to see how much it sucked it had cool things about it but overall it was garbage
i cant lie, back when this game came out, i was hyped for it since it was for me at this time the only DBZ fighting game for the GBA i can get access too. i ended up getting it and played it quite a lot. it was....weird but i enjoyed it. this is before i had access to reviews and anything. while the attacks were not great i had a lot of fun just doing the supers with the cast.
I can definitely see it being enjoyable under those circumstances. I mean, I finished it back in the day just because it was the newest dbz game, so I probably found something I enjoyed about it lol. But having all the dbz games at the time it was pretty trash to me
I've never played this game, but I'm 99% certain combos would have been printed in the manual. I don't think you'd have to "guess" if you bought it back in the day.
I almost got this game because of the cool box art. Luckily I ended up getting Supersonic Warriors as my gba DBZ fighting game instead. Those terrible character models look like they came from Robot Chicken. LMAO
@@mysteriousthirteen Do the Zero series. Majority of the Megaman Community agrees that the Zero series were the peak of Megaman. Great level design Good boss battles Very fluid movement Very polished gameplay. Zero's skills in those games(Zero series) arent as flashy and as powerful as X's weaponry, armors and arsenal but the X series (notably X5 onwards 💀) Has so many problems due to rushing and time constraints that it ruined the game. Too many problems to list. The X series struggled to get its shit together.
Super excited for it! Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi are where DBZ games peaked in my opinion, so any return to that formula will be welcomed by me. I was honestly, a bit mixed on the new trailer. It doesn’t look like anything too different than what we’ve been getting, but the graphics look nice and I’m excited for the new characters so..we’ll see. How about yourself ?
@@mysteriousthirteen definitely thought it was weird but the novelty of having characters i’ve never seen/thought were cool was the fun part. Game made it seem like i was missing something tho so i never really learned how to play and most of me playing was just learning controls. Being honest tho i mostly only remembering me looking for the game and trying to search online years later to even see if the game even existed
@@akasakasad6271 Makes sense, this game feels like a fever dream already lol. but yea, i could see how it would be cool as someone's first introduction to that arc.
@@mysteriousthirteen No, really, I was almost gonna puke because of the overwhelming effects. It's just too much of everything. The colors are shit, the effects are shit, the camera is shit, bloom was too much, it was too bright and too dark at the same time, the black frame is the worst they could ever have done, camera shaking is bullshit. Raging Blast 1 looked a million times better than this new crap.
What do you guys think - is this the WORST DBZ game?
Definitely! Having played Ultimate Battle 22, Final Bout, and Sagas.. Taiketsu takes the cake for the worst DBZ game I've ever played.
For me, its a solid contender to be one of the worst gba games of all time, aside from just dragon ball lol
Ultimate tenkieche
It was Battle of Z for me
Same@@tyrekedixon
I remember getting this game as a kid expecting it to be like Budokai on the Gameboy Advance and was so disappointed. But I played it a lot anyway because I was a huge DBZ fan and just wanted DBZ on the go. Then as soon as Supersonic Warriors came out I put this game down and never picked it up again. Lol.
Yeah same here. I definitely beat the game as a kid just because I felt like I had to complete every dbz game lol. Supersonic warriors was peak! The multiple storylines was awesome
Taiketsu’s awkward models were ripped from a cancelled PS2/GameCube game called “Saiyan Smash”. Apparently this game was a rush job slapped together from the scraps of that project, which is why it’s weird and sucks.
Oh wow. I had to look that up just now, wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t see it myself lol. This explains a lot
Lol, I wanted the other DBZ game that was available for the GBA, but my parents bought this instead for Christmas
Lol that’s tragic
Story of my childhood lol ma I want Pokémon. -gets Animorphs
Ma, dbz budokai
-gets dead or alive(which was fire)
Ma didn’t know shyt bout games lol
It's utterly hilarious of fans to objectively proclaim Taiketsu as the worst of Dragon Ball games while DBZ Kinect levitates over our heads.
Lol to be fair I never played DBZ Kinect but I’ve heard terrible things
@@mysteriousthirteen From a nifty reference, if Taiketsu is a player's first time working around fighter arcades, Kinect is the undercooked brethren that negates veteran expertise.
That Great Ape attack looks like a Monty Python animation.
That’s such an accurate way to describe it lol
Thanks to the guys who made Super Sonic Warriors
Same guys who made FighterZ!
@@mysteriousthirteen Supersonic Warriors was one helluva starting point before they moved on up to Fighter Z! Supersonic Warriors 2 and Extreme Butoden was pretty cool too!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
2:05 they look pretty good in supersonic warriors tho
As someone who's played more DBZ games than probably most people on this planet, I can say from experience that Taiketsu at least has that goofy dumpster fire entertainment value, unlike something like Ultimate Battle 22 which feels like pulling teeth.
Still, I absolutely respect you for suffering through 100% of Taiketsu. That takes a special kind of commitment!
Fun video, btw! Definitely subscribing. :)
Its been awhile since I’ve played UB22 but I can agree, some elements of the game were “so bad it’s good” and at the very least gave me a good laugh lol
Also DUDE, I was just watching your Tenkaichi vid. So crazy to see you here. Glad you enjoyed the video
YO! How’s it going Niosai?
@@mysteriousthirteen I appreciate that! Small world 😎
@@themasterofnothing4978 Sup!
2:53 Seeing that gamefaqs type button layout brought back memories
First time I’ve had to use it in decades lol. Good times man
The game was so bad I just cheesed the throw til I unlocked the free super moves
Lmao the throw is honestly OP
I'm among those who were expecting a Legacy of Goku II/Buu's Fury-esque game and was sorely disappointed.
Still played the hell out of it, though.
Yeah same here man. At least something with a proper story mode
I remember getting this game as a gift and it was different. I didn't hate it. It was like playing the first Mortal Kombat on Super Nintendo for me.
I fully respect that! Although I agree with the popular opinion in this case, there’s many games i enjoy that people dislike
Man, I completely forgot that I had this game. I still don't remember it 100% but I can't forget that gameplay. I clicked this video like what game is this completely forgetting I had it as a kid😭
Honestly, it’s a game I wish I could forget - even more so now lol. Sorry to bring back those memories 😂
@mysteriousthirteen man I was one of those kids that couldn't tell when games were bad if I liked the subject 🤣🤣🤣
For real bro. If it was dragon ball z I was buying it I don’t care what anyone has to say 😂
It's funny how webfoot developed both the worst and best Dragon Ball game on GBA. LoG2 is unironically the best Dragon ball RPG i've ever played, with Buu's Fury being a close second(would've been 1st if only it wasn't so god damn easy).
And they both came out the SAME year 😂 they probably were given a very short amount of time to develop it for the holiday release
I was nasty with piccolo
Gotenks has the meanest leg checks tho
Im pretty sure this was my intro to Dragon Ball Z. I broke one of my shoulder Buttons on my GBA or DS (i had both, cant remember which one i was playing this on) so I couldnt do a bunch of the moves.
Oh man, The moves are already difficult enough with all the buttons. I couldn’t even imagine lol
This was my first dragon ball Z game right before Supersonic warriors and Legacy of Goku 2 and man it sucked but I still play it on emulator and tbh idk I play for the nostalgia. The soundtrack was great and love the battle stages. I was kinda upset Yamcha wasn’t in the game. Yes I was a huge Yamcha fan back then. Working to hack him into the game 👌🏽 tho
Hey man if you ever get Yamcha into the game let me know 😂 sounds fun
Man I thought this was cool when I was a kid but I definitely had no idea what I was doing. I just thought it looked cool while mashing buttons
Hey man, no judgement at all lol. But yeah, personally, I’ve always hated this one
@@mysteriousthirteen I'm pretty sure a friend in elementary school borrowed it and never gave it back. Did me a favor tbh
I’m a DBZ collector, that’s the only reason I still have a physical copy.. somewhere. but that friend is a legend
This thing made me break my gameboy dpad :v
Bro I’m new here…. Your delivery is iconic it’s like an atypical sarcastic Henry Cavil Superman. New sub earned
Lol this comment made my day. Thank you, Welcome aboard bro!
4:28 "How would you EVER figure that out?"
Permitting the publisher didn't cut a deal with Prima or Bradygames to keep special moves secret and have you drop another $15 on a strategy guide - which wasn't the case in this game; the guide for it is pretty much all redundant information - you would look in the booklet that came with the game, similar to most games made before it was commonplace to put full (or any) tutorials in the game. I don't know why this is always considered such a radical notion for people who were alive at the time.
I will concede, however, that the special move inputs are completely out of this world, and absolutely terrible to try to memorize. It's like if in UMK3 you had to memorize six different Brutality inputs for Jax, for instance, to do all his basic special moves.
Ah dang, I could have sworn that the special moves weren’t in the manual for this one. If so that’s my bad, got my information wrong, I probably have the booklet/strategy guide around here somewhere lol. Glad we can agree, the inputs are an abomination
@@mysteriousthirteenAnd to be more fair to you: Even older kids, teenagers, and adults often didn't keep video game boxes and instruction booklets as much when they were cartridges in cardboard boxes. Even if someone saved their copy of the game from 20 years ago, it's far less likely they have the booklet and box than if it were a DS game from a couple years later, in a plastic clamshell case. I checked a little while ago and can't even find a PDF of the Taiketsu booklet, except for one paid site that I found a preview of it without having to pay.
Final bout was dog shit.
Also, I remember in the early 2000's, the only reason I bought DBZ battle 22 on PS1 was because the cover looked sick.
The cover and the opening intro before the title screen were literally the only good things about that game. lol
But holyshit I completely forgot about DBZ: Taiketsu.... I haven't played this game since like 2004.... This game literally looks a shitty gameboy color game that was ported over to the GBA with slight improvements to the color.
Dragon ball z super sonic warriors came out in 2004 and if you compare SSW to Taiketsu its literally night and day.
Heck Legacy of Goku 2 (also a fire game) came out in 2004 as well. I just don't get how Taiketsu can be this shitty.
It’s mind blowing Taiketsu, LOG2, Buus fury and SSW ALL came out within the same 365 days (or just about). Which are all fire games that are super nostalgic for me, aside from Taiketsu lol.
But yeah, UB22 and Final Bout aren’t much better. Only thing they got on this game is they came out in the 90s
The fact that you managed to highlight the good points of Sagas despite its reputation and had to concede to the overwhelming dunking on this one realy speaks volumes.
And Android 18 being a discount Sektor has to be the funniest thing I've seen all day lmao.
There was close to nothing positive to say from my experience, other than it’s so bad it’s good in a comical way.
They really did 18 dirty 😂
To me it seems that this was just an attempt to jump in the bandwagon since dbz started picking up fast, especially after LoG2. Seems rushed and uncared for
Definitely, there was no thought or care put into development here - surprisingly it sold very well still lol
I remember my best friend gave me this game in 5th grade i git this game and supersonic warriors confused i genuinely liked this game at first bur over the course of 2 weeks i came to see how much it sucked it had cool things about it but overall it was garbage
i cant lie, back when this game came out, i was hyped for it since it was for me at this time the only DBZ fighting game for the GBA i can get access too. i ended up getting it and played it quite a lot. it was....weird but i enjoyed it. this is before i had access to reviews and anything. while the attacks were not great i had a lot of fun just doing the supers with the cast.
I can definitely see it being enjoyable under those circumstances. I mean, I finished it back in the day just because it was the newest dbz game, so I probably found something I enjoyed about it lol. But having all the dbz games at the time it was pretty trash to me
I've never played this game, but I'm 99% certain combos would have been printed in the manual. I don't think you'd have to "guess" if you bought it back in the day.
I believe that to be true now. I still have it somewhere, probably at my parents house. Regardless, it’s still very frustrating lol
I almost got this game because of the cool box art.
Luckily I ended up getting Supersonic Warriors as my gba DBZ fighting game instead.
Those terrible character models look like they came from Robot Chicken. LMAO
Super sonic warriors is a great game, loved the multiple story’s in it.
😂 You’re not wrong. Looks like an adult swim April fools joke
The music is always fire i swear 😂 i never played this game before though so this was quite the interesting watch!
You can always count on the music 😂 glad you enjoyed bro!
I bought this game as a kid my disappointment was unbelievable 🥺
Same here, I was so upset 🥲 thankfully we haven’t got one quite this bad since
Even when I was a kid, I knew this was trash. Im so glad I eventually got Megaman Zero 3.
Same here, I always thought this was a trash game - even before I knew what a bad game was. Mega man games were/are peak tho, maybe I’ll review some
@@mysteriousthirteen Do the Zero series. Majority of the Megaman Community agrees that the Zero series were the peak of Megaman.
Great level design
Good boss battles
Very fluid movement
Very polished gameplay.
Zero's skills in those games(Zero series) arent as flashy and as powerful as X's weaponry, armors and arsenal but the X series (notably X5 onwards 💀) Has so many problems due to rushing and time constraints that it ruined the game. Too many problems to list. The X series struggled to get its shit together.
I remember this and SuperSonic warriors were my first two dragon ball games on game boy
SuperSonic Warriors was always one of my favorites. It’s Basically what this game should have been lol
Wooooow. I forgot about that one ! The charge for some were 🥴
It’s probably better to forget 😂
I forgot about this game…the gameplay and controls sucked from what I remember lol
It definitely has some of the worst controls I’ve ever come across lol
this game was so difficult for no reason, almost as frame tight as real bout GT
I believe i got lucky, having no knowledge of this game when i was a kid and came across it in my cousins game pouch, I played it, never again.
Lucky you, indeed. I was about 6 when this came out and I wouldn’t be surprised if I cried because of how appalled I was lol
@@mysteriousthirteen While I have your attention somewhat, what’s your opinions on the recent Sparking Zero gameplay? And the game in general?
Super excited for it! Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi are where DBZ games peaked in my opinion, so any return to that formula will be welcomed by me. I was honestly, a bit mixed on the new trailer. It doesn’t look like anything too different than what we’ve been getting, but the graphics look nice and I’m excited for the new characters so..we’ll see. How about yourself ?
Finally someone who realizes taiketsu is the worst dbz game sagas may be bad but at least you could have fun especially in coop but taiketsu just no
Exactly, Sagas can at least be fun, even if it’s a poorly designed game. Would take it any day over Taiketsu
I literally flushed the game for how bad the game is
It is the worst game indeed
It doesnt need to be exist
Id rather play final bout than this crap
Final bout > Taiketsu for sure, and that’s saying A LOT lol. Happily never playing this again
@@mysteriousthirteen I'm sorry you had to go through this journey I'll pay for your therapy 😂
this used to be my favorite game and first experience with the buu saga lol
What did you like about it? 😅
@@mysteriousthirteen definitely thought it was weird but the novelty of having characters i’ve never seen/thought were cool was the fun part. Game made it seem like i was missing something tho so i never really learned how to play and most of me playing was just learning controls. Being honest tho i mostly only remembering me looking for the game and trying to search online years later to even see if the game even existed
@@akasakasad6271 Makes sense, this game feels like a fever dream already lol. but yea, i could see how it would be cool as someone's first introduction to that arc.
This game literally looks like a robot chicken skit.
Hated this game, it really sucked.
Top 3 worst games I’ve ever played tbh
I'd rather play this instead of ultimate tenkaichi😂😂 i didn't hate taiketsu
Dang the UT shade 😂 I haven’t played it in a decade, I can’t remember if I hated it that much
@@mysteriousthirteen I feel you 🤣😂💪
i watch every video, but at 1.25 speed lool its too slow normally but 1.25 sounds too fast lol
I need a 1.13 speed for my channel
great video as always.
Thanks man! Glad you enjoyed it
I actually like it no lie
I respect it bro lol
New sub mate you earned it.
Appreciate you man! Welcome aboard
These devs made hogwarts legacy.
Edit: my mistake, I was talking about dbz sagas.
Did they really?
Wasn’t that avalanche? Lol
@@mysteriousthirteen my bad, I was thinking of dragon ball z sagas, the OTHER bad dbz game.
That is correct! Still just as crazy to see how far they’ve come
No lie I love this game it’s so bad it’s funny
Well it doesn't make me wanna puke like Sparking Zero does with its bad visual effects. That's no joke.
Lol damn. Not a fan of the new gameplay trailer?
@@mysteriousthirteen No, really, I was almost gonna puke because of the overwhelming effects. It's just too much of everything. The colors are shit, the effects are shit, the camera is shit, bloom was too much, it was too bright and too dark at the same time, the black frame is the worst they could ever have done, camera shaking is bullshit. Raging Blast 1 looked a million times better than this new crap.
holy shit
one of a kind opinion over here
Useless clickbait arrow in thumbnail auto dislike. I'm not blind kid
UA-cam is a tough game, brotha. I put damn near full time job hours into my content - god forbid I want an eye catching thumbnail