Summary
Dragon Ball: Sparking Zeroplayers aren’t happy about Vegeta’s “lazy” Episode Battle and can’t believe that the Prince of all Saiyans has such a short story mode.
One of the mostinteresting aspects of Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero compared to the older Budokai Tenkaichi gamesis how it handles its story mode. While the rest of the trilogy mostly focused on just retelling the story of Dragon Ball Z in one massive mode,Sparking Zero instead splits them up into eight different campaigns called Episode Battles.
Each Episode Battle focuses on a different character and their length depends on the hero or villain at the centre. Goku’s is, of course, the longest of the bunch, but considering Vegeta is the secondary protagonist, you’d expect him to have the second-longest in the game, right? That sadly isn’t the case, as he actually has one of the shortest.
Sparking Zero Players Aren’t Happy With Vegeta’s Episode Battle
For whatever reason, despite having plenty of screen time in Super and even getting a unique transformation during that arc,Vegeta’s Episode Battle randomly ends after his fight against Kid Buu. It’s strange considering how much he appears in everyone else’s campaign and how many iconic Vegeta moments are just missed out.
Vegeta doesn’t even get his epic battle against Goku Black where he calls him out for using the original Goku’s body.At least he has a grab referencing the moment.
It seems that a lot of Sparking Zero players have noticed how weirdly short Vegeta’s campaign is.Over on the Budokai Tenkaichi subreddit, Redditor Used-Dare7796 shared a postpointing out how “lazy” Vegeta’s Episode Battle is and pointed out that it not only skips the whole Saiyan Saga but also his story in Super.
The comments in the post are equally confused about why Vegeta got the short end of the stick when it comes to Episode Battles. While it seems that most are happy with his what-if stories (especially when he goes Super Saiyan 2 against Cell), the general consensus is that a lot more could have been done with his canonical stories.
This is a problem that also extends to some of the other characters, such as Future Trunks only having his Super arc and nothing from Dragon Ball Z. Overall, though, it’s clear that fans are especially unhappy with Vegeta having such a short campaign considering how important he is to the story and how much was left on the cutting room floor
