2 myths people need to know about the series 1. goku never beats vegeta in a fight he lost both their battles 2. goku loses believe it or not 7 of the 8 tournaments in the 4 combined series ….he technically ties I think with pikkon so that one is a draw cause they both stepped out of the ring or whatever...and he technically only kills a few enemies and beats a few
I'm a Dragon Ball fan for 20 years myself but f this game is boring and not worth the price you paid. I would rather play fighterZ, way much better visual and gameplay
Yeah it’s a sort of thing that didn’t translate well to America. Every time in a dub they yell out their super move it just sounds so awkward vs Japanese VAs yelling at the top of their lungs
I used to think Goku's voice was unbearable in Japanese, but after rewatching Dragonball in Japanese I definitely prefer it over the English dub. Gohan is less annoying in Japanese too
I mean, the cell saga doesn't follow this formula, and the buu saga is so convoluted that they dont follow this formula exactly (it was a bad move though, buu saga has so many twists that it gets boring after a while)
@@ThePunisherSpider That's what ya get when you pressure a man to continue a story that he's long since lost interest in telling. And after you've forced him to come up with four extra concepts for his villains in the previous arc. Seriously, it was just supposed to be about the first set of Androids. But then his editors made him come up with another set of Androids, then Cell, Then they made Toriyama have him transform twice. Do you see why he went off the handle a little by the time he got to the Buu saga. He just wanted to write whatever the hell he wanted to write without his editors telling him what to do.
Which moment was that this review was as repetitive as the entirety of the series before they revived Frieza 20+ years after he/she/they died and came back to fight for the good guys because being dead for a decade gave him/her/they a change of heart from destroying literal planets for fun what even is this garbage! 😂
@@princezuko9430 it's the voice coupled with the sleek character design. It confuses some people and they just don't feel confident enough to make a firm decision on the matter. I mean, he's clearly a guy if you throw preconceived western notions of what a man is out the window, but some people just don't see that.
The last time they did a dbz story game was 2012, maybe 2014 with battle of z. But thats being generous cuz 2008 was the last game that simply told the story. So the new and old generation deserves this
@@MrSlashblade .......Every saga is the same. Goku gets shrekd has to power up wins dies Powers up wins dies. Powers up someone else ALMOST wins but that's illegal so goku wins.
Fariko Wishless didnt win in the cell saga and for the most part wasn’t even there, and the Buu saga is much more then your bad summary and it was a joint effort among Goku, Vegeta, and the planet of Earth. Even in the Saiyan Saga the character who gets the win is Gohan. The only person Goku beat in that saga was Nappa. Try again
Fariko Wishless // You clearly didn’t watch the anime. Goku dies in the first fight of Z, beats up Nappa but doesn’t kill, doesn’t even win against Vegeta, only beats up Recoome and Burter on Namek until he beats Frieza (but doesn’t kill him) and the killing honor goes to Trunks. He’s barely there in the Cell saga, unable to beat Android 19 because of a disease, then him withdrawing from the fight against Cell and there is a joint effort in killing Buu. Goku finally gets the last touch in killing Buu, but that’s his only one against the major villains.
@@turanx0 He's ALWAYS down for the count every dam arc. Be elitist all you want there's no changing facts. What a fake expert thing to reply "You clearly haven't watched the anime" as if that deletes the point I'm making I watched it all although I don't owe you any explanations.
"I think, I can handle this!" "I think, I can handle this!" "I think, I can handle this!" "I think, I can handle this!" "I think, I can handle this!" "I think that enemy got the point!"
@@roccygnus2570 you're absolutely right. He even asked why are they letting cell power up when Vegeta was letting him... Then again Trunks could've stopped him since he was stronger than Vegeta at the time.
The Cell Saga doesnt follow this formula though, everyone expected it to, but it didn't, and that's why it's probably where the story should have ended. The buu saga tried to break the formula too but was waaaay too convoluted by the end of it. The only sagas that follow those formulas are the saiyan and freeza saga to be honest.
@@xcraetor9276 Dragon Ball Super was just ok. It had incredible potential in every arc. Universe 6 Saiyans, Goku Black, Tournament of Power. So much potential. But they couldn't pull it off. I honestly believe most of us fans could have quite easily done a better job at making a better story. What's even worse is, the story they made is in itself riddled with so much inconsistency and needless things. I can honestly overlook the infamous animation. Animation can be fixed later nowadays. But the story doesn't have that luxury.
@@krishnansubramoni7801 I think he's talking about the Moro Arc, which is easily the best Arc in Super imo. Not that it was really competitive in the first place but still
@@roccygnus2570 I never really considered reading the Moro arc since I heard something about Ultra Instinct Goku losing or something ridiculous like that. But if you say it's the best arc in Super, I should read it.
I love Dragonball Z with my entire being, but the description of the story of every arc and how they are exactly the same is spot on and had me laughing uncontrollably! Holy crap I love this channel!
Thank you! It seems that most people who love DBZ as much as you are just here to tell us we should go die. DBZ is obviously awesome, but a light teasing is all in good fun. So thanks for having a sense of humor!
@@GirlfriendReviews I just finished watching Dragon Ball Super and my wife was constantly asking how I can watch something that in her eyes is the exact same every episode, to which I just respond "yeah but look how much harder he's yelling now!"
Goku:”are you that freezer guy?” Frieza:”I am Lord Frieza yes” Goku:”Awesome. Imma deck you in the schnoz” If you guys haven’t please watch Team Four Star’s dragon ball Z abridged. (Some parts of the first season aren’t the best but by the Namek saga they’ve got really good writing and voice acting)
Seriously, it's some of the best stuff on TH-cam. Though you do have to get through the first few episodes that aren't great. They really hit their stride when they get to Namek though.
When I was young, the new episodes for the freiza saga were coming out and I knew some kind of ssj was coming. The day of the episode we had to go out of town because my parents were house hunting and I missed it. That hurt worse than being dumped by my first girlfriend. Not even lying.
I mean it started out as a parody of a lot of things ironically and set up successful shonnen battle manga series formula for the next 35 years so they all owe akira money for it....
I mean it started out as a parody of a lot of things ironically and set up successful shonnen battle manga series formula for the next 35 years so they all owe akira money for it....
Imagine starting out as a parody of an adventure story that’s a thousand years old, being so good you write for another 20 years, and midway through that 20 years you switch from adventure to hard core action, and you develop the most overused formula in media history. That is truly impressive.
@@TheFimpish Vegeta let dr. Gero activate the droids 17 and 18 cause he was feeling like a god after turning into ssuper sayan for the first time. Result: he ended up half dead. Not long after that, he got stronger, even stronger than Cell after absorbing 17 and had the briliant idea of cooperating with Cell to make him become perfect just cause he was curious to see how strong he was gonna be. Again, he got beaten to a pulp. But Vegeta doesn't learn his lesson so in the Buu arc, he doesn't want to prevent Buu to being reborn. He, once more, is inebriated with his power and is curious to see if Buu is thaaat powerful. Outcome: dead. By far, the worst enemy for Vegeta is his own ego.
The story loop is much more true for the game but in the anime even though enemies scaled with main characters but the tension was real and the story did flow. When piccolo was stronger than cell and equal to 17 it made sense. When vegeta surrendered to majin powers it made sense. When kid buu was weaker than super buu it made perfect sense. Even though no one dies the power level ping pong was amazing in DBZ. Super is mainly carried by nostalgia and vegeta being a good hypeman
Can we share a moment of silence and empathy for those poor souls who had to redo the lines for every DBZ arc for the games dozens and dozens of times by now? Imagine having to record "this isn't even my final form yet" in your finest Freeza voice for the 20th time and still having to sound like you mean it
Fun fact: dragon ball originally was a parody of the tropes of shonen manga in the 80s, until it got so popular that it redefined the genre as a whole, so it started taking itself seriously.
Dragon Ball was never a parody of shonen. It was just an action/adventure series with lots of comedy. If it was a parody it would have been more like Fist of the North Star or something like that. The series was inspired by Journey to the west and Chinese martial arts films, but not so much other shonen.
"i felt like DBZ was a parody of anime". Uh nah if anything other anime are a parody of DBZ. The reason it seems like that is because DBZ is pretty much shaped modern shonen, and now everything mimics it with small changes to it's formula.
A very good suggestion!! I think they'd handle that very well, and such a wonderful game with all the qualities they felt Toriyama's work lacked here 🙂
I have a lot of admiration for how you guys respect each others' behavior, quirks and tendencies within your relationship, particularly in theae current wild, post modern times. Very honest and open, it's refreshing.
The whole Dragon Ball story is good, but it’s annoying how they only give us DBZ games, watching Krillin die in every single game has become the norm, you’re like “yeah die already I wanna fight freeza
never really liked the buu saga that much, but that is maybe because gohan got pretty much sidelined when it was mostly his story to power and succeeding goku.
@@gustavocontreras6856 But it would be way later and in og Dragonball there is an enormous world building with so many places and people Goku and the others met. I loved Goku's journey and his fights with Prince Pilaf, Tenshinhan, Jackie Chun and the RR Army. And I liked how the powerlevels were somewhat low enough that collecting the dragonballs rendered somewhat difficult. Nowadays the Z Fighters have an absolute monopoly on them without any trouble.
There is so much they could do with the DBZ universe that doesn't involve the MCs, but they don't want to take the risk. An entire game about being a Frieza Force grunt and climbing the ranks would be cool as hell. Any storyline as a Saiyan during Frieza's rule or even before that would be dope. A story where you play a Namekian, maybe one about Kami's past and how he came to be on Earth. There's also so many cool things they could do with the Kais or the afterlife world with Paikan and stuff. Other genres would be cool even if they use the same MCs. A card game like Hearthstone or something with cool animations would do pretty well, imo. The new wave of Auto-Chess games like Team Fight Tactics or Dota Underlords with DBZ characters would be pretty hype. Hell, while we are sticking to game genre fads, let's do a Battle Royale game too. Everyone plays as low rank Saiyans, Namekians etc. and you are dropped into a map where you have to survive and kill the other players. Anything but the same rehashed game over and over. Kakarot is just a single player Xenoverse that we have already had twice, which are just remade Budokai games....
You do a great job telling a story. Its like you’re doing an english paper on every topic. I cannot imagine how long it takes to write what you say. Great job
Did guys who are now in their 40s grow up watching Dragon Ball in the West? I’m in my early 40s, and I read the DB manga as a kid because I’m Japanese, but I don’t think any of my American friends even knew what it was.
3:33 - it kinda has a parody in it. I mean, look at the saiyajins - sai-ya when swapped gets yasai (vegetable in japanese) and jin stands for man. So the saiyajins (or saiyans as Americans say) are basicly vegetablemen. That's why they're also called so, Kakarot (carrot), Broly (broccoli), Vegeta (either the seasoning or some ultimate vegetable, he's a prince after all), Vegeta's children are named after underwear (trunks, bra) and other stuff like the ultimate evil guys who are also cooling machines (Freezer, Cooler). A whole lot of stuff here was made for shits and giggles, but also in a way that would still be entertaining and Toryiama pulled it off just right. Also, the real reason why saiyajins have yellow hair (it could be any bright colour actually) is because it was easier to draw in manga, you could just draw hair outlines, and you're done, and yeah, they had a loooot of hair to draw. Stuff I say here may be obvious and well-known for a lot of people, but I guess some of you don't, so I thought it's worth mentioning. What always gets me is how fiercly people argue over stuff like powerlevels, or what the character motives were. Take it with a pinch of salt guys, I bet the creators didn't even think about it in that weird, overanalyzing way :D
Fnyt , I am REALLY tempted to argue over how power scaling is important in every action show and not just DBZ but I understand you wouldn’t care less so just take my like for putting some info for new people to the series out there.
I highly recommend The Long Dark. I've been watching my bf play it for a few days now and we're both addicted. It's a beautiful game and I think you'd both enjoy it :)
It is actually kinda hilarious, that one of the biggest events in the whole series was also one of the worst looking and drawn scenes of the show, because they were working so hard on the first movies that the neglected the TV show.
Well obviously he hated broccoli so much he made him an entirely one dimensional character that literally took that bullshit energy transfer to Goku from everyone else to beatbas a youth, but as he matured and realized the nutritional value of said broccoli, he realized the full tragedy of all the hate this vegetable gets and revised the character. That or he finally put cheese on the shit and realized it's the shit
She is not. In dbz Goku never defeated a enemy on his own, making her statement about Goku getting stronger and beating everyone invalid. Furthermore, Cell was beat by Gohan. The only accurate thing was the repeat of sentences.
Seeing OG Tom from Toonami gave me flashbacks of DBZ, Yu Yu Hakusho, and the one I always forget the name of that was basically some dude's harem with girls from outer space that kick-started puberty for me. Oh, and REBOOT. The best CGI story about the inner-workings of the tiny green people that live inside of our PCs. (INCOMING GAME, INCOMING GAME) But yeah, the game is nostalgic but ultimately just another Bandai Namco game with more missions than usual and longer cut-scenes. Give me a DBZ RPG made by... hmmm...FROM Software...?
@@Fried-Tofu You mean Tenchi, that was the only harem anime I could stomach. Lol. Yeah I have so many memories of the Toonami era, it's not something kids today will understand. Streaming has almost eliminated cartoon blocks plus action cartoons are not what they used to be.
@@Bruticus87 Lol yeah, Tenchi Muyo that's it :D. You're right, streaming has all but eliminated the network TV we grew up with, I'm 5 years younger but the programming didn't change that drastically until Netflix and the like came out. Definitely makes me feel old when someone younger than me doesn't know what "Saturday morning cartoons" are lol.
@@Fried-Tofu I know the feeling. It was a nice way to consume media as we had a dedicated time for it and it was a special little thing we got to do amongst our schedules and studying. It was easier to be responsible with my time back then, haha.
That game has one of the best combat systems in the series, but going through the story mode is hard. That thing of fighting clones and more clones is hot garbage.
6:38 I don't know about your representation of DB... To me it's one of the best books I ever read, the story is amazing, from Goku's meeting of Bulma to Buu's arc, it's hilarious and captivating. If you're going to review an unfinished game with english voice acting, please don't take any of the resulting disappointment anywhere near Toriyama work of art. Please :D
Lady literally a standing ovation to you 👏🏻 The best puppet show I've ever seen "Hold on this isn't even my final mcguffin" And whe n John Cena popped up I was like whaaaaaat.❤️😄😂
I'm on the same page with you when it comes to Dragonball, though it has an interesting story about how Akira originally wanted to end the show ages ago, but the studio told him no. He pretty much had no freedom over his creation.
this is why z sucks..it focused just on transforming changing up the lure like how inconsistent zenkai boosts became or senzu beans or you know strategy in a fight...original db had actual martial arts and adventure elements...and by having less characters to focus on we get more investment cause we grow with goku and this small group that found each other...in z its like 25 main characters
@@razkable Still Z had great arcs, especially the cell saga and namek saga. In Super Goku for example needed to fight around Hits abilities. The rest if super was mainly spamming God KameHameHa like Kamehameha x10 in GT after a while.
The Cell saga is where it should have ended. The Buu saga has waaay too many twists and transformations and techniques, it was throwing stuff at the wall and see what sticked.
@@Gunther69420 my issue with z is how poor its written...again zenkai boosts use of senzu beans lack of using fusion or forms even if it risks the lives of everyone becomes the norm...its poorly written..
I sure she had only watched or heard about first two arcs that's why she is saying it repetitive She should had watch other arcs before saying it repetitive And that was repetitive for coming and going of Goku but those were completely different scenarios Even though her review was fun to watch
They said that they changed the title format because there were some people who voiced that they felt misguided by the title or felt personally attacked by it (didn't like the "should your boyfriend play" part). Which I think is sad because I never minded the original title format, but it only takes a few complaining people to change it for everyone.
“But for my boyfriend Goku’s balls was an obsession” beautifully said
Beat me to it
@@scottnotpilgrim you best me to it
@Pablo Escobar Can I get some cocaine?
Ooo I'd like goku's balls
No doubts Matt wrote that line
Her rendition of the "I.. I think I can handle this!" line was spot on. Somebody get her a voice acting gig already.
omg, didn't even realize it was her
Her impression was better than the original.
@@mickael486 almost sounded like a combo of old gohan and new gohan
5:50
It's actually crazy
Wait she's the one that said that last part?
She called Yamcha “Homeless Goku”
I think I broke a rib..
😭😭
I heard she says harmless Goku which is even more accurate.
Yamcha's been homeless Yamcha'ed!
@@cairosilver2932 "He honestly doesn't deserve this. Buuut, it's still funny."
Mmmmmm rrriiibss.
I just lost it. Homeless Goku.
"This isn't even my final Mc'Guffin"
I would pay stupid money to have this phrase canon.
I would to.
You mean your final Muffin button?
Then you’d like dbz abridged (who am I kidding, you’ve probably already watched it)
u smel bad
cringe
Girlfriend review: "I don't recommend it to anyone but the most loyal fans"
me: I- I think I can handle this
disgusting weeb
2 myths people need to know about the series 1. goku never beats vegeta in a fight he lost both their battles 2. goku loses believe it or not 7 of the 8 tournaments in the 4 combined series ….he technically ties I think with pikkon so that one is a draw cause they both stepped out of the ring or whatever...and he technically only kills a few enemies and beats a few
😂
I'm a Dragon Ball fan for 20 years myself but f this game is boring and not worth the price you paid. I would rather play fighterZ, way much better visual and gameplay
@@Salmagros it's been a couple months and I still haven't finished it, too boring lol
I need a boyfriend’s review: the story of a girlfriend playing animal crossing new horizons
OMG yes. Imagine a dude enthusiastic coming to understand the complexity of Candy Crush or whatever.
Yes
Invite Tim Rogers ! This gonna be the peak of the Internets !
What no one understands is that Matt (Boyfriend) is more excited about Animal Crossing than Shelby (Girlfriend)
My gf wants this too
I gotta say: I played it in Japanese on a weeb's friend's house and not understanding the language makes repetitive lines more bareable.
That sounds good. I wish I could do it, but Goku's Japanese voice scrapes the essence of my soul. I can't stand it even more lmao
Yeah it’s a sort of thing that didn’t translate well to America. Every time in a dub they yell out their super move it just sounds so awkward vs Japanese VAs yelling at the top of their lungs
I used to think Goku's voice was unbearable in Japanese, but after rewatching Dragonball in Japanese I definitely prefer it over the English dub. Gohan is less annoying in Japanese too
@@HesFromOceanside But Gohan is the same annoying high-pitched voice over there.
It just wouldnt be a dragonball product if there wasnt at least one guy who said, "but its better in the japanese version"
😂😂
“Mr. Mime or homeless Goku”
I spit my chocolate milk everywhere.. thank you very much
K. S. Chocolate Milk..............You mean Senzu Juice
Homeless goku broke me lol
saaaaaaaaaame
Pog for chocolate milk
I don’t like how accurate she was for the 4 minutes.
I mean, the cell saga doesn't follow this formula, and the buu saga is so convoluted that they dont follow this formula exactly (it was a bad move though, buu saga has so many twists that it gets boring after a while)
@@ThePunisherSpider That's what ya get when you pressure a man to continue a story that he's long since lost interest in telling. And after you've forced him to come up with four extra concepts for his villains in the previous arc. Seriously, it was just supposed to be about the first set of Androids. But then his editors made him come up with another set of Androids, then Cell, Then they made Toriyama have him transform twice. Do you see why he went off the handle a little by the time he got to the Buu saga.
He just wanted to write whatever the hell he wanted to write without his editors telling him what to do.
@@izukumidoriyaisssss3049 DBZ was also supposed to be Gohan's story. Until the editors...
@@TartarusHunter gohan had such potential, now he's just there. Goku should've died for real after the cell fight
@@izukumidoriyaisssss3049 Did you mean: Metal Gear Solid
That moment when you describe every dbz ever. 😂
Which moment was that this review was as repetitive as the entirety of the series before they revived Frieza 20+ years after he/she/they died and came back to fight for the good guys because being dead for a decade gave him/her/they a change of heart from destroying literal planets for fun what even is this garbage! 😂
@@gingerkingds7804 yet you are here
Ginger King DS Frieza is a dude. Whats with all the pronouns?
@@princezuko9430 it's the voice coupled with the sleek character design. It confuses some people and they just don't feel confident enough to make a firm decision on the matter. I mean, he's clearly a guy if you throw preconceived western notions of what a man is out the window, but some people just don't see that.
I've never felt so demonised for loving DB in my life
it's.... it's all grey
Not black or white.... but grey
The storytelling with the action figures on popsicle sticks was amazing
The attempt to summon the spirit bomb was even better though
So none of you guys are going to react to the fact that she called Yamcha as 'homeless Goku'.... that is comedic master stroke right there
this comment was made about 50 times before yours so... you had a stroke as well.
First off no one screws Yamcha but life.
@@MrMultiUniverse I do not know what this Yamcha is, but it sounds disappointing
He's a super successful baseball man tho!
More like homeless Gohan. Gohan as a kid and an adult had the same haircuts as Yamcha's.
Angry Joe: Might cause trouble later. Best to deal with this now.
Girlfriend reviews: I-I think I can handle this...
i think someone wants to die...
Godzilla is approaching the generator!
He's a MAN, not a GOD! COME ON COMRADES!
@@intense79nick the generator is losing power
Wait, he still does game reviews? I thought he moved to do movie ones.
I'm so shocked at how perfect every single one of your scripts are. You guys are almost criminally good.
"There you go again, throwing your hands up in the air like you just don't care. CARE, DAMN IT!"
- Frieza
“This ruffles my jammies HAAAAA- *squeak*”
-Goku
@@thekingofrandomness3137 oh yeah my old channel lol
3:43 Pickle Riccolo...
I'll see myself out...
Well played, your membership has been extended for free.
Pickle-O
Jesus... i didn't even realize the full extent of the joke
I’M PICKLE RICCOLO!
Pickle Rick......olo!
"And then Goku reveals *his* true strength too"
Shirt comes off.
Yup that's it. That's the whole show right there.
Khif13 Well, that’s how Vegeta surpasses Kakarot in strength: never put on a shirt again
Khif13 well Goku didn’t do that in the Cell saga
And thank God it is 😌
Me: How many times are we gonna go through the same story
Bandai Namco: Yes
Samuel kibunda as long as it sells
The last time they did a dbz story game was 2012, maybe 2014 with battle of z. But thats being generous cuz 2008 was the last game that simply told the story. So the new and old generation deserves this
timmyboy I’m sorry is xenoverse not a story game? Do you not go through the story in chronological order in that?
@@Couldbedumber not the actual story. Just scenarios of the story with a bit of changes
To be fair, it's not like the original stories for the games are any good.
She's just straight up calling out Dragon Ball Z! Darn it, she cracked the code and is exposing anime cliche left and right with no mercy!
Only for the first two saga
The next two sagas not even
@@MrSlashblade .......Every saga is the same. Goku gets shrekd has to power up wins dies Powers up wins dies. Powers up someone else ALMOST wins but that's illegal so goku wins.
Fariko Wishless didnt win in the cell saga and for the most part wasn’t even there, and the Buu saga is much more then your bad summary and it was a joint effort among Goku, Vegeta, and the planet of Earth. Even in the Saiyan Saga the character who gets the win is Gohan. The only person Goku beat in that saga was Nappa. Try again
Fariko Wishless // You clearly didn’t watch the anime. Goku dies in the first fight of Z, beats up Nappa but doesn’t kill, doesn’t even win against Vegeta, only beats up Recoome and Burter on Namek until he beats Frieza (but doesn’t kill him) and the killing honor goes to Trunks. He’s barely there in the Cell saga, unable to beat Android 19 because of a disease, then him withdrawing from the fight against Cell and there is a joint effort in killing Buu. Goku finally gets the last touch in killing Buu, but that’s his only one against the major villains.
@@turanx0 He's ALWAYS down for the count every dam arc. Be elitist all you want there's no changing facts. What a fake expert thing to reply "You clearly haven't watched the anime" as if that deletes the point I'm making I watched it all although I don't owe you any explanations.
4:08 “Goku reveals his true strength!” Goku: takes shirt off. Me: yeah basically.
"I think, I can handle this!"
"I think, I can handle this!"
"I think, I can handle this!"
"I think, I can handle this!"
"I think, I can handle this!"
"I think that enemy got the point!"
SeriousKano that what she said
SHUT UP ARCHIBALD!
Gosh, do you think that enemy _did_ or did not get the point?
@@bsmith6784 I think that enemy got the point!
@@seriouskano2 Okay, good to know
Lmao "everyone waits patiently while the bad guy powers up for 5 minutes" how true this is
It's not Piccolo's fault, Nail was distracting him with Minesweeper
Trunks is the only one I can think of that actually tried to stop things from getting worse.
@@roccygnus2570 you're absolutely right. He even asked why are they letting cell power up when Vegeta was letting him... Then again Trunks could've stopped him since he was stronger than Vegeta at the time.
@@vplgery True. He did try to stop Cell from reaching his perfect form but Cell already had his barrier up.
@@roccygnus2570 oh that's right... Lol
"Then the bad guy reveals his true power"
*John Cena*
"Then Goku reveals his true power"
*Goes shirtless*
Painfully accurate is all I can say about that review. 5:50 Perfect voice recreation there
The Cell Saga doesnt follow this formula though, everyone expected it to, but it didn't, and that's why it's probably where the story should have ended. The buu saga tried to break the formula too but was waaaay too convoluted by the end of it. The only sagas that follow those formulas are the saiyan and freeza saga to be honest.
ThePunisherSpider I think supers been doing better though but maybe that’s just me
@@xcraetor9276 Dragon Ball Super was just ok. It had incredible potential in every arc. Universe 6 Saiyans, Goku Black, Tournament of Power. So much potential. But they couldn't pull it off. I honestly believe most of us fans could have quite easily done a better job at making a better story. What's even worse is, the story they made is in itself riddled with so much inconsistency and needless things. I can honestly overlook the infamous animation. Animation can be fixed later nowadays. But the story doesn't have that luxury.
@@krishnansubramoni7801 I think he's talking about the Moro Arc, which is easily the best Arc in Super imo. Not that it was really competitive in the first place but still
@@roccygnus2570 I never really considered reading the Moro arc since I heard something about Ultra Instinct Goku losing or something ridiculous like that. But if you say it's the best arc in Super, I should read it.
I love Dragonball Z with my entire being, but the description of the story of every arc and how they are exactly the same is spot on and had me laughing uncontrollably! Holy crap I love this channel!
Thank you! It seems that most people who love DBZ as much as you are just here to tell us we should go die. DBZ is obviously awesome, but a light teasing is all in good fun. So thanks for having a sense of humor!
@@GirlfriendReviews I just finished watching Dragon Ball Super and my wife was constantly asking how I can watch something that in her eyes is the exact same every episode, to which I just respond "yeah but look how much harder he's yelling now!"
Apparently Shelby has a fall back career as an anime voice actress when this is all over...
Noticed that too. She sounded just like him.
Goku:”are you that freezer guy?”
Frieza:”I am Lord Frieza yes”
Goku:”Awesome. Imma deck you in the schnoz”
If you guys haven’t please watch Team Four Star’s dragon ball Z abridged. (Some parts of the first season aren’t the best but by the Namek saga they’ve got really good writing and voice acting)
This really RUFFLES MY JIMMIES! *squeaking toy sound*
Frieza: kidney punch kidney punch kidney punch pause ...and kidney punch
What are you? Insayan!?
Seriously, it's some of the best stuff on TH-cam. Though you do have to get through the first few episodes that aren't great. They really hit their stride when they get to Namek though.
@@dramalexi goku: I'm insane
Vegeta:tsk he means he is a sayian
“This looks like a good spot to find some ingredients.”
-Donald, Kingdom Hearts 3
No......not again..
THAT'S IT!!! I've come up with a new recipe!
Bad Guy: " THIS ISNT EVEN MY FINAL McGUFFIN!!!"
"the story arc becomes a story circle"
ow lol that killed me
it's so correct
Girlfriend Review: “It’s bad.
Me: * flares nostrils *
Girlfriend Review: “Unless you’re a hardcore DBZ fan.”
Me: “...fair enough.”
The game S U C K S
Even when im a db fan i still think the game is trash lol
Imma hard core dbz fan this shit is trash lol if you want a good great dbz rpg play legacy of Goku 2 or buus fury but this not it
Castro The Prince nah Play attack of the saiyans
@@Gumbrases I don't think I played that one
it WAS life changing
You are omnipresent my dude
Hey look it's that souls guy
When I was young, the new episodes for the freiza saga were coming out and I knew some kind of ssj was coming. The day of the episode we had to go out of town because my parents were house hunting and I missed it.
That hurt worse than being dumped by my first girlfriend. Not even lying.
Would a GFReviews collab be possible after your collab with BoyWonder is over?
Top 10 Rocks in DBZ: Kakarot.
5:52 DAMN, that was spot on!
"Find out Next Time on Girlfriend Reviews." (cue in dbz music)
I see you are a woman of culture.
This is by far the best display of Matt's editing I've seen yet. Keep going guys! Please review the Mass Effect series next 😁
"I started to wonder if Dragon Ball Z was actually a parody of anime" Well yes, but also no.
I mean it started out as a parody of a lot of things ironically and set up successful shonnen battle manga series formula for the next 35 years so they all owe akira money for it....
I mean it started out as a parody of a lot of things ironically and set up successful shonnen battle manga series formula for the next 35 years so they all owe akira money for it....
Imagine starting out as a parody of an adventure story that’s a thousand years old, being so good you write for another 20 years, and midway through that 20 years you switch from adventure to hard core action, and you develop the most overused formula in media history. That is truly impressive.
Goku: Beats enemy
Enemy: I can get even stronger if only I had item.
Goku: Where can I get you said item so we can fight?
That'd be Vegeta. He sabotaged himself so many times like this.
@@EderAPS I think you are forgetting about when goku gave cell a senzu bean.
That's vegeta. Never forget perfect cell
@@TheFimpish Vegeta let dr. Gero activate the droids 17 and 18 cause he was feeling like a god after turning into ssuper sayan for the first time. Result: he ended up half dead. Not long after that, he got stronger, even stronger than Cell after absorbing 17 and had the briliant idea of cooperating with Cell to make him become perfect just cause he was curious to see how strong he was gonna be. Again, he got beaten to a pulp.
But Vegeta doesn't learn his lesson so in the Buu arc, he doesn't want to prevent Buu to being reborn. He, once more, is inebriated with his power and is curious to see if Buu is thaaat powerful. Outcome: dead. By far, the worst enemy for Vegeta is his own ego.
"But for my boyfriend Goku's balls was an obsession" Ahh I see he's a man of culture
The story loop is much more true for the game but in the anime even though enemies scaled with main characters but the tension was real and the story did flow. When piccolo was stronger than cell and equal to 17 it made sense.
When vegeta surrendered to majin powers it made sense. When kid buu was weaker than super buu it made perfect sense.
Even though no one dies the power level ping pong was amazing in DBZ.
Super is mainly carried by nostalgia and vegeta being a good hypeman
Super is actually not that bad. At most it’s a 6-7/10. As a Db fan.
Perfect review.
As a boyfriend who ADORES DBZ, I loved this game for many reasons, and groaned endlessly for what it could have been.
have u played the xenoverse games
The Dog cosplaying as the Shenron is my favorite thing!
"yamcha = homeless goku"
"She sure is kicking the shit out of yamcha,
he honestly doesn't deserve this,
buuuut it's still funny"
Mr. Perfect Cell is that you?
Yamcha*
Ruined it with the "Yancha"
Bro, I would buy you a beer if I could.
Fixed
“I’m Insane!... From Earth.”
But...where did you get that muffin?
Brian Etie princess snake !
@@B2tharizzz muffin button...
“You’re not dealing with the average saiyan warrior anymore”
"He means saiyan".
When gohan says "I think I can handle this" it's a verbal cue that an enemy is trying to initiate a battle.
Ahhhh well then it's not obnoxious at all of course.
@@sinisterwombat3128 He has two lines actually. They should've made atleast 10, guess Bandai Namco went cheap
Can we share a moment of silence and empathy for those poor souls who had to redo the lines for every DBZ arc for the games dozens and dozens of times by now?
Imagine having to record "this isn't even my final form yet" in your finest Freeza voice for the 20th time and still having to sound like you mean it
"This isn't even my final mcguffin" lmao
Fun fact: dragon ball originally was a parody of the tropes of shonen manga in the 80s, until it got so popular that it redefined the genre as a whole, so it started taking itself seriously.
So when was that turning point?
@@123goofyking when it switched from Dragon Ball to Dragon Ball Z
Dragon Ball was never a parody of shonen. It was just an action/adventure series with lots of comedy. If it was a parody it would have been more like Fist of the North Star or something like that. The series was inspired by Journey to the west and Chinese martial arts films, but not so much other shonen.
@@TimBoundy Not really. The turning point started with the King Piccolo arc.
@@DarkSlayerZero2000 Finally, an intellectual.
This channel proves that "The Office US" is a meme factory.
"i felt like DBZ was a parody of anime". Uh nah if anything other anime are a parody of DBZ. The reason it seems like that is because DBZ is pretty much shaped modern shonen, and now everything mimics it with small changes to it's formula.
Vegeta's arc is the only true great writing bit in the entire db franchise
I have a rebuttal:
The "Don't you talk about Krillin!" Scene in destroyed namek
Did Vegeta ever kill cell?
No but Krillin did
Correct
Spoken like someone who hasn't even seen the original DB anime(not DBZ mind you)
@@abdullahahmad4239 I read you don't dispute my claim, which is the only thing that's relevant.
I really want to see a "Girlfriend Review: Chrono Trigger"
It's one of my all time favorites :D
BTW. Great Video as always :)
A very good suggestion!! I think they'd handle that very well, and such a wonderful game with all the qualities they felt Toriyama's work lacked here 🙂
@@henhenhen19 Please make this happen. Preferably the original SNES version and not the later ports/remakes, but I'll take anything.
Yes please do... also dragon fighter z for a better game
Mehdi or FFVI, I would love to see them flip their shit over Kefka
@@jimballard1186 I though the NDS port was pretty good?
3:22
"However, my apreciation for the fascinating and bizarre universe he drew [...]"
Girl, you haven't seen BIZARRE in manga yet...
Like someone's BIZARRE ADVENTURE?
@@CidGuerreiro1234 Jojo Siwa's BIZARRE ADVENTURE?
no...*no*....*NO*
*NOT THIS REFERENCE*
*NOT NOW*
*ITS TOO SOON*
Is that a JoJo reference? 💁
You were expecting a DBZ reference but it was me, DIO!
As a girlfriend who watched the boyfriend play this, holy hell is this accurate 😂😂😂
GR: I only recommend this game to the most loyal DB fans
Me: Yes, that’s why I’m here
I have a lot of admiration for how you guys respect each others' behavior, quirks and tendencies within your relationship, particularly in theae current wild, post modern times. Very honest and open, it's refreshing.
The whole Dragon Ball story is good, but it’s annoying how they only give us DBZ games, watching Krillin die in every single game has become the norm, you’re like “yeah die already I wanna fight freeza
never really liked the buu saga that much, but that is maybe because gohan got pretty much sidelined when it was mostly his story to power and succeeding goku.
I want a original dbz/dbs game
An OG Dragon Ball would still include Krilin dying
@@gustavocontreras6856 But it would be way later and in og Dragonball there is an enormous world building with so many places and people Goku and the others met. I loved Goku's journey and his fights with Prince Pilaf, Tenshinhan, Jackie Chun and the RR Army. And I liked how the powerlevels were somewhat low enough that collecting the dragonballs rendered somewhat difficult. Nowadays the Z Fighters have an absolute monopoly on them without any trouble.
There is so much they could do with the DBZ universe that doesn't involve the MCs, but they don't want to take the risk. An entire game about being a Frieza Force grunt and climbing the ranks would be cool as hell. Any storyline as a Saiyan during Frieza's rule or even before that would be dope. A story where you play a Namekian, maybe one about Kami's past and how he came to be on Earth. There's also so many cool things they could do with the Kais or the afterlife world with Paikan and stuff.
Other genres would be cool even if they use the same MCs. A card game like Hearthstone or something with cool animations would do pretty well, imo. The new wave of Auto-Chess games like Team Fight Tactics or Dota Underlords with DBZ characters would be pretty hype. Hell, while we are sticking to game genre fads, let's do a Battle Royale game too. Everyone plays as low rank Saiyans, Namekians etc. and you are dropped into a map where you have to survive and kill the other players. Anything but the same rehashed game over and over. Kakarot is just a single player Xenoverse that we have already had twice, which are just remade Budokai games....
"Power level Ping-Pong" I've never heard a more simple yet accurate description of DB...
“Goku’s balls were an obsession..”
You do a great job telling a story. Its like you’re doing an english paper on every topic. I cannot imagine how long it takes to write what you say. Great job
Usually 3 to 5 days of writing! Thanks for the kind words :)
"All I knew about Guko and his balls, Guko's balls were an obsession"
Shelby 2020.
“Might cause some trouble later. Best to deal with it now.”
“But for my boyfriend Goku’s balls was an obsession” honestly same though
We need twitch highlights, especially when you guys were playing shrek
I second this
some
"I don't recommend it to anyone but the most loyal fans"
So... pretty much every male in their 20s~40s
Lol dragon ball is just nostalgia that's it nothing special
@@archanagavli8628 True. I like DBZ because of my childhood.
Renting a VHS during the weekend and watching with friends.
Good time.
@@davilasvas6178 well anything is good if you are watching with friends
@@archanagavli8628 Dragon Ball is actually a great anime...Dragon Ball Z is overrated
Did guys who are now in their 40s grow up watching Dragon Ball in the West? I’m in my early 40s, and I read the DB manga as a kid because I’m Japanese, but I don’t think any of my American friends even knew what it was.
3:43 android 18 is amazing
3:33 - it kinda has a parody in it. I mean, look at the saiyajins - sai-ya when swapped gets yasai (vegetable in japanese) and jin stands for man. So the saiyajins (or saiyans as Americans say) are basicly vegetablemen. That's why they're also called so, Kakarot (carrot), Broly (broccoli), Vegeta (either the seasoning or some ultimate vegetable, he's a prince after all), Vegeta's children are named after underwear (trunks, bra) and other stuff like the ultimate evil guys who are also cooling machines (Freezer, Cooler). A whole lot of stuff here was made for shits and giggles, but also in a way that would still be entertaining and Toryiama pulled it off just right. Also, the real reason why saiyajins have yellow hair (it could be any bright colour actually) is because it was easier to draw in manga, you could just draw hair outlines, and you're done, and yeah, they had a loooot of hair to draw.
Stuff I say here may be obvious and well-known for a lot of people, but I guess some of you don't, so I thought it's worth mentioning.
What always gets me is how fiercly people argue over stuff like powerlevels, or what the character motives were. Take it with a pinch of salt guys, I bet the creators didn't even think about it in that weird, overanalyzing way :D
Fnyt , I am REALLY tempted to argue over how power scaling is important in every action show and not just DBZ but I understand you wouldn’t care less so just take my like for putting some info for new people to the series out there.
Akira wanted to draw funny action movie parodies but the big wigs at Shonen Jump said ''It needs more action.''
Vegeta is literally just vegetable, also it's not just his children, Bulma's whole family has an underwear naming theme
6:07 I was laughing in tears.
That puppet show reeneactment of every Dragonball Z story arc ever was perfect and hilarious.
That's shonen
I highly recommend The Long Dark. I've been watching my bf play it for a few days now and we're both addicted. It's a beautiful game and I think you'd both enjoy it :)
4:20 LMAO omg I bursted into laughter, I was totally caught off guard!
“Homeless goku” holy shit girl...your a national treasure lol someone preserve this girl forever lol
Well, the boyfriend does the script tho...
Xavier Beetge awww....bummer lol
@@xavierbeetge4654 eeeeh no, they both write the scripts
@@a_girl_has_no_username You can guess who wrote that lol
It is actually kinda hilarious, that one of the biggest events in the whole series was also one of the worst looking and drawn scenes of the show, because they were working so hard on the first movies that the neglected the TV show.
Which one is this??
@@jpool115 Well, Goku turning SSJ and fighting Freeza. Those episodes are some of the worst and cheapest looking of all DBZ episodes.
at least we can watch the remake with no fillers.
@@nocivolive A remake with no filler?! How long is it that episode? Does it even reach double feature 1 hour?
@@Masteroftheweb it's Dragonball Z Kai
Your dog as Shenron is easily the most adorable thing to come out the Dragonball Z creative space.
She said "every conflict lacked meaningful resolution"
Me: *in vegetas tone* "WE SAVED THE EARTH WOMAN!"
I survived Navi's constant "Hey, listen!"... I- I think I can handle this.
I always wondered how Akira Toriyama saw his vegetables?
Since his named his characters after them...
Dude loves puns and naming characters after objects.
Imagine Kid Akira playing with carrots and potatoes like ''And Now I'll show my true power!''
@@devin5201 don't forget he also named them after underwear,instruments, temperature, and a line from Cinderella.
Well obviously he hated broccoli so much he made him an entirely one dimensional character that literally took that bullshit energy transfer to Goku from everyone else to beatbas a youth, but as he matured and realized the nutritional value of said broccoli, he realized the full tragedy of all the hate this vegetable gets and revised the character.
That or he finally put cheese on the shit and realized it's the shit
@@snakepuncher1677 well tortiyama didn't make z broly only super broly z broly was from toei
Dragon ball fans: "Well, she's not wrong...."
Fighterz is the game to play!
She is not.
In dbz Goku never defeated a enemy on his own, making her statement about Goku getting stronger and beating everyone invalid.
Furthermore, Cell was beat by Gohan.
The only accurate thing was the repeat of sentences.
Also Yamcha is not homeless, his house is even in the game.
@@Huntertje13 the point was they look alike
I actually tried to go to the gohan website
So did it work?
@@Star-vh4cs nope
"Watching Goku vs. Frieza as a 12-year-old..." Holy shit...is Matt older than me?
That depends - how old were you in 1998?
I've watched a few of your videos and I really like the perspective of someone who doesn't have nostalgia for these series. Nice work.
Your editing is a masterpiece..
"Pageantry of action instead of the poetry of drama" - Girlfriend Reviews 2020. That's really well said.
Shubham Mehta Right? These are becoming actually really good reviews
This is amazing, hilarious, and kinda nostalgic. One of my favorite episodes of yours.
Also how dare you.
Seeing OG Tom from Toonami gave me flashbacks of DBZ, Yu Yu Hakusho, and the one I always forget the name of that was basically some dude's harem with girls from outer space that kick-started puberty for me. Oh, and REBOOT. The best CGI story about the inner-workings of the tiny green people that live inside of our PCs. (INCOMING GAME, INCOMING GAME)
But yeah, the game is nostalgic but ultimately just another Bandai Namco game with more missions than usual and longer cut-scenes. Give me a DBZ RPG made by... hmmm...FROM Software...?
@@Fried-Tofu You mean Tenchi, that was the only harem anime I could stomach. Lol.
Yeah I have so many memories of the Toonami era, it's not something kids today will understand. Streaming has almost eliminated cartoon blocks plus action cartoons are not what they used to be.
@@Bruticus87 Lol yeah, Tenchi Muyo that's it :D.
You're right, streaming has all but eliminated the network TV we grew up with, I'm 5 years younger but the programming didn't change that drastically until Netflix and the like came out. Definitely makes me feel old when someone younger than me doesn't know what "Saturday morning cartoons" are lol.
@@Fried-Tofu I know the feeling. It was a nice way to consume media as we had a dedicated time for it and it was a special little thing we got to do amongst our schedules and studying.
It was easier to be responsible with my time back then, haha.
6:26 YEESSSS TEMTEM YEEEEEESS. They just added ranked mathmaking its so good!
lol Geocities reference was on the nose, love it! you earned yourself a subscriber. Great humor!
I think you guys should do FighterZ. There’s a lot of meme potential there.
That game has one of the best combat systems in the series, but going through the story mode is hard. That thing of fighting clones and more clones is hot garbage.
nersoparanaense oh man I know lol. Which is why there’s a lot of meme potential.
nersoparanaense That’s a fighting game for you. 😂😂😂
He might not be able to play fighting games. I don't think they've done one for the channel before.
Rene Descartes they played Super Smash Bros Ultimate
the popsicle storytelling was hilarious.....I was laughing extremely hard.
Piccolo was a pickle. BRILLIANT
3:45 I greatly appreciate that she put the Dragon Quest Monster here
6:38 I don't know about your representation of DB... To me it's one of the best books I ever read, the story is amazing, from Goku's meeting of Bulma to Buu's arc, it's hilarious and captivating. If you're going to review an unfinished game with english voice acting, please don't take any of the resulting disappointment anywhere near Toriyama work of art. Please :D
Lady literally a standing ovation to you 👏🏻
The best puppet show I've ever seen
"Hold on this isn't even my final mcguffin"
And whe n John Cena popped up I was like whaaaaaat.❤️😄😂
I’ve missed the “Hol’upaminute”
I'm on the same page with you when it comes to Dragonball, though it has an interesting story about how Akira originally wanted to end the show ages ago, but the studio told him no. He pretty much had no freedom over his creation.
this is why z sucks..it focused just on transforming changing up the lure like how inconsistent zenkai boosts became or senzu beans or you know strategy in a fight...original db had actual martial arts and adventure elements...and by having less characters to focus on we get more investment cause we grow with goku and this small group that found each other...in z its like 25 main characters
@@razkable Still Z had great arcs, especially the cell saga and namek saga. In Super Goku for example needed to fight around Hits abilities. The rest if super was mainly spamming God KameHameHa like Kamehameha x10 in GT after a while.
The Cell saga is where it should have ended. The Buu saga has waaay too many twists and transformations and techniques, it was throwing stuff at the wall and see what sticked.
@@Gunther69420 my issue with z is how poor its written...again zenkai boosts use of senzu beans lack of using fusion or forms even if it risks the lives of everyone becomes the norm...its poorly written..
You have no idea what you're talking about clown
modding PS1 and shipping from Japan sums up my childhood as well!
I sure she had only watched or heard about first two arcs that's why she is saying it repetitive She should had watch other arcs before saying it repetitive
And that was repetitive for coming and going of Goku but those were completely different scenarios
Even though her review was fun to watch
2:22 ........ LOL I found this extra entertaining with it being 1:55AM
Why isn't this called "Should your boyfriend play Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot" ???
I just noticed cause of your comment and now I feel uncomfortable with this knowledge. Damn you.
Just noticed that this thing has been going on since modern warfare video
They said that they changed the title format because there were some people who voiced that they felt misguided by the title or felt personally attacked by it (didn't like the "should your boyfriend play" part). Which I think is sad because I never minded the original title format, but it only takes a few complaining people to change it for everyone.
@@catehelbig What really? What a bummer, the new title feels very generic while the older one felt so welcoming
Eycosky where’d they say that
“This isn’t even my final maguffin!” 😂
"Homeless goku "
My stomach hurts lmaoo
"colourful pissing contests"
That hit me 😂😂🔥
I discovered this channel today since I'm currently playing AC Odyssey. I've never subscribed so fast. Every video is hilariously accurate. Love it!