A note about your comment about Future Gohan, the reason he has both his arms is due to censorship reasons. They can't use one-armed Gohan, but to make sure that's still represented as accurately as possible, they animate him like he's still missing the arm anyways.
It’s kinda crazy that showing an amputee has to be censored considering that it’s a slightly normal thing to have. People are even born without arms. It’s just interesting
It’s actually because of how these models are used in 2d games and when it flipped the model in a 2d game the model flips which mean Gohan is missing a different arm. So instead of making his 3d model accurate they just used the 2d. It wasn’t censorship more of them being lazy. Kakarot isn’t the first example of one arm Gohan, Sagas did it too.
I really like how we can turn ring outs on and off in the tournaments and we can use the participants also which I can't remember any other game doing. Such a shame we didn't get RB3. Probably would of surpassed BT3
14:32 The claim was "100 customizable warriors" which is actually fair, because you can customize each character independent of their form; base, ssj, ssj2, and ssj 3 goku can all have their own set of customization items, unlike the tenkaichi games which had the customization being universal for the whole character...
Also, something you would not realize if you are not super into the game, a lot (if not most) of the transformations change the character's attack patterns, cancels, signatures and ways all these combo into each other, so they are not just costume changes. If I remember correctly, even with Goku, Base Goku and Super Saiyan play way different when attacking, with different attack speed animations, cancels etc. Same is the case with SSJ2 and SSJ3 etc. So if you would count Devil Jin as another character in a Tekken game, I think it is fair to consider most (if not all) transformations separate characters in this game as well
As much as this game stumbled in some aspects I wish we’d have gotten a 3rd game so they could possibly address them also Battle or Z should be your next restrospective right...?? That’s gonna be interesting 👀
To this day, I strongly believe this game has THE BEST combat of all dragonball games. Really wish the fan project of Raging Blast 3 came to exist. But my hopes for Tenkaichi 4 to be its successor is something I’m wishing for
Yes... & no... I haven't played BT3 on PS2 (my PS2 was stolen during house robbery back in the day) and Raging Blast (1) was my first Dragon Ball game that I've played (before I was forced to play MUGENs on PC). Later then I played Raging Blast 2 when it came out (demos etc.) and I was going crazy with combos on RB2, I was having best time of my life with this game, reaching S++ rank online etc... but... I've played Budokai Tenkaichi 3 eventually on PS2 and later then on my PC (a proper rig, no lags on PCSX2). My opinion: RB2 did it the worst, where you are close to the ground you character automatically sticks to it. This "gluing" animation part, makes you vulnerable, being unable to do anything with your character, and your opponent can strike at that specific time. That was game breaking. Another thing, broken in RB2 was (still is btw.) Ki blast + Square + X buttons (teleport around player, from the other side of the map etc.) Instant Transmission literally had no point (sometimes). RB2 also did it wrong, where game was freezing time when doing a Heavy attack. People abused the L1 + L2 (super-flying-up) and X buttons to flying behing other players when time in game froze. They must make sure the game does not have bugs like this, or just simply fix them later on, don't abandon the game like RB2 was... Another part to take a note is RB/RB2 movement was so slow & sluggish. Budokai Tenkaichi character movement was faster. Another thing.... You are able to move at the same time in all directions in BT3 game (for example up & right). In Raging Blast, you are allowed to move only one direction at the time... All that leads to BT3 movement being fluent, better and that should be reimplemented in Sparking! Zero but... some things should come down from RB games. Buttons layout. R1 is better than circle to guard. D-pad down is better than L2 + circle to charge KI up. R2 + Triangle/Circle/Square/X is better than L2 + up/down/left/right to transform Right analog stick in cross-path (Up/Down/Left/Right) is better than L2 + up/down + triangle/circle etc. to perform a Super-Attack. It's confusing. Pressing R3 is better to perform Ultimate Attack than what Budokai Tenkaichi 3 did. So, honeslty... they should give us an option to remap the keys, not force us to use a specific key mapping. edit:// Look at Vegeta SSJ3 at 19:28 (he's gluing to the ground after his super-attack)
Raging blast series is underrated it took dbz games to the next console generation(ps3 and xbox 360) the graphics was amazing and the fighting maps were HUGE
It feels so surreal to hear a retrospect on this game. I played it so much that I was among the top 100 or so players 😎, but never had anyone really stopped to talk about it. We mainly learned by doing Appreciate the absolute sheer level of depth in this video. It really takes me back a couple years
@@justinwechsberg643 That would be the year of the release date, although I started playing a few years after. I'm curious to know what console you were on? Maybe I might've fought you hahah
i put an ungodly amount of hours into this game as well man, i love the combat so much. once you understood the controls fully, everything just flowed so well and was pretty quick, ESPECIALLY on higher difficulties. this game, BT3 and Budokai 3 will always be my “Big 3” of the DBZ games, until Sparking Zero at least lol.
@@westont98 hell yeah bro. theres so much depth to the combat when you master it, and every character has their own nuances. at one point i was so good at rb2 i could beat people who were competitive with just my right hand and saiyan armor trunks.
The only games where I recall him being one-armed where legacy of goku 2 and sagas, which were developed in America, which of course follows different ratings guidelines, so you're probably right.
The Kai cast is the Funimation cast, just with a few choice people recast due to trying to get more accurate voice work, scheduling, not wanting to return, etc.
Well to be fair - Linda Young (Frieza's OG actor) was replaced by Chris Ayres because she couldn't keep up with Frieza's more accurate manga dialogue. I think Stephanie Nadolny either had beef with some actors, or wasn't invited back as Gohan (interview on Geekdom101's TH-cam). I also think 18's original actor had moved away for while
My favorite Dragon Ball Z Game of all time! I played this so much on the PS3, I hated the freezing loading screen bug though, lost so much rank to people from that bug lol, what great memories though! I used to lock people into combos that they could never get out of, what good times it was. You actually felt like one of the characters when you really got into the combos and blasted music for this game. I miss the multiplayer so much! One thing is for sure, time flies, and these memories will never be the same. Grateful I lived through the 90's onward! What a time to have lived!
Oh the anime images are a goldmine of uncomfortableness My favorite is Vegeta standing behind Dodoria with an evil smile while spreading his arms The image is titled “Terrified Dodoria”
There is 2 more hints on gt, the 17 coat as a skin, and a nod on frieza's bio where they talk about an elisode kf gt, it is clear that they wanted to gt stuff on third game, but sadly never happened
Played through all the budokai tenkaichis and raging blasts via emulator, getting ready for that BT4 hype, but Holy shit these classic Z games are incredible, absolute gems and makes me appreciate my childhood even more
DBZ Raging Blast 2 will always be one of my favourite DBZ games to play, mainly because of the gameplay factor approach, DBZ Raging Blast 2 it's the best representation of Modern DBZ games that all the current DBZ games should be like in my opinion... 🤷🏻♂️☯️✌️
I got this game before I had played Raging Blast 1 so I have some nostalgia for it, but most especially for Battle of Omega, the games opening song. To this day, I still love the song and think it is the second best DBZ game song after Ore wa Tokoton Tomaranai!!, the opening song for Budokai 3. I did think it was cool that you could play as Android 14, 15, Dore, Neiz, Tarble and Hatchiyack who caught my eye when I saw the game cover for the first time. Choosing the attacks a character has was also a really cool addition. Allowed for more customisation and to create different versions of the same character from different parts of the series.
I remember trying online one time and completely annihilating this one kid, then the next match getting locked in a combo and completely unable to do anything about it. If I remember right Goku has a way to permanently stunlock people. Also you can use upgrades in online mode, I remember having the health regen while playing online because it's broken lol.
I played a lot online and the health regen didn’t matter when you decimated the other player. 😂 What was broken was the item that prevents you from being flinched as well as the item that lets you guard without it breaking. People who had those items were incredibly annoying to deal with lol, I hope BT4 lets you keep only accessory items for online play
I’m new to subscribing, this is my first video I have court on the drop day and god I’m so excited you have became one of my favorite youtubers keep up the good work
Great job as always, I liked this one just for the movie since it was one of the few pieces of media drip fed to us during the great dragon ball drought. Good job with your video
heres the quick version: raging blast 2 improved on raging blast 1 in every single way possible except for the lack of a proper story mode. gameplay was more fluid, graphics were better, massive character roster.
Played through all the budokai tenkaichis and raging blasts via emulator, getting ready for that BT4 hype, but Holy shit these classic Z games are incredible, absolute gems and makes me appreciate my childhood even more
@@Rednos444You’ve gotta use a PC for emulators but PCSX2 is a PS2 emulator you can use for the Budokai Tenkaichi games and for the Raging Blasts you can use RPCS3, a PS3 emulator, pretty much the easiest one to use.
2:02 😂😂😂 one of the main reasons why I chose to buy Raging Blast 1 over 2 was precisely because of RB2 art style, I don't like it one bit that they look like plastic toys
I’m pretty sure when you get the 7 dragon balls, you get Shenron, then Porunga, then Shenron and then Porunga again. They take turns lol Also disagree with Raging Blast being the de-evolution of the BT series. Both games, in my opinion, have their own fair share of flaws and big ones at that. That’s why I hope that BT4 will be an amalgamation of BT and RB. Like the mechanic when you roll and dash back at your opponent after getting knocked back, I wish BT3 had that mechanic. But I wish RB2 had the mechanic of, after you and your opponent dodge each other a couple times, it goes into a sequence where either player must press a button on screen fast enough. In RB, it’s an endless dodge fest and I feel like there has to be a sequence to break that lol. The first Raging Blast has such an amazing menu and character select. I never understood why in RB2 or BT3, you never got a preview of what costume you’re picking where as the first RB game, you can see from the very moment which costume is costume 2, 3 and so on.
this is one of the few games that actually have cool transformations like the anime and have characters that you don’t ever see anywhere anymore. Tarble, Hachiack ssj 3 broly and Vegeta? This one is one of my all time favorite games .
Honestly I feel these games were just meh. This was also around the time I got burnt out on Dragon Ball games and it kinda felt like none of them were any fun after Burst Limit and even so Burst Limit feeling as rushed as it, admittedly, was, kinda soured my taste in them for years to come. And it felt like the only time Dragon Ball games intrigued me after that was with Xenoverse and FighterZ. And that was the semi new story that Xenoverse gave off and FighterZ focusing on being an actual fighting game
I personally like how the characters look. And in my opinion this game has the best super moves in any dragon ball game. And the counter attacks are awesome.
Great video, okay game. Really wish Spike basically just kept remastering Tenkaichi 3, until Super came out then release Tenkaichi 4 with DLC packs for new characters and story stages as the anime/manga happened.
So I gotta remember when Hidden does a review she's mostly doing it from a casual non competitive Stand point. Where I played this game continuously online. the frame rates, button inputs compatibility with moves and characters. Super attacks and combos are things a causal player doesn't really care about but to a online competitor these matter greatly. So I gotta understand both viewpoints.
Me and some of my buddys all put it something crazy like 250 hours into this game i loved this series and hope sparkling zero can bring back the golden age of dragonball games
AHHH I have been impatiently waiting for this one! One of my personal favorite DBZ games, though it has its problems like you mentioned. Still love the presentation and gameplay of this one. Thank you for all of the hard work and excellent analysis you put into these retrospectives, Hidden! Btw, been playing this one for YEARS and had no idea I could change the raging soul mode music!!!! I always avoided using it bc the supers mostly, but also bc I hate the default music lol Thanks for pointing that out!
6:55 correction: no REAL story mode, because certain teams & matchups as well as maybe the use of certain stages give the characters dialoge mid battle to to basicly make a little story mode in it, maybe as far as i remember with cutscenes here & there as well, like when you have goku & krillin in 1 team & lose as base goku first, i'm not sure but i think it triggers that cutscene that let's goku give the spirit bomb he made to krillin
I had my opinions about RB2 to be very low compared to BT series, BT3 in particular, despite the graphics looking pretty dope to me - the fact that you've mentioned Raging Soul mode disables your supers and forces you to fight in extreme melee mode. But then there was one tiny bit that I've discovered that ultimately made RB2 one of the dopest DB games I've ever played - there's an equipable item that will enable you to use super and ultimate attacks even in Raging Sou mode. A full Raging Soul combo followed up with an ulti at the end after that awesome ping-pong is the most overkill thing I've ever done in any DB game. If BT3 was 9/10 and RB2 was 6 or 7/10, this mechanic alone brought it up to 9/10 game
12:07 I wouldn't call this misleading, Ssj Goku and Base Goku have different attacks and the like, which means for all intense and purposes they are different characters
Finally, good to see someone really dive into all the different Dragon Ball games in a more detailed and thorough way. I haven't seen all your videos yet, but I like seeing all the videos there so far, really looking forward to seeing you tackle other major titles of the series
22:13 - I was thinking about it for what are they going to do with it in Sparking! Zero... It would be so cool if our character (only while flying) would change his position in Y axis, so always facing the opponent. That would give us freedom in fighting. But it's hard to implement and most likely will not happen (what if you want to move up/down etc. and your character is "laying" on its back in the air). Some other decisions will have to be made. Not sure what really.
Er... The Kai cast is still Funi. But yeah... New Gohan isn't bad, just a little jarring initially. ... _Especially_ when you're used to Stephanie Nadolny's Bobby Hill-sounding ass🤣
Nice review, this takes me back. I used to watch a lot of game play before I was able to buy it. I was very disappointed that my copy didn't come with the raging blast 2 ost but the tenkaichi 2. It's minor but I feel like the RB2 music was better, shame about the composer controversy.
I experienced this when I repurchased the game awhile back. I genuinely forget what I did to my old copy, I think I sold it but when I got this new copy, I was very confused about the soundtrack. That’s when I learned about the composer’s “plagerism” and so the OST was changed. Made me lose motivation since the soundtrack wasn’t as hype :/
I actually love that it has the BT2 music but the original was good also. I had two discs of RB2 (with original music) and they both stopped working (second one loads but freezes at times) I just play on my gaming laptop.
Raging blast 2 and tenkaichi 3 had my favorite things in all dragonball games . Fusing mid fight its so satisfying and one of my favroite past times fusing to vegito and the verry reason i bacame a Dragon ball fan is the "Commit die moves" . In tenkaichi 3 I fought my cozen who chose majin vegeta and used Final Explosion. He had one health and all i had to do was hit him once! but i got destroyed!! that day forward i became a dragon ball fan for life
Thank you for posting this Im currently on a playthrough of the first and this game as of right now actually and Im hyped people still talk about these games they're really that good.
A note about your comment about Future Gohan, the reason he has both his arms is due to censorship reasons. They can't use one-armed Gohan, but to make sure that's still represented as accurately as possible, they animate him like he's still missing the arm anyways.
They'd have to bump the game to M to only have 1 arm Gohan
@@StotterChannel Kakarot isn’t rated M and Gohan is missing his arm there
@@MadDragonify back then it was a different time
It’s kinda crazy that showing an amputee has to be censored considering that it’s a slightly normal thing to have. People are even born without arms. It’s just interesting
It’s actually because of how these models are used in 2d games and when it flipped the model in a 2d game the model flips which mean Gohan is missing a different arm. So instead of making his 3d model accurate they just used the 2d. It wasn’t censorship more of them being lazy. Kakarot isn’t the first example of one arm Gohan, Sagas did it too.
Underrated game
Not really cause everyone knows about it lol
@@danteshollowedgroundsreally is not to many people talk about it
I don't think so.
It's a pretty bad game, I consider it to be overrated actually lol
Jw, what’s your favorite db game?
If that’s what makes it trash to you, then if you think bt3 was trash? Cuz it’s literally the exact same as far as game play mechanics.
There’s a part of me that enjoys the Raging Blast series more than some aspects of the Tenkaichi series.
I really like how we can turn ring outs on and off in the tournaments and we can use the participants also which I can't remember any other game doing. Such a shame we didn't get RB3. Probably would of surpassed BT3
Same here. Tenkaichi was not online also. The online fighting on this game was unlike any other Dragonball game I played at the time.
I hope bt4 plays like it
@@Lowclasswarrior778 I hope so too. Thank you good sir
@@Spitta504TV The Wii port of 3 had online, Sadly servers are down now.
14:32 The claim was "100 customizable warriors" which is actually fair, because you can customize each character independent of their form; base, ssj, ssj2, and ssj 3 goku can all have their own set of customization items, unlike the tenkaichi games which had the customization being universal for the whole character...
Also, something you would not realize if you are not super into the game, a lot (if not most) of the transformations change the character's attack patterns, cancels, signatures and ways all these combo into each other, so they are not just costume changes. If I remember correctly, even with Goku, Base Goku and Super Saiyan play way different when attacking, with different attack speed animations, cancels etc. Same is the case with SSJ2 and SSJ3 etc.
So if you would count Devil Jin as another character in a Tekken game, I think it is fair to consider most (if not all) transformations separate characters in this game as well
Technically right! The best kind of right!
As much as this game stumbled in some aspects I wish we’d have gotten a 3rd game so they could possibly address them also Battle or Z should be your next restrospective right...?? That’s gonna be interesting 👀
Actually.............. Ultimate Tenkaichi would be next 😬😆😆😆😆
@@Wol1427 i feel the suffering 🤣
@@Wol1427can't wait for her to sink her teeth into that one 🌚
I'm waiting for the Kinect one to see Hidden release her power and transform into the Angry Dragon Ball Z Nerdette
@@radim279 she's gonna show her hidden power ?
To this day, I strongly believe this game has THE BEST combat of all dragonball games. Really wish the fan project of Raging Blast 3 came to exist. But my hopes for Tenkaichi 4 to be its successor is something I’m wishing for
Yes... & no...
I haven't played BT3 on PS2 (my PS2 was stolen during house robbery back in the day) and Raging Blast (1) was my first Dragon Ball game that I've played (before I was forced to play MUGENs on PC). Later then I played Raging Blast 2 when it came out (demos etc.) and I was going crazy with combos on RB2, I was having best time of my life with this game, reaching S++ rank online etc... but...
I've played Budokai Tenkaichi 3 eventually on PS2 and later then on my PC (a proper rig, no lags on PCSX2).
My opinion:
RB2 did it the worst, where you are close to the ground you character automatically sticks to it. This "gluing" animation part, makes you vulnerable, being unable to do anything with your character, and your opponent can strike at that specific time. That was game breaking.
Another thing, broken in RB2 was (still is btw.) Ki blast + Square + X buttons (teleport around player, from the other side of the map etc.) Instant Transmission literally had no point (sometimes). RB2 also did it wrong, where game was freezing time when doing a Heavy attack. People abused the L1 + L2 (super-flying-up) and X buttons to flying behing other players when time in game froze.
They must make sure the game does not have bugs like this, or just simply fix them later on, don't abandon the game like RB2 was...
Another part to take a note is RB/RB2 movement was so slow & sluggish. Budokai Tenkaichi character movement was faster.
Another thing.... You are able to move at the same time in all directions in BT3 game (for example up & right). In Raging Blast, you are allowed to move only one direction at the time...
All that leads to BT3 movement being fluent, better and that should be reimplemented in Sparking! Zero
but... some things should come down from RB games.
Buttons layout.
R1 is better than circle to guard.
D-pad down is better than L2 + circle to charge KI up.
R2 + Triangle/Circle/Square/X is better than L2 + up/down/left/right to transform
Right analog stick in cross-path (Up/Down/Left/Right) is better than L2 + up/down + triangle/circle etc. to perform a Super-Attack. It's confusing.
Pressing R3 is better to perform Ultimate Attack than what Budokai Tenkaichi 3 did.
So, honeslty... they should give us an option to remap the keys, not force us to use a specific key mapping.
edit://
Look at Vegeta SSJ3 at 19:28 (he's gluing to the ground after his super-attack)
@@Riddick94 The Transformation/Tag/Fusion System and the Super/Ultimate Attack controls are way better in RB2 I agree.
Raging blast series is underrated it took dbz games to the next console generation(ps3 and xbox 360) the graphics was amazing and the fighting maps were HUGE
Raging Blast was a decent series and of course looks better graphically but to me it never felt as fun as the Tenkaichi series specifically 2&3
Facts
Raging Blast 1 was incredible, Raging blast 2 You just had to have because it was far beyond expectations the player pool is nuts
It feels so surreal to hear a retrospect on this game. I played it so much that I was among the top 100 or so players 😎, but never had anyone really stopped to talk about it. We mainly learned by doing
Appreciate the absolute sheer level of depth in this video. It really takes me back a couple years
same bro. i was the #1 player for about 3 months back in 2010 and im 23 now. crazy how much time i dedicated to this game.
@@justinwechsberg643 That would be the year of the release date, although I started playing a few years after. I'm curious to know what console you were on? Maybe I might've fought you hahah
@@tarz1109 ps3
i put an ungodly amount of hours into this game as well man, i love the combat so much. once you understood the controls fully, everything just flowed so well and was pretty quick, ESPECIALLY on higher difficulties. this game, BT3 and Budokai 3 will always be my “Big 3” of the DBZ games, until Sparking Zero at least lol.
@@westont98 hell yeah bro. theres so much depth to the combat when you master it, and every character has their own nuances. at one point i was so good at rb2 i could beat people who were competitive with just my right hand and saiyan armor trunks.
Future Gohan's arm being missing would probably higher the games age rating a little bit
The only games where I recall him being one-armed where legacy of goku 2 and sagas, which were developed in America, which of course follows different ratings guidelines, so you're probably right.
The Kai cast is the Funimation cast, just with a few choice people recast due to trying to get more accurate voice work, scheduling, not wanting to return, etc.
Well to be fair - Linda Young (Frieza's OG actor) was replaced by Chris Ayres because she couldn't keep up with Frieza's more accurate manga dialogue. I think Stephanie Nadolny either had beef with some actors, or wasn't invited back as Gohan (interview on Geekdom101's TH-cam). I also think 18's original actor had moved away for while
@@po72644 Yeah Meredith was gone for a bit which was why Colleen was voicing 18 on Kai
My favorite Dragon Ball Z Game of all time! I played this so much on the PS3, I hated the freezing loading screen bug though, lost so much rank to people from that bug lol, what great memories though! I used to lock people into combos that they could never get out of, what good times it was. You actually felt like one of the characters when you really got into the combos and blasted music for this game. I miss the multiplayer so much! One thing is for sure, time flies, and these memories will never be the same. Grateful I lived through the 90's onward! What a time to have lived!
Oh the anime images are a goldmine of uncomfortableness
My favorite is Vegeta standing behind Dodoria with an evil smile while spreading his arms
The image is titled “Terrified Dodoria”
There is 2 more hints on gt, the 17 coat as a skin, and a nod on frieza's bio where they talk about an elisode kf gt, it is clear that they wanted to gt stuff on third game, but sadly never happened
When I found out you could play as Tarble in this game, I bashed this game for days on end trying to unlock him
Love hearing you talk about all my child hood games, plus raging Blast is so nostalgic
“I’m a woman, what do you expect?” And then the sequence that followed was hilarious 🤣
"it's too dark, man make fire. it's too cold, man build house. I'm bored, playstation."
keep being you. you and that weird fuckin brain are special.
Tenkaichi 3 was my childhood, Raging Blast 2 was my teenage years, now Sparking Zero will be my adulthood
Wow amazing! Glad you are feeling better!
Thanks, I'm much better now, although I do sound a bit stuffy in the video.
Played through all the budokai tenkaichis and raging blasts via emulator, getting ready for that BT4 hype, but Holy shit these classic Z games are incredible, absolute gems and makes me appreciate my childhood even more
DBZ Raging Blast 2 will always be one of my favourite DBZ games to play, mainly because of the gameplay factor approach, DBZ Raging Blast 2 it's the best representation of Modern DBZ games that all the current DBZ games should be like in my opinion... 🤷🏻♂️☯️✌️
I got this game before I had played Raging Blast 1 so I have some nostalgia for it, but most especially for Battle of Omega, the games opening song. To this day, I still love the song and think it is the second best DBZ game song after Ore wa Tokoton Tomaranai!!, the opening song for Budokai 3. I did think it was cool that you could play as Android 14, 15, Dore, Neiz, Tarble and Hatchiyack who caught my eye when I saw the game cover for the first time. Choosing the attacks a character has was also a really cool addition. Allowed for more customisation and to create different versions of the same character from different parts of the series.
I remember trying online one time and completely annihilating this one kid, then the next match getting locked in a combo and completely unable to do anything about it. If I remember right Goku has a way to permanently stunlock people. Also you can use upgrades in online mode, I remember having the health regen while playing online because it's broken lol.
I played a lot online and the health regen didn’t matter when you decimated the other player. 😂 What was broken was the item that prevents you from being flinched as well as the item that lets you guard without it breaking. People who had those items were incredibly annoying to deal with lol, I hope BT4 lets you keep only accessory items for online play
Japan is very strick on censorship which why it took so long for games to let Gohan have one arm.
I’m new to subscribing, this is my first video I have court on the drop day and god I’m so excited you have became one of my favorite youtubers keep up the good work
Thank you
Great job as always, I liked this one just for the movie since it was one of the few pieces of media drip fed to us during the great dragon ball drought. Good job with your video
I am so sooooo grateful that you are making this content. These Raging blast games were my entire childhood and its so nostalgic to see these again!!
heres the quick version:
raging blast 2 improved on raging blast 1 in every single way possible except for the lack of a proper story mode. gameplay was more fluid, graphics were better, massive character roster.
F in the chat for everyone with the updated music including my self
Played through all the budokai tenkaichis and raging blasts via emulator, getting ready for that BT4 hype, but Holy shit these classic Z games are incredible, absolute gems and makes me appreciate my childhood even more
Man what do u use to do that and what do u play it on
@anthonyjd707 Ps2 and ps3 emulator, plenty of tutorials on how to do it. Very easy and get the games of vimms lair
@@Rednos444You’ve gotta use a PC for emulators but PCSX2 is a PS2 emulator you can use for the Budokai Tenkaichi games and for the Raging Blasts you can use RPCS3, a PS3 emulator, pretty much the easiest one to use.
Damn i haven't watched the video but you got me with that intro. A 70 cm square window is goated 🐐
2:02 😂😂😂 one of the main reasons why I chose to buy Raging Blast 1 over 2 was precisely because of RB2 art style, I don't like it one bit that they look like plastic toys
12:20 Tell that to Fighterz.
You just made my day. 😁
I’m pretty sure when you get the 7 dragon balls, you get Shenron, then Porunga, then Shenron and then Porunga again. They take turns lol
Also disagree with Raging Blast being the de-evolution of the BT series. Both games, in my opinion, have their own fair share of flaws and big ones at that. That’s why I hope that BT4 will be an amalgamation of BT and RB.
Like the mechanic when you roll and dash back at your opponent after getting knocked back, I wish BT3 had that mechanic. But I wish RB2 had the mechanic of, after you and your opponent dodge each other a couple times, it goes into a sequence where either player must press a button on screen fast enough. In RB, it’s an endless dodge fest and I feel like there has to be a sequence to break that lol.
The first Raging Blast has such an amazing menu and character select. I never understood why in RB2 or BT3, you never got a preview of what costume you’re picking where as the first RB game, you can see from the very moment which costume is costume 2, 3 and so on.
The super attack deflection mechanic was my most favorite thing about this game. Peak DBZ feel
This game is the reason i want a old generation console to have this nostalgic gem forever
this is one of the few games that actually have cool transformations like the anime and have characters that you don’t ever see anywhere anymore. Tarble, Hachiack ssj 3 broly and Vegeta? This one is one of my all time favorite games .
The best dragon ball game should have raging blast controls and tenkaichi speed
Not gonna lie, this game make me love Turles, I always played with him. We need more Turles representation
new video to watch while i recover post surgery 💛
Good luck on your recovery!
Dragon ball super ending is the best way to start this video ❤
That's how you know you got a dragon ball fan's full attention
Honestly I feel these games were just meh. This was also around the time I got burnt out on Dragon Ball games and it kinda felt like none of them were any fun after Burst Limit and even so Burst Limit feeling as rushed as it, admittedly, was, kinda soured my taste in them for years to come. And it felt like the only time Dragon Ball games intrigued me after that was with Xenoverse and FighterZ. And that was the semi new story that Xenoverse gave off and FighterZ focusing on being an actual fighting game
Love when you upload. You should make a retrospective on the 3d era mortal Kombat games if you ever played them!
I actually haven't played any mortal combat games at all
@@HiddenChannel I highly recommend giving deceptions story mode a go for PS2! It's fun and silly! Always here to watch whatever you upload though ❤️😀
favorite ultimate has to be Cui's "Ah Lord Frieza" fakeout
ALRIIIIIIGHT!!!! HIDDEN COMING BACK WITH THE GAME OF MY LONLEY CHILDHOOD
A 70 cm² window 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Just subscribed. I love your content! Very detailed and spot on!
Awesome, thank you!
You did a wonderful job on this video. Thank you!
Ngl feels good to be validated after so many years of saying "RB looks better than RB2" and no one agreeing with me lol (at least within my circle)
I'm not Gona lie but cooler base form ultimate slaps 6:12 love the refence to the movie as well. Definitely my favorite in the game.
16:51 Hit and Run car wash theme is a jam.
I bought this in 2011 and promptly returned it. I was not enjoying anything about it.
I personally like how the characters look. And in my opinion this game has the best super moves in any dragon ball game. And the counter attacks are awesome.
Great video, okay game. Really wish Spike basically just kept remastering Tenkaichi 3, until Super came out then release Tenkaichi 4 with DLC packs for new characters and story stages as the anime/manga happened.
Included in this dragon ball video is a brief history of the world from fire to playstation
So I gotta remember when Hidden does a review she's mostly doing it from a casual non competitive Stand point. Where I played this game continuously online. the frame rates, button inputs compatibility with moves and characters. Super attacks and combos are things a causal player doesn't really care about but to a online competitor these matter greatly. So I gotta understand both viewpoints.
Me and some of my buddys all put it something crazy like 250 hours into this game i loved this series and hope sparkling zero can bring back the golden age of dragonball games
Man, I love the side-by-side comparisons of the attacks. Must've been a lot of work, but well worth it.
Also 18:54 the fuck am I looking at?
DBZ Kai is funimation. Funimation has done multiple dubs and multiple
Shows.
Always hated how characters never hit each other fr. And the sounds lol. Loved this short-lived series tho
Bruh I can tell you had a lot of fun makin this one😂 was concerned for ur health 😂
I love this channel haha.
The effort in this video!! Great work, people like you deserve more attention!
AHHH I have been impatiently waiting for this one! One of my personal favorite DBZ games, though it has its problems like you mentioned. Still love the presentation and gameplay of this one. Thank you for all of the hard work and excellent analysis you put into these retrospectives, Hidden! Btw, been playing this one for YEARS and had no idea I could change the raging soul mode music!!!! I always avoided using it bc the supers mostly, but also bc I hate the default music lol Thanks for pointing that out!
Loved playing Raging Blast 1 and 2, Definitely need a remastered..
11:35 ost name?
6:55 correction: no REAL story mode, because certain teams & matchups as well as maybe the use of certain stages give the characters dialoge mid battle to to basicly make a little story mode in it, maybe as far as i remember with cutscenes here & there as well, like when you have goku & krillin in 1 team & lose as base goku first, i'm not sure but i think it triggers that cutscene that let's goku give the spirit bomb he made to krillin
@azurawhatever eh, it depends on how you look at it
I had my opinions about RB2 to be very low compared to BT series, BT3 in particular, despite the graphics looking pretty dope to me - the fact that you've mentioned Raging Soul mode disables your supers and forces you to fight in extreme melee mode. But then there was one tiny bit that I've discovered that ultimately made RB2 one of the dopest DB games I've ever played - there's an equipable item that will enable you to use super and ultimate attacks even in Raging Sou mode. A full Raging Soul combo followed up with an ulti at the end after that awesome ping-pong is the most overkill thing I've ever done in any DB game. If BT3 was 9/10 and RB2 was 6 or 7/10, this mechanic alone brought it up to 9/10 game
12:07 I wouldn't call this misleading, Ssj Goku and Base Goku have different attacks and the like, which means for all intense and purposes they are different characters
Glad your back :) looks like that sensu bean helped
SENSU BEAN!
21:42 - this is when you hit D-pad LEFT.
idk why but i found you so funny in this video. ur jokes actually made me laugh quite a bit lolll
U get a like for that Dora joke. 😂😂😂” i like that one too”
Finally, good to see someone really dive into all the different Dragon Ball games in a more detailed and thorough way. I haven't seen all your videos yet, but I like seeing all the videos there so far, really looking forward to seeing you tackle other major titles of the series
I'm good at specifically cheesing the AI of this game. Bardock go brrr
That intro gave me goodbumps, great job hidden!
Taking all the criticism in stride, the game is still awesome and has aged pretty well, I think.
22:13 - I was thinking about it for what are they going to do with it in Sparking! Zero... It would be so cool if our character (only while flying) would change his position in Y axis, so always facing the opponent. That would give us freedom in fighting. But it's hard to implement and most likely will not happen (what if you want to move up/down etc. and your character is "laying" on its back in the air). Some other decisions will have to be made. Not sure what really.
Er... The Kai cast is still Funi.
But yeah... New Gohan isn't bad, just a little jarring initially.
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_Especially_ when you're used to Stephanie Nadolny's Bobby Hill-sounding ass🤣
That song for that intro was pretty cool ngl lol
I can't believe how inaccurate Cooler's ultimate attack is compared to the movie... The move in the game looks nothing like kicking Vegeta in the dick
RB2 was so fire... DEFINITELY better than Rb1 by a mile
Aw Hell Yeah
I was waiting for this one 🖤💯
these games really need a remake for the modern consoles. maybe they can fix the camera issues, texture quality and shading along with new characters.
Nice review, this takes me back. I used to watch a lot of game play before I was able to buy it. I was very disappointed that my copy didn't come with the raging blast 2 ost but the tenkaichi 2. It's minor but I feel like the RB2 music was better, shame about the composer controversy.
I experienced this when I repurchased the game awhile back. I genuinely forget what I did to my old copy, I think I sold it but when I got this new copy, I was very confused about the soundtrack. That’s when I learned about the composer’s “plagerism” and so the OST was changed. Made me lose motivation since the soundtrack wasn’t as hype :/
I actually love that it has the BT2 music but the original was good also. I had two discs of RB2 (with original music) and they both stopped working (second one loads but freezes at times) I just play on my gaming laptop.
I personally think this was the last good dragon ball game until XenoVerse 1 came out
Raging blast 2 and tenkaichi 3 had my favorite things in all dragonball games .
Fusing mid fight its so satisfying and one of my favroite past times fusing to vegito
and the verry reason i bacame a Dragon ball fan is the "Commit die moves" . In tenkaichi 3 I fought my cozen who chose majin vegeta and used Final Explosion. He had one health and all i had to do was hit him once! but i got destroyed!! that day forward i became a dragon ball fan for life
I played with my cousin. He always got mad when I beat him since he actually owned the game and I beat him on visits. As Goten.
Absolutely amazing video.
I dont even agree with a majority of your criticisms, but the video was just too funny to stop watching.
Earned a sub
Thank you for posting this Im currently on a playthrough of the first and this game as of right now actually and Im hyped people still talk about these games they're really that good.
I’m so glad there’s at least one more person that agrees the art style was a DOWNGRADE from the first title
I need to watch your retrospectives before I blindly buy these games! Great content!
Been waiting over a year for this one
The graphics looked much better on older 720p flat screen TVs and CRTs
I wish this game was backwards compatible with Series X... :/
Yup
I really enjoyed RB2 so much I tried to get the DLC content, but the codes had already been claimed.
This video is great😭👍 saw the raging blast one n got hype when I saw u post this!!!
IS THIS GAME ON XBOX ONE??? Or are you emulating on pc