Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Reveals Full 182 Character Roster Ahead of Next Month's PS5 Release

This has to be a record for the biggest roster ever in a game right?

Going to get this unless it reviews absolutely awful

That's pretty impressive.

That's an impressive amount of Goku's.

Are those people available day 1 or released throughout the game via battle pass or season pass or whatever?

Ah, anything even remotely resembling balance, we hardly knew ye.

@QiaraIris base roster

Have they released them in a list, b/c it looks like about 6 versions each of 30 characters. 😂

I mean, I know that’s what DB is, I’m a fan from way back, but “182 characters” seems like a bit of a stretch. I was joking about the 6x30 (b/c the math was easy) but what’s the actual character count? I’ll even give you DB kid Goku is different than adult Goku going forward, but I’d still say the character count can’t be much more than 80 w/ skins. Not that Smash doesn’t do the same with its 5 Links. Just wondering.

@Shad361 @QiaraIris Only technicality is 'Mini' Goku from the new Dragon Ball Daima anime, who's locked behind pre-orders.

Additional DLC characters are also planned, so this roster's definitely going to break 200 in time.

@QiaraIris I really hope they don't do this. I was reading somewhere else that its the complete roster and you have to unlock them and that later they would add some form of DLC.

I hope that what we're seeing is what we're getting and not a seasonal pass nonsense.

That might as well be a Mugen Character Select Screen lol

@rjejr it seems like they're trying to buff the character screen. What they should've done is just had one character for example Goku, when you select him and previously unlock his transformation, you can select from within his selection screen the forms instead of having a separate character.

I'm surprised this game is generous with most fighting games these days and their multiple season passes 🤔

That's a very impressive base roster in true Tenkaichi tradition! will easily pass 200 characters with DLC, there's still lots of characters missing from the OG Dragon Ball and GT that I want to see but this is a good start 👏

most of those characters are re-skins of eachother and will play similarily, right? i find it hard to believe that they would code 182 unique move sets. unless, of course, the command list is incredibly basic and each character is mitigated to a few punch, kick and fireball commands, without a combo system. regardless, impressive roster which likely has never been done before on this scale.

@Porco if it's anything like the old Tenkaichi games then everyone more or less plays the same with different specials.

Does this include dragon ball heros like the fusion between ssj4 goku and goku ultra instinct gogeta🤪

Preordering.

@Ludacritz ah, i see.

How I miss the Budokai days of picking every character at their base form and accessing all of their forms at your leisure in-match. It even had some strategy to it, since the more powerful forms required nearly maxed out Ki, so you had to be conservative with lower-level forms and specials if you wanted to attain higher-level forms.

Granted, it was a meta-game that only really applied to Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, and Frieza. But, FighterZ aside, I feel like Dragon Ball games should throw most concepts of balance and equity away.

Looks like Tobal 2 is (roster-wise, and with DLC in mind) gonna have some competition soon enough.😅
Jokes aside, the base roster is a thumbs-up.

@Spanky I remember when I used to think Ultimate Battle 22/27 had a huge roster, seems so quaint now! Can't wait for this! Would love a character list but hopefully just plain non Super Saiyan Vegetto is playable.

@RoomWithaMoose I know the characters selection screen has them all separated, but if you watch the gameplay videos, it does look like from wherever you start in the match you can transform as the match goes on. This was a huge part of the fun for me as well with the old games, and unless I'm missing something, it seems to be the case here as well even though you can pick a character at any stage of transformation to start.

@AfroMario It seems to me that every character has a "limit break" form. A singular form. So if you pick SSJ Goku, you start as base Goku and can transform once into SSJ. If you want to go SSGSS, though, you have to pick that specific variant, and then you'll be unable to go SSJ. At least, that's how it appears to me.

Which brings some aspect of what I was yearning for to the table, but with less depth and no freedom. The choice to bar yourself from higher forms for whatever reason — even partaking in some roleplaying by not going all out for certain scenarios — added a lot to the experience.

@RoomWithaMoose I completely agree, it was the funnest part of the game for me. Kind of sad if that's the case, but I'm sure it'll still be a great game. I can't remember which trailer I watched but it really seems like as the enemies kept coming they were transforming multiple stages. Maybe they were splicing it together from different fights. I can't tell you how many times I started with GT Goku vs the whole GT villain lineup and as each one was defeated I would transform to the next level of SSJ, culminating with fusing with Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta to defeat Omega Shenron of course. It was so exhilarating!