After what seems like an eternity since its announcement last year, Bandai Namco has finally stated that its upcoming asymmetrical online multiplayer game, Dragon Ball: The Breakers, will be released for Switch on 14th October.
The release date came as part of a new trailer — seen above — which demonstrates some of the mechanics in action. The basic premise of the game sees a team of seven survivors trapped in a 'temporal seam' where they are hunted by a singular raider. The first trailer showed Cell as this pursuer, while the more recent one is focused on Frieza (because if there's one thing we need it's more Frieza content.)
The release trailer gives us a pretty good idea of what the game will involve, and you might assume that with a fan base as large as that of Dragon Ball Z, a date announcement like this would be enough to make the internet fizzle with excitement. While the fans certainly have been a-fizzling, there is little sign of any excitement, though.
Reading through some of the responses to the date reveal, we noticed an overwhelming sentiment which was, to put it politely, less than enthusiastic. With many noting 'cheap' graphics and lack of publicity over the past year, Dragon Ball: The Breakers doesn't appear to have balled over (sorry) the fans as much as the publisher might have hoped.
Yikes! It is worth noting that the response has not been a complete wash of negativity. There remains a passionate, if small, number of people who appear to be excited about the game's release. It's not all doom and gloom, for now at least.
https://twitter.com/hojima_/status/1550135149177757697
We will have to wait until October to get a fan reaction to the game itself, so let's hope it has the gameplay goods to win over the fans and banish all thoughts of this mixed early response.
Will you be purchasing Dragon Ball: The Breakers in October? Let us know in the comments!
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Comments 28
wow even kojima doesn't like this lol
Free-to-play and taking design cues from Fall guys is the only thing that can save this game
I was expecting this to be F2P. Any word on crossplay? While Bandai has a good track record of supporting their games long term, this looks like it may not have a large community.
I don't understand, why does this game look bad exactly? I think it looks fine? Both graphics and animation wise.
I think it's fine, not worse than the new movie that's for sure 🤣. But I like that they're trying something new, I think it's a clever concept, especially with Cell, as he used to terrorize citizens in the beginning of his arc. To be fair, animation was never DB games strong suit, especially cutscenes, just look at fighterZ's story cinematics... People will complain no matter what, me included.
The premise sounds really fun, but the visual presentation could be better. To be fair, the trailer does mention it's not the finished product. Let's hope they polish it a little bit more before release
A new game was announced, some fans liked it while others didn’t
Where’s the news story?
I read asymmetrical multiplayer and immediately checked out. Games like Friday the 13th and Dead by Daylight are not my jam. When I see there'll be a "physical" release with a code-in-the-box all I can do is sneer.
It's a fun idea. People are being a little too hard on it. Probably should be F2P at this point though.
@Screen When out of ideas, you can always make an article out of Twitter comments. A NL speciality. 😜
@Yosher People will find any excuse to complain about how a game looks when really they should be concerned about the gameplay itself. Is it fun, engaging, not p2w? Thats more important to me anyways
Looks super fun! Definitely giving it a go!
I think it looks fine, I think people are just mad that’s it’s not free to play, and that it took so long, I’m happy they took there time, and think it will turn out amazing.
Uhmmm....... Dayumm. This game looks sooo stiff,lol.
Its almost like we go back in time where 3D games just entered the scene 🤣
Nah, everyone just mad cause they hate the playable human characters which are weaker than Raditz.
Obviously the graphics aren't anything impressive, but I still think the gameplay is something very creative and can be super fun gameplay-wise
Unless I squint super hard, I don't see anything wrong with the graphics.
Too bad we never got anymore of the Dragon Ball Origins games.
@Yosher well I thought the same in the first place.
But then I looked at the graphics of the last 4 Dragon Ball games on home consoles.
@drewber2635 I mean, graphics are still important as well to a degree. I've complained plenty myself about Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC tracks looking rather bad and it making the experience of that less fun for me. But this DBZ game looks perfectly fine to me.
@Rayquaza2510 It's not that bad, if you ask me. It's not perfect, but I think it works just fine. Whether that's full-price fine is up for debate, of course, but I don't think it's nearly as bad as all the people complaining make it out to be.
It definitely should’ve been f2p, but at least it looks better than Jump Force.
Adapting DBZ into the "Dead by Daylight" format of asynchronous multiplayer is actually a great idea on paper if you ignore the in-universe power gap between the super villains and everyone else.
But yeah, the game itself just feels cheap. Which would be fine as a F2P throwaway title.
Man did we need 10 replies from random people on Twitter in the article? They can find opposing points of view and feel strongly about it with absolutely anything..
It definitely sounds like a game where the brand and premise will carry it. Not interested in it myself but I'd say it'll strike a cord with people who like it's gameplay.
While it’s not personally my kind of game, I like the idea and find it intriguing enough to wanna see some playthroughs. Im expecting this could be very entertaining especially with commentary.
I do think the animations are a bit stiff though but I suspect its because we have been spoiled by games like ‘FighterZ’ and even Kakarot. The former especially went to great lengths to capture the anime look (right down to distorted models to capture the intensity and exaggerated poses). Considering its multiplayer nature, my uneducated guess is that too much graphical intensity might actually work against the performance, where it’s important to get online and system performance right given the multiplayer aspect and
@Zorox88 That's cause the story continues to the Wii game, Dragon Ball: The Revenge of King Piccolo which ended with the evil King Piccolo saga. This would also continue eventually leading into Dragon Ball Kai (DBZ: Attack of the Saiyans) for the Nintendo DS.
Color me surprised. I thot this was going to be free to play last I heard. Well shoot. Can't say the fans are wrong. It needs more time in the oven for sure.
Game quality isn't worth the money!
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