Being the fanboy that I am I’m compelled to play any video game that has Goku’s face on it, but this one is just a hot pile of mid. Maybe I would’ve enjoyed it more if I recognized more than a handful of franchises represented here (if it didn’t play on Toonami or Adult Swim in the 2000s I don’t know what it is) but even then I don’t think that would’ve stopped the combat from getting boring after five minutes.

The story mode here is an absolute slog to get through, one of the worst I’ve played in a fighting game. I get that with the sheer amount of characters here having the story mode be fully voiced would’ve been expensive, but what we have here is a mode where you just watch jpegs talk to each other until you’re thrown into combat, rinse repeat until you get sick of it and eject the disc from your console.

If you just want a bunch of fan service I guess this is your game but otherwise stay far away