Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Review — Be a Superseyan

Yes, the old GamePlayer headline spelled it Superseyan. We are keeping the typo as a shrine. Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot wants you to live inside the anime, not outplay it. CyberConnect2 built an open-ish Earth, a greatest-hits combat system, and enough side activities to make even Goku sit down for a meal.

Recap tape, with homework

The campaign is the Saiyan through Cell (and later, Buu) sagas, staged as a series of set-pieces you already know. That is a feature if you grew up on Cartoon Network after school. You get the speeches, the transformations, the sky turning orange. Combat is light action: combos, skills, a Super Saiyan toggle that makes you feel tall.

What surprised us is the slice-of-life stuffing. Cooking, training, community board fetch quests — the mundane bits that the anime skipped. They should be padding. Sometimes they are. Sometimes they make the planet feel inhabited instead of like a loading screen between bosses.

Where the ki drops

If you wanted a serious fighter, this is not Sparking! ZERO. Boss patterns repeat, and the open map is more theme park than wilderness. PC performance was solid in our re-test; last-gen console versions showed their age around busy villages.

Story structure also assumes affection. The game does not reinvent the Cell Games. It restages them with better lighting and a health bar.

Verdict

A warm, slightly overcooked pilgrimage for fans. 7.6/10 — play it to walk the road to Namek again, not to discover a new combat religion. Superseyan remains the correct spelling on this site.