Dragon Ball: The Breakers

Although Dragon Ball: The Breakers is actually a good idea, it is an experience that I can only recommend to anime fans due to its flaws in the implementation part, the gacha system and the luck-based gameplay that gets boring after a while with bad teammates.

DRAGON BALL: The Breakers is a good idea held back by Pay-to-Win practices and outdated design decisions. While the game could have a bright future ahead of it, it has a long way to go before it can be considered a truly great title, and really ought to sort out it’s current issues before the developers look ahead to Seasons 2 and beyond. The fundamentals are there, and the gameplay is solid; if these can be polished and modernised, then Breakers would easily go from a niche oddity to a raging blast.

Dragon Ball: The Breakers is the latest game to cash in on the cat-and-mouse multiplayer boom. Unfortunately, it does so without any of the mechanical depth that makes those games great.

Dragon Ball: The Breakers is a crude and poor video game, but it is not lacking in inventiveness. What I’m wondering is if, unlike other similar multiplayer titles, it will have time to evolve and improve over time, or if Bandai Namco will put an end to its service before the game formula is refined and enriched as it needs to be.

Dragon Ball: The Breakers will probably live or die based on its initial release window. It is a game of growing pains so severe that it might scare off much of the audience. What that could leave is akin to a late-stage fighting game: the only players left are very good, forcing away even more newcomers. If players can get over this hurdle, and the one that simply playing the game provides, there's a depth to the mechanics that are satisfying to master. It is a game that offers a bit more complexity than competitor Dead By Daylight, but would have to sustain a player base to truly match it. Failing that, it could end another Friday The 13th; a totally fine game that can only be enjoyed with friends. As it stands now, though, a private game cannot exist without a full lobby of eight players, so even that might not be a realistic option. In a world with a glut of this genre, it doesn't do quite enough to require your time.

Fleeing from Cell, Frieza, or Majin Buu's sadistic assaults has its moments of brilliance. But the often tedious exploration, subpar combat system, and intrusive gacha mechanics keep the game from being anything more than a curiosity.

Despite efforts to include a vast collection of Dragon Ball characters and references in The Breakers, going as far as to provide a somewhat logical explanation of why it is possible for dead villains and normal civilians being able to transform into your favorite heroes, the game is ultimately let down by its poor mechanics and systems. Instead of giving players a chance to sink their teeth into a new way to enjoy the storied franchise, Dragon Ball: The Breakers will only be consigned to the place of a bad memory, much like a poor filler episode of an anime.

If you can stand the graphics, and if you either like Dragon Ball or asymmetrical games, you’d surely have a good time playing the game

A fresh new dragon ball game that is different and fun to play especially with friends

The game has MAJOR Balancing issues, it's pretty much pay to win if you're a survivor, and have no way to defend yourself against the survivors as Raider. It takes so long just to finally play as the Raider and when you do it doesn't feel worth it when you can die pretty easily.

I downloaded this as part of the PS Plus Essential offering for November 2023. I would not have paid for this game specifically and after playing, I’m glad I l’ve only suffered the PS Plus cost.Much with other games of this ilk - you play as either a survivor or raider. When you queue, you are given three specific choices that really don’t matter at all.Survivor queue - you play as survivor. Flex lets you play for a preferred role and if you do not get that role then you are guaranteed that role in another game. Raider lets you queue as raider and then insert you into the game as a survivor but without any guarantee of being a raider. Its like queuing flex as a raider but even **** game meets the aesthetic for Dragonball. You are able to temporarily become your favourite characters. That’s about it. Playing as a raider was somewhat enjoyable. Playing a survivor - for me - not **** to improve this? Well, let the raider queue be for raiders. If I want to wait 15mins for a game, thats my choice. The game should not decide that I should play a role I don’t want to play.I wish this was a better game.

This **** is so annoying. Believe me, this game is fun to play, but when you LITERALLY CAN’T, it can get very irritating very quick. I’ve been trying to play this game for the past 3 days now, and I can’t even play the game the way it was intended because I either get kicked out mid match, get kicked from the matchmaking server and get sent to the title screen, or be unable to connect to all my teammates. Honestly I wouldn’t care that much about any of this if being kicked from the matchmaking server didn’t mean that after about 3 crashes, I'm literally not allowed to matchmake. It might just be my internet, but then again, this doesn’t happen with any other game I play.