I'm here to complain

Title.

Maybe my expectations were too high, maybe I'm just not the target audience, maybe I'm just not as into videogames. I dunno. But as a long time fan of the series (over 20yrs) and an avid lover of the ogs, this game did not live up to the expectations I had when it came to the Budokai/Tenkaichi series. The game's entire focus seems to be on the online mode which I care extremely little for. The story mode was extremely lackluster and lacking in so many ways. The Budokai/Tenkaichi games always had such lengthy and enjoyable story modes, voice acted and cinematic. Some of them start from Ball and span till the end of GT. But almost all of them included the full story in some way. Some even have an open world style of story where you could collect dragon balls and fight movie and filler bosses in order to unlock them. The fact that this game doesn't even have the full Z or Super stories is an absolute laugh in our faces. With every character missing big chunks from their stories. Even Goku.

The older games also had fun mini-games and other things to unlock characters and costumes. zeni's check list and simply buying characters/skins is so lazy, it's embarrassing. A distinct lack of split-screen content which was basically half the point of the originals. No split screen tournament is ridiculous honestly.

I hate the Bonus Episodes, I find them very lazy, a pathetic excuse for the lack of Movie/Ball/GT and for the developers to "sh*t it in" figuratively speaking. Sure, being able to create scenarios is okay I guess, but I'd give it up in a heartbeat for a full story mode. And being able to have Gogeta and Vegito fight is literally what versus is for!

And now, having downloaded the Super Hero DLC,I'm disappointed to see that all it is basically 4 new characters. Super Hero Gohan having the same Moveset regardless of his form, the only difference being Beast. The same can be said for Piccolo who only changes for Orange is the exact same when Giant. The Gamma's are literally the same character with no differences besides 2's ult. And a couple of lackluster bonus battles.

The What Ifs and actual combat mechanics are the only good parts of the game but even then the What Ifs were extremely bare bones and lazy.

I bought the game full price at launch and almost immediately regretted it. I wanted to like the game, I pushed myself to finish the stories but god, every time I play I find myself disliking it more and more.

At least it isn't Xenoverse and doesn't have a battle pass I guess.