Summary
- Custom battles in Sparking! Zero offer unique scenes and dialogue options for players to create personalized battle scenarios.
- Players can set multiple endings and conditions in custom battles to explore various outcomes and challenge themselves.
- Custom Battle Mode allows fans to recreate missing moments from the Dragon Ball series and create their own "what if?" Scenarios.
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero provides a lot of ways for fans to play out the series' iconic battles. Players will find plenty of recognizable scenarios and "what if?" Battles in the game's Episode Battle Mode. For those who want to explore their own dream match ups, though, there are custom battles as well.
Custom battles in Sparking! Zero go a little further than the average 1v1, featuring custom rules. Players can creat matchups with custom rules and characters, of course, but they can also add their own cutscenes to set up the scenario. Fans of the iconic anime can select characters, poses, and even go as far as mixing and matching custom dialogue lines to tell a story. There are a ton of options to get to grips with, so here are some tips for getting the most out of the game's custom battles.
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6 Experiment With Dialogue
Over 5000 Lines
Being able to script customized scenes is one of the coolest features of the custom battle mode. Not only are there 5000 unique dialogue lines to choose from, it's actually possible to swap out nouns like character names, providing gamers with even more potential combinations.
Creative players can use this, along with features like character poses and facial expressions, to create custom scenes that add flavor to their battle scenarios. Also, it's worth mentioning that the meme potential of these options is off the charts.
5 Play With Multiple Endings
Win/Lose Conditions And More
Players aren't just limited to one scene at the start and end of a battle in the game's custom mode. It's possible to set up multiple endings based on what happens in the fight; for example, an ending might depend on how many characters the player can beat. Combine this with the custom dialogue and scenes, and there's so much potential for what-ifs and iconic clashes. Fans can live out their wildest Dragon Ball fanfiction fight scenarios.
4 Learn How To Make Multiple Scenes
Using Normal Edit Mode
Players will need to get to grips with the options in Normal Edit Mode to start adding multiple endings, battle conditions, and any forced or restricted actions in battle. When players enter Custom Battle Mode, they'll be asked what type of scenario they want to create. This sets up a template of pre-selected options, but these can all be edited. That's when Normal Edit Mode can be selected, and players will want to do this to get access to the full range of editing options. This gives access to six main options, with a host of sub-menus for each one:
- Characters
- Battle Environment
- Effect Settings
- Scene Settings
- Title Screen
- Thumbnail
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Effect settings and scene settings are where players will find the meat of the options. With effect settings, players can set conditions that happen in battle. For example, they might choose to give a tough enemy health regeneration, or force a transformation at a set amount of damage. Scenes are where those custom cutscenes discussed earlier can be set up.
3 Share And Find Community Customs
Play Other Fans' Custom Battle Challenges
When any player creates a Custom Battle, the game creates a unique code that the player can then share with others. This feature lets other players access custom battle scenarios without looking through the thousands of community and developer creations.
There are a ton of active community posts on Reddit and other places around the Internet, so players can connect outside the game to share their favorite scenarios and ideas. This also allows for the creation of multi-stage battles. Custom battles can only be created one at a time, so sharing multiple codes is the only way to let players experience multiple scenarios in order.
2 Recreate Missing Moments
TV Showdowns And Movie Matchups
Developer Spike Chunsoft has put a lot of effort into cramming as many iconic moments from across the Dragon Ball universe into Sparking! Zero as they could. Yet, with such a long-running franchise, that was never going to include every battle that fans wanted to see.
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Custom Battles allow a space for players to recreate those favorite moments themselves. Not only that, but it already includes several developer-made scenarios that add to the game's already abundant single-player content. Goku vs Turles, anyone?
1 Create What-Ifs And Challenges
Make It Interesting, Or Make It Hardcore
Ask any Dragon Ball fan, and they can tell you a "what if?" Scenario they've played out in their heads. What if Piccolo and Kami were able to save Namek? What if Vegeta had turned super-saiyan first? What if Yajirobe had been the one to run into Raditz?
Custom Battle Mode is the place to explore all these options and more. Even better, players can determine their own outcomes. With the custom scenes and dialogue, this mode is a dream come true for many long-term Dragon Ball fans. Meanwhile, for those who aren't as interested in the backstory as the gameplay, there's also the option to just create tough challenges for players to beat. Players should be aware that they have to be able to beat anything they create before they can share it though.
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero
- Released
- October 11, 2024
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- Spike Chunsoft
- Publisher(s)
- Namco Bandai
- Platform(s)
- PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S
- Genre(s)
- Fighting, Action
