After a seventeen-year gap since the last entry in the Budokai Tenkaichi series, you might think Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is a much different game. While it certainly has plenty of new characters and fresh features to spruce things up,

Lots of great games are discounted for Black Friday, but Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero might be this year's can't-miss deal.

As mentioned before, Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero is on sale at Walmart, Amazon, GameStop, and Best Buy for around $49.99. If explosive fighting sequences and Akira Toriyama’s iconic designs are up your alley, you may want to get on those deals before they go away.

Sparking Zero delivers a ton of what fans have wanted from a DBZ fighting game, including a humongous cast of characters. There are 180-plus fighters to choose from and nearly half need to be unlocked.

Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is not a competitive fighting game by design. Its colossal character roster is purposefully unbalanced, its mechanics are abusable at almost any level, and many of its underlying systems are built for spectacle instead of technical depth.

The man, the legend. Yajirobe is no joke character; he's actually quite powerful in Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero. Learn more about him here!

Sparking Zero may be a hit, but its recent eSports tournament is drawing a tidal wave of negative publicity from players and spectators.

"After just one month in market, Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero became the best-selling Dragon Ball game in U.S. lifetime dollar sales," Piscatella writes. Even more insane, Sparking! Zero is now third in Bandai Namco's all-time US dollar sales rankings, trailing only Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3. That's a flabbergasting result for the publisher.

From perfecting Z Counters to unleashing seamless transformations, these tips will turn you into the ultimate Z Fighter in Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero.

Competitive Dragon Ball Sparking Zero players claim they've been disqualified for using optimal strategies in a tournament

Even though Bandai Namco actively discouraged playing Sparking! Zero like an esports title, tournaments are still being held. That said, two players were recently disqualified for "flying spam" days after the qualifier was held.