The base game of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot recreates the story of Dragon Ball Z with surprising detail. Players run through nearly every moment of the original show as Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Piccolo, and Future Trunks, all the way up through the Buu Saga. In order to extend the game’s lifetime a bit, DLC was released as well. The first two DLC in the season pass introduced content from the Dragon Ball Z movies Battle of Gods and Resurrection F, granting players the power of a Super Saiyan God and the Super Saiyan Blue form as a result. While these are technically adaptations of Dragon Ball Z movies, they overlap with Dragon Ball Super.
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Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot DLC 1 and 2
The first DLC for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot introduces players to Beerus and Whis. Rather than adapting the story one for one like the base game does with most of its story arcs, fans are instead treated to a heavily condensed version. Essentially, players can train with Whis in order to level up their characters and unlock the Super Saiyan God form before fighting Beerus in a difficult boss battle. While this does summarize the events of Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, it is hardly a comprehensive experience.
The second DLC for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is similar to this in many ways. This time, Frieza comes back seeking vengeance on Goku, but now he’s got access to his powerful Golden form. Since Frieza had already been revived by Goku with the Dragon Balls in Kakarot’s version of the story, there are some slight changes to how things play out. This was also a condensed version of the story, with certain fan favorite scenes like Master Roshi fighting the Frieza Force being cut out and instead represented by the horde battles.
Dragon Ball Super: Kakarot
Although there hasn’t been any kind of official announcement, fans speculate that a sequel to the game would be called Dragon Ball Super: Kakarot. In this theoretical adventure, CyberConnect2 could recreate the story of the Dragon Ball Super anime and manga from scratch, creating a faithful retelling of the newer story. Some fans say that Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is a good replacement for watching the entirety of Dragon Ball Z itself, and if the sequel were to be as good, the same could be said for Dragon Ball Super.
Just like Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Super is split up into several sagas. The God of Destruction Saga comes first, and is the anime’s adaptation of Battle of Gods. This is followed by the Golden Frieza Saga, a direct translation of Resurrection F. Moving on from there, the Universe 6 Saga introduces players to the multiverse, and the Future Trunks Saga takes players back to the fan favorite character’s bleak timeline. Finally, the Tournament of Power rounds out the first season. Outside of this, there is also the Dragon Ball Super: Broly movie and two more arcs currently ongoing in the Dragon Ball Super manga.
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Dragon Ball Super Overlay With Dragon Ball Z
Fans of Dragon Ball Z were thrilled when it was revealed that Goku and company would star in a new Dragon Ball Z movie called Battle of Gods in 2014, but a somewhat confusing situation arose from this. After the two Dragon Ball Z movies, the franchise opted to create an entirely new sequel anime. While Dragon Ball Super is beloved by many fans, one major criticism that is often levied against it is the overlap it has with these Dragon Ball Z movies. The first two sagas of the anime are just retreading the events that already happened in the movies.
Since this is a TV show, there are a few benefits to doing this. The most obvious one is that it allows for more exploration of the story and characters. Battle of Gods crammed every interaction between Beerus and the Z Warriors into just an hour and 45 minutes, while the anime spreads this out over 18 episodes. With each episode being around 25 minutes, that’s about 7.5 hours in stead of 1.75 hours. Choosing to retell these stories also helps the anime stand on its own, meaning viewers don’t have to watch the two Dragon Ball Z movies beforehand in order to make sense of what’s going on.
Dragon Ball Super: Kakarot Overlay With Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
Likewise, a Dragon Ball Super: Kakarot game would suffer from the same issues. It would be necessary to include both the God of Destruction arc and the Golden Frieza arc or else the game wouldn’t be able to stand on its own, but this would also require players to go through something they already have. Just like the previous example, though, there are some major benefits to doing this. The DLC version of Battle of Gods in Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is incredibly short, so this could be expanded on a bunch for example.
Even so, fans have already seen this story in the Dragon Ball Z movie, the Dragon Ball Super anime, the Dragon Ball Super manga, and as a DLC for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot. Each version of the events are slightly different from one another as well, leading to a somewhat muddled understanding of what’s canon and what isn’t Dragon Ball Super: Kakarot would no doubt make some minor changes of its own as well, further adding to the confusion.
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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