Dragon Ball Fans Want Sparking: Zero To Bring Back Loading Screen Minigames

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Dragon Ball fans are hoping that Sparking: Zero is finally going to bring back Budokai Tenkaichi's iconic loading screen minigames which have sadly been missing from the series for some time.

We've not seen all that much of Sparking: Zero yet, but it certainly looks like it's trying to be everything that Budokai Tenkaichi fans have been asking for over the past decade. Not only has it already been confirmed to have a "historic" roster size, but we've also seen the return of fan-favourite gameplay mechanics like beam clashes and multiple character variants. Heck, even Hercule's infamous special move looks to be making a comeback.

Although it already seems like Sparking: Zero is aiming to be the ultimate Dragon Ball game, there are a few things that we don't know if it's going to include, such as what-if characters like Super Saiyan 3 Broly and Vegeta. The biggest question mark that fans have right now is whether or not the beloved loading screen minigames that first appeared in Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi will be making a return.

For those that don't remember, most Dragon Ball games in the past few console generations included a minigame during loading screens that players could mess around with while they waited for a match, like mashing buttons to make Vegeta do push-ups, pressing button combinations that appear on screen, and even just rolling a set of Dragon Balls around.

Despite being a big hit with fans and an iconic feature of earlier Dragon Ball games, they've been completely absent from recent titles like Kakarot, FighterZ, and XenoVerse. Considering Sparking: Zero takes so much inspiration from Budokai Tenkaichi and is essentially the fourth game in the series, fans like Redditor deyde_costass are hoping that