DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT - A NEW POWER AWAKENS SET (DLC)

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is a character-action RPG that covers the major story arcs of the DBZ anime - Saiyan, Frieza, Cell, and Buu - letting you fight, fish, eat, and train as Goku and a rotating cast of playable characters. The A New Power Awakens Set bundles two DLC episodes focused on the Super Saiyan God and Super Saiyan Blue transformations, pulling from the Battle of Gods and Resurrection F films. If you are a longtime fan, this is the fanservice package you have been waiting for. If you are coming in cold expecting a tight RPG, temper those expectations slightly. The combat is flashy and arcade-y, built around iconic beam clashes, transformation sequences, and super attacks that make the screen look genuinely chaotic in the best way. You switch between characters mid-combo, manage ki gauges, and time your vanishes and counters to stay alive on higher difficulties. It is not a deep fighting system, but it captures the kinetic rhythm of the anime better than almost any DBZ game before it. The A New Power Awakens episodes introduce Beerus and Golden Frieza as boss fights with escalating challenge tiers, which gives the DLC a decent bit of replayability if you want to push your build. Builds and progression are where things get interesting but also where the padding shows its face. You level up, eat food buffs cooked from ingredients you gather in open-world zones, equip soul emblems on a community board to boost stats, and unlock training moves. The system has more texture than a pure brawler, but the open-world zones feel thinly populated. Side quests are mostly fetch tasks dressed up in lore clothing - find this item, fight this enemy, recall this scene. They rarely surprise you. The main story beats, on the other hand, are reproduced with genuine care. Cutscenes are either lifted directly from the anime or recreated with loving fidelity, and the English and Japanese voice casts are both fully intact. The DLC episodes themselves are short - a few hours each - but they serve as a decent coda for fans who want to see Goku push past his Buu Saga ceiling. The challenge tiers on the boss fights scale up meaningfully, and optimizing your soul emblem board for those fights is one of the more satisfying things the game asks you to do. For RPG players used to sprawling systems, the depth ceiling is moderate. For Dragon Ball fans, the emotional payoff of playing through these moments rather than just watching them is real, and CyberConnect2 clearly respects the source material. Kakarot sits in an interesting spot: too shallow for RPG purists, too padded for action fans who want clean pacing, but basically ideal for anyone whose love of DBZ runs deep enough to forgive its filler instincts. The A New Power Awakens Set is worth it if you already own the base game and want more structured boss content with genuine difficulty spikes. As a standalone entry point, start with the base game and see if the world hooks you first. Monika, Scout Team