Originally Posted by SS2 Vegeto

Every combo in the Tenkaichi series revolves around taping one button and a few directional arrows, and occassionally pressing a different button in the end. I don't like going...punch, punch, punch, punch, direction, punch, punch, punch, punch, ki, punch, punch, ki, punch, direction, ki. You're...doing almost exactly the same things, just pressing them in at a different amount, and inserting "direction" or "ki" at a different place. First off, one button for all melee attacks blows. Really, really blows. Just...one button plus directional variations. Unless you go into hyper mode, you get no more variety than that. You have to go into a "mode" just to get the normal amount of variety expected from any fighting game on any platform. I still lack the ability to control kicks and punches separately, which was forfeited just to make things move faster. It has totally lost it's arcade fighter feeling, although it was never quite like that to begin with, on how the specials worked, but it's combo system was close enough. I can't put my finger on it, but arcade fighters, and games like Budokai 3 did it right. Tenkaichi 2 didn't. It did something different which was somewhat acceptable, but ended up having this...I'll tap this button rapidly until you break off your gaurd, and if you counter, I'll take a beating as you tap this button rapidly until I counter, and then I'll tap this button rapidly and then press this other button to knock you back, when you come back to knock me back, then I'll knock you back, and....style of gameplay. Whereas arcade fighters, and more modernized 2D Platform Fighters such as Budokai 3 take into acount how each string or combo ties in with every other string or combo, take care in how each type of attack affects the opponent's position, allowing for juggles, combo strings, timed specials, and unlike Budokai 2, the third installment had taken care to make sure there were counter measures for each of these situations additionally. Tenkaichi 2's combo's and combo strings, comparitavely, are kind of...cheap. They lack the same level of depth, basically. The wii remote made it more innovative, but those same problems still caught up to me.

The graphics resemble fanart, really. They look nothing like the anime, even less like the manga, are blocky, look as if they were all designed from the same kind of model with different proportions, have...terrible line-work, if that's even a real term for anything, warped anatomy, clunky appearances in movement, and remind me more of clay dolls or wax figurines than actual people or characters, namely, they don't look the slightest bit alive, and just about the only thing comendable here is that their coloring job was smooth, although the colors are often too bright. Super Dragonball Z was most commendable for the artwork of it's environments, which pulled off a near mirror image of Toriyama's classic manga. The character artwork also best reflects that of the manga by far, despite some minor problems with anatomy (mostly the arms), and texture in a few levels. It pulled off that arcade fighter feel and look, while perfectly giving off that feel that you were playing the manga, which I find commendable indeed. The fact that the aura's are freaking butt-ugly, annoys a lot of people, really, consider they look like some cheap flash graphics job by some college amateur computer junkie, and the fact that I hear of it at some point in nearly every discussion that delves into the games graphical issues. Stupid looking aura's themselves is a stupid reason to hate a game, unless of course, it's paired with mediocre graphics overall, comparative lack of depth in gameplay, lack of variety, and smothered in stuff which is entirely unecessary. If you'd prefer the cheap aura's of Tenkaichi renown, to the smooth, flowing aura's of Budokai 3, I have nothing to say really, other than that I find your tastes in art questionable. Since you agree on the "beam uniqueness", I have no need to address that, but lastly, throwing in everything you can think of is harmful to any game. Pointless character additions, features nobody uses, all the utter nonsense that has been Tenkaichi 2's absolute most fatal flaw, it is "drowning it in trash".

Originally Posted by SS2 Vegeto

I hate one button for melee attacks. It may not sound like one extra buttons for kicks makes that big a difference, but in stringing combos, in the end, it really, really does. It's beam attacks all looked the same, with different colors, lack of cutscenes, blocky characters, ugly aura's, it's basically who can get inside who's gaurd, and keep them on the defensive as you pound on them. I didn't get into it, as much.

Originally Posted by SS2 Vegeto

Imbalance, is something I'm almost embarrassed to have not mentioned...why would someone even bother putting in a character, that can be killed within moments by an irreversably stronger character?