With several spacious overwor🧔lds to explore and a bunch of little easter eggs and goodies to uncover,Dragon Ball Z: Kakarotbasically begs players to str🦂ay from the𝓀 beaten path and just indulge in the Dragon World. But the story doesn’t.Dragon Ball Zis actually quite fast-paced, and leaves little time f﷽or breathing room. Toriyama likes moving from beat to beat asap.
That doesn’t exactly lend itself we🎀ll to a game likeKakarot, so it’s easy to feel “rushed” in the sense of just following the story. But the game is actually designed around that to some extent, and making 𝓰the most of exploration inKakarotis rꦦeally a matter of patience, diligence🅠, and an eye for detail.
10 Walk, Don’t Run
With such large overworlds to explore, it’s only natural that players will want to travel a lot of ground fast. But that’s not exploring, that’s just traversing. Ex🌳ploration is stopping to take your time and actually analyze what’s in the overworld. Simply put, characters move way too fast to ▨really take in the overworld.
It makes traversal incredibly fun and really captures 🐭the speed ofDragon Ball, but make sure🗹 to walk if you’re actually l﷽ooking to explore. ToKakarot’s credit, characters pick up most items just by walking or running over them. Items like D Medals, 🐟however, need to be picked up manually.
9 Scan For Ki
Ki is the key to finding everything littered around the overworld. While players with a𒐪 particularly keen eye will be able to spot some of the more obscure hidden goodies, don’t expect to find everything on🌜 sight alone.Kakarotis a lush game fulꦍl of color, but that makes it difficult to keep track of every little detail on screen.
To get around this,Kakarotallows players to sense for Ki. By focusing, players will enter a “Detective Mode” of sorts that’ll highlight key items on♐ the overworld along with identi🃏fy certain characters’ Power Levels. The closer to the end of the gameKakarotgets, the more intense certain characters’ auras.
8 Ride Nimbus If You’re Going To Fly
Flying at high-speed is a ton of fun💫🥀. It scratches an itch all fans ofDragon Ballhave had, but it’s not exactly ideal for exploring. As is the case with running, the player character simply moves too fast– even more so when flying as fast as possible. For anyone looking to explore by fܫlying, call Nimbus if you’re playinꦕg as Goku.
Nimbus moves at a controlled pace that, while not particularly fast, does allow players the time to actually observe their surroundings. Not just that, Nimbus can comfortably touch the ground wh✃ile flying. Worth noting, you ca𒀰n actually build vehicles to be summoned after unlocking the R&D department.
7 Barrel Roll Through Z-Orbs
Exploration inDragon Ball Z: Kakarotgoes beyond just scouring the overworld for goodies. A lot of the time, players will want to go after Z-Orbs, but some might find themselves struggling to grab all the Z🍷-Orbs in those large ring of orbs. The smaller rings are simple en♈ough, but the large ones are just too big for Goku or anyone else to realistically grab everything by just flying through.
By pressing the uppermost face button while flying at low speed, players will actually do a barrel roll. By doing a barrel roll inside of the larger rings, characters will actually obtain all the Z-Orbs present. This makes the act of g꧟athering Z-Orbs 🌺smoother overall.
6 Get Familiar With Fishing And Hunting Spots
Food is an important part ofKakarot’s gameplay loop🅷, which makes sense considering Goku’s love of eating in the series. By finding ingredients, players can cook meals that then reward them with permanent stat boosts. Whip a few meals together and you can even indulge in a full course meal with extra benefits.
Of cou♒rse, to partake in the art of eating one actually has to find ingredients. Luckily, drops aren’t random. Fishing and hunting spots will always house the same fish & animals. Familiarize yourself with where everything is located and cooking up some of the better courses in the game suddenly becomes quite simple.
5 Always Have Food At The Ready
On that note, don’t not eat. Players who just want to get through the story can 𒁃play the 🎉entire game without cooking a single meal outside of the few mandatory ones. You won’t be any worse for wear for it, but cooking really is a pretty important part of the game. It gives more weight to exploring the overworld and finding goodies.
Plus, it’s just good to have food around. Zeni’s not hard to come by💯, but who wants to waste money on a Vitamax when you’ve got some fish in your inventory? To say nothing of the gradual stat boosts that would come from using meals as an alternative to conventional healing.Kakarotis easy enough where this is perfectly doable.
4 Fly Through Enemies
Certain maps get really aggressive when it comes to enemy encounters. Tight spaces or just an overabundance of baddies can really sour exploration in some areas. Stopping to fight every few minutes isn’t fun when all you want to do is explor𒈔e, and characters don’t shut their damn mouth when enemies are nearby.
Thankfully, by crashing into enemies at high-speed, players will circumvent the battle entirely. Not just th🍎at, the game will treat the act as if the battle actually happened, rewarding both full experience and Z-Orbs. This is actually a pretty decent way to grind at the lower levels.
3 Exploring Off The Beaten Path Will Net Goodies
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarotis very generous with its map, detailing just about every single little detail imaginable (up to and including the actualও Dragon Balls whenever they’re active.) If that’s not enough, Z-Orbs will often 🌃lead players to the most interesting parts of the overworld. But this is really just the surface of exploration inKakarot.
There are qu൩ite a few hidden nooks just hiding of🐻f the beaten path. Every single map that has a body of water hasdenseunderwater coves just as big as the actual overworld. It’s kind of crazy to think abo💛ut and just as hard to explore since players have limite𝓡d air beneath the waves.
2 The Dragon Balls Recharge Every 20 Minutes Real-Time
Speaking of the Dragon Balls,Kakarotdoesn’t give the player too many opportunities to collect the Dragon Balls, but when it does, make sure to take 🍷advantage of it. The Dragon Balls don’t w💮ork how they do in the canon. InKakarot, they recharge on a 20-minute timer in-game, real-time. It really cha✤nges how wishes are handled.
Naturally, there are a lot of options for wishes. Players can ask for Z-Orbs and Zeni, or outright rival dead characters. Reviving Radౠitz, Nappa, or the Ginyu Force allow players to challe💛nge them in rematches. It adds a lot of replayability to a game that doesn’t have much in the way of post-game.
1 Intermissions Are Designed Around Exploration
AlthoughDragon Ball Z: Kakarotdoesn’t offer many opportunities to collect the Dragon Balls, it does offer them. Intermissions occur in between every st꧋ory arc, and they’re essentiallyKakarotembracing the sandbox at the core of it🐲s design. Intermissions are des𒐪igned entirely around players exploring and completing side quests.
It’s a time to take a break from 🐬the story and really 🎀just take in everythingKakarotrepresents. It’s ea𝓡sy to just breeze past these sections, but🗹 they actually offer some fairly interesting insight on the world ofDragon Ball. Plus, it’s just nice to see ev♛eryone breathe whenDragon Ball Zso often wraps itself up in conflict.