Dragon Ball The Breakers Torrent is an action game developed by Dimps Corporation and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Dragon Ball The Breakers’ guide provides a brief explanation of Temporal Seams causing supervillains to manifest where they shouldn’t be, but it’s essentially a flimsy justification for the ongoing multiplayer battles. As a Survivor, you’ll strive to accomplish various objectives to repel the invading antagonist back to their origin.
These tasks involve locating power keys, strategically planting them, and safeguarding various machines from the Raider’s destructive onslaught. Given the Raider’s overwhelming power relative to the Survivors, it becomes engaging to endure primarily through concealment and diverse forms of deception, such as abilities enabling you to assume the guise of a random object or temporarily incapacitate your adversary.
Beyond their deployable abilities, Survivors’ trump card is the Dragon Shift, a chargeable capability to morph into empowered versions of your character inspired by different Dragon Ball heroes. These transformations are obtained through Transpheres, items acquired via a gacha mechanic using tickets—a contentious system I’ll delve into later.
Alternatively, during a match, you can collect all seven Dragon Balls and summon Shenron to either boost all Survivors’ Dragon Shift Level by one or elevate yourself above your maximum strength momentarily. Post-transformation, you can confront the Raider for a brief period, granting your fellow Survivors more time to escape or attempting to vanquish the Raider outright.
There are three tiers to Dragon Shift that you accumulate through passive skills and item pickups, purportedly intended to be roughly equivalent in potency to the Raider’s ongoing transformation level. However, I struggled to discern whether I was genuinely outmatched by design or simply grappling with the subpar controls. The inability to pinpoint the source of dissatisfaction is exasperating, with only the certainty that the more time spent in combat, the less enjoyable the experience.
Dragon Ball The Breakers Torrent becomes somewhat more enjoyable when teaming up with friends, as nail-biting moments and chaotic interactions elicited yelps of fear or hearty laughter on numerous occasions. Nevertheless, these instances frequently arose from control challenges or moments of sheer perplexity resulting from unexpected off-screen deaths.
The visuals in Dragon Ball The Breakers Torrent do little to alleviate these issues. While the characters maintain the iconic Dragon Ball aesthetic and the three maps offer pleasing diversity with canyons, towns, and expansive areas, most textures appear low-resolution and blurry up close. Characters seemingly lack meaningful interaction with the environment, merely gliding along its surface.
Some skill animations could benefit from refinement as well; for instance, the grappling hook lacks an audible indication of attachment, producing only an odd buzzing noise. Additionally, I’ve encountered instances of being lodged in the ground or on terrain corners multiple times. Overall, it imparts an impression of being unfinished.
Dragon Ball The Breakers PC/System Requirements
- OS: Windows 7/8/10/11 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-7600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 770
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 10 GB available space
