Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero, the upcoming installment within the beloved anime enviornment fighter, is poised to be one of many greatest online game releases for diehard Dragon Ball followers. Simply when the sport felt prefer it couldn’t be any extra of a love letter to the sequence, a voice actor from the anime seemingly confirmed that one of the underappreciated Tremendous Saiyan varieties can be making its option to the sport as nicely.
Throughout a Dragon Ball Z solid panel at Anime Riverside 2024, longtime Goku voice actor Sean Schemmel mentioned the problem of voicing totally different characters within the sequence and giving them their very own distinctive voice. In a video uploaded to YouTube by JimmyisaGeek, Schemmel seemingly let it slip that Tremendous Saiyan 4 Goku can be playable in Sparking! Zero.
“I didn’t understand that subtly altering the voice for each single kind was gonna chew me within the ass later, and so conserving monitor of all that for like Tremendous Saiyan 4, Tremendous Saiyan 3, God mode, Purple, was all actual delicate,” Schemmel mentioned.
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Schemmel credit Damon Mills, the voice actor for Frieza, for serving to him preserve monitor of Goku’s Tremendous Saiyan voices on “this final recreation we’ve been engaged on.” Whereas Schemmel may very well be talking about any Dragon Ball recreation, there’s a excessive chance he’s speaking about Sparking Zero, seeing as how Mills serves as the sport’s lead voice director.
“Damon has been on prime of conserving all my references in line. Going by ensuring the whole lot’s proper. Actually nitpicking it. It’s a really difficult factor to do, but it surely’s very easy as long as you retain vocal references round as a result of the second I can hear it, I can do it,” Schemmel mentioned.
Tremendous Saiyan 4, developed by Toei Animation character designer Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, is among the most visually distinctive designs within the Dragon Ball mythos. Opposite to different Tremendous Saiyan varieties, which see a coloration and size change for his or her Saiyan warriors, Tremendous Saiyan 4 leans in on the Nice ape design from OG Dragon Ball by giving its heroes coloured fur and a tail. Tremendous Saiyan 4 can also be thought-about the very best factor to come back out of Dragon Ball’s universally reviled sequel sequence, Dragon Ball GT, amongst longtime followers.
Previous to Schemmel seemingly spilling the senzu beans about Tremendous Saiyan 4, followers had been arduous at work freeze-framing blurry microscopic pictures from the newest Sparking! Zero trailer theorizing Tremendous Saiyan 4 Goku being within the recreation. These concept crafters are seemingly respiration a sigh of aid that their speculations weren’t unfounded.
Schemmel’s obvious Tremendous Saiyan 4 affirmation not solely means one other Goku is being added to Sparking! Zero’s sizeable roster, it may additionally point out different tremendous Saiyan 4 characters like Vegeta and Gogeta making their option to the fighter as nicely.
In our preview for Sparking! Zero, we praised the sport for feeling like its battles had been lifted proper out of the anime, saying, “Even after only a dozen or so matches in opposition to the CPU, it turned clear to me that Dragon Ball superfans who’re exceptionally good at preventing video games – or those that intend to observe loads with Sparking Zero – are going to seek out themselves having a good time crushing their competitors.”
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is slated to launch on October 11 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Sequence X/S.
Isaiah Colbert is a contract author for IGN. You’ll be able to comply with them on Twitter @ShinEyeZehUhh.