-The combat ranges from damn boring to plain annoying, with enemies abusing mechanics like hyper armor, stunlocking and general spamming. The 'skill ceiling' in this game is using the ki barrier to ignore basically any attack, then spam the autocombo or your strongest move. Tracking is weird, camera is weird, the ki blast button is useless and transformations draining your ki as fast as they do in the beginning is damn annoying.
-Exploration is BAD. Only means of transportation that matters is flying, obviously. The controls are actually pretty good when you get used to them, but they're counter-intuitive. And the world is filled with fishing that's as simplistic and boring as it gets, racing that follows suit, stupid purple items to pick up all over the damn place and rocks to shoot at. And that's omitting all the other nonsensical stuff that isn't really any fun, just wastes your time for a bit.
-The floating ki spheres are an insult to the game itself, being both useless and filling the pretty world with visual clutter. They're horrible, I hate them more than anything I've seen in a game in the last year. They killed my family and ate my lunch.
-The main story's pacing isn't half bad, but it has moments where it randomly speeds up too much, sklpping over big moments, and moments where it meanders for wayyy too long.
-The substories are just unfun and uninteresting about 95% of the time. A few cute character moments and gags swallowed by a sea of ming boggling fetch quests and beating up generic robots.
-The progression system is kind of a hassle, requiring unfun levels of grinding just to pad out game time. The level scaling is also pretty horrendous and if you do any amounts of side content, you WILL end up overleveled to oblivion and unable to enjoy the fights properly. So you either only do the main quest at the right difficulty or do all the content, but whoop frieza's bum self before he even finishes monologuing.
-The dlcs are just generally bad value. They're good value now because of big discounts, but at release? Hell no. Average time to beat one while doing side content is like 5 hours at best. And you were supposed to pull out 15 bucks for each. And even then, that's accounting for the extra stupid padding added by resetting your characters every time and making you unlock moves you already had in the base game or in other dlcs (looking at you Daima and End of Z).
All in all, game is pretty damn mid. As a JRPG, it's on the lower tier of things, most systems are surface level. And as a Dragon Ball game, the combat has to be one of the worst systems they've ever pumped out. Still recommend if you're a fan, or if you're trying to become one. It's a complete experience in a lot of ways that are hard to quanitify unless you're big on the franchise, but it IS the game a lot of people dreamt of as kids. Even if it's a flawed mess that kinda pisses you off.
