Lots of great games are discounted for Black Friday, but Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero might be this year's can't-miss deal.

As mentioned before, Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero is on sale at Walmart, Amazon, GameStop, and Best Buy for around $49.99. If explosive fighting sequences and Akira Toriyama’s iconic designs are up your alley, you may want to get on those deals before they go away.

Sparking Zero may be a hit, but its recent eSports tournament is drawing a tidal wave of negative publicity from players and spectators.

Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is not a competitive fighting game by design. Its colossal character roster is purposefully unbalanced, its mechanics are abusable at almost any level, and many of its underlying systems are built for spectacle instead of technical depth.

Sparking Zero delivers a ton of what fans have wanted from a DBZ fighting game, including a humongous cast of characters. There are 180-plus fighters to choose from and nearly half need to be unlocked.

Sparking Zero is the best-selling game in the series, and the third best-selling Bandai Namco game behind Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3.

Sparking Zero players who quit or disconnect from matches early face new penalties enacted by developer Spike Chunsoft.

"After just one month in market, Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero became the best-selling Dragon Ball game in U.S. lifetime dollar sales," Piscatella writes. Even more insane, Sparking! Zero is now third in Bandai Namco's all-time US dollar sales rankings, trailing only Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3. That's a flabbergasting result for the publisher.

From perfecting Z Counters to unleashing seamless transformations, these tips will turn you into the ultimate Z Fighter in Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero.