One of the coolest features in Bandai Namco’s new Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero is an all new level of player influence on Dragon Ball story lines. Yes, you get to relive the iconic moments and intense battles we all know and love, but you can also change certain outcomes and switch up the narrative to sometimes surprising degrees.
Woven into this customization potential are secret story paths that can only be accessed if players meet particular criteria during certain fights. One such secret path that has many players scratching their heads trying to find involves The Ginyu Force’s Jeice and Burter, and IGN has a quick informative video to show you how to find it.
During Goku’s clash on Namek with the Ginyu Force, you’ll eventually be involved in a duel with both Jeice and Burter. While this was traditionally a two on one in the anime, Sparking Zero breaks it into two distinct fights, the first of which is against Jeice.
If you simply defeat the weaker Ginyu warrior, he’ll proceed to tag in Burter and the story will progress in its usual way. If you deflect one of Jeice’s Crusher Ball special projectiles back at him, you’ll surprise him to the point that he’s no longer confident in continuing the battle.
To do this, build up two stacks of Skill Gauge and wait for your opponent to hurl a Crusher Ball in your direction. Simply hold the deflect button (Circle for PlayStation, B on Xbox) and you’ll meet the necessary criteria to check out the hidden story path.
Interestingly enough, if you navigate to the mission’s objectives page “Defeat Jeice without deflecting a Crusher Ball” is an alternate objective, which seems to be something of an anti-hint in terms of direction players to the secret.
In any case, depending on how you finish the bout, you’ll get different following scenes. In the source material Goku ends this fight without much issue and somewhat memorably poses with Burter’s beaten body hoisted above his head with one arm. You can get this image or an alternate one with Jeice in his place if you don’t perform the reflect.
Check out IGN’s full instructional video below and let us know how much fun you’re having with Sparking Zero in the comments section.