DRAGON BALL: Sparking! Zero - Full Roster Reveal

 

Hello everyone, I'm Jun Furutani, the producer of DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO. Thank you again for all your support! Today, as our final pre-launch announcement, We'd like to talk about two key points: the details of the game modes and the playable characters. First, let's talk about one of the game modes, "Episode Battle.

" In this single player mode, you can take the point of view of eight different characters and enjoy famous battles from the anime.

The story battles follow Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Piccolo, Future Trunks, Frieza, Goku Black, and Jiren. The number of battles varies for each character. Jiren, for example, is a character who appeared in the Tournament of Power in Dragon Ball Super, and thus his episodes are limited to fights in the Tournament of Power. On the other hand, Goku, who has the most volume, begins with his battle against Raditz in Dragon Ball Z and extends through the Tournament of Power Saga in Dragon Ball Super.

Besides the battles following the original scenario, we also encourage you to look for all the different routes and hidden scenes on certain stages to immerse yourself in the arcs of each character.

Next, let me explain about the "Custom Battle" mode as well. In this mode, players can create their original scenes, play, and share their creations. In Custom Battle, battles generally start with cutscenes that depict conversations and situations between characters. They consist of the battle title, the battle itself, and post-battle cutscenes.

In the Bonus Battles section of the Custom Battle mode, we have prepared over 30 battles with various original situations and victory conditions. Some of these battles include special gimmicks and are highly challenging, so if you are confident in your skills, please give them a try. On the other hand, Edit Mode allows you to freely set up original battles by customizing playable characters, pre- and post-battle cutscenes as well as events that occur during the battle. Let me dive deeper into creating cutscenes and setting events during battles.

For cutscenes, you can create and connect up to five cuts both before and after the battle.

Post-battle cuts can be set to vary depending on the outcome so if you want to prepare special endings, please make use of this feature. As for the settings within a single cut, you can set the character’s position, pose, expression, and effects. You can also set subtitles for the speaker, camera work, background music (BGM), and screen effects such as monochrome or sepia.

All of these settings are selectable. For subtitles, although voices are not included, over 5,000 base texts are available, and some texts allow you to replace nouns with others.

Please combine these to create the situations you envision. Next, let’s talk about events during battles. You can set special rules and conditions for the battle. For example, you can set it so that if your HP drops below 30%, you automatically enter Sparking! mode or if 30 seconds of battle time elapse, the opponent switches to a reserve character.

You can also customize events to happen during the battle such as a cutscene occurring when you defeat an opponent. Depending on the combinations you choose, you can create very complex battle rules or change the victory conditions in real-time. We hope you find these features useful for enhancing your creations. What you've made will be able to be uploaded and viewed online for the whole world to play, so we look forward to seeing the whole variety of battles you've thought up! That concludes the explanation of the game modes.

Finally, we'd like to introduce some new playable characters. First, please take a look at the new character trailer. Here it is! What a surprise! The actual roster is 182!

In addition to characters from Super Saga that were just revealed, Goku (Teen) and even characters from the movies will also be implemented in the main game as playable characters. Since the number of characters is one of the most important elements in this series, we have dedicated effort since the early stages of development in order to implement a significantly larger number of playable characters than in previous entries.

Hope you'll enjoy various battles with this roster, exploring and utilizing each character's unique traits and abilities. Last but not least there is another character that we kept secret until now, the pre-order bonus playable character! The time has come to reveal it!

The playable character is Goku (Mini)! This character comes from the new anime series "Dragon Ball DAIMA" scheduled to air in October 2024 in Japan. Character gameplay will be unveiled at a later date, so please wait for further information. With just three weeks left until release, don't miss it out! On top of the Standard Edition, we offer various options such as the Deluxe Edition and the Ultimate Edition with 3 days early access to the main game.

Please check the details and make sure to pre-order now! Can't wait to release the game soon! We continue to give our full effort so hope to have your continuous support for DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO. Thank You!