We’ve got red hot information!

North American version of BOMBERMAN Act: Zero will be released on Aug. 29^th.

 

The Japanese version will be released on Aug. 3^rd, so that we can play against people overseas within a month.

We truly appreciate the parties involved to release it quickly.

 

As for my own personal feeling…

I always felt kind of embarrassed to do voice-chat when I play other 360 games, but I was not embarrassed after playing the game yesterday even if I do not understand English.

So I would like to use voice-chat as much as possible when I have the setting to do so.

 

(Actually, I guess it would be hard to make maxing out the score if I wouldn’t start earning score before the North American ver. release date.

We have updated battle footage.

Click [play] to see it on Media Player. (The data is a little bit big)

 

As I’m watching it… I was losing in most of the scenes but I think it’s just my imagination!

(Like I was stuck in a dead-end, humiliatingly…)

 

Please click below to see a new trailer which we have just updated.

 

We are announcing that we have played BOMBERMAN Act:Zero with EGM Magazine (Electronic Gaming Monthly) editors from 8:30 to 9:30 this morning!

 

I didn’t expect that my dream of battling against overseas players would come true so soon…

 

The members are 3 development staffs in Japan side including myself, and 3 in America, 6 players in all.

It was pretty exciting in spite of the language barrier and that it was our first overseas match up.

 

They were of course speaking in English through voice-chat.

In the beginning, all I could say was “Hello, nice to meet you” because of my poor English.

But since the battle started I heard..

 

“Bomberman!”

 

“Treasure, Treasure!”

 

“Oh, nooo!”

 

“Good job!”

 

“Nice game!” etc…

 

I also heard someone singing “Bom, bombom, bombermaaaan!!”

 

I said “Good job!”, “Nice game!” and some new words I learned from them. Really exciting!

 

The American team especially kept yelling so much when they won the game and it even hurt my ear sometimes.

Needless to say, it’s always happy and a joy to win a battle game.

 

When we were going to play Standard mode after the FPB battle, one of them said “Could we play by classic style rules?” in Japanese.

 

I thought my poor English adequate but actually they knew some Japanese…

 

As for the total score, mine was quite good.

(I made +3,000 for the battle score but it was not counted officially because it has not been released yet.)

 

We will update this battle footage soon!

(It was recorded and edited by my side)

 

Since we shot the video while we were actually playing, you can get a better picture of the battle game than what you could get from the trailer!