In conjunction with “Goku Day” today, Bandai Namco announced the brand-new Dragon Ball Super Divers (ドラゴンボールスーパーダイバーズ) digital card-based arcade game currently in development:
The forthcoming game sports three digital touchscreen monitors, as well as a seated area with three large, physical, colored buttons.
The game is set to succeed and ultimately replace the currently-running Super Dragon Ball Heroes franchise, which — taking into consideration its original Dragon Ball Heroes incarnation — has been the mainline card-based arcade game series for thirteen years. Heroes itself took over for previous arcade games, such as Bakuretsu Impact and Dragon Battlers.
While Dragon Ball Super Divers is set to receive all-new card and gameplay mechanics, therefore making all previous Dragon Ball Heroes card incompatible, Bandai Namco producer “Akai” noted in a new video interview with Victory Uchida that they are looking into a “Dragon Ball Heroes Mode” to accommodate the wealth of cards that players have accumulated over the years. Akai explained that even with the “Dragon Ball Heroes” mode gameplay, however, any cards that the machine distributes back to players will be new Super Divers cards.
An official website for the new game has opened at: www.dbsdv.com
More information on the new game will be available at Jump Victory Carnival, which will be held 21 July 2024 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba.
Super Dragon Ball Heroes is an update and hardware revision to the original Dragon Ball Heroes, a card-based arcade game in which players arrange teammates on a playing field for turn-based battles. Dragon Ball Heroes has seen a variety of multimedia spin-offs and support pieces. Yoshitaka Nagayama’s Super Dragon Ball Heroes: Meteor Mission! manga (a follow-up to the previous Dark Demon Realm Mission!, Ultimate Mission!!, Big Bang Mission!!!, and Ultra God Mission!!!! series) currently runs in Shueisha’s monthly Saikyō Jump magazine, while Toyotarō’s Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission ran from 2012-2015 in Shueisha’s monthly V-Jump magazine. Three portable game adaptations — Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission, Ultimate Mission 2, and Ultimate Mission X — were released on the Nintendo 3DS. A fourth home version, Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission, launched on the Nintendo Switch and PC internationally in April 2019.