The game features four Zones, each with one of the Four Commanders ruling over them. The ultimate goal is to defeat the Commander of each zone - doing so will open up the next Zone. Defeating a Commander restores an engine to Bomberman's shuttle; once all four are restored, he can return to space, but you won't get the best ending if you haven't recaptured all the enemies.

Rather than scrolling maps, Bomberman Quest has static maps, meaning a screen can only host one enemy. In theory, this allows enemies to have more involving battle strategies, but a lot of them are still fairly simple. Along the way Bomberman can collect items, either from enemies or by other means. Some items are essential to defeating certain enemies or exploring new areas, while some are merely for variety. Items range from weapons and tools (Bomberman can equip two at once), armour (only one can be worn at a time), bomb components (fuse a Flame to a bomb to increase its flame length, or fuse another item to an Explosive Core to create a new bomb), and one-time-use items (health refills, for instance).

There is also a 2-player Battle mode available, wherein both players choose items from their own save file and duel.

Unused materials

Two unused mugshots for Bomberman, one of which is the same as the final but with the addition of shading. Given the small size of it and the complications of given a sprite more than three or four colours, they probably used the final one simply because it wouldn't look ugly. Good choice.

Pump only appears as a bizarre character bouncing on top of your shuttle when the game is finished, though it looks like you were meant to fight her as well at one point. She has no mugshot, however, so clearly the plans didn't get that far.

This frame of Hurricommander appears for a split second as the fight begins, before he floats into the air. That's kind of like being unused, right?

Also not unused, but duplicates of Mami, Reuishia and Deral's front-facing sprites are found amongst those of the people in Peace Town, implying they were appear there at some point, presumably after you had beaten them.

Regional changes

The Japanese version, in traditional RPG manner, has text spelt out slowly and can only be sped up by holding the A Button. The English release scraps that and just has it appear all at once.

The Japanese version uses text prominently on the pause menu buttons with the imagery only as a highlight, but the English version made it all picture driven.

The European version includes French and German translations that use new uppercase fonts (only the movie scenes such as the intro and ending use lowercase).

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