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Well, since I ordered it in August, SR decided to send it to me for today, so a big thanks top them, but I know some of you are unsure whether to buy it or not, so I going to give a short overview of what I've played so far.
First of all, the multiplayer rocks, it's the best yet in the bomberman series. Stardard battles is as good as, siimple, pure mate-blasting fun. Perfect. Dodger battle rules as well, you basically have to doge bombs that drop from above. At times it gets hugely hectic and you be running around like, well, someones throwing bombs at you. Reversi battle's very good as well, changing as many floor tiles as you can to your colour in a limited time is great. But my favourite of all is coin battle - simply blast as many blocks and enemies and collect the coins that fly out of them, huge fun, absolutely brilliant. I could have played all of these for hours on end, but a strange craving called 'hunger' stopped. There is one more multiplayer game - revenge battle. Throw bombs at badgers to get better scores. I didn't like this game. Maybe it's because I only played it once and din't know what to do, or maybes it's terrible. When I play it some more I'll give you a verdict.
As you can see, the visuals are sweet. Lovely cel-shaded bombermen and enemies. The landscapes are lush, butr the only problem is the rather annoying camera angles. I think you can change them, but I don't know how yet :-D The musi is very 'happy-happy-platformer' stuff, not too bad I suppose, but the voice overs andd little 'bomberman sayings' are very, very annoying. "Bomb up!" Yes I know. "Kick up" I'll you up somewhere in a minute if you don't shut up! That kinda thing.
Now, finally, story mode. The others ones were decidedly average and got very repetative after a while. 1-player isn't great to say the least. It's good, but there's nothing that really makes you want to keep playing. It's fun to play at times and the mini-games are brilliant, but all in all, it's not too great. 1-player would be on the 7/10 marl if I had to rate it out of 10.
Overall, a great game so far. I'd buy it alone for the multiplayer, or for the 1 and multiplayer, but don't buy it solely for it's story mode.
RiCkOsS
First of all, the multiplayer rocks, it's the best yet in the bomberman series. Stardard battles is as good as, siimple, pure mate-blasting fun. Perfect. Dodger battle rules as well, you basically have to doge bombs that drop from above. At times it gets hugely hectic and you be running around like, well, someones throwing bombs at you. Reversi battle's very good as well, changing as many floor tiles as you can to your colour in a limited time is great. But my favourite of all is coin battle - simply blast as many blocks and enemies and collect the coins that fly out of them, huge fun, absolutely brilliant. I could have played all of these for hours on end, but a strange craving called 'hunger' stopped. There is one more multiplayer game - revenge battle. Throw bombs at badgers to get better scores. I didn't like this game. Maybe it's because I only played it once and din't know what to do, or maybes it's terrible. When I play it some more I'll give you a verdict.
As you can see, the visuals are sweet. Lovely cel-shaded bombermen and enemies. The landscapes are lush, butr the only problem is the rather annoying camera angles. I think you can change them, but I don't know how yet :-D The musi is very 'happy-happy-platformer' stuff, not too bad I suppose, but the voice overs andd little 'bomberman sayings' are very, very annoying. "Bomb up!" Yes I know. "Kick up" I'll you up somewhere in a minute if you don't shut up! That kinda thing.
Now, finally, story mode. The others ones were decidedly average and got very repetative after a while. 1-player isn't great to say the least. It's good, but there's nothing that really makes you want to keep playing. It's fun to play at times and the mini-games are brilliant, but all in all, it's not too great. 1-player would be on the 7/10 marl if I had to rate it out of 10.
Overall, a great game so far. I'd buy it alone for the multiplayer, or for the 1 and multiplayer, but don't buy it solely for it's story mode.
RiCkOsS
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Well, since I ordered it in August, SR decided to send it to me for today, so a big thanks top them, but I know some of you are unsure whether to buy it or not, so I going to give a short overview of what I've played so far.
First of all, the multiplayer rocks, it's the best yet in the bomberman series. Stardard battles is as good as, siimple, pure mate-blasting fun. Perfect. Dodger battle rules as well, you basically have to doge bombs that drop from above. At times it gets hugely hectic and you be running around like, well, someones throwing bombs at you. Reversi battle's very good as well, changing as many floor tiles as you can to your colour in a limited time is great. But my favourite of all is coin battle - simply blast as many blocks and enemies and collect the coins that fly out of them, huge fun, absolutely brilliant. I could have played all of these for hours on end, but a strange craving called 'hunger' stopped. There is one more multiplayer game - revenge battle. Throw bombs at badgers to get better scores. I didn't like this game. Maybe it's because I only played it once and din't know what to do, or maybes it's terrible. When I play it some more I'll give you a verdict.
As you can see, the visuals are sweet. Lovely cel-shaded bombermen and enemies. The landscapes are lush, butr the only problem is the rather annoying camera angles. I think you can change them, but I don't know how yet :-D The musi is very 'happy-happy-platformer' stuff, not too bad I suppose, but the voice overs andd little 'bomberman sayings' are very, very annoying. "Bomb up!" Yes I know. "Kick up" I'll you up somewhere in a minute if you don't shut up! That kinda thing.
Now, finally, story mode. The others ones were decidedly average and got very repetative after a while. 1-player isn't great to say the least. It's good, but there's nothing that really makes you want to keep playing. It's fun to play at times and the mini-games are brilliant, but all in all, it's not too great. 1-player would be on the 7/10 marl if I had to rate it out of 10.
Overall, a great game so far. I'd buy it alone for the multiplayer, or for the 1 and multiplayer, but don't buy it solely for it's story mode.
RiCkOsS
First of all, the multiplayer rocks, it's the best yet in the bomberman series. Stardard battles is as good as, siimple, pure mate-blasting fun. Perfect. Dodger battle rules as well, you basically have to doge bombs that drop from above. At times it gets hugely hectic and you be running around like, well, someones throwing bombs at you. Reversi battle's very good as well, changing as many floor tiles as you can to your colour in a limited time is great. But my favourite of all is coin battle - simply blast as many blocks and enemies and collect the coins that fly out of them, huge fun, absolutely brilliant. I could have played all of these for hours on end, but a strange craving called 'hunger' stopped. There is one more multiplayer game - revenge battle. Throw bombs at badgers to get better scores. I didn't like this game. Maybe it's because I only played it once and din't know what to do, or maybes it's terrible. When I play it some more I'll give you a verdict.
As you can see, the visuals are sweet. Lovely cel-shaded bombermen and enemies. The landscapes are lush, butr the only problem is the rather annoying camera angles. I think you can change them, but I don't know how yet :-D The musi is very 'happy-happy-platformer' stuff, not too bad I suppose, but the voice overs andd little 'bomberman sayings' are very, very annoying. "Bomb up!" Yes I know. "Kick up" I'll you up somewhere in a minute if you don't shut up! That kinda thing.
Now, finally, story mode. The others ones were decidedly average and got very repetative after a while. 1-player isn't great to say the least. It's good, but there's nothing that really makes you want to keep playing. It's fun to play at times and the mini-games are brilliant, but all in all, it's not too great. 1-player would be on the 7/10 marl if I had to rate it out of 10.
Overall, a great game so far. I'd buy it alone for the multiplayer, or for the 1 and multiplayer, but don't buy it solely for it's story mode.
RiCkOsS
I've seen black, white, blue, red and once... I was gold! :-O
I'm proud now :-D
I'm proud now :-D
Well, i've played Bomberman a bit more and found that revenge battle is bad. You move really slowly and there's not much skill involved.
As for story mode, I'm pleasantly surprised. At first, it's pretty bad; the bosses are easy and the levels have no personality, but after you get past the first world, the fun really starts. The levels start to get hardr and the bosses get better. The level design is very poor and can have you tearing your hair out at times, but other than that, it's actually very good, and, it seems, that bomberman is back on track.
If you do get it, don't be put off by the first levels, just wade your wade through them ;-)
As for story mode, I'm pleasantly surprised. At first, it's pretty bad; the bosses are easy and the levels have no personality, but after you get past the first world, the fun really starts. The levels start to get hardr and the bosses get better. The level design is very poor and can have you tearing your hair out at times, but other than that, it's actually very good, and, it seems, that bomberman is back on track.
If you do get it, don't be put off by the first levels, just wade your wade through them ;-)
Finally beat that boss :-)
That boulder mini-game's easy though. Good ol' turbo functions on 3rd party pads ;-)
That boulder mini-game's easy though. Good ol' turbo functions on 3rd party pads ;-)
You haven't heard annoying sound effects until you've played Atomic Bomberman..
Muh, NOTHING is as annoying as Generation :-D
Not sure, haven't played it for a while, been playing 1-Player, very immersive :-)
10 times better than I thought
10 times better than I thought
Hrmm...Now I've rented Mario Party 4 and realised there's no need to buy it, I might just get Bomberman for Crimbo :D
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