Final traditional bomberman game that still had a good chunk of members from the original team if you don't count party edition which is some sort of remake of 1. Personally I think its a pretty good entry, the levels are creative and challenging, with plenty of interesting enemies with good AI and using quite well the new isometric perspective, plus the bosses are challenging and fun too. This also counts for the battle mode, which has some nice gimmick stages and seems to be themed after the japanese only bomberman wars. The main problem is that it feels too short, only 5 planets, each with 5 stages, but two of these are bosses, so technically you only get 3 normal stages for world.

Also I don't get why some reviews act like this bomberman is particularly grindy or hard, plenty of bomberman games on both pcen and snes are both harder and more grindy, including the final bosses.