Wish I didn't feel totally bitter about how the 'R' games are handled - the one-dimensional kid-proofed characters, the stock 3d look that clashes with the otherwise great 2d art, the continued lack of content variety that all the 5th and 6th gen games had, the weird e-sportsy vibe despite being a PARTY game, and abysmally unfinished story modes.
And goddamn that story mode, we're talking a game that's not even undercooked - they never started cooking at ALL. They go for a weird BOTW/Frontiers-esque content structure with open areas and skrunkos to collect, and mix it up with these tower defense sections. But there's no level design! At all!! Just endless roads of blocks to destroy and a few cannons!!! When you do the tower defense missions on the attacker's side, they all end in 20 seconds! And the AI in the defender's side missions literally cannot put up a fight! I cheesed through the entire game by putting conveyor belts in front of destructible blocks, and not once did the AI think to stand 1 tile lower and lay a bomb. This is internal mockup levels of un-done.
And they do a boss rush in a game with only 3 non-final bosses!! The only saving grace is the villain of all things, who's one of the only villains in a kid's game i can think of whose master plan is to kill himself?????
Bomberman was up there with Sonic and Mega Man as my favorite franchises in childhood. Sonic's been in a rough state for a while but the projects are ambitious often enough for gems to come out now and then - Mania, Frontiers and the racing trilogy are all winners in my book. Mega Man is dead again after being resurrected once (11 was FIVE years ago now????), but at least Capcom is doing due diligence with all these high-polished collections and a fairly respected gacha. Bomberman can't even get oil in the pan, man, they breathed life back into this series with a fucking porn game, these 2 console titles pale in comparison to the old stuff, they axed their battle royale into a side mode when it made zero money, and they don't even have the decency to re-release the older titles. Is a Hero port too big of an ask? Can even one of the 16-bit games appear on NSO??
I'm glad the series is back in any form at all, but I feel so bitter these projects can't get as much budget behind them as those GameCube games did. When it comes to disappointing, Konami never disappoints.
And goddamn that story mode, we're talking a game that's not even undercooked - they never started cooking at ALL. They go for a weird BOTW/Frontiers-esque content structure with open areas and skrunkos to collect, and mix it up with these tower defense sections. But there's no level design! At all!! Just endless roads of blocks to destroy and a few cannons!!! When you do the tower defense missions on the attacker's side, they all end in 20 seconds! And the AI in the defender's side missions literally cannot put up a fight! I cheesed through the entire game by putting conveyor belts in front of destructible blocks, and not once did the AI think to stand 1 tile lower and lay a bomb. This is internal mockup levels of un-done.
And they do a boss rush in a game with only 3 non-final bosses!! The only saving grace is the villain of all things, who's one of the only villains in a kid's game i can think of whose master plan is to kill himself?????
Bomberman was up there with Sonic and Mega Man as my favorite franchises in childhood. Sonic's been in a rough state for a while but the projects are ambitious often enough for gems to come out now and then - Mania, Frontiers and the racing trilogy are all winners in my book. Mega Man is dead again after being resurrected once (11 was FIVE years ago now????), but at least Capcom is doing due diligence with all these high-polished collections and a fairly respected gacha. Bomberman can't even get oil in the pan, man, they breathed life back into this series with a fucking porn game, these 2 console titles pale in comparison to the old stuff, they axed their battle royale into a side mode when it made zero money, and they don't even have the decency to re-release the older titles. Is a Hero port too big of an ask? Can even one of the 16-bit games appear on NSO??
I'm glad the series is back in any form at all, but I feel so bitter these projects can't get as much budget behind them as those GameCube games did. When it comes to disappointing, Konami never disappoints.
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i am currently fucking them gently
N64 and Gamecube bomberman fans rise up.
But uh, am I out of the loop? A bomberman porn game?
But uh, am I out of the loop? A bomberman porn game?
@poefred bombergirl, weird ecchi strip game thing, no idea if the cabs for it are still alive
And ye I gotta replay generation now, been too long since I've gotten to savor the kinocity
Vee
6 months ago