This game is just Bomberman '94... but better!
Color me surprised, with the previous Super Bomberman being OK games based on '90 and '93 this one feels like a reimagined version of '94 and '90 combined for the best experience possible. This is also the most cinematical Bomberman game yet with some cutscenes that actually mean stuff and feel like real damn cutscenes! The story is still the same Super Bomberman thing with the five Dastardly Bombers being the Minions of the true bad guy and you need to defeat them on different planets? I can never understand if games are supposed to be coherent from one another, the Bomberman cinematical universe is fucked up.
Gameplay wise it's really similar to '94 with each world having a selectable mission with the same menu, instead of having 4 worlds it has 5 and they all feel perfectly paced, I never felt bored or anything. The Louies came back with supposedly the ability to jump over blocks, I actually never noticed I could do that and I was confused since they did totally different things in '94 and I was like why can't they do anything? do they only serve as an extra hit or something?
As for the multiplayer, they added some extra game mode not present in '94 and entirely switched the roaster of costumes to some of the characters featured in Panic Bomber W which is such a nice reference to see, actually this game might have been released before Bomber W and the reference is actually reverse... Guess we'll never know... I won't check that online for you, go do it.
This is the magnum opus as of 1995 and even though I think '94 is somewhat superior, I think this game being released on the Super Nintendo makes it so that more people can play it compared to the PC Engine being expensive and the game only released in Japan while Super Bomberman 3 was released in Europe and Japan, so to me this game deserve the magnum opus status, but it doesn't make it my personal favorite.
But who knows, maybe Super Bomberman 4 will be even better!
Color me surprised, with the previous Super Bomberman being OK games based on '90 and '93 this one feels like a reimagined version of '94 and '90 combined for the best experience possible. This is also the most cinematical Bomberman game yet with some cutscenes that actually mean stuff and feel like real damn cutscenes! The story is still the same Super Bomberman thing with the five Dastardly Bombers being the Minions of the true bad guy and you need to defeat them on different planets? I can never understand if games are supposed to be coherent from one another, the Bomberman cinematical universe is fucked up.
Gameplay wise it's really similar to '94 with each world having a selectable mission with the same menu, instead of having 4 worlds it has 5 and they all feel perfectly paced, I never felt bored or anything. The Louies came back with supposedly the ability to jump over blocks, I actually never noticed I could do that and I was confused since they did totally different things in '94 and I was like why can't they do anything? do they only serve as an extra hit or something?
As for the multiplayer, they added some extra game mode not present in '94 and entirely switched the roaster of costumes to some of the characters featured in Panic Bomber W which is such a nice reference to see, actually this game might have been released before Bomber W and the reference is actually reverse... Guess we'll never know... I won't check that online for you, go do it.
This is the magnum opus as of 1995 and even though I think '94 is somewhat superior, I think this game being released on the Super Nintendo makes it so that more people can play it compared to the PC Engine being expensive and the game only released in Japan while Super Bomberman 3 was released in Europe and Japan, so to me this game deserve the magnum opus status, but it doesn't make it my personal favorite.
But who knows, maybe Super Bomberman 4 will be even better!