It doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it still managed to be mostly what I wanted from a Bomberman game, so maybe it didn’t have to. BOOM.Īnd that’s perhaps the thing about Super Bomberman R: The core concept of Bomberman - no doubt partially fueled by nostalgia - is still solid enough that it has the potential to excuse of lot of other areas where it isn’t a shining paragon of gamedom.
The single player isn’t quite as hectic as multiplayer battles can get, but it still feels good to trap enemies in a corner with a bomb.
It doesn’t overcomplicate it, for the most part. I liked how the power-ups you get carry through each level within a world, so you are essentially slowly building a beefed up version of Bomberman before you reach each boss. But pretty much the task is to move through Bomberman-esque mazes and blow stuff up with your bombs as you avoid and kill enemies and collect power ups. Most of the levels were pretty standard “Destroy all the enemies to proceed” fare, with a few other tasks - navigating people to the goal, hitting all the hidden switches - thrown in the mix. Each planet has its own boss, and the game ultimately culminates with an end-game final boss area. It goes through five planets, each split up into different levels. The story mode can be played with one player or in two player co-op. The comic-stylized and fully voice acted cut scenes are reminiscent of kitschy Saturday morning cartoons, in both good and bad ways. It’s Bomberman, and if you like Bomberman, then on some levels, that might be enough.įirst off, the mode that does function: Super Bomberman R includes a story mode, which follows the Bomberman brothers (there’s a whole bunch of them, apparently!) in an effort to stop the Five Dastardly Bombers who have been revived by Emperor Buggler. That’s not to say that there’s a whole lot to Super Bomberman R. For some, that may be a deterrent, but here’s the rub: a large portion of the game is nearly unplayable. Initial impressions from reviewers last week, however, painted a different story, focusing on the $50 price point of the game. And at the Switch reveal event in January, Super Bomberman R was one of the titles I was most excited about. It’s been some time since the bomb-dropping character has had a console release, with Konami reviving him for Super Bomberman R, one of the launch games for the Nintendo Switch.
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