This game is just Bomberman '90 but with a different coat of paint!
I can't really find a middle ground for this game, on one side it's literally just Bomberman '90 but with a really nice overall in the look department but that's all it really is, no new game mode or anything it's literally just the same game.
Guess I'll go over the major change in this game and to my surprise it's in the single-player mode which is never what most people think about when they think Bomberman. The main difference is the story setup which feels a whole lot like a Megaman game beating up baddies as a final boss for each world.
The gameplay feels the exact same as '90 with the only notable addition being the bomb slide powerup letting you kick the bombs in the direction you please, it's a decent powerup that did come useful for certain specific situations and I hope they keep it for the future installments of the franchise. As I've said before, this game received a massive upgrade in the visual making the stages a lot nicer to look at with cool details on the sides of the screen. They also added quite a few enemies to the list featuring the obvious old ones, the new ones often come with a gimmick like requiring two hits to die or very basic stuff like that, and honestly, it's a nice addition and they are way fairer than the terribly unfair enemies in Bomberman (Arcade) from '91.
But you know what isn't fair? This game! The final two worlds will break your balls it's no longer fucking around, but honestly, the stages are the least painful part, the newly added bosses are the big pain in the ass ruining the newly crafted single-player. So instead of being like how '90 did it with a fairly weak but fair boss, they went in a more creative way with a totally original boss for each world in the style of a platformer game and honestly it would've been cool if they weren't so unfair! Like c'mon this isn't an arcade game you don't have to waste my time with really tedious bosses you don't gain anything from it! It really feels like they have forgotten that Bomberman dies in one hit, sure the boss doesn't have a huge chunk of health but either way, it still means that one mistake will totally fuck you over.
And fuck the final boss it's really, really bad.
Thankfully this game still lets you save and load files as many times as you wish and the online is pretty much the same as it was before, I noticed some of the maps available were actually taken from Bomberman '91 arcade by Irem so it's a bit weird seeing them here.
As much as I'd like to say that this game is an upgrade from Bomberman '90 I think that I still prefer the more primitive yet funner singleplayer from '90 than the weak new features from '93 and especially with how they took two years to pretty much add nothing to the formula of the previous game.
So yes I do think Bomberman '93 is a decent Bomberman experience, but it has yet to top '90.
I can't really find a middle ground for this game, on one side it's literally just Bomberman '90 but with a really nice overall in the look department but that's all it really is, no new game mode or anything it's literally just the same game.
Guess I'll go over the major change in this game and to my surprise it's in the single-player mode which is never what most people think about when they think Bomberman. The main difference is the story setup which feels a whole lot like a Megaman game beating up baddies as a final boss for each world.
The gameplay feels the exact same as '90 with the only notable addition being the bomb slide powerup letting you kick the bombs in the direction you please, it's a decent powerup that did come useful for certain specific situations and I hope they keep it for the future installments of the franchise. As I've said before, this game received a massive upgrade in the visual making the stages a lot nicer to look at with cool details on the sides of the screen. They also added quite a few enemies to the list featuring the obvious old ones, the new ones often come with a gimmick like requiring two hits to die or very basic stuff like that, and honestly, it's a nice addition and they are way fairer than the terribly unfair enemies in Bomberman (Arcade) from '91.
But you know what isn't fair? This game! The final two worlds will break your balls it's no longer fucking around, but honestly, the stages are the least painful part, the newly added bosses are the big pain in the ass ruining the newly crafted single-player. So instead of being like how '90 did it with a fairly weak but fair boss, they went in a more creative way with a totally original boss for each world in the style of a platformer game and honestly it would've been cool if they weren't so unfair! Like c'mon this isn't an arcade game you don't have to waste my time with really tedious bosses you don't gain anything from it! It really feels like they have forgotten that Bomberman dies in one hit, sure the boss doesn't have a huge chunk of health but either way, it still means that one mistake will totally fuck you over.
And fuck the final boss it's really, really bad.
Thankfully this game still lets you save and load files as many times as you wish and the online is pretty much the same as it was before, I noticed some of the maps available were actually taken from Bomberman '91 arcade by Irem so it's a bit weird seeing them here.
As much as I'd like to say that this game is an upgrade from Bomberman '90 I think that I still prefer the more primitive yet funner singleplayer from '90 than the weak new features from '93 and especially with how they took two years to pretty much add nothing to the formula of the previous game.
So yes I do think Bomberman '93 is a decent Bomberman experience, but it has yet to top '90.