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A few character interactions did get smiles out of me though, and it is a little cute that each Bomber has their own individual quirk, as one-note as they are.

The story, told exclusively through 2D cutscenes best described as a cross between Flash vector animation and motion comics, is super forgettable and inconsequential, helped little by writing straight out of a bad Saturday morning cartoon (a villain genuinely says, “Haha, you fools! You’ve walked right into my trap!” at one point) and cheesy voice acting that tows a fine line between endearing and awkward (White Bomber’s voice in particular sounds both ill-fitting and badly delivered). The campaign follows the adventures of the iconic White Bomberman and his seven color-coded siblings, as they scramble to free nearby planets from the forces of an evil emperor and his team, the Five Dastardly Bombers. After completing its main campaign and sinking some time into the multiplayer, though, Super Bomberman R ends up feeling like many launch day titles: adequate in some areas, middling in others, and altogether a bit too brief and simple to be a system seller.

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Indeed, the publisher has even stated that the R in Super Bomberman R stands not just for its titular group of Bomberman Rangers, but as a return or rebirth for Bomberman.Īs someone whose experience with the series was mostly limited to the single player-centric N64 Bomberman games and the addicting 2007 Xbox downloadable entry Bomberman Live, I was nonetheless intrigued to see how the first new game in over half a decade would fare. It isn’t some sort of spinoff party game or drastic reimagining like the infamous Act Zero either, but a back-to-basics, traditional entry that makes sense for the revival of a long-dormant series. Yet, a few months before the Nintendo Switch’s launch, Konami surprised many by revealing a new Bomberman game as a launch title for the system. However, after Hudson was dissolved into Konami, announcements regarding new Bomberman games dried up, and it seemed that the handful of downloadable games released on seventh-generation consoles up to 2010 were destined to be the maze-like action series’ curtain call.

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