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Title: Bomberman Land - Hudson Soft Company, Ltd. - Wii
Post by: Azazel on July 17, 2010, 02:42:43 AM
Bomberman Land -  Hudson Soft Company, Ltd. - Wii

First up, let me say that I love Bomberman, and I’ve been a fan and enjoyed it for more than 10 years. Right back to when I used to have friends.

As I’m a fan of the game, I picked this one up as an impulse purchase, because, well, I own a Wii, and Bomberman is awesome. After some time, (more than a year) I’ve finally gotten around to giving it a whirl.

Now at this point, I’m simply going to cut to the chase. This game is a steaming pile of utter shit. Do not buy it, do not rent it. Not, under any circumstances. Here are a couple of reasons why:

1)   It took me over 10 minutes to get control of my character. Sure, I tried “Story Mode” thinking it would be similar to traditional story mode. Or possibly the awesome multiplayer story mode that my wife and I used to play in an arcade version of Bomberman years ago late at night in a dingy Chinatown arcade in the city - Instead, excepting a moment when I got to name my character – ANAL – I was locked in shitty shit shit badly written slow-moving non-skippable cutscenes for a little over 10 minutes. I’m not exaggerating. The only reason I sat through it is because I had bought the stupid game, and it was getting to the point where I already knew I’d never turn it on again.

2)   Once in the game, I wasn’t actually in the game. I was in a lobby area, where I was supposed to talk to idiot NPC bombermen and go do training to buy "TP" to buy new clothes. WTF? I got into the first game, and guess what?

3)   It wasn’t actually Bomberman. It was a ripoff of Pang, only not nearly as well done or fun as Pang. And I liked Pang, too. When I got out, I was again stuck in a cutscene with more fucking Bombermen. At this point I turned the game off.

4)   In desperation to find a redeeming feature, I tried going straight into battle mode this time. It was okay, it was your usual Bomberman battle mode, but with sideways Wiimotes as the controllers, and an unpolished feel to the whole thing, which shouldn’t be considering they’ve been making the same fucking game for 10 or 15 years.

5)   Did I mention at all that despite my Wii being set for widescreen, the game is in 4:3. But not sidebarred, oh no. The game runs in glorious stretch-o-vision on widescreen TVs. Since the definition is so low on the Wii, it’s also presented in jaggy-o-vision.

6)   At this point I turned the game off. Forever.

I have a GC version of Bomberman that I picked up at some stage in the past and never played sitting next to my pile of stuff to look at tonight, but after this piece of rancid shit, I’m scared to fire it up. I can’t believe this was developed by Hudson themselves, since it played like Bomberman as farmed out to some shitty 2-bit dev company.

So in closing. If you want to play Bomberman, avoid this piece of shit shovelware like the plague. Pick up the rather good version of Bomberman off XBLA (or PSN, if it’s available there as well), Or even better, fire up Super Bomberman 1 or 2 on the SNES, which might be jaggy on a big TV, but plays damned well.

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Avoid. At all costs.


PS to Stray - Bomberman isn't supposed to be a shitty game. It's supposed to be filled with win and awesome.  :heartbreak:

edit - I checked it out, and Bomberman Generations on GameCube is much better, and even looks much better.  :awesome_for_real:


Title: Re: Bomberman Land - Hudson Soft Company, Ltd. - Wii
Post by: Rasix on July 18, 2010, 09:46:49 PM
Why are you baiting someone that hasn't posted in 3 months?  And in a BiiF of all places?  :facepalm:


Title: Re: Bomberman Land - Hudson Soft Company, Ltd. - Wii
Post by: Azazel on July 19, 2010, 12:08:23 AM
Why are you baiting someone that hasn't posted in 3 months?  And in a BiiF of all places?  :facepalm:

Not baiting - preempting a somewhat typical reply I tend to get from him having a go at me posting a negative BiiF, and doing it in a non-agressive way, since the point isn't to bait or troll him. I hadn't noticed that he hasn't been posting, anyway.

Feel free to completely misinterpret me, though.  :roll:



Title: Re: Bomberman Land - Hudson Soft Company, Ltd. - Wii
Post by: Rasix on July 19, 2010, 12:12:23 AM
Psycho.


Title: Re: Bomberman Land - Hudson Soft Company, Ltd. - Wii
Post by: Azazel on July 19, 2010, 12:19:13 AM
fuck off with your trolling