Unlike most previous games, in which the maximum number of players was 4, you can play with up to 8 people here: as in 5-player TurboGrafx-16 games on the Virtual Console, this is done by using 4 Wii remotes and connecting 4 GameCube controllers. The blocks between intersections cannot be destroyed – every other block can, and, aside from clearing a path, will possibly reveal a power-up. Your objective is to clear a way through the blocks using bombs, eventually finding your way to opponents and blowing them up to defeat them. If you’ve ever played a Bomberman battle mode, you know what to expect: there’s a big grid-like arena filled with blocks. Lucky Japanese gamers will still get the full blown version, it seems. Sadly, the retail game fell through for Europe and North America, which means that you can only get the battle mode portion of the game on WiiWare. They also planned to release the battle mode separately on WiiWare, for those who were not interested in the story mode (WiiWare game owners would also be able to play against owners of the retail game). Featuring a completely new story mode, much like the older games, plus an 8-player online battle mode, it looked as if Hudson was trying to please the older fans. But with this WiiWare title, he’s most definitely gone back to his roots.īomberman Blast was originally going to be a retail game.

Almost every single Bomberman game features the exact same goal: grab power-ups, avoid the blasts of your opponents' (and your own!) bombs and then blow them up! While some early games expanded on this, for example by including a story mode, only recently has Bomberman strayed away from bomb-laying madness, with largely superfluous mini game collections on the Wii and DS.

Of all well-known videogame characters, Bomberman has got to be the one who has stayed the closest to his roots.

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