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Duke Serkol · #19 Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:30 pm

Normally (in cases such as BMan Jetters) that sort of issue is solved by having boss character fight like Bomberman but with an additional special ability which is limited in some way.

SBMan4 for one made them slow to a crawl and lose all bomb up and fire ups temporarily every time their ability was used (unless you previously entered the infamous 5656 code, then you can blast away with Bazooka and Jet Bomber, wohoo!)
Neo Bomberman's handicap was that most abilities utterly sucked. I'm not even kidding. Kotetu's however did not and I hate him with a passion for this.
Jetters allowed you to use the special ability only once (or activate for a limited time) after you dropped a certain number of bombs, thus filling up a special bar.

Usually Bomberman would in fact end up being the character that has no advantage at all. Fortunately for Jetters they gave him a special ability too.

The puny excuses for alternative characters in BMan64:TSA, indeed have no place in a Bomberman game and it is truly hard to imagine what possessed the programmers to use such weirdos when they could simply dig into older games for cool characters (I mean if they were too lazy to make new cool characters or use the ones in TSA giving them Special attacks)
Interestingly most (if not all) of these freaks appear fitting for a fantasy setting, which would have made them more appropriate for Bomberman Wars or World (World is not fantasy, but the battle mode characters are a throw back to its prequel Wars).
...of course for those games Hudson was sensible enough to come up with fantasy style bombermen rather than extremely conventional (although goofy looking) humanoid characters that for some reason happen to drop bombs.

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BHB Soldier

Would his special power be that of being incurably pitiful?
The irony that Hige-Hige soldiers are among the most dangerous characters in the BMan Jetters battle mode does not escape me.

By the way... it's a real shame there's not a Mugen like program to make Bomberman characters battle, isn't it?