For starters let's talk about the story. This series features all the same cast we've seen in other iterations: Cheerful White, Cool Back, Cute Pink and Team Gold. Basically everyone decides they want to go to Bomberman Land so they all hop aboard a plane and off they go. During some antics on the plane, the pilot (Pink's butler Charlie) is knocked unconscious and the plane crashes into Bomberman Land!

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Are they serious?! The game literally begins with a plane crash and everyone on the island has amnesia! What a horrible idea for the plot to a party game! As a result of the crash, not only is everyone suffering from memory loss but apparently most the island was destroyed/vanished somehow. It's all nonsense just to feed the reasoning why you're even there.

So the next thing is this weird little Bomber guy with the cowboy hat. Apparently this is Mini Bomber and he's your new partner! White Bomber is silent the entire game so this guy fills the role of not only the dialogue but also the comedy. He constantly makes sassy comments and complains, showing a bit of a temper. Sounds about right for most games of this nature.

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Now this brings me to a big point here. Nearly all of the dialogue in this game is useless, and I'm talking completely useless. Every attendant you talk to that operates the minigames has amnesia and speaks jibberish, often in their own little world. The rules they explain are the only valuable things to be noted.

This game has 150 "pieces" or items that must be collected to unlock more minigames and areas. Outside of playing these games, you must talk to strangers and perform random tasks to convince them to give you other pieces. This has resulted in some of the weirdest, most pointless cutscenes of all time in a video game. Below are some GIFs that show dialogue trees where you must embrace silly/random conversation just to progress the game.

Feel free to take a few minutes and look these over.

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I saved the best for last. At two different points in the game, White and Mini Bomber have discussions about the restrooms. This happens twice in the game! It's funny yes but so uncharacteristic of a Bomberman game.

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Well that's an all time low...

Anyway, once you get far into this game you meet the antagonist: Dark Bomber. Apparently they're some kind of bee?

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I don't really get it either. Before you get to challenge this guy to a minigame, you must first defeat all of his cohorts. In order we have Dark Witch, Dark Piece, Dark Doll, and Dark Rose. All the names make sense except for Piece. I really don't understand what they mean by that.

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Supposedly they are the evil doers behind everything that happened and beating them triggers an ending that's about as you would expect. What's weird is, there's still an entire post game to complete that allows you to collect the remaining pieces. Before it lets you do that, there's a final cutscene where it reveals the Director of the park was to blame for all these antics.

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It never fully explains what happened but from what I gathered, the Director had some kind of device that was intended to improve Bomberman Land. When the plane landed on it, it destroyed it and caused the areas to disappear but Dark Bomber took the blame for it. Weird they tried to put a plot twist into such a weak story.

Well that's the majority of things to say. The dialogue is long and boring, the story is pointless. All that's left to comment on is the minigames which are a bit weird at times. Here's a few GIFs that shows off some of the more humorous ones.

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Bomberman is driving a semi-truck, playing with bubble wrap and pulling on toilet paper; among other things. I should note in the final one where he is slamming into other cars while driving a tank, you can sound your horn and if you do it incessantly, the game stops your car and scolds you. How bizarre.

One notable feature is the Attractions Challenge, where you must play all the minigames in a big o' gauntlet! The game does let you save your progress after every 10 minigames but considering there's about 50, it'll be tough to overcome it. Once you clear it, you do earn a nice crown.



In order to access this challenge, you'll probably need close to 140 pieces. Now you would imagine something awesome happening when get all 150 right? I mean, you beat the game and went the extra mile to achieve everything you can in this game. Beating the Attractions Challenge makes sense but getting all 150 must be something cool like a new mini-game.



.....is this real life? Not only do I get nothing, but that lame ass Director emails me and literally tells me I get nothing. Out of all the dialogue ridden moments I endured in this game, they can't even give me something special. No cutscene? No secret minigame? No new hat?