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Plasma Bomber · #310 Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2015 5:53 pm

The battle stage that starts with all items in the middle already sort of exists in the form of the piñata stage (honestly, that seems a little more balanced anyway, since otherwise one person can easily grab almost everything). I could almost swear that type of stage has appeared in another game before Bomberman Blast, but all I can remember exactly is the stage in Super Bomberman 1 that has all the items lining the outer walls.

I feel that the no-hard-blocks stages are rather obtuse and a little silly. Since Bomberman games are designed with a grid in mind, there's no way to move diagonally and so the controls feel kind of awkward. It also makes it harder to strategize... at all, really, aside from dropping lots of bombs and trying to overpower the other players or trap them in one of the four corners. Then there's the whole "why are the bombs still exploding in + shapes" thing, but that's more of an aesthetic thing... I suppose I have the same complaint about some other titles.

Regarding the battle themes, I guess it's just that... With the first one, why is there even barking and meowing involved? It sounds like something I would have done when composing a terrible MIDI as a kid. Maybe that's what the composer was meaning to evoke, but if so, it still sounds random in its arrangement and unappealing for how bizarrely unfitting it feels.

The other two certainly do have that "Bomberman Land" sound to them, so the instrumentation doesn't sound off. As for the arrangements, the second one just doesn't seem like an action-based battle theme to me. More like a cinematic sequence or menu or puzzle game music, I don't know. The third one is really the best of the three, but both of them are pretty repetitive. Like, the third song: it's only 48 seconds long, but that's not really the problem because most old video game music was also pretty short... There's just something about it that feels stagnant and lazy. The arrangements aren't bad at all, when taken apart into individual verses, it's just the lack of variation that makes the songs suffer... at least to me.

These are all just personal opinions. Maybe I'm being too harsh on it, I don't know.