Nice price drop considering the RRP was confirmed as £49.99 by Konami.
Since its release in 1985, Bomberman has been a familiar party-battle game for many years. Now, Bomberman is coming back as "SUPER BOMBERMAN R" to Nintendo Switch.
In SUPER BOMBERMAN R, the simple rule remains the same: operate the main character (Bomberman), place bombs, and battle with enemies and rivals, but it's coming back in a modern style with 3D stages and photo-real graphics. You can enjoy battles with rivals from all over the world.
There is "Battle" mode for maximum of 8 players, and single play "Story" mode (cooperative play for 2 players is possible as well) where players clear each stage one by one, with a big volume of 50 stages. Also, there is a new rule where the condition to clear the stage is not just by wiping out all the enemies. This simple but strategic game with new rules and 3D stages is fun for everyone, from children to adults.
Features:
Bomberman is back with the same game system and controllability with a fresh take on a classic title
Photo-real graphics
Bomberman's siblings and well-known enemies are back with rich personality
3D stages with dynamic environments
Battle mode for maximum of 8 players, local connection battles, and online battles
Enriched story with all-star voice actors
Top comments
sweeten16
23 Jan 1718#1
Still £22.84 too much.
MBeeching
23 Jan 1713#2
Does the R stand for rip-off?
oUkTuRkEyIII
23 Jan 178#4
I am a massive Bomberman fan but couldn't justify £43 on a game.
Not voting either way as it does seem like a deal with the heat.
KirstyB87
25 Jan 173#68
Well said. Not that facts will ever change fanboys from having their funny little delusions so you're probably wasting your time. :neutral_face:
Latest comments (75)
noahsdad
25 Jan 17#75
Can see this being one of the most played Switch games because of the online multiplayer. Is probably going to be the best online multiplayer Nintendo game since MK7 and Splatoon. If it turns out to be one of the most played and best multiplayer games in your Switch collection, whatever you paid for it will seem like a bargain?
Chasloyal
25 Jan 171#74
Erm I don't address specific individuals any more, it results in specific individuals going all Bertie Smalls and me getting the consequent crack across my digits with a 12 inch Helix ruler and then being unable to post in here for a set period of time :smirk:
Very tasty, it's Pop Works & Company peanut butter and caramel flavour if you want to try some :stuck_out_tongue:
Chasloyal
25 Jan 171#71
*munching popcorn*
KirstyB87 to Chasloyal
25 Jan 17#72
Tasty! :smile:
MungoSplodge to Chasloyal
25 Jan 172#73
I hope you 2 arent being mean about the most well balanced gaming critic in all of the worlds ever graced by a Nintendo product?!?
He's just posting the views that you are all scared to admit that you believe in secret. Nintendo doesnt want to sell consoles, they want to stay out of the mainstream. In fact for me they are a bit mainstream still, that's why i solely own the Apple Pippen, itself a product from another non mainsteam little company you probably have never heard of.
:smirk:
noahsdad
25 Jan 17#70
Sure well said to them, for not bothering to debate and bypassing points raised, to focus in on some ancient Nintendo price fixing story from 17 years ago - so they totally suck point. Well done. Keep up the good unbalanced Nintendo hating/bashing.
Chasloyal
25 Jan 171#69
Hi Noah, how are you today kid?
Hope you and your old man are well :smirk:
KirstyB87
25 Jan 173#68
Well said. Not that facts will ever change fanboys from having their funny little delusions so you're probably wasting your time. :neutral_face:
noahsdad
25 Jan 171#67
erm okayyyyyyyyyyyy, alrightey thennnnnn. meet you in the next Switch deal thread for more of your great PS4 stories.
callofdute1
24 Jan 17#66
I got ps4 slim white blue v2 controller resi 7 £10 pound Argos voucher £3 quidco. for £229.99 I'm a big jrpg fan looking foward to persona 5 / yakuza 0 . Enjoy Zelda and Mario next Christmas
calvin624
24 Jan 17#65
Didn't see them during my playthrough but it'd be nice if they were.
WelshJester
24 Jan 17#35
Don't know if anyone else has mentioned it, but why does this game have a strange tilted camera angle? It used to be straight in the original games. I only ever had Super Bomberman 2 on the SNES, which was really good at the time.
noahsdad to WelshJester
24 Jan 17#39
Good point and not sure what that is about either. Perhaps it has something to do with the 2D/3D mix? Still has 2D style maps yet with 3D image characters and other features. To be modern it had to have some element of a 3DS appearance, and it looks like there is boss battles too. Would be nice if they had some retro level stuff included for us oldies, but probably won't.
jsty3105 to WelshJester
24 Jan 17#55
Didn't seem too strange to me, but my last one was Super Bomberman Land Touch 2 on the DS.
ZeroRhapsody to WelshJester
24 Jan 17#64
Having watched some gameplay videos, the game doesn't always use the tilted camera angle, and it can play at the same angle that Super Bomberman 2 did. I've yet to figure out if there's an option to change the camera angle or if the camera angle depends on the game mode (such as story mode / battle mode).
hero9989
24 Jan 17#63
This is a shockingly bad price for this game. Doesn't seem to have added much since I played Bomberman on the SNES... Should've been download only at £19.99...
That said... If people are going to pay RRP for this game. It's not a bad saving....
Robot_Rooster
24 Jan 17#62
It is not ancient if I still think the year 2000 is 10 year ago! :smiley:
Domislice
24 Jan 171#61
They're called Louies and were in Bomberman '94 for the Megadrive and Super Bomberman 3 for the SNES. No sign of them in this version. Personally I thought they were a good power up and added a fun dimension to multiplayer.
Plissken82
24 Jan 17#60
shocking price... voted cold
calvin624
24 Jan 171#57
Really not worth it. Don't get me wrong, it's a fun game. I got hands on with it at the London preview event but it just plays and looks like the Sega Megadrive version.
noahsdad to calvin624
24 Jan 17#59
Wasn't that the version that you could get the dinosaur power ups? That was quite a good game :smiley: Are the dinosaurs back then?
noahsdad
24 Jan 171#58
Fair enough re them being implicated in the price fixing with various distributors even though it was a longgggggg time ago. Mud certainly does stick :smiley: Thanks for the link, did not know about that to be honest. Even though this was ages ago, naughty boys Nintendo!
Family gaming was mainstream once upon a time. Now it is the minority gaming. The new mainstream at different points in video gaming history became GTA, generic shooters and the like. That is what the masses were playing. We now live in a world where most families don't even eat meals together, let alone eat at a dinner table. The idea that the norm is families are sitting around a games consoles in large numbers is nice, but it just ain't happening. If you took their phones away, am not even convinced most kids/teenagers could have a conversation.
I acknowledged your fair (if ancient) point about Nintendo price fixing. Maybe you will be kind enough to acknowledge I understand what "mainstream" is perfectly well. If mainstream fits Nintendo, then I am off to play some mainstream sport like croquet and fencing.
Also I don't think you know what mainstream means, the thing Nintendo consoles do right is family and party games which are fun when it is Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros but you cannot get more mainstream than family games....also the less consoles Mario v Sonic at the Olympics is on the better same can be said about the later mario tennis games.
You talk about niche games but every type of gaming device has its share of niche games, Steam has a huge library of it. Sony has it's hipster "thatgamecompany" and I am sure Microsoft have something too.
turnmebackwards
24 Jan 17#54
Will this have much game play single player?
LuciferSAM
24 Jan 17#53
£20 tops written all over this kind of release. Loved Bomberman on the Amiga.. I'd rather still play that version than pay this price.
sweeten16
23 Jan 1718#1
Still £22.84 too much.
Wakinglimb to sweeten16
24 Jan 17#52
Couldn't agree more. So disappointed with the launch line up.
Hpi_matrix
24 Jan 17#51
Brilliant strategy from Konami, simply re-release a popular game and stick the RRP sky high. There's basically no other launch titles apart from Zelda & 1,2 switch so those early adopters are bound to buy this.
Domislice
24 Jan 171#50
I feel Konami have somewhat missed the point with this game, not surprising given that it's Konami. If they'd focused on making it run super smoothly with tight controls and some interesting multiplayer variations, i.e. the important part of Bomberman, there would actually be real interest and at least some justification for a high price. Instead they opted for a demanding isometric 3D style which isn't optimised well and doesn't seem to have any substantive new content.
The £50 RRP is still ridiculous in any case, when you consider there seems to be little more in this game than the 90's versions and there was a Wiiware version in 2008 that effectively did the multiplayer in this game and cost 1000 Wii points (£7). I guess they're hoping custom hats or whatever unlockables there are and online multiplayer will justify the cost to new Switch owners. There aren't many other options at launch.
noahsdad
24 Jan 171#49
Price fixing you say? That would be what the supermarkets do when they all meet in secret and agree to set the exact same prices for key products. Or what the energy suppliers do when they create a high window band of prices.
You seem to be suggesting Nintendo are price fixing with themselves. I don't understand but maybe you can elaborate.
Given Nintendo have no competition in their market segment of kid friendly/family orientated niche genre gaming, I am not sure who they would even price fix with? The other mainstream consoles are not even price fixing with themselves let alone with any non mainstream console that offer a different type of gaming.
Then where are all the generic shooters in mass numbers? Or multiple large amounts of Sports genre games? Hang on it isn't mainstream. You don't get things like Splatoon, Mario Tennis or Mario v Sonic at the Olympics on mainstream consoles.
Robot_Rooster
24 Jan 172#48
Nintendo is a mainstream console...
catbeans
23 Jan 171#33
This probably won't drop as Much as people think, nor will any switch game, due to low competition and the fact its on a cart.
Robot_Rooster to catbeans
24 Jan 17#47
And Nintendo's habit of price fixing.
ST3123
24 Jan 17#46
S/he's just a value for money fan also known as a doesn't like getting ripped off fan :smirk: For many people who have to watch their spending it isn't about mainstream vs niche or shooters vs zelda etc it's about keeping a bit of money in your pocket and feeling like your got a lot for your hard earned, which established "mainstream" consoles, which have benefitted from re-designs and price drops, are always going to be better at providing.....
If Nintendo had kept the Switch down to £199 and sacrificed a bit of their precious console profit margin, then I'm sure he/she and many others would have been far more likely to take the Switch....
pannan
24 Jan 171#42
Giant bomb were saying the performance on this was quite poor with frame rate chugging
mikegrath to pannan
24 Jan 17#45
this is true
Jonj1611
24 Jan 17#44
*Photo-real graphics
Yes I remember seeing that on a Commodore 64 game I'm sure.
otterboxer
24 Jan 17#43
I hear you buddy.
Cherried
24 Jan 17#41
rrp 49.99 lol
danovan123
24 Jan 17#40
I only came on to this to see if everybody else was thinking this is £20 too much , it's like they are trying to remake the snes Mario kart bomberman
noahsdad
24 Jan 17#38
Dear mainstream-console-fan/generic-shooter-fan, you totally shock me there :smiley:
decepticon_shadow
24 Jan 172#37
Love bomberman and was awesome when I had it on the snes. Multiplayer games today just ain't the same as you and 3 mates sitting round a 14 inch TV for 6 hours solid.
noahsdad
23 Jan 17#14
Great to see Bomberman back!! HEAT for what looks like a brilliant game on the nations most exciting and eagerly anticipated console.
Donnellios to noahsdad
23 Jan 17#16
fishing?
otterboxer to noahsdad
23 Jan 17#17
ND what's this nations thing? i'm seeing it every Nintendo post. You balancing out the Switch hate? Omg post back i'm starting to get worried. :confused:
callofdute1 to noahsdad
24 Jan 17#36
£432.84 switch this game/zelda pro controller. ps4 slim resi evil 7 £229.99. I will let you can guess which one I picked.The nation is so excited their credit cards are screaming.
adam0812
23 Jan 171#34
30fps on this is disgraceful frankly.
fishleg
23 Jan 17#32
Cant wait to play this but it will be £20 in a few months I bet.
lucifon
23 Jan 17#31
Well... It's a start. Hopefully others will follow and drop even further. 42 is still pretty crazy for this.
KirstyB87
23 Jan 172#20
"Photo-real graphics"?
Presumably when compared to using a 0.5 megapixel camera from the '90s! :stuck_out_tongue:
otterboxer to KirstyB87
23 Jan 17#21
@Donnellios this, this is fishing.
jsty3105 to KirstyB87
23 Jan 171#30
That line really made me chuckle
blairkpercival
23 Jan 17#29
how about 6.75 on xbox for bomberman live? bet it plays better than this on launch.
Zetec Andy
23 Jan 171#28
£42 for a game I played years ago on the 360 for £7? Hmmmmm.
willyzippy89
23 Jan 171#27
Yeah dude im a BM fan played the snes GBC love it just cant see the £40 price tag "/
xeroax
23 Jan 17#26
Loved Bomberman on the SNES but this seems like a step back, at least the N64 Bomberman tried to do something different, this is just going back to the same old formula. That's not the problem though, the problem is the ludicrous price tag, are they for real?!?!?!? Much better games coming in the next few months for that price.
ChrisIW
23 Jan 17#25
Early adopters may have to resort to paying this as there won't be a lot else to play once they've finished Zelda and gotten fed up milking imaginary cows.
BuzzDuraband
23 Jan 172#24
Just knock it on the head now. Mass Effect Andromeda is out in around 8 weeks, and it's eagerly anticipated by myself, but not at £43.
And don't even give me any of this nations favourite malarkey. £43 for Bomberman. You've got to be having a bubble :smile:
thatfunkysimain
23 Jan 17#23
oh yeeeeaaaaaah! :smirk:
northlondon01
23 Jan 17#22
Good price for the game, and I love Bomberman, but £40 is way too much for me.
otterboxer
23 Jan 17#19
ah, read the message. understood. :smiley:
noahsdad
23 Jan 172#18
Yes, but a little outnumbered. It is like 5 v 100.
willyzippy89
23 Jan 17#12
I understand it has loads of levels but this is an arcade game at best, a shame though as it looks great but should have an arcade price £25-30 TOPS
otterboxer to willyzippy89
23 Jan 171#15
Willyzippy89, Multiplayer Bomberman is one of the best gaming experiences you can have. Snes, Core Grafx (pc engine) the Saturn or any other of the billions of ports, its all good.
otterboxer
23 Jan 171#13
Me thinks the haters were people who always blew themselves up at the start of a battle. :smirk: I've been playing 93, 94, and original (actually have hucard of that one) to death recently and there still cool. Crazy money currently for this though and i Heart bman.
oUkTuRkEyIII
23 Jan 178#4
I am a massive Bomberman fan but couldn't justify £43 on a game.
Not voting either way as it does seem like a deal with the heat.
nekoangel to oUkTuRkEyIII
23 Jan 171#11
Same. Although this is the best reason for me to get a switch so far. I remember the days of link cables bomberman games!
westy90
23 Jan 172#10
Konami!! not having my money
wetbandit
23 Jan 172#9
£25-30 is a reasonable price for this.
abdishah
23 Jan 17#8
will buy when £20
gemvis
23 Jan 172#7
Luv the way it says 33rd since 1983 talk about pointless.
pazuzu17
23 Jan 172#6
The f**k!? I mean, what is this, the (early) 90's? I've enjoyed previous Bomberman"s, but if (for example) Axiom Verge and Shantae can be picked up new for roughly £15 these days, what makes Bomberman a near £50 game?
Ann3xe
23 Jan 171#5
All third party launch games will be peanuts shortly after the launch. Anyone that pays rrp for this has more money than sense!
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Opening post
Since its release in 1985, Bomberman has been a familiar party-battle game for many years. Now, Bomberman is coming back as "SUPER BOMBERMAN R" to Nintendo Switch.
In SUPER BOMBERMAN R, the simple rule remains the same: operate the main character (Bomberman), place bombs, and battle with enemies and rivals, but it's coming back in a modern style with 3D stages and photo-real graphics. You can enjoy battles with rivals from all over the world.
There is "Battle" mode for maximum of 8 players, and single play "Story" mode (cooperative play for 2 players is possible as well) where players clear each stage one by one, with a big volume of 50 stages. Also, there is a new rule where the condition to clear the stage is not just by wiping out all the enemies. This simple but strategic game with new rules and 3D stages is fun for everyone, from children to adults.
Features:
Bomberman is back with the same game system and controllability with a fresh take on a classic title
Photo-real graphics
Bomberman's siblings and well-known enemies are back with rich personality
3D stages with dynamic environments
Battle mode for maximum of 8 players, local connection battles, and online battles
Enriched story with all-star voice actors
Top comments
Not voting either way as it does seem like a deal with the heat.
Latest comments (75)
Very tasty, it's Pop Works & Company peanut butter and caramel flavour if you want to try some :stuck_out_tongue:
I hope you 2 arent being mean about the most well balanced gaming critic in all of the worlds ever graced by a Nintendo product?!?
He's just posting the views that you are all scared to admit that you believe in secret. Nintendo doesnt want to sell consoles, they want to stay out of the mainstream. In fact for me they are a bit mainstream still, that's why i solely own the Apple Pippen, itself a product from another non mainsteam little company you probably have never heard of.
:smirk:
Hope you and your old man are well :smirk:
That said... If people are going to pay RRP for this game. It's not a bad saving....
Family gaming was mainstream once upon a time. Now it is the minority gaming. The new mainstream at different points in video gaming history became GTA, generic shooters and the like. That is what the masses were playing. We now live in a world where most families don't even eat meals together, let alone eat at a dinner table. The idea that the norm is families are sitting around a games consoles in large numbers is nice, but it just ain't happening. If you took their phones away, am not even convinced most kids/teenagers could have a conversation.
I acknowledged your fair (if ancient) point about Nintendo price fixing. Maybe you will be kind enough to acknowledge I understand what "mainstream" is perfectly well. If mainstream fits Nintendo, then I am off to play some mainstream sport like croquet and fencing.
Also I don't think you know what mainstream means, the thing Nintendo consoles do right is family and party games which are fun when it is Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros but you cannot get more mainstream than family games....also the less consoles Mario v Sonic at the Olympics is on the better same can be said about the later mario tennis games.
You talk about niche games but every type of gaming device has its share of niche games, Steam has a huge library of it. Sony has it's hipster "thatgamecompany" and I am sure Microsoft have something too.
The £50 RRP is still ridiculous in any case, when you consider there seems to be little more in this game than the 90's versions and there was a Wiiware version in 2008 that effectively did the multiplayer in this game and cost 1000 Wii points (£7). I guess they're hoping custom hats or whatever unlockables there are and online multiplayer will justify the cost to new Switch owners. There aren't many other options at launch.
You seem to be suggesting Nintendo are price fixing with themselves. I don't understand but maybe you can elaborate.
Given Nintendo have no competition in their market segment of kid friendly/family orientated niche genre gaming, I am not sure who they would even price fix with? The other mainstream consoles are not even price fixing with themselves let alone with any non mainstream console that offer a different type of gaming.
Then where are all the generic shooters in mass numbers? Or multiple large amounts of Sports genre games? Hang on it isn't mainstream. You don't get things like Splatoon, Mario Tennis or Mario v Sonic at the Olympics on mainstream consoles.
If Nintendo had kept the Switch down to £199 and sacrificed a bit of their precious console profit margin, then I'm sure he/she and many others would have been far more likely to take the Switch....
Yes I remember seeing that on a Commodore 64 game I'm sure.
Presumably when compared to using a 0.5 megapixel camera from the '90s! :stuck_out_tongue:
And don't even give me any of this nations favourite malarkey. £43 for Bomberman. You've got to be having a bubble :smile:
Not voting either way as it does seem like a deal with the heat.