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Well what can you say.. This game is Super! Very addictive. Some people will have a moan about the graphics, i think they are simple but great.. some people will moan about the `now loading`, its not as long as some games..and well worth the SHORT wait!
All in all this game very playable. (great after a drink with a frw friends.. hehehe)
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating: Date Reviewed: 25Mar2004 | | | Like most PS2 owners I have an area set aside for `blockbuster` titles such as Tekken Tag Tournament, Gran Turismo 3, Grand Theft Auto III, Smugglers Run, Time Crisis 2 -- you name it, its gathering dust somewhere on my shelf. But these games are ultimately too complex to entertain a room of different people with broadly different tastes, and any title with cars or guns or blood is automatically going to put off the girls.
So if theres one game in my PS2 library I would choose to occupy any number of people from the age of eight upwards, Super Bust A Move is it. Its so utterly simple that a child could play it, yet it contains so many different tactics and variations that someone much older will spend hours trying to master it (depending on which character you choose, multiplayer games change slightly in their strategy).
Reviews werent especially kind, as along with Bomberman, Bust A Move (aka Puzzle Bobble) has to be one of the very oldest franchises in videogame history, and this version doesnt really offer PS2 owners much if theyve played before. But then, its the only game of its kind available for the platform, and it was never going to be that revolutionary anyway.
If it aint broke, dont fix it. Buy it.
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating: Date Reviewed: 05Aug2002 | | | If youre unfamiliar with Bust a Move, the game is very simple to play. You have a screen with different colour bubbles placed all over the screen. Use your launcher to place three bubbles or more of the same colour bubble in any direction, and they pop to disappear. If you pop more than three bubbles, or pop a chain with hanging bubbles, which drops the bubbles and clears more room, you get a better score. Each level in the game takes typically three minutes or less to complete, but once you get the hang of it, you just want to keep playing.
The graphics havent changed much since Bust a Move 2. While the whole series has never intended to be some eye candy, the cutesy factor is through the roof in Super Bust a Move. While youre playing youll be treated to different colourful graphics that can be distracting. Its probably the main reason why in the manual they put in a warning about epileptic seizures.
When you begin to play, there are three selections, 1P Puzzle, CPU Battle & 2P Battle. If you select 1P Puzzle mode, you have 3 selections: training, normal or classic. In normal mode, you play the game with all the new items, as with classic mode you play the game just like in Bust a Move 1. In 1P Puzzle, there is no story mode like in past Bust a Move games. They just use the alphabet war that was used in Bust a Move 2, as you choice a different letter, try to complete 5 different rounds, then move up the game in a pyramid scheme, where you can choice different branches. During the course of the game, you can select different characters to move your launcher after you complete each letter, although none of the characters have any special attributes to help you during the course of puzzle mode. During the game, each character has a tiny animation that they do if you pop an important bubble in the level, or come close to dying. In Puzzle Mode, it uses the same formula like in Bust a Move 4 with 4 small playing field rounds, then 1 large field in the end of the level.
One major gripe in 1P puzzle is that there is no `save in-progress` mode, as you must complete all the puzzles that you must endure, which is usually about 50 puzzles. The manual mentions about an auto-save mode that saves the game at key points of game play, this doesnt seem to include 1P puzzle mode. While this takes about an hour or two to complete, with the last ones being insanely difficult to complete, when the mind goes through a mental meltdown, and needs a break, one needs some save function put into be place in the game. In Bust a Move 4, you could save the game after 5 levels, which why it surprises me this features was mysteriously excluded. You do have indefinite continues so can play to your hearts content.
Two new changes put into the Bust a Move launcher is a way to use the left & right buttons to shoot more accurate shots. In the past you could only use your control pad, and would leave room for error as it would move the launcher too far when you need to make perfect shots in tight corners, and would get tedious to try to make the prefect shots. Depending on the level, the bubbles are also extremely tiny so can squeeze your shots in to tight places.
Taito has added more spice to the series. In the game there are special bubbles that do certain actions, like a star bubble that removes all the same colour bubbles depending on the colour that touches it. In Super Bust a Move, they have changed certain levels that they affect the playing field, like a conveyor belt that changes the direction of the bubble when hit off the wall. If you put enough time into the game, you have the ability to unlock secret characters and play in more challenging game modes.
If youd rather duke it out, the battle mode lets you play in a split screen mode against your opponent. When you start, you can choice different characters. In CPU Battle mode, your opponents have different attack styles. When playing in battle mode, each time you make a combination of 4 or more bubbles, different random colour bubbles go to the other side of your opponents screen. The objective is to try to burst your bubbles the quickest and its best when you pop or remove a large amount of bubbles. It quickly becomes a pop feast thats a joy to play with friends.
No game is perfect, and some noticeable flaws were found with Super Bust a Move. One major flaw was there was no way to change the variable difficulty. When you start playing, youre expected to be a Bust a Move expert in order to progress in puzzle mode. This product seems to be created for the fans that are returning to the series, not for newcomers. When a game has cutesy graphics, it usually has cutesy music. Bust a Move has only a small number of music tracks that sound like midi files that just become a small annoyance as time progresses in the game and are played over and over like a broken record.
As would be expected, Bust a Move continues to be one of the best puzzle games on the market, and Super Bust a Move doesnt change the reputation. Except for some small quirks, this is great recommendation to add to any PS2 collection if youre a puzzle fan fanatic. While it wont take advantage of the PS2 hardware, the try-and-true bubble popping continues and you wont be putting down that controller for days af
Reviewed by: Amazon Reviewer Rating: Date Reviewed: 20Jan2001 | | |
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