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Too Obscure!
Too Popular!
Too Hard!
Ah, perfect!
Hello everyone!
I got the perfect game to do!
Well, not perfect, but it is not another N64 game, I can tell you that much!
We are reviewing today: Bubble Bobble!
But is it really a good game?
And you may have noticed, there is a code on here, this code will lead you straight
to Level 99, if you want to use it.
As for how that got on there?
Well, my father wrote that code on there with sharpie, so yea.
And this game is ingrained into my childhood, but I will not let that effect my review.
Disclaimers: There are spoilers, you are warned.
And I am not sponsored by Nintendo, so lets begin with the review!
Bubble Bobble is an action platformer game developed by Taito for the Nintendo Entertainment
System and released in 1988 where you play a dragon that blows bubbles and trys to reach
the 100th level.
The 1988 you see in the game is actually the NES release, as 1986 is the arcade release.
But wait, how did that happen?
The story for this game is very simplistic, heck, I was even expecting no story because
it was an NES title.
But regardless, the story is as follows: The main bad guy, "Baron Von Blubba", yes, that
guy, or monster, or whatever it is, has kidnapped the girlfriends of Bubby and Bobby (which
we will call Bub and Bob, okay, good) and by the way, they are brothers.
Right afterwards, "Baron Von Blubba" turned the brothers into bubble dragons.
Well, that is cruel and unusual... and humiliating.
You would think that is cool being turned into a dragon, but once you find out you
blow bubbles...
Then you lose all respect.
Both Bub and Bob (or mostly Bub because I play alone) has to save the girlfriends by
going through all 100 levels all the way down to the boss, yes, that boss, and defeat him
to get the girlfriends back.
That story was short, but I was not expecting it.
But how is the game structured?
Like a stated before, there are 100 levels, get through all of them and you win.
But within each level are different platforms in different locations, sometimes even making
a picture of enemies, items, and more.
Sometimes the stages themselves are puzzles in which you have to be clever to figure out,
like using a water bubble to get from below the stage to above the stage.
While we are talking about bubbles, you as the player shoots bubbles, bubbles are everything
in this game, bubbles kill enemies, bubbles have elements like water, lightning, and fire,
bubbles have secrets messages, and bubbles even help you jump up to higher platforms!
There are a wide variety of enemies you have to deal with, the wind up enemies that look
like toys, the cloaked enemies that shoot fire, floating whales, propeller enemies,
Spring enemies, and that gosh darn specter whale thing!
And finally the items, there are so many items in this game, all of them give you points,
but some of them have special abilities that automatically activate when picking them up.
Like the umbrellas skip stages, candies that effect your bubbles to go faster or farther,
and there are even some (like the heart that I grabbed as soon as it spawned on top of
me) that make you feel like you are pac-man as you touch enemies to kill them (normally
if they touch you, you lose a life).
Remember that code earlier?
There is a password option in the game, and is normally used to jump to where you last
left off after getting a gameover, or if you want to jump to a certain point of the game.
And now the final boss of the game, this boss is unforgiving, you only have a few seconds
to grab that lightning bottle and jump away as the boss begins to move.
Then quickly find a corner and spam that B Button to shoot lightning as he lands.
This will not work all the time though as the boss' pattern is predictable but quick,
and at times it feels like the bottles he shoots (and the hit boxes with them) are larger
than expected, and I died more than I like to admit.
And after every time I got a gameover, I have to do the entire fight again from the beginning.
This boss' health is 60 by the way, it is hard to see, but it is at the top of the screen.
Luckily the ghost whale does not show up in the stage, so you can take your time as you
figure out how to beat this boss.
And once I was able to defeat him, I was very glad.
Yes, yes, I finally did it!
It took forever and now I can finally see the ending.
Wait, what?
Oh, come on!
That is until I read what was shown on screen, and disappointment ensued.
Apparently, that was the bad ending of the game, and I was missing an item that is needed
from a special area of the game.
And using the password to jump to Level 99 skips the item (as well as using umbrellas,
you might accidentally skip the item using them too).
I don't know what the good ending looks like, but I am not going to play the game again
just for an ending.
But it is also a nice surprise that this NES game had something like multiple endings as
this, normally games of this era was "get to the end and win".
The game controls are just moving, jumping, shooting bubbles, and pausing.
Now the game feels responsive, except for using the bubbles, I don't know why, but the
shooting feels like it is timed or delayed so you can't spam the bubbles.
This has gotten me killed multiple times as I needed a bubble to shoot so the enemies
don't jump on me so fast.
But there is some good things that bubbles can let you do, and it is to jump on them,
without this, you would be stuck with nowhere to go in certain stages (Just shoot a bubble
and quickly hold that A Button).
Platforming can be hit or miss as your jumps do have weight to them.
Running and jumping are best for those long jumps.
And if there is a sliver of a wall, the game can sometimes decide if you even make it to
the platform or let you fall back down, I am sure that with enough practice you could
easily just play this game flawlessly, but for casual sessions, this could be deal breaker
for some people.
Also, interactions with some elements can change your feeling for the controls slightly,
as using lightning will stun you as it passes through you after popping them (this is true
with the final boss as you cant spam this due to the stun on top of the delay of firing
bubbles), the water stops you from moving or jumping entirely as you are being washed
down the stage, and fire just slows you down.
Playing with another person seems like fun, but remember, the problems become twice as
easy, or twice as hard depending what happens.
You both blow bubbles, and you both pop bubbles.
But beware that if you pop a lightning bubble and it hits your friends, your friend is stunned
for a short time, if your friend pops a water bubble, you can be caught in the water slide,
and popping fire bubbles still effects both of you.
The graphics are the usual 8-bit, typical for the NES.
As for the arcade, it uses raster graphics to show what is on screen, which are just
pictures of bits for the arcade machine to use.
Plus the arcade version looks better than the NES counterpart, due to brighter and more
detailed images used.
But for the NES version, it looks the same and plays the same from the arcade version,
but the walls and characters look more blocky.
The animations are as smooth as it gets, just moving from left to right and jumping is smooth
enough and many people won't notice that the pixels are the only things moving.
Now the music, there are 2 types of people, and they fall into 2 different camps with
the music of this game.
There are people who do not like the music as it is annoying to them, and I don't blame
them, there are only 3 pieces of music in this game.
The title and introduction to the game, the main game music, and the final boss music.
The most noticeable one is the main game music as it repeats on loop, and that is where most
of the complaints come from.
Then there is the other camp where people either fall in love with the music, or is
stuck in their heads from their childhood.
I fall into this camp.
There are points in the game where there is no music playing, this feels empty and ominous
in my opinion.
So how do I feel about this game?
Does it stand up to today's standards?
Or does it need to stay into the past?
Well, the story is short and to the point, the design is cluttered, the gameplay is smooth
and sticky at the same time (like a PB&J sandwich), the graphics are classic, the music, in my
opinion, is memorable, whether you like it or not.
I don't think I can give it a score that suits it, what I mean is, I can't recommended it
because it is stiff and difficult, but I cant say meh to it either because it is good when you
get into it.
So I will give it a score that is equivalent to a 3.5. And I call it: Meh, Recommended. or what I like
to call: Recom-meh.
This game is fun, and definitely play this with your friends.
Just beware of each other and work together, or this game won't be fun.
And the challenge is definitely there, so I don't see why not.
Thank you all for watching and please Subscribe to this channel and share this video.
And if you agree or disagree with me, tell me about it in the comments below.
And I look forward to seeing you again!
Oh, okay. I just realized that at this-
This does not look- What why does it say that?
It says: "These are two hungry Dino-mights and they've got bubble fight'n fun down tight"
What does this- This is so 90's.
What is this?
Anyways.
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