07-03-2011, 04:39 PM
Lessee
64: pretty boring, bland and generic. Storyline was okay (and a step in the right direction from the SNES games). Level designs were really empty-feeling. The controls were often imprecise, and having to place a bomb, then move a little before being able to pick it up was unintuitive (I don't know how many times I went to pick up a bomb only to accidentally kick it instead); also, while pumping up a bomb by rapidly tapping sounds like a good idea in theory, it really just seemed annoying to me after a while, especially since you already had to do that annoying process to pick it up before you can even start pumping it.
Hero: seems as though they were really trying to hard to jump onto the 3d platformer bandwagon, but their integration of platforming really didn't work very well. It also suffers from the typical bomberman genericness and a Star Wars plotline.
Generation: I didn't play enough of it to say much about it. What I did play seemed okay.
Jetters: a bit better than 64 when it comes to the generic and bland environments. The charabom system was a bit too pointless, with only a few of them actually being useful outside of very specific instances (the shield one is the only one to come to mind). Max himself could also have been a bit more different from Shirobom, since he's really just the same except with a mostly useless screenbomb and without the slightly more useful charaboms.
In general, singleplayer Bomberman games suffer from a lot of generic things, including settings and character designs (Higes and the bomber bosses usually being the only really iconic enemies). TSA actually has some of this a bit, too, but it has other redeeming features (such as the dungeon-crawling-style levels, powerups, hidden treasures that are actually useful, and the somewhat more useful Pommy. Most of the different bomb types were generally more useful, too).
64: pretty boring, bland and generic. Storyline was okay (and a step in the right direction from the SNES games). Level designs were really empty-feeling. The controls were often imprecise, and having to place a bomb, then move a little before being able to pick it up was unintuitive (I don't know how many times I went to pick up a bomb only to accidentally kick it instead); also, while pumping up a bomb by rapidly tapping sounds like a good idea in theory, it really just seemed annoying to me after a while, especially since you already had to do that annoying process to pick it up before you can even start pumping it.
Hero: seems as though they were really trying to hard to jump onto the 3d platformer bandwagon, but their integration of platforming really didn't work very well. It also suffers from the typical bomberman genericness and a Star Wars plotline.
Generation: I didn't play enough of it to say much about it. What I did play seemed okay.
Jetters: a bit better than 64 when it comes to the generic and bland environments. The charabom system was a bit too pointless, with only a few of them actually being useful outside of very specific instances (the shield one is the only one to come to mind). Max himself could also have been a bit more different from Shirobom, since he's really just the same except with a mostly useless screenbomb and without the slightly more useful charaboms.
In general, singleplayer Bomberman games suffer from a lot of generic things, including settings and character designs (Higes and the bomber bosses usually being the only really iconic enemies). TSA actually has some of this a bit, too, but it has other redeeming features (such as the dungeon-crawling-style levels, powerups, hidden treasures that are actually useful, and the somewhat more useful Pommy. Most of the different bomb types were generally more useful, too).