It's high time I played another Bomberman game, and this time, I'm playing one of the games on the Super Nintendo. This one is pretty difficult.
There is a story for this game, believe it or not. Cue Wikipedia:
The game's story takes place in the far to the north of Bomberman's hometown, Peace Town, where it lies the modern metropolis Diamond City. There, the evil Carat Diamond and his cohort, scientist Dr. Mook, are holding a Robot Tournament with robots specially designed for their combat and offensive capabilities. They hope to steal Bomberman's advanced combat capabilities, Diamond has created a fake Bomberman to go to Peace Town and kidnap the real Bomberman. They're aware of Diamond's plot, Black Bomberman heads out alone to face the fake Bomberman. But Black Bomberman is defeated and his castle is taken. However, Black Bomberman escapes and seeks refuge with White Bomberman, and warns him of Diamond's evil plan. Later, hordes of enemy robots begin their advance toward Peace Town. The two heroes must join forces to defeat Diamond.
World 1
When you start the game, you'll be on a small world map. Each location indicates one world in the game.
Level 1-1
The D-Pad lets you move around in four directions. A plants bombs. When planting bombs, you'll want to get away from your bombs so that the explosions don't hit you and kill you. This game, much like all other Bomberman games, are "one hit and you're dead" affairs. Running into an enemy or having an enemy run into you will also kill you and cost you a life. Aside from that, those are the controls and basics that you'll need to know for now, and I'll explain stuff over time.
At the top of the screen is your amount of lives and your current score. Below that is the current amount of time that you have in the stage. As you spend time in the stage, the white blocks below your lives and score disappear one by one until they reach the clock in the center. If you run out of time, you will lose a life. You can refill your time by finding a clock icon during the game.
The blocks that look like buildings are indestructible blocks, also known as "hard" blocks. The sirens here are destructible blocks, also known as "soft" blocks. The soft blocks can be destroyed with your bombs. The hard blocks cannot. You'll need to destroy soft blocks to get around in the level.
The red guys with the helicopter heads fly back and forth and rarely deviate from the direction they are going. They take one hit to defeat with your bombs.
The flashing blue tile is the exit tile that leads to the next level, and you'll need to defeat all the enemies before you can step on it and move on. Take care not to hit that tile with your bombs' explosions, as it will spawn more enemies that you will be forced to defeat if you do.
Sometimes, you will find icons underneath soft blocks as you destroy them. These icons are power-ups. The bomb icon lets you drop one extra bomb, and you can carry and lay down up to eight once you carry enough of them. At the start of the game, you will only have the ability to drop one bomb with a paltry explosion range of one tile in all four directions, but that will change as you go through the game and survive. This also makes your bombs deadlier, but this also makes it unintentionally easier to unwittingly blow yourself up, as your bombs' explosions will kill you if they hit you.
It is possible to blow up the power-up icons with your own bombs. Unlike other games, this does not spawn enemies if this happens.
Level 1-2
The little blue guys with the yellow heads take two hits to defeat. Their movement patterns are similar to the red helicopter head enemies.
The icon of fireball with the smiley face increases the range of your bombs by one tile in all four directions.
The roller skate icon will increase your movement speed. There is a limit to that speed, and it can be rather fast. Be careful when you are able to move faster.
By putting bombs in a line, you can create a chain reaction. You can do more damage faster this way, but you can also unintentionally blow yourself up if you're not careful.
Level 1-3
The tree stumps are the soft blocks; the log cabins are the hard blocks.
The little blue guys that bounce around take one hit to kill, but they can move around in packs pretty easily, so play it safe.
The icon of a foot kicking a bomb is the Kick ability. By moving into a bomb, you can kick it forward, and you can stop it with the R button. Unlike in other Bomberman games, kicking a bomb into an enemy will kill it as opposed to just stunning it.
Level 1-4
The floating bomb enemies will occasionally drop down and explode like one of your own bomb, and their explosions can do all the same things that your bombs' explosions can.
The life vest icon gives you temporary invincibility. As long as you're flashing, nothing will harm you, save for a time over. You also have invincibility when you start a stage or when you re-spawn from losing a life. That will come into play for a certain something a little later.
Level 1-5
The blue one-eyed blob will go after your bomb and try to eat it if the bomb is close enough. Having range on your bombs' explosions is a good thing here. Unfortunately, it takes three hits to take out the one-eyed blobs.
If you can find it, there is an icon of a heart with a bomb in it. This gives you remote bombs, which only explode when you tell them to. Set a bomb, then press B to detonate them. You will lose the remote bombs if you lose a life and you won't be able to get them back unless you can somehow earn them again, so do your best to survive in this game.
Level 1-6
The red and gray blocks are the hard blocks, while the moving green blocks are the soft blocks.
The green tanks take four hits to kill, and they also have flamethrower that shoot four tiles forward. If you have the kick ability, use it; it will make these things much easier to destroy.
The icon of the brick block with the lines going through it allows you to walk through the soft blocks. If you have the kick ability, it will replace it. This ability can help with getting away from enemies sometimes, but soft blocks won't stop all enemies, as you'll eventually see.
Level 1-7
If you blow up multiple enemies at once, you'll keep doubling the points on each one. It's possible to get a lot of points this way, and it is also possible to get extra lives by racking up the points.
Level 1-8
There is a boss in the eighth stage of a world. The boss here is a big blue orb guy with a hammer. Hit him with the explosions of your bombs, and never be south of him, as his hammer is bad news. He follows you around, but if you lay bombs as you go, keep hitting him with the explosions and stay alive the whole time, he is not too hard to beat. Remote bombs make this guy even easier.
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