If you're craving a puzzler with something new to offer, RB's unique mechanics may satisfy that urge, especially when looking at Steam exclusively. It's not like it's difficult programming-wise to flesh out the personalities of the characters you make, or add more exposition so we have any idea what's going on in the story. For instance, the scant amount of dialogue and story points presented in Tournament Mode. To be fair, I don't have the same level of experience in RB as I do other puzzlers, but I have very little sense for how my opponent was doing and what I did that worked well and didn't.įinal Thoughts Unfortunately, the impression I get from RB is that at a certain point, instead of fully developing the content in a way that would make sense, it simply ended at some point. It wasn't uncommon for me to set off what felt like a great play that should devastate the opponent and still lose, while winning rounds where I thought I did terribly. I beat tournament mode on normal difficulty, using 9 continues, but I felt overwhelmed and panicked. Unless you're already quite good at RB, which is unlikely with its unique mechanic, you'll get destroyed by AI that's supposed to represent the baseline. What I think hurts the game most is an insufficient learning curve. You can play either by yourself or vs mode. Unlike the other modes that stop after you reach an objective, in Endless Mode it only stops when you quit or your pieces reach the ceiling. Both of these constraints go against the spirit of most puzzle modes, which tend to focus on complex set-ups with precise solutions. Another problem is that all the pieces fall constantly, so you have to solve each in a short time limit. A key problem is 1 piece limits how many unique puzzles can be made, and it becomes repetitive. For Puzzle Mode, the field has blobs scattered around, and using only 1 piece, you have to clear the entire screen your aim is to beat 100 rounds. In Arcade Mode, your objective is to make it to level 100, with levels increasing based on clearing blobs. Gameplay There are 4 game modes in RB, 1 of which I'll save for a later section. No weird glitches, no unpolished bullcrap to swallow, everything just works. Also, since indie games do less of this as time goes on: It works. The rules are simple enough to learn quickly and rewards tactful thinking and working under pressure. The music is charming and the sound effects are perfect for this type of game. Stacking blobs results in a satisfying squish, effects stand out enough and in such a way that you can read your opponent's status with just your peripheral vision. There isn't a whole lot of visual content to look at, the faux-anime girl style only exists in the character select and backgrounds.īut what is in the game is very solid and polished. It is a little bare, the tournament mode is very simple and it's various endings for each character are only in the form of a few sentences at the end. So your opponent can dump 20 garbage blocks on you, but you can recover given that you have a good amount of blocks or a combo to clear. It's like puzzle fighter, except with a few rule changes that creates real good push/pull between players: You rack up block clears and combos to create garbage, but the other player will only receive that garbage if it clears four or more blocks.
That said, this is a pretty good multiplayer block dropping game, and in an increasingly saturated marketplace there still aren't many of these. Heck, it is basically Puzzle Fighter except with a few but important rule changes. There have been 6 likes from 6 votes on this game.People, please stop comparing this to Puyo Puyo or Dr. To save your game: hover over the emulator screen and use the icons to save your progress.ĭown arrow icon (save), Up arrow icon (load). Please click inside the screen to activate the controls The game features many levels to play and is an overall good port to the classic arcade. The objective of the game is to clear the screen from all the bubble spheres without having any bubble cross the bottom line of the screen. This version of the game is for Super Nintendo Entertainment System and was released at a later date at the year 1995. Step back to the past and play one of the most popular classic bubble shooter game in the entire history of arcade gaming – Bust-A-Move! Match three or more of the same colored spheres / bubbles and complete all levels.īust-A-Move (also known as Puzzle Bobble) is a 1994 bubble shooter game introducing the characters from the platforming arcade game Bubble Bobble.
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