The future is bright, the future is orange – and red, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet all the bubble colours.īubbles? Colours of the rainbow? Bub and Bob? There's a story in there somewhere. The series has since established itself as a family favourite, making it to Bust-a-Move 4 before opting for titles like Super Bust-A-Move and last year's Wii release Bust-A-Move Bash. Sequels have seen incremental graphical improvements and the all-important addition of a four-player mode, but the gameplay seen here has yet to be bettered.īAM2 is party game perfection, Taito is currently enjoying a rich vein of form and Acclaim Entertainment is dead. For many this episode was the introduction to the series, proving hugely successful and later re-released as a Platinum title. It's arcade perfect with brisk loading times. Balls in a Bubble Bobble offshoot? Balls to Acclaim. On the back of the box the bubbles are referred to as balls. Here popping bubble chains sends more over to your competitor's screen and it becomes a manic friendship-ending party classic.

While bundles of fun, it's all about the newly improved multiplayer mode, which also pits you against Bubble Bobble villains if you play the CPU. Puzzle mode, with its new branching and multiple endings, challenges you to clear each screen. The new bowling ball bubble pops anything in its path, the gem can remove every bubble of matching colour from the cluster. In the game, the player shoots his or her bubbles up. An arbitrary supply of coloured bubbles are still at your disposal to fire and pop bubble chains with. Bust A Move 2 takes its cue from Tetris, replacing the familiar patterned blocks with colored bubbles and letting you make the shots this time. Bub and Bob are still in a Tetris-like well with a bunch of coloured bubbles gathered at the top. Denied.īAM2 builds slowly but surely on its Bubble Bobble spin-off predecessor. No explanation as to why Bub and Bob have been transformed back into dragons and are shooting bubbles with the aid of a cannon despite bubble blowing being their speciality. Bust-A-Move 2's manual lacks any such reading material. Reading the backstories that writers come up with for certain game manuals is one of life's pleasures.

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