Each of the passes described here goes up to level 100.īack to the business of bombing, how does the game actually play? Well, across dozens of matches I’ve encountered no noticeable lag. There’s also a separate Start Pass that offers free rewards as you play. Bomb skins, taunts, and other cosmetics can also be picked up with Bomber Coins. In each season, specific characters will also be up for purchase, with Old Snake Bomber (500 Bomber Coins) being available as part of Season 1, in addition to Bean Bomber (Free), as cross-promotion with Fall Guys. Some of the other rewards include costumes, profile tags, poses, and even musical tracks. This currency costs real money through the eShop, but it can be earned as a reward within the gold tier. The gold tier covers a 90-day season and costs 800 Bomber Coins.
The silver tier is free and offers some minor rewards for regular play of the game. In terms of extra content, there are two additional free characters on rotation, from Konami franchises like Metal Gear Solid, Castlevania, and Contra, but the other 12 come with the Premium Pack DLC, which also allows for the creation of private matches with friends.Īnother way that Super Bomberman R Online is monetized is through its two-tier Battle Pass. Pink starts out with a total of five in each of the three primary stats, but she can’t go higher than that, and the punch and grab abilities are crossed out, so she can’t pick up those items. White only starts out with one bomb, no speed ups, and two bomb radius, but he can go up to a maximum of eight in all three of those stats. Initially, only the eight different colored Bomber characters are available to play as, with each having slightly different attributes. The standard kick, punch, and grab items appear as well. Occasionally, heart item pick-ups will show up, too, letting you replenish a missing one. Once the timer hits zero, the play areas are gradually removed until only one remains, where any players still in the competition are left to duke it out until there’s just one Bomber standing.Įach player starts off with two hearts, which means you can take two hits before being eliminated. In Super Bomberman R Online’s Battle 64 mode, 64 players start out across 16 play areas with a timer counting down from 60 seconds. Each area is filled with destructible blocks that can contain power-ups to increase your bomb’s blast radius, the number of bombs you can place at a time, and your movement speed. I’m happy to report that Bomberman makes the jump to online survival winner-take-all quite well, but progression can be slow for those who don’t purchase the optional battle pass.įor the uninitiated, Bomberman involves moving your choice of character around a top-down, 13x11 grid (at least that’s the size in this game) as you attempt to blow up the competition. Fast forward more than four years later, and Konami is bringing a free-to-play battle royale style version of Super Bomberman R to Switch, less than a year after it came exclusively to Google’s Stadia platform.
One of the sore spots, at least for me, was a lag-filled online experience, a fatal flaw given the precision and timing involved in a Bomberman game. A launch title for Nintendo Switch, Super Bomberman R stuck close to the tried-and-true explosive formula but didn’t manage to set the world on fire.
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