With one problem comes another.  Bomberman was taking a nice and relaxed break from saving the world, when he receives an invitation to Bomberman Land.

Now for those of you who played and know what Bomberman is all about, you’ll get a shocking surprise.  The story mode of this party game doesn’t have the classic bomb dropping action we all played and love.

No instead you’ll be entering an amusement park.  What’s the twist?  You’re going to unlock the multiplayer mode mini-games, and you’re going to need to use tokens.

What are tokens for?  Tokens allow you to play the mini-games.  Once you run out of tokens though, you’re done for the round.  Beware: there are multiple CPU’s, and they have no mercy! T.T

Bomberman Land Gameplay

Controls

You play with just the Wiimote.  You move by pointing on the screen and pressing B (or the D-Pad + B).  Press A to interact with people.  – Activates a map, and + opens your options that let you see your status and clothings.

Glad to see fashion is part of the game.

While playing mini-games things are played differently.  Some require you to play horizontally while others require you to just use the Wiimote’s motion sensing abilities.

Gameplay

Bomberman Land is simple.  Basically when Bomberman arrived at Bomberman Land he meets old friends and new rivals.  It all started nicely, the director of the amusement part greeted them, but that ended shortly as a hostile takeover was commenced.  In the end the director was taken hostage by the champion of Bomberman Land and it’s up to you to dethrone the champion.

There are 5 zones to play through.  Each zones have their own mini-games and depending on what grade (A, B, C, etc) you get more points (A being the highest,

4-player mini-games like these are a refreshing break from Battle Mode.

nothing being the lowest).  This would be easy to win, if there wasn’t a price… Everytime you play a mini-game you have to pay tokens.  Tokens are given to you at the beginning of each round (3 total), and it’s up to you on how to use them.

Some of the mini-games are relitivly hard, and are not that fun at all.  However if you get far enough in the mini-games things become more enjoyable.  What I don’t like about these games is the fact that you’re playing by yourself.  Your opponenet automatically play and win giving you some slight disadvantage.

At the end of all 3 rounds you are sent to the next zone if you have enough points.

However before you begin a round there things you can do.  First of all there is the training rooms.  There is a training room for single-player games, and multiplayer games.  Playing and winning them will yield you some TP.  Not only does it give you experience with the mini-games you can use the TP to buy clothing.

With TP you can purchase clothings.  Do you have to do it?  No, but it’s recommended, because the more stylish you are (which I kind of doubt, what’re these clothings?), the more extra tokens you can secretly get at the beginning of each round.

Bomberman Land Multiplayer

This game includes the classical Bomberman Battle game with new maps and power-ups, but not only that this multiplayer party game also includes 10 multiplayer mini-games.

Attractions

What this mode is clear and simple.  You just play the multiplayer mini-games from Story Mode to your choosing and with your friends.  Now there are only 10,

Drop your bombs and run!!!

5 for 4-players, and 5 for 2-players.

Battle Mode

This is the old and classic Bomberman game right here.  The basic gameplay is that you’re in a stage with blocks blocking your path.  Drop bombs and destroy them.  If you get hit by a bomb you’re dead.  So make sure to hide behind pillars and other objects.  There are 6 modes to this game and they are:

• Normal – You and 3 other players try to kill each other.  Just be careful not to blow yourself up.
• Star – Inside blocks are stars that are being hidden.  The person who collects the most stars in the end of the time limit you set wins.
• Point – Blow people up to get points.  ‘Nuff Said
• Crown – Race to the crown that’s being blocked by blocks.  You can attack the other players if you want.  If you are the last man standing all of the blocks will automatically blow up.
• All-Out – Same as normal, except once you’re dead you come back riding a machine.  The machine can throw bombs at any location, perfect for getting revenge on your killer!
• Wii – Point at the screen and throw bombs to blow the targets in the map.  The person who first reaches a certain amount of points win the game.

Conclusion

Every tiny little detail thought about, Bomberman Land is a fun game, including the shallow mini-games (They’re mini-games, what do you expect?). My favorite mode is battle mode, with everyone with tons of mind blowing power ups.

While the main games aren’t the best around, and some things will easily keep them down, the highly classical yet fun battle mode will make up for, and add to the mind-blowing experience.

The game gets to the peak of being fun when you get upgrades and start dropping bombs like there’s no tomorrow.

If you’re interested I would recommend you to buy this game, but you can rent it first at Gamefly starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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