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3.57 average rating based on 51 ratings
As a kid my mom and her friend would rent this, as well as Vegas Stakes. It was often times out when they tried, so one time when they finally got it I swear they kept it for a month! They should have just bought it haha.
Great game, simple gameplay but hard to master. Great for a casual pick up. Don't get discouraged if you don't get real far, it takes time to pick up on the best sequence of pops and what powerups to get.
Beat this recently for the first time on a three day camping trip using my Miyoo Mini. Had to use save states, but I enjoyed every minute!
Okay. So this game is seriously awesome.
Way back when, when SNES games were still new and being sold in stores (and were pretty expensive), my parents would rent this game and play it. So it has some heavy-duty nostalgic value for me. But, besides that, it's just a really fun game to play.
The world has been taken over by evil bubbles and weird monstery-type creatures, and you have to stop them. Using various projectile-based forms of weaponry, you travel around the world to different countries on each continent, clearing each level of bubbles along the way. Each level has a greater degree of difficulty, and it's quite challenging... So challenging that nobody in my family could beat the game for several years (until I did... twice!) One of my favourite SNES games of all time.
Started tour mode on Expert and died in 2 seconds. Ok maybe I should learn to play before jumping to the highest difficulty. So I beat tour on Normal. Then beat panic mode to level 99, which was intense and took a lot of save state scumming. It was so intense that I had to spend a few lives. The most important thing was to get the star powerup, which destroyed all bubbles, instead of the weak time stop powerup. Then I went back to beat tour on Expert, which was easy compared to panic mode. The gun was obviously the best weapon, but after that I preferred the grappling hook for setting traps. I found it better to anticipate where the bubbles would go and have them bump into the chain part of shots rather than try for direct hits, so I could be out of the way. But sometimes that strategy was too slow and I needed to get under and burst rapidly from below. Another important strategy was going for the smallest bubbles first to minimize the number of enemies that had the be dealt with at one time, and observing bounce trajectories to only shoot enemies …
Started tour mode on Expert and died in 2 seconds. Ok maybe I should learn to play before jumping to the highest difficulty. So I beat tour on Normal. Then beat panic mode to level 99, which was intense and took a lot of save state scumming. It was so intense that I had to spend a few lives. The most important thing was to get the star powerup, which destroyed all bubbles, instead of the weak time stop powerup. Then I went back to beat tour on Expert, which was easy compared to panic mode. The gun was obviously the best weapon, but after that I preferred the grappling hook for setting traps. I found it better to anticipate where the bubbles would go and have them bump into the chain part of shots rather than try for direct hits, so I could be out of the way. But sometimes that strategy was too slow and I needed to get under and burst rapidly from below. Another important strategy was going for the smallest bubbles first to minimize the number of enemies that had the be dealt with at one time, and observing bounce trajectories to only shoot enemies that could get to me. Thus the dynamite powerup was usually bad. A very fun game, but felt like it could have had more content.
8.0/10
Completed on SNES emulator (no savestates) on Normal, Tour Mode.
Pretty fun arcade style action! Levels 30-40 are tough so be prepared to die over and over.