Bomberman Generation is a video game released for the Nintendo GameCube on June 4, 2002. It was followed up by Bomberman Jetters.

Story

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The evil Hige Hige Bandits scattered six elements throughout six worlds. It is Bomberman's job to restore these elements and save the universe from the Hige Hige Bandits. Bomberman must defeat a band of five bombers called the Crush Bombers and defeat the Bomb Element guardians and neutralize their power.

Gameplay

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Bomberman Generation consists of five worlds, each with 6 levels for the first three worlds, four levels for worlds 4 and 5, and the last world is one small area with a boss fight in it. The levels involve puzzles, mini games, Pokémon-esque battles using Charaboms who get befriended by Bomberman once defeated, and Charabom or bomb merge areas where a merge item and a bomb get fused or a Charabom and another Charabom get fused resulting in a stronger bomb or Charabom. The worlds have unique bosses each with a different strategy of defeating them. All of the worlds have puzzles that the player has to solve with bombs or Charaboms.

Generation is fueled by what seems like a hyper-active delivery, giving it a mile-a-minute, sugar-rush style that makes it all the more enjoyable. Rather than a cumbersome adventure title many of the older Bomberman games were, Generation thrives on its explosive action and speed. The graphics in Generation were one of the first titles to employ the style of "cel-shading" for the GameCube (a style utilized again in Bomberman Jetters, and The Wind Waker would make popular), which gives the game a style more akin to an interactive comic book or cartoon versus the other Cube titles that would use more realistic graphics. This gives the game a more fluid and flight-and-fancy-free feel.

Trivia

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• Though not credited, more than a a few of the voice actors from Bomberman Jetters appear in this game (Bomberman, Professor Ein, Max, and Mujoe).

• Pommy (Pomyu) from The Second Attack and a few of his variations make appearances at Charaboms.

• The game states the Crush Bombers are the rivals of Professor Ein's group however this is the first game they appear in and they are practically a replacement for the five bad bombers.

• A mistake in the game is that the opening suggests the Crush Bombers are a mercenary group yet in the game they act like they have total servitude to the Hige Hige Bandits.

External links

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2002 computer and video games | Bomberman | Cel-shaded computer and video games | GameCube-only games | Action-adventure games