Super Bomberman Collection

“The gameplay never changes, the stages are all exactly the same, the enemies all act mostly the same, so it's just 50 stages of doing the same thing over and over and over again with exactly zero variation. Plus, once you get too many powerups and become essentially invincible, the game just becomes flat out boring, but in a 'at least I'll be done soon' kinda way since at that point, stages will only take 30 seconds or so to clear.”

“Gameplay-wise, however, it goes back to I'd say Super 2 quality, since the lag spikes are back. Also, there's still no line bombs, so Saturn remains superior in every aspect.”

“It has the stages and gameplay from Mega (minus line bombs), the Louies and (much, much crunchier) music from PCE, the story and villains from Super 1. It literally didn't have one single original thing about it.”

“..just kidding, the game just resets, and you have to do it all again to get 200%; no new power-ups, enemies, bosses, or story elements (heck, there's barely any story at all), so it's really pointless.”

“The Japanese manual has a longer story for at least SB1 along with things like enemy names, and the US manual truncates the plotline a bit (though interestingly the European manual's storyline is an accurate, line-by-line translation).”

“I think that's a weird thing to point out but there is a surprising amount of story that continues up through the 90s until, I believe, the GameCube reboots.”

“Graphically it's clean enough, but it's certainly no Saturn Bomberman.”

“The emulation is a touch off; most notably the 'out of the box' experience has a significant desync between the audio and visuals. Turning off v-sync seems to fix the issue.”

“Super Bomberman 2's graphical style and sound effects differ significantly from 1 and 3, which was surprising. The level formats include new elements like trampolines and water sections, but the style may not appeal to everyone.”