Bomberman Hero

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Few soundtracks on the Nintendo 64 sound anything like Bomberman Hero's. Composer Jun Chikuma filled it with drum and bass and acid techno, a pulsing club-music score worlds away from the cheerful tunes players expected from Bomberman, and she later called it the most remarkable title in the series in terms of music. That soundtrack is still the first thing many fans bring up, and hearing it stage by stage in its original setting is a big part of the fun.

The game around it was just as bold a departure. Where Bomberman 64 took the series' bomb puzzles into 3D, Hero turns Bomberman into a true platform hero: he can jump, he has a life meter, and he throws bombs much farther. The adventure spans 14 areas across six planets, one of them secret, and regularly switches styles through Power Gears. The Bomber Marine sends him swimming through underwater stages, the Bomber Jet turns levels into rail shooters, the Bomber Copter lets him fly and the Bomber Slider puts him on a snowboard. Special bombs add puzzle wrinkles of their own, from ice bombs that freeze enemies into blocks you can climb to salt bombs, the only thing that can hurt the game's slugs.

The story is a cheerfully shameless space adventure that more than one reviewer compared to Star Wars. The Garaden Empire attacks Primus Star and captures Princess Millian, but not before her robot servant escapes with a secret data disk and crash-lands outside Bomberman's training base. From there Bomberman chases the princess from world to world, battles the Four Devils of Garaden and keeps crossing paths with Nitros, a mysterious Garaden soldier who looks an awful lot like him.

For dedicated players, the real hook is the scoring. Every stage has a score target, and how close you get earns up to five stage points that add up to a medal for each planet, from red all the way to gold. Gold on every planet opens a bonus stage, and a perfect run with every Adok bomb collected reveals a hidden showdown with Evil Bomber on Gossick Star. Critics in 1998 missed the series' usual multiplayer battle mode, but GameSpot called the solo game a surprising success and a completely new kind of Bomberman, and that is exactly its appeal now: the strangest, most stylish turn the series took on the N64.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1998
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
Hudson Soft
Players
Single player
About the game

Bomberman's latest adventure takes him across the galaxy! Princess Millian has been kidnapped by the evil Garaden Empire and it's up to Bomberman to save the day. Travel through worlds of ice, fire and water. Use new abilities and get help from friends like Louie the rabbit and Pibol the robot. New vehicles like the Bomber Copter and Bomber Marine will come in handy in your quest to save the Princess and free the universe once again!

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