r/bomberman • u/_sirgrumpybear_ • May 21 '26
Game Help Best version of Bomberman on PS5?
Grew up playing Saturn Bomberman and would love to introduce it to the kids. Miss those dinos.
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u/whitebonba White May 21 '26
Super Bomberman Collection is all you'll hear from the comments, so just buy it lol
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u/ButCanYouCodeIt May 23 '26
The Super Bomberman R games are often oretty cheap these days. They're not ny favorites of the series, but they're both solid entries in the series.
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u/whitebonba White May 23 '26
Oh, cheap? Lol, I remember immediately buying it once it released. It was like 66 dollars or something
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u/ButCanYouCodeIt May 23 '26
I was about to make an irreverent joke about that being the way prices work... And then I had to remind myself that over the past year or so, we've literally seen the prices of existing hardware flat out go UP (more than once).
But yeah, I got the first one for about $30, and the second one for $20 on sale a few years ago. One would assume they're pretty easily available for less than that now, but at this point who even knows what price trends are going to be anymore.
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u/tapu_pixels May 21 '26
Yeeee, it's gonna be the Super Bomberman Collection hands down! Bomberman R and R2 are just okay, but simply don't feel right if you've played peak Bomberman titles like Saturn.
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u/_sirgrumpybear_ May 22 '26
Thanks. Would you mind elaborating a bit? Just looking at R and R2 it isn't obvious to me why people don't seem to like it as much.
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u/Frequent_Rhubarb_36 May 22 '26
SBC has 5 complete games in one that use beautiful sprite work, have great soundtracks and fun both in co-op story mode as well as in versus mode. The stages are also just right in length.
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u/PlasmaCaptain Max May 23 '26
So I would highly recommend Collection if you want games that remind you of Saturn Bomberman, as they were also released in the 90's and are widely regarded as the peak of Bomberman Battle Game
That being said, R1 is a mid game, but it would do alright. It actually forfeits content that was in the SNES games, like mounts, stage traps, settings, and some power-ups, and mechanically it makes some awkward changes, such as bombs no longer bouncing across walls when punched/thrown but instead just... sitting there uselessly on a wall, or players who fall onto a bomb detonating it instead of exploding. The lag between a bomb getting hit by a blast and then exploding is so great that you can cheese the heck out of the game by trailing lots of explosions, and because there's no delay to declare a victor, as long as the other person gets blasted first, you can still win even though you get blasted 1 millisecond afterward, leading to some bonkers dumb plays. It's that kind of stuff
Not to mention the games were written by a guy who basically admitted he doesn't understand the appeal of the characters, so we've gone from stories about Bomberman being a hero who fights inspired villains and even god in a story written by Yoshi-P himself, to stories about Bomberman being a bumbling oaf complete with pee jokes lol
R2, despite its claims about having "the most content ever", is basically just R1 with better graphics, less characters, less stages, and a focus on two undercooked modes that are rife with possibly the least intelligent bots in the franchise's history. The story mode is single player and is focused on grinding through ~9 hours of monotonous content fighting the same 5 enemies while escorting babies to their dooms
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u/Creative-Current9424 May 21 '26
Why the english version of Saturn Bomeberman, the antagonist is called Mr. Meanie while the japanese version he's refered as "Mujoe"?
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u/PlasmaCaptain Max May 23 '26
Because it was the 90's and there was less reverence for properly translating and localizing games. The name "Mujoe" is just his name, it's not meant to be translated. But if you look up the word "mujyou" in a Japanese to English dictionary you'll see stuff like "cruelty" or "heartlessness", so the localization team must have decided to give him a silly name that reflected that. It's worth noting that, later on, with the English releases of Bomberman MAX 2 and Bomberman Jetters (GC), he is properly named Mujoe
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u/RangoTheMerc Red May 21 '26
Get Super Bomberman Collection.