Bomberman 64: The Second Attack!

Nintendo exclusive

Of the great discoveries in the universe, few are more important than the legendary 8 elements. When the evil Rukifellth found one of these elements - the powerful Celestial Stone - he used his influence to assemble the dreaded BHB Army. Armed with his new army and a giant space warship, the power-crazed Rukifellth began scouring the galaxy for the other 7 elements, invading planets and enslaving innocent races throughout the galaxy. Rukifellth controls these enslaved planets with special Gravity Generators - the same devices the BHB Army used to create a Black Hole.

Released: 3 December 1999
Platforms: Nintendo 64
Genres: Adventure
Developers: Hudson Soft
Publishers: Vatical Entertainment
Modes: Local multiplayer Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Action

About

Bomberman 64: The Second Attack! is a 1999 action video game, the sequel to 1997's Bomberman 64.

Keywords

mascot
sequel
explosion
death match
split-screen multiplayer
polygonal 3d
shopping
retroachievements
rumble pak
controller pak
nintendo 64 exclusive

Media

Bomberman 64: The Second Attack! screenshot 1

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

In many aspects, the game plays identically to Bomberman 64, with features such as the ability to make bombs bigger. As opposed to the circular explosions of the first Nintendo 64 title, the explosions in The Second Attack are the traditional cross "+" shape.

Second Attack brought many new features to the game, such as:

Story

Bomberman finds a mysterious egg while celebrating his victory over Altair and Sirius on a hot spring planet and decides to take it with him while exploring space in his ship. One day, however, Bomberman's ship gets sucked into a black hole, and he wakes up to find himself in a jail. While in jail, the egg suddenly begins to hatch. The creature inside turns out to be a charabom named Pommy. With the help of Pommy, Bomberman is able to escape.

Bomberman learns there are some elemental crystals being collected by the evil Rukifellth, and the Astral Knights, that hold the current crystals. Regulus, whom Bomberman has fought before, is one of these Knights. They are missing the fire crystal which Bomberman has. It is up to Bomberman and Pommy to stop the new evil and retrieve the crystals.

Reception

The game received mixed reviews, with GameSpot stating that "Although Bomberman 64: The Second Attack! is not at all revolutionary, it is not especially well executed in any particular area, and it suffers noticeably in the graphics and sound departments, but it still has its moments" and IGN saying: "The game's look aspires to equal the quality first-generation titles like Super Mario 64 and Glover, but falls noticeably short" and "Cheesy music and sound effects never sounded so... average."

The game also brought praise, mostly on the single-player gameplay. GameSpot praised the single player mode, but considered the puzzles too short, saying "Overall, the single-player mode is right about average. Although the new bomb types add variety, most of the puzzles don't require much thought". IGN criticized the game length, but praised the game-play, as they say "The hidden stuff to be found and unlocked is way cool, but the length and difficulty of the one player mode is suspect."