Bomberman II, released in 1991 in Europe and Australia as Dynablaster, is the second Bomberman game for the Family Computer in Japan and on its international Nintendo Entertainment System counterpart.
It combines elements from the original Bomberman for Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment System as well as from the 1990 Bomberman game for the the PC Engine and its international version, the TurboGrafx-16.
The inspiration from the PC Engine Bomberman includes the graphical style that the series is known for, with the iconic white and black Bomberman outfits with pink-topped antennae on the helmets.
Like the afforentioned PC Engine game, it also includes scenes to illustrate the story, although the story shown between stages are simply simple static graphics. The story of this game finds Bomberman framed for the robbery of a bank by the Black Bomber. Bomberman must fight through forty-eight levels, blowing up enemies and blocks to reveal doors he can use to escape.
These are now seperated into six stages with eight levels unlike the fifty identical stages in the first game for Famicom and the sixty-four broken up into eight stages with eight levels from the PC Engine Bomberman. Like the latter, the stages have individual artistic themes that seperate them from the usual plain bricks. Unlike that game, however, there are no bosses at the end of the stages.
Continuing on from the first Famicom version after they were not included in the PC Engine Bomberman, there are bonus stages after every five stages which can be made more easy by mashing the bomb button. These bonus stages continue to have their own theme music.
A weird feature of this game is seen when spamming the bomb button to keep blowing up bombs while invincible to bombs will send you blasting backwards. If you hit an enemy after this happens, Bomberman will lose a life. The bomb blasts don't send Bomberman backwards in bonus stages. A beeping sound is heard for every ten seconds before a stage ends. This is true in bonus stages as well as during the last moments of an invincibility powerup.
Bomberman II is a vast improvement over the original Famicom Bomberman. The graphics and music have been enhanced to more closely resemble their 16-bit counterparts, and as a result there is a greater variety in both areas. The lack of bosses brings the enjoyability of this game down a bit, but it is definitely a game that I can be more confident in recommending to fans of the series over its predecessor.
Final Verdict:
4 out of 5
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