Silent Bomber

This is a really fun game. Watch this to get an idea.



You can drop bombs on the ground or shoot them. You can't shoot the special bombs though. They can all be stacked to do more damage, range or effects.

Normal bombs are infinite. The max that can be placed is 8.

Paralysis Liquid, when detonated, sends out bolts of electricity that paralyze enemies.
It doesn't work on these living mutant types later, but works on bosses.

Napalm creates a burning area doing continuous damage. Causes those same mutants to take constant hitstun.

Gravity creates these swirling orbs and sucks enemies in. Does damage so can be used on big stuff too. Gravity is like KH2's Magnet. You can even combine stuff like Napalm to keep them stuck in the fire.

The levels are short and have letter rankings.

Bombs can also be used to destroy projectiles. I found that the fire from Napalm blocks projectiles. You also get points from this.

There's an extremely light upgrade system. You get chips, and can place them in bomb, range, and shield. Bomb is number of bombs and damage (since you can stack more), range is the distance you can shoot them, and shield is just defense. You can rearrange them any time.

I'm a bit stuck on the final boss now. When he becomes like a giant hologram and tries to grab, he has 3 types. I keep getting caught. I think you need to jump or air dash in certain directions depending on which grab he does.

It's also extremely annoying that you have to do that chess board fight again if you lose, though I can donit easily now.

So far had a blast with this and would recommend. Don't know how hard it is to find for PS1 but it's on the Japanese PS3 store. Could be on US but haven't checked.

Finally beat him.

When he brings his arm up from below, you just jump on the spot. It seems jumping in any direction and trying to air dash gets you caught. You can break out early if you shoot at least 5 bombs, but you take a fixed amount of damage first because he says something while your life drains and you can't fire until he's done.

When he's running around at normal size, he can attach bombs to you too. He uses the same device and lock on method. To avoid this, jump and air dash to break his lock. Once he fires you can't avoid the bombs.

He can't be locked on to either. I stacked my bombs on the ground and lured him over them to win. Paralysis works but no lock on makes it hard to use since you can't shoot bombs reliably without it. I just missed.

Beating the game unlocks versus mode. There's player vs com and pvp.
No real interest in this.

Top tier PS1 game, played it many times since I got OpenEmu setup at my Dads in 2018 It's the edgy Bomberman game(as opposed to Bomberman: Act Zero) I've always wanted.