Super Bust-A-Move

"Super?!? Super CRUD Is More Like it!"

I can’t believe all the good reviews this game is getting. I just have to chime in with my opinion on this game. If you’ve read any of my reviews here at GameFaqs, you’d see that most of them are negative. The reason for this is simple: good games usually get good reviews by lots of people, so there is no need for me to give my opinion. Bad games are the ones I want to steer potential buyers away from, so those are the ones where I feel that my opinion is most needed.

Because of the simplicity of this game, and how much of it is bad, I don’t need to write a long and lengthy review. This may just be my shortest review ever, but I think I make my point quite clearly.

Simply put, they broke Bust-A-Move. They removed almost all of the game play modes; they removed the edit mode; they made the controls unresponsive (they take a second to respond); they added annoying and distracting backgrounds; the bubbles have been graphically-enhanced so they they, too, are now annoying to look at; they took away all the cool characters and added a bunch of Pokemon rejects; and they added a TON of long loading screens.

Most of that is pretty much self-explanatory, so I don’t need to elaborate on it. However, I will give you a list of what few game play modes there are in the game:

– 1 Player: Training / Normal / Classic
– CPU Battle: Normal / Expert
– 2 Player Battle: Normal / Expert / Chain Reaction

Yup, that’s it.

I rented this game to see if I had made a mistake buying Bust-A-Move 4 (for the Playstation 1). Well, I can tell you this, my purchase of Bust-A-Move 4 was definitely well worth it. I have Super Bust-A-Move 2 on my rental list. Although I suspect that it won’t be much better than this one, I’ll still be optimistic and give it a try.

If you want a good Bust-A-Move game to play on your Playstation 2, get yourself Bust-A-Move ’99 or Bust-A-Move 4 (both for the Playstation 1). Both are essentially the same, though 4 adds pulleys to the puzzles. Sure the graphics look like they came off of a SNES, but is that really such a bad thing?!? The load times are short (to non-existent at times), the characters look cool (in that odd-Japanese way), and most of all, the controls are extremely responsive and there are a ton of game play modes.

Reviewer's Score: 1/10, Originally Posted: 07/04/03, Updated 07/04/03