Bomberman Jetters (video game)

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Bomberman Jetters
Developer(s)	Hudson Soft
Publisher(s)	Majesco
Release date(s)	March 10, 2004
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Everyone
Platform(s)	Nintendo GameCube/Game Boy Advance

Bomberman Jetters is a video game for the Nintendo GameCube system. It is an adaptation of the anime series Bomberman Jetters.

[edit] Plot

Mujoe and The Hige Hige Bandits, frustrated with Bomberman repeatedly stopping their plans at galactic conquest, enact a plan to do away with him and his kind forever; Dark Star, Mujoe's artificial comet, would be used and hurled straight into Bomberman's home world, Planet Bomber. The resulting collision would completely obliterate the planet and all who were still on it. Dark Star will hit the planet in under 24 hours, so Bomberman and Max are sent out to turn off the large engines propelling the comet through space, thereby stopping its flight-plan and again thwarting the Hige Hige Bandits.

Though retaining the same game engine and cel-shaded graphic style as its preceding game, Bomberman Generation, the actual game-play itself is different and more refined; instead of the manic, sugar-rush energy that Generation thrived on, Jetters is more calmed and straight forward. Instead of playing as just Bomberman, players can switch between him and his partner Max, though Max's only real addition to the gameplay is the use of the Hyper Plasma Bomb to destroy certain walls. He cannot use Charaboms, though Bomberman can.

The Charabom usage is different from that in Generation. Instead of Pokémon-style battles to acquire them, they are either hidden in certain levels or held hostage by the Hige Hige Bandits or other enemies. Some have different effects than in the first game, and those effects are increased the stronger the Charabom becomes. There are also about 16, versus the over 30 seen in Generation (including hybrid Charaboms).

Attribute Bombs are again in use, though they have much different effects and can only be put down one at a time.

[edit] Criticism of the English Jetters Game

The English version of the Bomberman Jetters game(Gamecube) has been criticized for its poor English voice-acting; the English voices lacked emotion. Many Bomberman fans, including Jetters fans who watch the Japanese episodes subbed by Anime-Kraze, believe that most of the English voices completely altered some characters from the Japanese Bomberman Jetters anime. For example, the character who received the biggest personality change in the game was Shout; in the English game, Shout doesn't yell at Shirobon at all. She seems nicer in the English Jetters game than the Japanese anime series.Shirobon's character was also altered a little bit which differed from his Anime series counterpart, in the English game, he seems less babyish and less immature, and he does not utter the word"Nii-chan"(Which he refers to his older brother Mighty in the Japanese Anime version) or his Catchphrase" I'm a Jetters and I have two Bomb stars", at all in the game; this may be altered to have the game seem more of a direct sequel to Bomberman Generation than a video game rendition of an anime series not many people are familiar with.

In an episode of Judgement Day on G4, Tommy Tallarico also criticized the game for its poor English voice acting.

[edit] Trivia

• This is the second Bomberman title licensed under Majesco Games.

• It was released in the States sometime around 2004/2005, though the copyright information on the game itself states it was made in 2002.

• Though not credited in the previous game, many of the voice talent from Bomberman Generation reprise their roles for Jetters (Bomberman, Max, Mujoe, Professor Ein, the Hige-Hige Bandits).

• Bomberman Jetters Received 2 Television reviews on 2 Video Game tv series on G4-TechTv, one on an Episode of X-Play and another on an Episode of Judgement Day.

• The Opening Theme to the Jetters Game uses Footage from the Japanese Opening to the Jetters Anime Series, but the Japanese Theme Song" Boku Wa Gakeppuchi" was replaced with an American Techno/Rock Music Opening.