{"id":11877,"date":"2014-05-19T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=11877"},"modified":"2014-05-12T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T11:58:41","slug":"bust-a-move-4-ps3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/bust-a-move-4-ps3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bust-A-Move 4 (PS3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BUST_BOX\"<\/a>Aside from Tetris and Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo, one of my all-time favorite puzzle game series is Bust-A-Move.\u00a0 Heck, even my mom loves these games.\u00a0 It\u2019s also known as Puzzle Bobble, and I prefer that name since the game is based on the arcade classic Bubble Bobble, so it makes more sense.\u00a0 But anyway, now you can download one of the classic PlayStation entries in the series published by Natsume, downloadable on PSN (reviewed on PS3 here).<\/p>\n

The object of all Bust-A-Move games is the same, and very simple and easy to pick up and play.\u00a0 Colored bubbles are arranged at the top of the screen, and slowly creep down.\u00a0 You must prevent them from reaching the bottom or it\u2019s Game Over.\u00a0 To do this, you must aim and fire bubbles from the bottom of the screen.\u00a0 You can also make bubbles bounce off of walls to hit hard to reach places.\u00a0 Match three of the same colored bubble and they\u2019ll pop and disappear.\u00a0 Any bubbles hanging under the match will fall and disappear too, and you can earn points and chain reactions in the two player modes by doing that.\u00a0 Pop all the bubbles in the single player modes to clear the stage, or make the second player\u2019s field full of bubbles to win in the two player modes.\u00a0 Bust-A-Move 4 adds a new gameplay mechanic: pulleys.\u00a0 Some stages have bubbles attached to pulleys, and if you attach bubbles or clear out some, it\u2019ll affect the weight of the bubbles on the pulleys and they may go up or down.<\/p>\n

Bust-A-Move 4 has several gameplay modes.\u00a0 In the single player puzzle mode, you take on hundreds of stages, and can choose your path to the end.\u00a0 So replay value is high.\u00a0 There is also a challenge mode that isn\u2019t too much different than the regular arcade puzzle mode.\u00a0 You can also play two player modes with the computer or another player.\u00a0 You can even edit and create your own puzzles!<\/p>\n

Really the only problem I had with this game is that it was a bit buggy in the music department.\u00a0 A song would play in one level, only to cut out and be silent in the next, reappearing almost randomly again later.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if this was a bug in the original PSOne game, too, but it doesn\u2019t affect the gameplay at all here, so it\u2019s only a very minor problem.\u00a0 Since all Bust-A-Move games are pretty much the same, if you already own a game in this series, there isn\u2019t much new here.\u00a0 But if you don\u2019t have a Bust-A-Move game to play on your PS3, this one is a great download and I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n

\"BUST_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

No violence or objectionable material whatsoever.\u00a0 Reading is helpful for menu navigation, but the game itself is easy enough to figure out how to play.\u00a0 Limitless continues keep the game from being frustrating, too.\u00a0 Bust-A-Move 4 is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aside from Tetris and Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo, one of my all-time favorite puzzle game series is Bust-A-Move.\u00a0 Heck, even my mom loves these games.\u00a0 It\u2019s also known as Puzzle Bobble, and I prefer that name since the game is based on the arcade classic Bubble Bobble, so it makes more sense.\u00a0 But anyway, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11880,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877\/revisions\/11880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}