{"id":25525,"date":"2025-04-02T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T00:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25525"},"modified":"2025-03-22T16:47:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T16:47:39","slug":"bubble-ghost-remake-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/02\/bubble-ghost-remake-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubble Ghost Remake (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I was a kid, one of my favorite stores to go into in the mall was Babbages.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think they\u2019re around anymore, but they were kind of like a precursor to GameStop.\u00a0 They sold video games but mostly computer software and stuff.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t really buy too many computer games then, but I still liked to look at the boxes because that\u2019s how we found out about games before the Internet a lot of times.\u00a0 One of the game boxes that caught my eye was Bubble Ghost.\u00a0 It had two things I liked in games: bubbles (like in Bubble Bobble) and ghosts (like in Pac-Man).\u00a0 But I never got around to buying that game.\u00a0 Not sure why.\u00a0 Maybe it was too expensive and I didn\u2019t think it was worth the money.\u00a0 A few years later they made a version of it on the Game Boy, but I never got around to buying it either.\u00a0 There were a few years as a kid that I didn\u2019t buy a whole lot of Game Boy stuff, and I don\u2019t really remember seeing it in a store anyway.\u00a0 So I never got to try Bubble Ghost.\u00a0 So that\u2019s why I\u2019m glad that I got to review this remake.\u00a0 It adds fancy hand drawn graphics and new levels and gameplay ideas.\u00a0 Basic gist is that you are a ghost and try to blow a bubble around obstacles and keep it from popping.\u00a0 Bubble Ghost Remake is available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

The story here is that you are professor Heinrich and fall in love with a musician named Sofia.\u00a0 But you have to go off to fight in a war and when you return, you are a ghost (so I\u2019m guessing he died in the war?).\u00a0 Upon returning, you hear familiar music encased in a bubble, and you decide to keep it from popping by blowing it all around the house because\u2026well, I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 This is one of those games that doesn\u2019t really need a story.\u00a0 You\u2019re just a ghost and blow around a bubble to keep it from popping.\u00a0 That\u2019s all you really need to know.<\/p>\n

Gameplay is pretty simple.\u00a0 Your ghost can move around and go through walls, as ghosts do.\u00a0 When you press the A button, you\u2019ll blow out air.\u00a0 Tap it a little bit and it\u2019ll be a small puff, but hold it down and it\u2019ll be a long and more powerful exhale.\u00a0 Do this to blow the bubble around the screen to the exit.\u00a0 If the bubble hits something, it\u2019ll pop and you must start the level over again.\u00a0 Sometimes you must blow other things in the levels to bypass obstacles and solve puzzles, like blowing out candles or getting spiderwebs out of the way.\u00a0 To blow the bubble around at different angles, there are two control options.\u00a0 You can rotate your ghost in eight directions with the L and R buttons, or you can press the X button so that the ghost always faces the bubble no matter what angle.\u00a0 There are times that either control scheme is useful, so it\u2019s good you can switch on the fly.\u00a0 Also, pressing the Y button will make you flip around, too.\u00a0 You really feel like you have very good control over the bubble, but every so often it would get annoying when it would barely nick a corner and pop!<\/p>\n

There are two main modes of play. Story Mode has all new levels that you can select from, secret paths, autoscrolling stages, and even bosses.\u00a0 There are also three different difficulty levels, but even Easy can be pretty tough sometimes.\u00a0 There are lots of hidden items and secrets to discover, too.\u00a0 There is also a mode where you can play the classic game layout with five lives, but it still uses the fancy new graphics from the remake.\u00a0 It\u2019s too bad they couldn\u2019t let you play the PC and Game Boy versions as well, but I guess I may be getting a bit too nitpicky.\u00a0 You can also play this mode in a speedrun as well as compare your best times on a leaderboard.\u00a0 Aside from some backgrounds being hard to tell what can and can\u2019t pop your bubble, this is a pretty good remake.\u00a0 Glad I got to review it!<\/p>\n

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

Bubble Ghost Remake is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence. \u00a0Some of the violence is just implied, like the ghost dying after going off to war.\u00a0 Otherwise you\u2019re just indirectly causing cartoon animals to crash into things and get dizzy in the boss stages.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Younger gamers may need help with the tougher challenges, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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