The game was first announced at the 2000 Nintendo Space World, with a single screenshot shown to the public. Each of the game's six different environments possesses only a minimum of rectangular features and is detailed with all sorts of wacky nuances, such as trees that topple over or an earthen giant collapsed in the middle of a road.īomberman Tournament was developed by Hudson Soft. The majority of the action takes place in 2D from a top-down vantage point, while Karabon battles and select minigames are presented in a side view. Unlike other Bomberman games, Tournament's single-player quest mode is an action-adventure game with influences of Zelda, Pokémon and especially Hudson's Neutopia. Randomly selected from a pool of 10 different items, these tiles have a number of effects, such as increasing bombs' blast radius, increasing the player's bomb capacity, or even reversing a player's controls. As the player defeats enemies and clears away obstacles, a variety of power-up tiles appear. In order to score (in multiplayer mode), players must lay time bombs in order to trap and obliterate their opponents, with the last player alive becoming the winner. Tournament was generally lauded for its simple, approachable gameplay. Bomberman is then sent by Ein to save Phantarion and find Max, thus beginning the playable portion of the story. When Doctor Ein talks to Bomberman a week later, Bomberman tells him that they have lost all contact with Max. He is knocked out by the bird by one fell blow, and is either sent to the top of the tower or down a hole (the exact cannot be determined, Max is only shown being pulled into a dark, foreboding circle in the center of the screen). Once inside, he is confronted by a huge bird creature (later found to be Plasma Bomber in his transformed state). Upon arriving on the planet, Max makes his way to the base of the tower. The people of Phantarion sent out a distress call, and Professor Ein sent Max to investigate.

Shortly thereafter, a large fortress was erected, and in turn the land around the tall, tower-like fortress and the fortress itself began to freeze over.

From the cutscene at the beginning of the game, it is given that five meteors (the five Dastardly Bombers, from Super Bomberman 2 and Super Bomberman 3) hit the planet. On the edge of the galaxy sits a small planet, Phantarion.

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