Bomber Fox

[h1]FoxMania: The Quest To Review All Fox Games On Steam![/h1] [i]Conditions for inclusion: [list] [*]The player character must be consistently a fox; the fox must not be merely a skin or a character option [*]Must have 100% working Steam achievements [*]Must not be a visual novel [/list][/i] [b]Game #10: Bomber Fox[/b] What I expected: an indie interpretation of Bomberman with cool neon visuals. What I got: a shovelware nightmare of tedium and frustration (but with, admittedly, cool neon visuals). This game is incredible. It's like someone decided to make a Bomberman-style game, sat down and made a list of all the elements that make Bomberman fun, then specifically didn't include any of them. Do you like blowing the smithereens out of your enemies? Well too bad, most (and I do mean [i]most[/i], as in, in the realm of 95%) of the enemies in the game have two or more hit points. You’ll mostly just be running around in a panic trying to dodge crowds of enemies while you whittle away their HP. Because [i]that’s[/i] fun. Enemies with HP aren't inherently a bad thing in a Bomberman game, right? That only means you need to use cool combos to take them out, right? Well, too bad. Th…

The game at first seemed promising until I got around the end of the first world and realized the developer had this "brilliant" idea of making it so enemies spawn endlessly. Combine this with said enemies having 2HP meaning you end up scrambling to remove as many as possible and especially if you're trying to 100% the game via "Hard" difficulty you're likely going to end up dying from it. Oh but as soon as I started the second world, the game starts to spawn enemies anyway. Like on top of the already mass horde of enemies you see on the map the game decides to spawn even MORE on top of it and the fact you have to blow through walls to get to the exit just reeks of pure ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Hell I actually had an instance an enemy spawned at the EXIT and I didnt even notice. The real insult to injury is what the developer decided to do in terms of difficulty. Die too many times? The game locks you out of Hard all the way down to what's essentially casual and the worse part? You literally have to repeat the same level on Easy and Normal in order to get Hard back. So no LFG, as much as I wanted to like this game this kind of stupidity convinced me to drop it entirely. Do I recommend it? Only…