Blender Bros

Blender Bros has quite the odd backstory. Originally a GBA title - this game was exclusive to North America, but the back story comic was exclusive to Japan. If you try to find a physical copy of this game nowadays, it will set you back hundreds of dollars. The game itself is a pretty average platformer, however the characters and universe as well as Blender's unique abilities made it worth my time as a first time player with no nostalgia for the title. It's nice seeing such a rare and obscure game made officially available here on Steam, but as it is a re-release of a GBA game with no major changes made and it's actually a very short game (seriously, some levels are under a minute in length!), I heavily recommend waiting for a sale if you're interested in picking it up officially.

Blender Bros. is a Game Boy Advance platform-game that was born from a collaboration between Infogrames and Hudson Soft (the latter of which was best-known for series like Adventure Island, Bomberman, and Star Soldier, before being absorbed into Konami in 2012). An early release for the system in 2002, it went pretty much unpromoted in its day, so in spite of being a platformer enthusiast, I only heard of it for the first time when I recently stumbled across Piko Interactive's emulator-wrapped Steam re-release. The story sees an "animalman" named Blender (who leads a team known as the Cosmo Keepers) seeking to prevent a malicious group (the Zooligans) from wiping out humans. Blender is a dog-person with giant ears which he uses for tasks such as hanging from ropes, as springs for performing high-jumps, and as a radar for pointing you in the general direction of items and stage-exits, and he can also collect small backup creatures dubbed "Mini Bros.", which offer further abilities. He even rides a jet-bike in some into-the-screen driving sections which are there to break up the sidescrolling gameplay occasionally. Additionally, if you enjoy going back and trying to beat your best r…

https://youtu.be/Pf2J16KpZtM Originally a GBA title the gameplay and mechanics show their age. Without any personal nostalgia it is unlikely there is anything to draw new players in.

I am reviewing most Piko Interactive titles differently to how I review all other games, as with Piko I am usually reviewing the poor emulation choices they have made that ruin the entire game experience. It's so sad that they have the licenses to so many retro games and just don't care about them. Now THIS is a developer who is what I call a "cash cow" who just churns out retro titles with zero attention to detail and zero quality care. This has never been updated and after 5 years it's clear it never will be. What is extra sad about it is that this sort of fix is arbitrary and could be coded into an update overnight if that, as it's simply an emulator flag they need to offer an option for that they have hard enabled. Even if I had to go to a config file to do it, I wouldn't care in this case, as at least I could enjoy the game. I went a bit nuts with Piko when they had a sale and bought most of their retro games (the ones where I already knew the original well and wanted to own on a modern platform), and almost all of them suffer from this,. For those that don't, they will get a more in depth review of the game itself. Be warned, if you want quality, sharp emulation, this is not …

รีวิว Blender Bros. เกมลุยด่านเก่าๆสมัย Gameboy Advance แต่เอามาทำขายลง PC เราจะได้เล่นเป็น Blender หัวหน้าสัตว์จากต่างดาวที่ใช้หูใบพัดของตัวเองเป็นอาวุธ ต้องต่อสู้กับการรุกรานของกองทัพจากดาวดวงอื่นๆที่ชื่อ Zooligan ให้หมดสิ้นเพื่อความสงบสุขของดาวตัวเอง ในเกมเราจะได้บุกไปในดวงต่างๆ จัดการกับศัตรูตามทาง สู้กับบอสในด่านสุดท้าย และออกตามหา Mini Bros. ที่ซ่อนตามฉาก ในแต่ละด่าน เราจะสามารถเลือก Mini Bros. ได้แค่ตัวเดียวเท่านั้น โดย Mini Bros. แต่ละตัวจะให้ทักษะพิเศษที่ต่างกัน ทั้งโจมตีแรงขึ้น บล็อกการโจมตี ดูดเลือด ฯลฯ ซึ่งต้องกดปุ่ม W ถ้าเกิดจะใช้สกิล (แทนปุ่ม R ในเครื่อง GBA) นอกจากนั้นเรายังสามารถเพิ่มทักษะให้กับมันได้โดยการซื้อแนวเพลงที่มันชอบ แล้วเปิดให้มันฟัง ถ้าเปิดถูกแนว มันจะแปลงร่างกลายเป็นคู่หูที่ทำให้เราสามารถใช้สกิลได้ไวขึ้น หรือได้ความสามารถใหม่ๆมาใช้ มีให้เลือกถึง 14-15 แบบ แต่ทั้งเกมใช้แค่ 3 ตัวก็จบเกมได้แล้ว ส่วนตัวผมว่าสนุกดี หากจุดไหนเราตายแล้วขี้เกียจเล่นใหม่ตั้งแต่ต้นด่าน ก็แค่ใช้ระบบ save state ที่จุดไหนก็ได้ของเกม แล้วโหลดเซฟนั้นมาเล่นใหม่ก็ได้ เพราะมันคือเกมที่เล่นในอีมูเลเตอร์ มี Mini Bros. หายากอยู่ตัวหนึ่ง เป็นตัวสุดท้ายของเกม ชื่อ Chromawar ซึ่งจะหาได้โดยการสะสม Mini Bros. ให้ครบทุกตัว จากนั้นตัวสุดท้ายก็จะโผล่ ซึ่งอาจจะซ่อนในด่านไหนก็ได้ ให้กดปุ่ม Q เพื่…

Not recommended. The game length is about 2 hours, less if you use save states. For me it took about 2.5 hours. Quality-wise, that is some 2 hours wasted on obstacle course and deathtrap level design to pad out the game with artificial difficulty. I do not know why some site users rated the game length to be something like 16 hours. This game does not even have replayable content besides one Bro being added to Oasis 2 or sth after the game has been beat. This game hates you. It feels like a big setup with insidious enemy placements to make sure you have bad time and feel like you are constantly being tested with a deliberate obstacle course level design. It plays much worse than it looks. The control design is so awful it feels like suffering. If you removed all the horrible moves from the game, your character could no longer move. "OH YEAH!" To me, this game is a straight up kusoge ('crap game'). You can tell from it being a Piko title that it might not be the best or necessarily even worth playing. Stone Protector, Last Rites - there is a reason it took so long to port those games - they have little draw and were not that good even back in the day. Blender Bros Here is the m…