Hands up if you remember Basement Crawl? The curious Bomberman-inspired PlayStation 4 exclusive from Bloober Team attained a reasonable amount of attention due to it being one of the first next-gen titles to deploy in 2014. The final product left a lot to be desired, however, prompting it to earn a miserable Metascore of just 27.
Not long after launch, the Polish studio pledged that it would rebuild and re-release the title on a new engine – with existing owners promised the enhanced edition for free. And our first glimpse at the update, now named Brawl, has finally appeared online, touting a 2015 release date – and several immediately noticeable improvements.
While we're not overly familiar with the original, it looks like it's ditched its dreary artstyle, opting for a more vibrant comic book direction. The user interface appears to have been completely overhauled as well, but it's the implementation of new characters – eight are glimpsed in the trailer, compared to the original's three – that perhaps spells the biggest change.
Of course, the big question is whether it'll actually be fun this time – but we'll reserve judgment on that until we get our hands on it. Credit to the developer for licking its wounds and trying again, though – that can't have been easy.
[source youtube.com, via segmentnext.com]
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It definitely looks more like a proper product in that trailer. Not sure whether it'll be any good, but the gameplay appears much closer to vanilla Bomberman now.
Well I give kudos to the dev for the try, hopes it do well this time
I recall the main complaint was that the gameplay was horrific, hopefully as you said it will be fun, are people still going to get this free then even though the name has changed, I'm assuming the previous game will be removed from psn...
I really wish they'd had just learned their lessons and moved on to another title. How much time have they pumped into this unnecessary Bomberman clone?
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi Hey, sorry I am a little late with the reply, just about recovered from christmas. The game will still be free for everyone who bought Basement Crawl. The gameplay was definitely one of the biggest problems but we are changing a lot of aspects of the game. We will keep you updated!
@glassmusic We are also making a new project called Scopophobia, we have put out some materials that you can check! The reason we are making this is because we, as gamers, would be pissed if a dev didn't give it their best shot to fix something like this. So here we are
@Marc_Bloober I bought Basement Crawl it failed terribilly as you know, looking forward to trying out the revamped version thankyou very much as you say no other devs would of done this especially for free, ty again and I hope it works out this time man. (downloading it as I type)
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