{"id":140411,"date":"2022-11-27T00:35:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T00:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/we-received-many-requests-to-bring-back-the-puzzle-bobble-series\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T00:35:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T00:35:41","slug":"we-received-many-requests-to-bring-back-the-puzzle-bobble-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/we-received-many-requests-to-bring-back-the-puzzle-bobble-series\/","title":{"rendered":"“We Received Many Requests To Bring Back The Puzzle Bobble Series”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image: Taito<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re big fans of Taito’s Bubble Bobble spin-off series Puzzle Bobble<\/strong> around these parts. We used to know it as Bust-A-Move<\/strong> in the West, and news that a new entry in the series was coming to Switch next year courtesy of publisher ININ got us rather excited.<\/p>\n

Puzzle Bobble Everybubble! is a four-player co-op take on the classic tile-matching billiard-bubble shooter, with new dragons Peb and Pab joining Bub and Bob in a story mode which is a first for the series.<\/p>\n

Recently we got the chance to ask the game’s director, Tsuyoshi Tozaki, some questions ahead of the game’s launch next spring…<\/p>\n\n

The Puzzle Bobble series has been going for nearly 30 years. Do you remember what first inspired you to make a spin-off for the Bubble Bobble series?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tsuyoshi Tozaki, Game Director:<\/strong> The original Puzzle Bobble was a puzzle game called ‘Billiardesu’. As the name suggests, the game was inspired by Billiards, where you are supposed to either shoot your ball directly or let it bounce off the walls to hit the other balls.<\/p>\n

In the early 1990s, when Puzzle Bobble was created, many companies started to focus on puzzle games. Among the prototype games, Billiardesu proved so attractive that Taito decided to work on the game’s commercialization. And to make this puzzle game more appealing for women, which were the main target group at that time, they decided to use the pop and cute Bubble Bobble character.<\/p>\n

Why is now the right time to bring Puzzle Bobble back?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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we want to continue growing and nurturing the Bubble Bobble IP<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Puzzle Bobble series has continued to be released as game platforms evolved, with games such as Puzzle Bobble Journey<\/strong> (Bust-A-Move Journey<\/strong>), which is still available as an app for smartphones. There have also been arcade machines such as Bust-A-Move Frenzy. Furthermore, we released Puzzle Bobble 3D: Vacation Odyssey for PS4, PS5, and PSVR last year, in cooperation with Survios, although the 3D experience differs greatly from the previous games.<\/p>\n

We decided to work on Puzzle Bobble Everybubble! as a Taito-developed game following the positive reception following the release of Bubble Bobble 4 Friends, where we received many requests to bring back the Puzzle Bobble series. Moreover, we also want to continue growing and nurturing the Bubble Bobble IP. We hope the new game will appeal to as broad a range of players and fans as Bubble Bobble did.<\/p>\n