What was it like coming back to the spin-off series with Bub and Bob at the helm again?Īs it’s the first console title in a while, we revisited the Puzzle Bobble series and took a look a fresh look at what makes the game what it is. We hope the new game will appeal to as broad a range of players and fans as Bubble Bobble did. Moreover, we also want to continue growing and nurturing the Bubble Bobble IP. 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. 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. There have also been arcade machines such as Bust-A-Move Frenzy. The Puzzle Bobble series has continued to be released as game platforms evolved, with games such as Puzzle Bobble Journey ( Bust-A-Move Journey), which is still available as an app for smartphones. We want to continue growing and nurturing the Bubble Bobble IP Why is now the right time to bring Puzzle Bobble back? 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. Among the prototype games, Billiardesu proved so attractive that Taito decided to work on the game's commercialization. In the early 1990s, when Puzzle Bobble was created, many companies started to focus on puzzle games. 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. Tsuyoshi Tozaki, Game Director: The original Puzzle Bobble was a puzzle game called 'Billiardesu'. Do you remember what first inspired you to make a spin-off for the Bubble Bobble series?
The Puzzle Bobble series has been going for nearly 30 years. Recently we got the chance to ask the game's director, Tsuyoshi Tozaki, some questions ahead of the game's launch next spring. 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. We used to know it as Bust-A-Move 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. We're big fans of Taito's Bubble Bobble spin-off series Puzzle Bobble around these parts.
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