A game that brings fond memories to those who have played classic shooters on 8-bit consoles
This game is being developed by Fast Forward studio, which is the youngest internal studio of My.Com. The only game previously released by these developers is Planet of Heroes in the MOBA genre. However, Bombastic Brothers is a shoot ’em up game with platforming elements. Like the classic Contra.
Where does the plot start?
The game begins with the fact that the main character of the game (but not the only one) – Jeff, rests with his dog Princess on the beach and wakes up the moment when alien termites attacked his planet. As a result of the invasion, his dog was captured, which in turn swallowed a certain “orb” – an important thing with which you can defeat the invaders.
I slept, did not touch anyone, and then the aliens invade without asking
The hero General and his secretary Kate support the informational character, and physically the sniper Ginger, the fighter Doctor Zane and other characters that open up as the story progresses.
Are you my new waifu?
Game process
The game mechanics are very similar to the ancient Contra . The player’s task is to go forward along the location and destroy enemies with the help of firearms. The system automatically aims at the nearest enemy and the user only has to press the shot button.
It is also worth keeping an eye on the number of cartridges in the store – sometimes at the most unexpected moment they can run out and the character will forcibly reload the weapon. This can take some time and he will be defenseless. If the player has a half-empty magazine and he does not shoot for about a second, then the system can start automatic reloading until he fires. The ammunition, in contrast to the size of the store, is unlimited.
Thanks for the advice, albeit obvious
Separate buttons have been created for shooting and jumping, but you can enable jump on the virtual joystick. Also, the character can bend down to dodge some attacks and double jumps to jump onto some platforms. But jumping down will not work.
No second chance, not even for a donation. Fortunately, missions do not last longer than two minutes.
In addition, each hero has two abilities that can be activated an unlimited number of times, but with a delay. For example, Jeff has a grenade and a rocket launcher, Ginger has an energy cannon that deals gradual damage in an area and a weighted bullet that flies through. And as an ultimate ability – shelling, destroying almost all enemies on the screen. And it can only be used once per battle.
In addition to ordinary enemies with different weapons and battle tactics, some locations have bosses. They have 2-3 types of attacks, as well as ten times the amount of health.
At least – no second phases with full regeneration of all health
After the first successful completion of the task, the player receives gold, a military box, from which you can get a variety of items for characters, tokens and experience. When you replay the story missions – only gold and experience. There are only three currencies: gold, crystals and tokens. The first is used to improve your own ship, the second can be obtained for leveling up or buying sets for real currency and exchanged for other gold and tokens, and the third is used in various battles and is spent on improving heroes.
World map and economy
There are three ways to power up heroes: increase the level with tokens, increase the star level by collecting fragments of the hero, or give him the best weapons and equipment that will not be higher than the level of the hero in his current form. Shards of the hero can be obtained in some story missions, and equipment is often obtained from boxes. A military crate with simple equipment can be obtained every three hours, and an experimental crate with much stronger items every 12 hours.
From boxes you can get equipment with which we equip heroes
The game can be divided into 4 conditional zones:
- Subject area. After completing Act 3, a higher difficulty becomes available on the same missions, but for this you have to start from the very first.
- Daily Missions– a set of three tasks for each class separately with increasing difficulty. After successfully completing the third mission, a new one will become available in three hours.
- Bunkeris a set of locations with gradually increasing difficulty. When passing every fifth floor, a checkpoint is given and, depending on the record, the user can pick up a daily reward in the form of a large number of tokens.
- Arenais a PvP mode where the player can measure the strength of his heroes with the characters of other users. The battle takes place automatically and the result often depends on the level of the heroes’ power. To participate, you need a special ticket, which will eventually be issued free of charge, but no more than three pieces.
PvP for the lazy
Flying ship and heroes
As you progress through the story and level up, the hero gains access to some parts of the ship. For example, a command post or arena. The main room is the captain’s bridge, because only the improvement of this room will increase all the others to the appropriate level.
Outwardly, the ship changes only once
In the “Command post” section, heroes can be sent on missions. To do this, you need to put up heroes whose total strength exceeds the minimum value (otherwise they simply will not let you in), after which, after a certain amount of time, this very task will be completed. In some tasks, you must send a hero of a certain class, for example, an attack aircraft. The characters themselves can be freely used on missions.
In order to strengthen the hero, you need to give him the best (or optimal) equipment and weapons. The latter have only three main characteristics: damage done, rate of fire and reload speed. All items can be divided into five types of rarity: common – gray, unusual – green, rare – blue, epic – purple, legendary – yellow. And the higher the rarity, the more additional properties are given by weapons and equipment, in addition to a simple increase in health, attack and other things. And each item can only be used for one class.
In the workshop room, you can assign a hero to create new weapons and equipment. To do this, you need to select a hero and in accordance with his class an item for this class will be created. To create an item of green rarity, you need only 300 gold coins and 5 gray shards. To create an item of blue rarity – already 1200 coins and 10 green shards. The fragments themselves can be obtained by destroying unnecessary items.
You can even select items by category here
In the smelter, everything is easier – you just need to choose a free hero who will constantly generate gold. The storage capacity fills up in 3 hours. If the hero also has a higher star level, then he receives a bonus to loot.
The game has full Russian localization, it does not take up a lot of RAM, even in a Full HD screen, and also takes up to 300 MB of free space.
