Bust-A-Move Universe
Bust-A-Move (also known as Puzzle Bobble) is a real-time puzzle game in which the player controls a device called "pointer" at the bottom of the screen, aiming and releasing randomly colored bubbles upwards…
Bust-A-Move Universe is a puzzle, released 27 March 2011 on Nintendo 3DS.
What Bust-A-Move Universe is
Bust-A-Move Universe was released in 2011. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Bust-A-Move (also known as Puzzle Bobble) is a real-time puzzle game in which the player controls a device called "pointer" at the bottom of the screen, aiming and releasing randomly colored bubbles upwards. Depending on the aiming, the bubbles may float up directly or bounce off the walls, changing their trajectory. The goal is to aim the bubbles in such a way that they will touch identically colored ones. When such bubbles form a group of three or more, they pop and disappear from the screen.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Bubble Bobble series
Bust-A-Move Universe is the 76th of 95 entries we hold in the Bubble Bobble series. It arrived a year after Bust-A-Move Live!. The next entry was Retro Arcade: Space Invaders in 2011. Its critic score of 58 is 10 points below the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Space Bust-A-Move at 100.
How it was received
Bust-A-Move Universe holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 2,791 rated puzzle games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 10 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Bust-A-Move Universe launched on 27 March 2011, within three weeks of Crysis 2, Dragon Age 2, Total War: Shogun 2 and Dragon Age II. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Crysis 2, Dragon Age 2, Total War: Shogun 2, Dragon Age II.
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