Metacritic Games

Puzzle Bobble VS (N-Gage)

Puzzle Bobble VS is an enduring classic. A deceptively simple puzzle game, you must blast the bubbles on your side of the screen by matching colors, then fire bubbles at your opponent's screen. Bluetooth wireless technology brings up to four-player multi-play action, and a unique Avec mode allows two people to play against each other on one game deck. Super-addictive puzzle action. [Nokia]

Taito
Puzzle, Arcade
Players: 4
E (Everyone)
Developer: Taito
Released October 6, 2003

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

22 / 100

Critic Reviews

33	GameNow Once again, the inability to easily distinguish colors ruins the gameplay. [Nov 2003, p.76]
32	N-Gage World It’s a shame that the guys at Taito and Nokia didn’t manage to recreate the classic arcade game play that so many people have become accustomed and addicted to.
30	GameZone Super-boring. Soporific, if you will. It's not even a little fun in the beginning. And if you stick it out, guess what? It doesn't get any better.
30	Pocket Games Nearly impossible to play because of the small balls in similar colors. [Spring 2004, p.18]
30	Game Informer It's a plodding puzzle title with little variation in gameplay, and graphics created on a Lite Brite look more interesting and detailed than what this stinker offers. [Oct 2003, p.51]
22	IGN We can't bring ourselves to even recommend it as a rental; it's much too frustrating (and eye-straining) to subject others to its blur of near identical bubbles, and snore-inducing pace. Stay away, for your optometrist's sake.
20	GamerFeed Small visuals spoil the experience, and the gameplay is so slow, senior citizen racing would perk things up. If Taito Memories is this bad, there will be problems.
20	Electronic Gaming Monthly The three-player Bluetooth Versus matches are conceptually cool, but with all of the other problems, they are no fun in practice. [Nov 2003, p.37]
20	GameSpy Maddeningly slow-paced, and the graphic flaws are more than just ugly... they actually make the game more difficult to play.
20	Game Power Australia Almost everything that made the Puzzle Bobble series fun has effectively been broken in the N-Gage's Puzzle Bobble VS, making it a game that you'd do well to steer clear of when you pick up your N-Gage.
16	Gaming Age Somehow developer Mascot Capsule has managed to make the N-Gage version the slowest version in the world.
14	GameSpot Sluggish gameplay and an inability to distinguish between some of the darker colors in the game render this version unplayable... A complete and utter mess.
10	GMR Magazine It's hard to say anything nice about this "Bust-A-Move" puzzler port, which runs at half-normal speeds, sans music. [Nov 2003, p.101]

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