Bubble Bobble 4 Friends
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Bubble Bobble 4 Friends is an arcade developed by Taito, released 19 November 2019 on Nintendo Switch.
What Bubble Bobble 4 Friends is
Bubble Bobble 4 Friends is an arcade game developed by Taito and released in 2019. It was published by ININ Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
One night, a child’s room became enfolded by a miraculous light and every object under its rays suddenly came to life - including the child's most favorite toy, the little dragon called Bub. Full of jealousy, the wicked magician Bonner challenges the friendly dragon to battle.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Bubble Bobble series
Bubble Bobble 4 Friends is the 83rd of 95 entries we hold in the Bubble Bobble series. It arrived 9 months after ACA Neo Geo: Puzzle Bobble 2. The next entry was Bubble Bobble 4 Friends: The Baron Is Back! in 2019. Its critic score of 74 is 6 points above the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Space Bust-A-Move at 100.
How it was received
Bubble Bobble 4 Friends holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 51% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Bubble Bobble 4 Friends launched on 19 November 2019, within three weeks of Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Persona 5 Royal and Luigi's Mansion 3. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Persona 5 Royal, Luigi's Mansion 3.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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