Michał Mielcarek:
Hey there, PlayStation fans! This is Michał Mielcarek from Bloober Team. Our latest party game, Brawl, will hit PlayStation 4 soon — and we would like to share some exciting news with you!
What is Brawl? Short answer: It’s a new PS4 horror-themed party game for up to four players. There aren’t a lot of party games on the market right now. We want to fix this — because we believe there’s nothing like spending time with friends and playing games together. We’ve been working very hard to make it as simple and fun as possible. You might call it a throwback to the golden age of arcade games. Hopefully, we’ve managed to capture that classic old-school charm.
If you're interested in a horror Bomber-man with awful movement and uninspired arenas then this might be for you but if you are looking to scratch the bomber-man itch, I'd say go for the switch's Super Bomber-man R.
WTMG's Leo Faria: "If you remove the unnecessarily edgy and (im)mature setting, there's very little that differs Brawl from any other Bomberman game released over the last decades."
Chalgyr's Game Room writes:
Bomberman has seen its up and downs over the years, but the overall formula is still a popular one with a lot of players. Brawl seeks to capitalize on a lot of the same gameplay elements while adding a horror aesthetic. All in all, it is a competently made game, but not one that does enough to make it a more compelling play than the games that clearly inspired it.
PS4 needs more party games. I don't know if that is a good game or not but at least its a party game.
You get this for free if you have Basement Crawl (which apparently was pretty bad). That's fair enough I suppose.
Basement Crawl= Brawl in one word!
... What?
That trailer left me thinking "wtf did I just watch".