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Review by Jackie Curtis
December 14, 2008
The player presses the button.
Baron immediately sets to work, darting lightning fast back and forth across the span of the wall, unleashing bomb after bomb downward at the earth beneath. On his first strike the bombs fall slowly and in short numbers, but with each successful completion of a round they hurtle toward the ground quicker and in greater amounts. Soon they’re dropping out of his hands at a breakneck, dizzying pace.
Success comes via the three vertically stacked trays at the base of the wall. As the bombs fall the player must attempt to catch them on the trays, strafing left and right, mimicking the movements of the shifty von Blitzkrieg. Failure is met not only by being sent back to the last round, but with the removal of the bottommost of the trays, making it that much more difficult to foil this fugitive by making the margin of error that much slimmer.
That’s all there is to it.
Kaboom! stands as evidence that simple ideas complemented by seamless mechanics will weather the tests of time. The split-second reflexes and precise timing required to excel here is unparalleled by today’s Devil May Cry’s; only through extensive practice will you establish the nimble fingers necessary to see how frantic this title can be, and once you have a taste you'll want more. The only flash presented here is the flickering colors that occur when a bomb touches the ground, but in spite of this I still can’t get enough. Forget sprawling landscapes and characters with clouded pasts necessary to captivate audiences today; all Kaboom! does is throw a bomb-dropping maniac on the screen and ask us to clean up the hectic, free-falling mess he leaves in his wake.
It does it well.
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