Blender Bros

(Review posted: October 30, 2020) This is a game that's always been dear to my heart ever since playing it as a child, back when I got the GBA version. It's so obscure though that not many people know about it, and the only playthroughs I've seen of it online are people playing it for the first time, with little to no knowledge of the game. I always wanted someone to make some sort of guide of this game (someone that knows enough about the game to talk about almost everything, anyway), but got so fed up waiting for one that I decided to use the knowledge I got playing this game for hours as a kid to make one myself. Despite this, I figured not many people would care about it because this game never got any sort of sequel or remake, and any hopes of one were shattered when the company that made it went out of business. Suffice to say that the last thing I'd expect was a Steam port of this game to ever exist someday... And to my surprise, I found out that it did! Obviously, the first t...

Wow this was really cool. Upon some (very brief) research, it turns out this is a PC "port" of a GBA game by the same name. That's why the graphics, sound, and everything felt so... oddly familiar to me. I had not played the original, mind you. I LOVE the artstyle of the characters. Graphics were great, music was awesome, characters were all super adorable and nothing in the game ever felt too frustrating (except some bosses). [h1]In depth review:[/h1] Your moveset: Besides moving left and right and having a basic jump, you can duck and press an attack button. There's some intricacies here though that are quite interesting. For example, if you hold "down" in the air, you'll flip upside down and bounce on your ears to reach greater heights. You can then attack while in this state to do a sort of drill move (I honestly forgot you could to this during boss fights and thus never used it. Mainly because hit detection is too generous for the enemies to hit you so you can never get too clo...

Blender Bros has quite the odd backstory. Originally a GBA title - this game was exclusive to North America, but the back story comic was exclusive to Japan. If you try to find a physical copy of this game nowadays, it will set you back hundreds of dollars. The game itself is a pretty average platformer, however the characters and universe as well as Blender's unique abilities made it worth my time as a first time player with no nostalgia for the title. It's nice seeing such a rare and obscure game made officially available here on Steam, but as it is a re-release of a GBA game with no major changes made and it's actually a very short game (seriously, some levels are under a minute in length!), I heavily recommend waiting for a sale if you're interested in picking it up officially.

There's nothing particularly remarkable about this game but it's so straightforward, with a good pace, a couple of well placed level gimmicks to add variety and some cool Mini Bros abilities that it's something quite welcoming to play, even if it doesn't leave much of a mark. It's cool innocent fun, and with the cartoony pre-rendered models with black outlines aesthetic and the happy upbeat tunes... it makes me feel like I'm playing someone else's childhood. About the Steam version... it's fine, it's basically a ROM file working with an emulator. It works fairly well, I've had some input issues (tho I'm not sure if it's the emulator or Steam's overlay fault) but the rest works as it should. 9 euros is way too much for something like this, so play it at minimum 50% discount, as the game is nothing spectacular and neither is the porting process.

Blender Bros. is a Game Boy Advance platform-game that was born from a collaboration between Infogrames and Hudson Soft (the latter of which was best-known for series like Adventure Island, Bomberman, and Star Soldier, before being absorbed into Konami in 2012). An early release for the system in 2002, it went pretty much unpromoted in its day, so in spite of being a platformer enthusiast, I only heard of it for the first time when I recently stumbled across Piko Interactive's emulator-wrapped Steam re-release. The story sees an "animalman" named Blender (who leads a team known as the Cosmo Keepers) seeking to prevent a malicious group (the Zooligans) from wiping out humans. Blender is a dog-person with giant ears which he uses for tasks such as hanging from ropes, as springs for performing high-jumps, and as a radar for pointing you in the general direction of items and stage-exits, and he can also collect small backup creatures dubbed "Mini Bros.", which offer further abilities. He ...

Really fun game, gives ya a bit of a challenge. You have to learn the boss patterns and then you can beat em. I like the driving levels, and the level design of the standard 2D platforming levels is great as well. Great hidden gem!

short but sweet cute and friendly gameboy 2d action plataform game it have emphasis on exploration and be able to collect this mini bros who have different skills so it may add some replay value since the maps are ussually very short