The game is quite forgotten now but it does have a fan base and if you are a fan of puzzle arcade games like Bust a Move then this game really is worth seeking out. Critically this game received average reviews for the time, being brushed off mostly as a throw away puzzle game and launch title but unsurprisingly this game received the most love in Japan. Games will last around five minutes and you have three difficulty settings to try as well as a versus mode with a friend. Of course the game has to end at some point, you have a health bar at the bottom that depletes if you miss fireworks and this game really speeds up as you progress. It feels like a game that belongs in an arcade cabinet (and possible does exist in Japan) games like this are very common on launch for a lot of consoles and are sadly overlooked. Its quite fast frantic fun and the entire time you’re doing this you have a pleasant voice over lady telling you how well your combo meter is doing. You can chain explosions together with special fireworks. Detonating certain fireworks will cause specific explosions which can then detonate other fireworks. You have to highlight three of the same colour minimum to detonate an explosion but of course there is a lot more depth to it than that. The basic principle is you use a rotating cursor on the screen controlled with the left analogue stick to target specific fireworks. The concept of the game is to explode fireworks and rack up a high score. The starting video shows a child sitting on a box laughing at a TV screen. The first thing you’ll notice about Fantavision on booting up this arcade themed title is just how Japanese it is, and that’s not just because it was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan (SCEJ). What better way to celebrate Bonfire night (even though this article will post very late) than to pit these two games together and find out which is the best fireworks video game.įantavision was actually a launch title for the PS2 released in all territories. The two games I’ve found to discuss were Fantavision on PS2 and Big Bang Mini for the Nintendo DS. Fireworks are certainly prevalent in a lot of video games such as the end level in the gun game Point Blank but few games make them the actual focus of the gameplay. There is a quite a lot of history behind why we still celebrate this date today but one thing you can guarantee seeing on this event is lots and lots of fireworks. The 5th of November in the UK marks Bonfire night (aka Guy Fawkes Night) which is our unusual celebration of Guy Fawkes foiled plot to blow up the House of Lords on the same date in 1605. Now without any further ado…let them fight! Fantavision Vs Big Bang Mini Thanks for checking this out and of course if you want to share your own views on the games in this article please share them in the comments below. The article is designed to just be a bit of fun and while some of the facts presented will be as accurate as possible the final verdict will be based entirely on opinion. This is an idea I’ve thought of for a while and it’s where I pick two contenders which share something special and pit them against each other. Welcome to an all new style of article I’ve written exclusively for Gaming History 101: Game Fights.
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