Bomberman 64: The Second Attack! (1999). Play online

Summary

Bomberman 64: The Second Attack! expands the original’s action‑puzzle core with a few solid twists. Bombs can grow in size and now explode in the classic cross shape, and you can fuse them with elemental crystals for fire, ice or thunder blasts. A hidden set of armor upgrades lets you kick, throw, pump and remote‑detonate bombs without finding the corresponding items first, rewarding exploration. The in‑game space shop lets you purchase extra heart containers, unlock multiplayer arenas, and even buy new moves for the elemental bosses you’ll face later.

A new sidekick, Pommy the dinosaur, can be fed to level up and assist you in combat, and a second player can hop in to control Pommy directly. Critics were divided: GameSpot and IGN slammed the graphics and short puzzle length, yet both praised the bomb variety and secret content; Nintendo Power gave a solid eight out of ten for its single‑player experience. Overall, the title feels like a modest upgrade that adds enough hidden goodies to keep die‑hard Bomber fans intrigued.

Storyline

Bomberman 64: The Second Attack! opens with Bomberman discovering a mysterious egg after celebrating his victory over Altair and Sirius on a hot‑spring planet. He brings the egg aboard his ship, but a black hole drags the vessel into a prison where the egg hatches into a charabom named Pommy, who helps him escape.\n\nSoon Bomberman learns that the evil Rukifellth and the Astral Knights are gathering elemental crystals; Regulus, a knight he has faced before, still guards the others while the fire crystal he carries is the only one missing. With Pommy’s aid he meets Lilith, a girl pursuing the same goal, and together they begin hunting the crystals.\n\nAfter defeating most knights, the path to Warship Noah—source of the black hole and BHB army headquarters—opens. Inside Bomberman battles Lilith possessed by the goddess Mihaele, Rukifellth taken over by the demon Sthertoth, and finally Sthertoth himself. Skipping any boss forces a bad ending; beating them all triggers a good ending where the Angel of Light and Shadow is defeated, the Elemental Knights are revived, and the universe’s origin—an angel split into light and dark, sealing the dark side within a seventh stone—is revealed.