If you’re looking for a challenge right away, you’ll have to work for it. As new bubble modifier pieces arrive, the game really starts to hit a better flow. For that hour of gameplay, it feels like you have to earn your fun slowly and methodically. It took me over an hour to get to a puzzle that actually required a game plan beyond simple color matching, which was about a third way through the story mode. Playing through the overwhelming number of easy puzzles on your way to get to that perfect concoction of strategic bubble-popping feels like drudgery though. And at some points it really delivers on this promise. On paper, all of this sounds like a great recipe for casual fun. You’ll need them to get through particularly obstinate puzzles that rear their heads every so often.
Just like Angry Birds, you only need a single star to continue to the next level, although in Puzzle Bobble VR it pays to get good and pick up extra coins where you can so you have a steady supply of power-ups.
That last one is important, because all of the puzzles seem to have a mind of their own and the only other way to adjust them in 3D space is by shooting a bubble at them to turn them in the air on their core, which is also their main axis. Score as high as possible to earn coins, which you can use to unlock special abilities like bombs, a paint swatch that lets you change ammo color, and a mechanism that lets you physically turn the puzzles as you please. Across most levels, you either have a time limit or a max bubble limit to worry about. The objective is to pop all the bubbles in each level by firing color-matching ammo and eventually destroying the puzzle’s core. Walking in the footsteps of Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs (2019), Puzzle Bobble VR puts a virtual spin on its arcade tile-matching forbear, and it changes up the format by placing a bubble cannon in your hands and transmogrifying the neat rows of bubbles into globular 3D masses. Puzzle Bobble VR’s numerous and oftentimes simple levels may not hook you initially, although there’s something to this demure bubble-popping adaptation that makes it feel like it could really take flight in the future. The 2D game is known for its simple but elegant gameplay, and Puzzle Bobble VR: Vacation Odysseymakes a valiant effort at translating those time-tested ingredients into a 3D environment for the first time. Puzzle Bobble (1994), also known as Bust-a-Move in the West, pioneered the tile-matching puzzle genre, not only inspiring generations of mobile games like Candy Crush Saga, but also spawning uncountable clones throughout the decades.
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