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Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa; Virtual Console Import
Topic Started: Jun 11 2008, 11:55 PM (172 Views)
DeathTankZwei
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Ok, I don't normally review games because I don't really believe in reviews, but I've decided that I feel like making a review today for this game.

Let's have a show of hands, how many of you have downloaded this game? What, only my hand is up right now? That... might be a hand being raised all the way in the back, but I can't see it from here. Precisely why I've made this topic.

Anyways, Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa is a platformer. It was almost released here but wasn't (officially) because it was specifically turned down, which is a shame. However, the game is famous for a pirated cart that circulated the states, called "Mario Baby", which was basically just a bootleg with this game on it. This game is from Konami and has nothing to do with Mario, but that should already be obvious.


Anyways... you play as a baby. Yep, an unaborted human fetus that has yet to be eaten. This kid is bald, wears blue, and has a really stupid expression on his face.

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Yeah, that's your main character. Now, I'm serious, this is a cool game. Anyway, you go through seven worlds with three levels each for a total of 21 stages. You attack using, you guessed it, a baby rattle. For some undoubtedly drug-induced reason (and gaming was better when ideas were drug-induced), this rattle makes enemies inflate and float like balloons. You can even inflate pigs, and ride on them in the air....... wait.

Doesn't that sound a little... familiar?

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This game is probably worth the $6 price of admission, just for that alone. Imagine being able to show your friends that Ride the Pig originally came from an obscure Konami game. Ride the other white meat as the other, other white meat. >_>

AANNYYWAYS, the levels are mostly food based, and are very colorful and look good. The level designs frequently throw moments at you where you'll have to ride enemies to progress, and the levels throw in a number of surprises, none of which I will spoil because you should play this game. Don't just emulate it, buy it with your Wii Points so Nintendo will know we want more stuff like this.

There's a power-up that only appears a few times in the game, a bell that looks quite a lot like the bell from Twinbee, makes you invincible and your character suddenly learns to walk for a limited time. Wait! Not again!

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Hmm..... Maybe "Mario Baby" isn't too far off, after all. o_o

Umm... ok then. The first boss is a pig, but it's quite different from the other pigs in the game. For one, you have to hit it by launching enemy balloons into it. Secondly, well... a picture is worth a thousand words.

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What... the... hell? Ok, it's pink, it's shiny, and it's got a large mouth that it shoots things from that you have to attack it with. Sound familiar? It should already be very obvious, but I'll clarify just to be clear.

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Yep. Just ponder that one for a moment. Now ponder this: All of this is just on the first level. This is one weird game.

Ok, on the technical aspects, the controls are great, the level design is great, and the graphics are great too. The music in the Famicom Disk System version (which, incidentally, is the version on the Virtual Console) is a tad better than on the cartridge version, so you'll probably miss out on that if you emulate unless you can find the FDS rom.

Final Score: I don't give games numeric scores, sorry. This game is definitely worth playing though. Go play it, ok?


All in all, this was a silly review and I didn't really go into detail about it, but I will tell you that you really should just get this game if this review made you laugh, unless you detest platformers for some reason. It's really hard not to like this game. Also consider getting Do-Re-Mi Fantasy, the previously Japan-only sequel to Milon's Secret Castle (it's a totally different game though, so you needn't be familiar with that), as it is an excellent and colorful platformer as well.

Hopefully we'll see more great import platformers. Because the genre flooded the industry back then, and the fact that many were considered too cute or weird (or in the case of "Lost Levels" which was considered too hard for a Mario game), there are actually quite a few we missed out on (unless you've been in the emulation or import scene a long time and played them, of course).

Hehe, you can count on me finding ways of talking you into getting good, obscure VC games when Herzog Zwei (it should've been there day one!) or Snake Rattle N' Roll (which is sadly more likely on XBLA, as it's from Rare) come out. :P
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HoopsJunky21
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Nice review! I lol'd
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Hyper Metal Sonic
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As with anything you post it was nicely written, and I'm oddly intrigued by this game, and may consider getting it in the near future. :babymario:
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