Playing Bombrush for the second time on the Switch
Man, the game is even more fun to play for the second time then for the first.
Mostly because the game doesn't do a good job on explaining the nuances of its mechanics so now that i don't have to stress over or look up stuff it's a much smoother ride.
I'd wish the graphics were less like JSRF and more its own style as sometimes it feels more like a copy than its own thing.
The story is still quite deep and well presented imo - even more so when they could have gotten away with much less but they didn't.
The controls are a blessing. I played Mario Odyssey again sometime and in that game doing some jump combinations give me stroke but here is's so smooth after getting the hang of it. When i screw up something i know it was me and not because the game requires me to push 5 buttons in succession to do a damn jump that could have been easily mapped to 1 button.
The music has its annying downtimes with a few tunes but i realized that there are more epic songs than i initially thought there are.
Fighting the police is still bad but not as infuriating than it was for the first time for the aforementioned reasons. Maybe playing it through for the third time it will even be enjoyable lol.
I have nothing agains bmx and skateboard stuff but here it feels quite out of place. For some Jet Set Radio reasons inline skating feels much more futuristic than the two other sports even more so when everything looks quite futuristic but the bmx-s and the skateboards look like they came from 1990. Some more cyber designs would have been welcome or just ditch them alltogether and focus more on the inline skating so the main sport of the game would have its earned highlight.
In the Hyperfunk trailer it seems that the graphics will have more of its own identity this time but the skateboard and bmx stuff is still from the past long gone.
Anyway i can't wait to play Bombrush's successor. Unfortunately i feel that it still have a better Jet Set Radio dna than the new game that Sega makes right now in the series.
Posted Aug 11, 2026, 11:28 AM UTC