Alastair at GameSpew writes: "Anyone who’s ever eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich will appreciate that odd combinations can produce unexpectedly good results. Similarly, there are loads of games which at least on paper just shouldn’t work: Kingdom Hearts combined Disney and Final Fantasy, Shenmue mixed quick time action events with forklift driving and now Polish developer Bloober Team has fused Bomberman with Twisted Metal to produce a surprisingly fun horror themed bomb blasting party game. Brawl was originally released on the PS4 in spring of this year and has just been made available to PC gamers via Steam."
If you're interested in a horror Bomber-man with awful movement and uninspired arenas then this might be for you but if you are looking to scratch the bomber-man itch, I'd say go for the switch's Super Bomber-man R.
WTMG's Leo Faria: "If you remove the unnecessarily edgy and (im)mature setting, there's very little that differs Brawl from any other Bomberman game released over the last decades."
Chalgyr's Game Room writes:
Bomberman has seen its up and downs over the years, but the overall formula is still a popular one with a lot of players. Brawl seeks to capitalize on a lot of the same gameplay elements while adding a horror aesthetic. All in all, it is a competently made game, but not one that does enough to make it a more compelling play than the games that clearly inspired it.
