Bubble Trouble

Genre: Arcade

Players: 1-2 Co-Op (Local)

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Review:

Bubble Trouble is an Arcade-style game released on Nintendo Switch in 2025. In this game, players control a sunglasses-wearing character shooting bouncing bubbles and trying to keep from hitting them. In short, this is an obvious copycat of the Buster Bros. games. However, as I often say, there’s nothing wrong with a copycat as long as it’s a good copycat, so the question here is whether this game is a good copycat.

The presentation is abysmal. This game’s 2D visuals look like they were made in Microsoft Paint backed by generic abstract Windows wallpaper, the character designs are ugly, there’s no music, and the sound effects seem like something someone got out of an asset pack from two decades ago. Yikes.

Sadly, the gameplay doesn’t make up for this. The controls are stiff, and there were multiple times I held the analog stick in a direction to move and the game didn’t detect it, I can only guess because I wasn’t holding the analog stick at the exact right angle to do so. There are no D-pad controls here either, so it’s not like you can rectify the problem that way.

Beyond the controls, there are other issues. As with the Buster Bros. games, you’re breaking bouncing bubbles into smaller bouncing bubbles, eventually eliminating them. However, at their smallest size, these bubbles bounce extremely low, giving you very little clearance to walk under them. Along with the poor controls, this leaves very little room for error since you’ll have little time to walk under and shoot them before they hit you and you lose a life. In part due to this, you’ll hit a massive difficulty spike at level 6 and 7, which are made up entirely of these small bubbles.

There’s also a very stingy timer on each of the game’s levels, forcing you to rush in a way that seems like there’s often little margin for error. The aforementioned level 7 is a huge offender here.

Overall, Bubble Trouble is just not fun. It has nasty control issues, game design issues, presentation issues, and is just an all-around terrible copy of much better games. What’s more, you can get a much better take on this same formula for just a few bucks more by getting The Bug Butcher. With other alternatives like this, there’s no good reason to waste your time and money on this terrible game.

tl;dr – Bubble Trouble is an Arcade-style game in the style of the Buster Bros. games, with players controlling a character shooting bouncing bubbles while avoiding them. Unfortunately, this is an absolutely terrible take on this style of game, with horrible controls, poor game design, and an ugly presentation. You have much better alternatives to this game on Nintendo Switch, and I strongly recommend you look into one of those instead.

Grade: D-

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