, also known as , is a 1994 platform game developed and published by Taito for arcades. It is an installment in the Bubble Bobble series, and takes place after Parasol Stars. A home port of Bubble Symphony for the Sega Saturn was released in 1997. The game was followed by Bubble Memories in 1996.

According to the intro, the four characters (as humans) inadvertently unleash Hyper Drunk, the final boss, while reading books. Hyper Drunk transforms the four into bubble dragons and banishes them to a new world.

Cameos

The game includes cameos by other Taito characters and settings from The NewZealand Story, Darius, Space Invaders, Arkanoid, Liquid Kids, KiKi KaiKai (including Cindy, known in the Japanese version as Sayo-chan and the English Pocky & Rocky games as Pocky), Yūyu no Quiz de Go! Go!, Pu·Li·Ru·La, and The Fairyland Story.

Gameplay

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Although a sequel to Bubble Bobble, the game features few changes to the gameplay formula of that title. The small changes that have been made are that a boss is now encountered every five to ten levels, giving those scenes a similar prominence to Rainbow Islands, and the player takes a branching route through the levels by selecting one of two doors after every boss. The players can now charge the bubble shot; if released when the dragon's horns or bow is glowing, the player character will breathe three bubbles at once, with the specific formation dependent on the character chosen. The players must collect certain square cards with music notes inside, in order to get the 4 keys that lead to the final world or face an early false ending. Also, the characters have to collect a rod to turn their characters from their dragon to human forms during the course of the game.

Bubble Symphony in its Sega Saturn version is included as a bonus in the 2025 game Bubble Bobble: Sugar Dungeons.

Soundtrack

is a video game soundtrack that was released on CD and published by Pony Canyon and Scitron Label on January 20, 1995, in Japan. Tracks 1, 2 and 22 were arranged by Yasuko Yamada, Yasutaka Mizushima and Tamayo Kawamoto.

was released by Zuntata Records and Taito Corp on July 31, 2013, in Japan.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Bubble Symphony as the fourth most successful table arcade game of 1994.

Notes

References

  • Bubble Symphony at Arcade History.com