Green Garden 1-4 (Altair’s Boss Arena) — Altair floats; your bombs don’t. Hold A to charge a pump-throw, release when the reticle locks onto his platform above. Three hits drop him to ground level for the melee phase. Ground-level bombing accomplishes nothing — the game never teaches the pump-throw, so first-timers burn minutes lobbing explosives at the floor.
Blue Resort 2-3 (Ice Pillar Maze) — Ice slides commit you the instant you step on. No mid-slide correction, no braking. Position Bomberman one tile before the ice, face your intended direction, then step forward. Treat every patch as a rail you ride to completion. Players who try to steer mid-slide fall into pits. The custom cards tucked into this stage demand pixel-perfect slide chains — hunting 100% completion means sketching routes on graph paper.
Red Mountain 3-2 (Lava Conveyor Gauntlet) — Switches reverse conveyor direction, but the game never maps which switch controls which belt. The unblock: ignore the switches. Hug the right wall, bomb every cracked block, ride the default flow to the exit. Switches exist for custom-card routes and speedrun lines, not critical-path progress. New players assume a puzzle they’re required to solve; they aren’t.
White Ice 4-4 (Sirius Boss — Second Phase) — Sirius teleports after every hit. His tell: faint purple shimmer 0.5 seconds before reappearing. Chasing him gets you frozen. Plant a bomb at your feet the moment he vanishes, then walk away — he’ll often port into your trap. If he doesn’t, you’ve bought dodge space for his next beam. Never hold a bomb waiting for the perfect throw; his teleport timing punishes hesitation. Three trap-hits per phase, two phases total.
