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Post by Discoalucard on Aug 17, 2006 17:25:06 GMT -5
hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/blastermaster/blastermaster.htmI kind of like the music in Blaster Master 2, actually. The graphic style is very Amiga-ish too, so despite being quite garish, I enjoy the look. Too bad the rest of the game is trash. I didn't really know much about the Meta Fight differences. I also didn't know there was a Gameboy Color port of the first game.
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Post by Neo Rasa on Aug 17, 2006 17:30:28 GMT -5
Never heard of Blaster Master: Enemy Below? It's awesome. The sidescrolling areas are significantly smaller in size but the overall game feels great. There's actually a little less flicker when lots (in the NES game, more than two) of enemies are on the screen at once and it's a little less glitchy with how it handles enemies that are at the edge of the screen.
Random trivia: Meta Fight was going to be an arcade game at first! The inherent direction they took the design in though wasn't exactly condusive to eating your quarters though, so it ended up being the Meta Fight and Blaster Master games we know today.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2006 18:16:11 GMT -5
Super-great article on a super-great game. The original Blaster Master's definitely on my Top 100 list. With only five continues and veritable doom every which way you go, this game is one of the most difficult on the NES to beat. I recommend it as a good challenge, but beware; even the final area (8) makes me incontinent.  I may have to give Enemy Below and Blasting Again a try in the future... however, I'd prefer to change BM2's name to BM2, by which I mean Bowel Movement 2! Then again, Sunsoft didn't technically design it, so I can forgive them on that premise. |
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Post by EXMaster on Aug 17, 2006 21:41:32 GMT -5
I kind of like the music in Blaster Master 2, actually. The graphic style is very Amiga-ish too, so despite being quite garish, I enjoy the look. Too bad the rest of the game is trash. Some tunes were tolaberale, but a the bulk of them had sound samples that felt like someone was grating their nails on a chalkboard to me. I'm diggin' the Bowel Movement 2 name change sotenga, though even that title may be too good for this game. |
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Post by aggroger on Aug 18, 2006 5:18:01 GMT -5
Nice article,although I've never been a huge fan of this game. The graphic style is very Amiga-ish too, so despite being quite garish, I enjoy the look. Never played Blaster Master 2 but yes,the screenshots have a strong Amiga feel (among others,Gods and The Killing Game Show are coming to my mind). |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2006 8:50:10 GMT -5
I'm diggin' the Bowel Movement 2 name change sotenga, though even that title may be too good for this game. *bows* ;D Well... it could be worse. Needless to say, Strider Returns: Journey From Darkness? More like Strider Retches: Journey Through Shitness. Or Contra: Legacy of War? How about Contra: Ordeal of Suck! C: The Contra Adventure? Oh, yeah, REALLY. Try S: The Shitty Assventure! There's nothing worse than when a company that makes great games lends the name of one of their products to a less-than-stellar developer who soils the good name of a series with an original title that blows harder than the combination of a Florida hurricane, a thousand porn stars, and Boris Yeltsin taking a breathalyzer test!!!  ... that may have been a bit overboard, but my point has been made. I hope it has, anyway. |
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Post by Discoalucard on Aug 18, 2006 9:16:56 GMT -5
Why do Japanese companies take their properties and give them to Western development houses? Are these more popular in the West, or do they think another non-Japaense team could handle the job? Historically it's just asking for major tragedy, like all of the games mentioned above.
Even recently...there's Final Fight Revenge (which isn't as bad as everyone says it is, I'll update the article some day.) The only real exception to this rule is Metroid Prime...and I guess Rare and Donkey Kong Country, if you count that, though I don't.
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Post by Neo Rasa on Aug 18, 2006 10:59:07 GMT -5
It is due to higher popularity in the US generally.
Metroid Prime is a miracle. The game that should have sucked is somehow one of the raddest games in town.
It's hardly a Japanese property to begin with, but I wonder if the Shadowrun first person action game will fare nearly as well.
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Post by ReyVGM on Aug 18, 2006 12:14:29 GMT -5
"I also didn't know there was a Gameboy Color port of the first game. "
The GBC Blaster Master is not a port of the NES one, as far as I remember the levels are different and it even has a diferent last boss.
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Post by ReyVGM on Aug 18, 2006 12:23:14 GMT -5
Also, it would be cool if you could post the intro story images from the famicom blaster master (since the usa version images are there). the article mentioned the japanese one had an intro and I thought the images were gonna be there too.  |
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Post by Discoalucard on Aug 18, 2006 15:13:39 GMT -5
Actually the article mentions that there isn't any intro in the FC version (at least, I think it does.) I let it sit at the title screen and nothing pops up like it does in the NES version. There's just the "take off" screen and that's it.
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Post by ReyVGM on Aug 18, 2006 20:35:07 GMT -5
Ah ok.
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Post by johnh on Aug 20, 2006 15:48:25 GMT -5
When I first found out about Meta Knight EX (I didn't know there was a US version at the time) I was thrilled... until I played it.
While superficially the same, the cool physics of the original were discarded. Enemy bombs don't bounce any more, many enemies had their behavior changed, rockets don't start slow and build up speed, the tank's motion had no sense of inertia, and jumping worked differently.
It may sound like a minor thing, but it just ruined the game for me. The original felt like driving a tank through a side-scrolling world almost entirely because of that sense of inertia.
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Post by neg on Aug 21, 2006 20:49:58 GMT -5
Blaster Master was one of the 1st NES games I'd ever played, so there's a wee bit of nostalgia concerning it. I do like that game - controls feel smooth, gameplay is great (especially with the incorporation of the two genres), and it has some nice overall aesthetics (especially the music, love the music). I actually have a half-serious theory regarding older action games...the awesomeness and catchiness of the 1st level theme is directly correlated with how good the game is. And judging by the great 1st level theme (It's one of my favorites), Blaster Master is a great game.
I only had three minor problems with it. One, my copy seemed to have some dirty connectors or something, so it would crash on occasion and I'd have to start all over again. Two, I always thought it was kind of a hard game, and is really intimidating at later levels (maybe I just sucked at it, though...I always did use the pause bug during bosses whenever possible). Three, I also thought it was kind of long, and with no password feature and a slightly buggy cartridge, it was a harrowing task to finish the game. I never did finish it...I think I only made it to level 5 or 6. I always did like the game, though.
Oh yeah, I played the 2nd one once. I thought it was bad.
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Post by Scylla on Sept 9, 2006 21:34:46 GMT -5
Hmmm, I never knew that Blaster Master Boy was actually the sequel to Bomber King. I just discovered RoboWarrior about a month ago, and within the first minute of playing, I mused "This seems like a combination of Bomberman and Blaster Master." With a little research, I learned that it was actually a Bomberman spin-off called Bomber King, but the whole Blaster Master comparison still seemed to my own conjecture. I wonder if there was something going on between Sunsoft and Hudson, or it really was just a case of them thinking "Hey, these guys copied our game and did a pretty good job at it, let's release their sequel as a part of our series."
Anyway, it's a fine article. :) I agree, the PlayStation game really isn't all that bad, at least not compared to everything I had heard about it. I wish we could know the real story about why they adopted the US title and story for Japan as well. Oh well, all I know is that the first game is tops, and it's got some of the best freakin' music ever. :)
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