What are you playing? c'mon, tell me punk!

[Hiro-sofT]

Also currently playing Blaster Master Zero. Very good and enjoyable game so far. I have never played the original game (I always wanted to try it out, but because reasons... ).

I love the games presentation and exploration. I really reminded me of old Metroid games, mixed with a little bit of Zelda thrown into the mix. I love that stuff. The story is... okay so far. It doesn't make you feel odd or weird out, which is something I often do on most games. But this one here is short, simple and to the point, just how I like it (I will not tell anything specific, because of spoiler reasons) .

The controls kinda feel slippery with the tank and sometimes it's kinda hard to hit anything that small with your normal tank blaster, but thats a minor thing you can get used to (thanks to sub weapons). Another thing which I kinda have to meet a lot of times tho is the fall damage of this game. I just hate that fall damage, when you're outside of your tank (I know why it's there, but still), which killed me more than anything else so far .

The rest are current thoughs on some game related stuff, so I will put these into spoilers, to prevent you from getting spoilered:

Warning Spoilers!

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I'm in area 8 right now, so please, no spoilers, which are coming after area 7 .

Female character:

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She is cute and love the talk to her feature.  

Area 2:

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I had multiple problems in Area 2(?), inside a dungeon, were this acid floor keeps appearing and disappearing. It was inside the dungeon, where you fight a boss mutant at the end of it.

I have beaten said boss and entered the dungeon again, to see, if I missed something, what I did (a part of the gaint room before the boss). So I have gone through the entire thing, just to get this one room on my map. I entered the room right before the boss, hit the save and went back, only to be greeted by a acid wave, from which you had to escape earlier. Now, here is the first problem. The only way out here (because I haven't seen a "warp out if boss is beaten" thing anywhere) is to damage boost .

Another issue with the same level, everyone who played this game knows, when you enter a room, the screen scrolls and the player moves automaticlly into the next room. There was a room, in which you be thrown at a piece of appearing/disappearing acid tile, which will allways hurt you, if the acid happends to be in it's "appearing state". Kinda a cheap hit, but it seems, it only happend once in the entire game so far... it's not a game breaker... but just "kinda not very nice" .

Sometimes, this scrolling thing with the player moving into the room by himself slaps you directly into enemies faces, but most of the time, if you have quick reflexes, you should be able to move back into safty with no problem.

Area 7:

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Also area 7... oh man...  the sudden high difficulty in this area is nuts . Earlier areas were like "shoot things, find secrets, solve puzzles, kill boss, move on" and easy going, once you got the hang of the area gimmicks and your weapons (homing missles are godly good and the wave blaster level kills everything in dungeons in no time, even bosses go down into their knees with that).

But area 7 did the nasty move of changing the game into a stealh game. Oh boy... some of these passages were easy and simple, but others (mainly the dungeon areas with the pink/purple shooting man mutants) were very hard and tricky. I actually struggled here a bit and I had to use different weapons, to get further in this area. I can't be the only one, who had a tough time with that.

I'm looking forward to see the rest of the game... it has been a long time, that a game made me play it 4-5 hours straight .

EDIT:
Finished it today... man...  I really liked that game a lot. The only thing, that was kinda annoying was the already mentioned fall damage, but other than that, it was a enjoyable ride.

Warning Spoilers (Heavy Endgame)!

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I'm now ready for New Game + (aka Unlimited Mode)!

Area 7 was the hardest for me (I just hated these stealth sections and I didn't know, you could flashbomb the mutants in the dungeons, without getting spotted, what I just read somewere) and in Area 9, I hated that one place, were you have to do platforming as Jason outside the tank, mainly because of the fall damage instant kill things .

Kinda feel dumb, that I figured out on how to tackle the true final boss, after I beat the game, but this dash attack was too fast and confusing for me... guess I needed the barrier sub weapon for it ? I also didn't the bosses weakness thing and that the electric shock is so powerful. Never though of that .

Also, I hope, there is more DLC to come, other than just (I looked like it in the trailer) character skin swaps. I't would be cool, if there would be something like a boss rush (with all the bosses, not just a few).

I recommend this game for people, who like a mostly fleshed out but also short game. I beated the whole game it in two days, which kinda is short (compared to other games), but still, it's a sweet candy, I would prefer over an overaged, gross and dirty bar of chocolate (short, better short an enjoyable, than long and with no fun at all) .