This
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Blaster Master Zero - Switch (debut trailer)
- Thread starter fvng
- Start date
Claude Augario
Member
Few franchises get me hyped like Blaster Master, which is ironic because most of the games in the series aren't worth talking about (I _WILL_ defend Blasting Again for the PS1, if just for the music). I used to have dreams that there was a new Blaster Master for the DS and it looked a lot like what Zero is turning out to me, it's really messing with me. I would pay double the price to have it right now.
(Port beggers to the back of the bus)
In the US version of the original, it was never explained. The Worlds of Power novelization gave it to Eve. Since they're keeping some ideas from that continuity, it'll probably be the same but... who knows?
(Port beggers to the back of the bus)
In the US version of the original, it was never explained. The Worlds of Power novelization gave it to Eve. Since they're keeping some ideas from that continuity, it'll probably be the same but... who knows?
CamHostage
Member
Grrr, you're right. Shoulda remembered there not being a different MS shooter announced every month for years now. Shot down.
I remember there being another Compile spin-off company being talked about recently, Masamitsu Niitani's Compile-O, but I think they're small and will only make puzzlers.
Either way, nobody I know if is in the TGL business these days.
Just for the music is just fine.
Jaguar King
Member
Holy Shit, did not know this game existed as I was a huge fan of the original game on the NES, now I'm seriously considering the Switch. If I can find one.
sixteen-bit
Member
It's coming to 3DS as well if you have one
Fun but very low-budget and the sideways-wiimote control scheme is cumbersome.
It's local co-op, only on Switch. The second player interacts by moving a reticle around the screen, similar to the co-op mode in Super Mario Galaxy.
The issue with stereo 3D in a game like this is that the sprite-based overhead perspective is drawn in a lot of odd ways to imply 3D depth that look really unnatural when you add actual 3D.
The closest direct successor to Compile when it comes to shmups was Raizing/8ing--a lot of the people behind the later Aleste and Spriggan games went there and their Mahou Daisakusen series is very much in the vein of those games.
The team that became Milestone was mostly newer Compile people, but that team is also dead--the company died, their IP and dev team were acquired by another company and were later shut down after not doing a whole lot.
The Guardian Legend is the murkiest of Compile's old shmups, rights-wise: it was never published by Compile and had a different publisher in every region (including Nintendo in Europe) so nobody wants to open that can of worms.
The Aleste series is slowly but surely being consolidated.
bobbychalkers
Member
I'm showing my age but I didn't know what a Blaster Master was until about 9 hours ago. Day 1, Going off that trailer
There was a contra last gen and double dragon iv last month...
Allnamestakenlol
Member
The original was great, so this is a nice surprise!
Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
I missed last gen, and apparently last month.
Lil'DigiOp
Member
Sold me on switch as soon as I saw the trailer today.
So many memories... I will be buying this ASAP when I get my hands on one.
So many memories... I will be buying this ASAP when I get my hands on one.
Why would you do that?
Member
On the Wii, I bought the Opera Browser when it was available for sale. Then Nintendo made Opera free and offered everyone who bought it a free NES game. I wasn't sure what game to get (I played a lot of the NES library already) but ultimately decided to go for Blaster Master, a game I never played but always heard so much about.
Turned out to be a very good choice - I loved Blaster Master. I didn't quite beat it because I got to my last continue and didn't want to lose all my hard-earned progress, but it was such an amazing game. It held up over the years extremely well, much more so than I would have expected for a game from that era.
As a result, this new game is an easy Day 1 purchase for me. (But to be honest, I love Inti and might have picked it up regardless of if I played the original, lol.)
Turned out to be a very good choice - I loved Blaster Master. I didn't quite beat it because I got to my last continue and didn't want to lose all my hard-earned progress, but it was such an amazing game. It held up over the years extremely well, much more so than I would have expected for a game from that era.
As a result, this new game is an easy Day 1 purchase for me. (But to be honest, I love Inti and might have picked it up regardless of if I played the original, lol.)
I don't know man... cats get a free pass no matter how absurd. Even knee pads.
Murgatroyd
Banned
A favorite game growing up. All over this.
I'm going to buy this and I hope it's good, but I don't really trust Inti-Creates much anymore. They went from MMZ games and MM9-10, which were really tight and fun, to stuff like MM ZX and Advent which were messy and kinda lame, to Gun Volt which was just awful, and then that weird creeper shooter game with high school girls, and then MN9 disappointed everyone, and Gun Volt 2 was more lame Gun Volt... I dunno about this dev anymore.
megaStryke
Banned
Just received confirmation from Matt Papa that both the US and Japanese releases have language selection options. So even though there is not much of a wait between the JP release on March 3 and the US one the following week, those who simply can't wait will have the full experience right on launch day.
The 3ds one was announced a few months back. It's weird cuz I was just thinking yesterday, "I hope blaster master isn't just wasted on 3ds".
I am cautiously optimistic as well. I will probably wait for reviews before grabbing it.
Honestly feel the ps1 game is better than the Genesis one.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Yeah, while I'm definitely buying this, I'm very, very skeptical.
shouamabane
Member
I was an NES Sunsoft newsletter subscriber. So, obviously day 1.
Isn't that some mutant lab experiment? Who cares what it looks like. It's still not as offensive to the senses.
davidwhangchoi
Member
thanks!!! i never knew anything further than the US version.
the MMZ games are nowhere near the quality of the MMX games. MM 9&10 are exceptional.
Depends on which MMX
MMX1 is easily better. X2, Z2, and Z3 are probably all on par with each other (though I might give the edge to Z2 and 3). X3, 4, 5, and 8 are better than the other two Zs, which are better than X6.
Weird how Capcom didn't make an X7.
Ha, I loved Blaster Master back in the day. Hard as hell, don't think I ever beat it legitimately. Will get this since the price is right.
Part of the reason I loved the game so much was because of this bad boy right here:
As a kid I loved this book. Also really enjoyed the Metal Gear one a lot.
Part of the reason I loved the game so much was because of this bad boy right here:
As a kid I loved this book. Also really enjoyed the Metal Gear one a lot.
Ranger X? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmkyHnh-lWM
There were two retro-style Contras last gen; Contra 4 for DS and Contra Rebirth for WiiWare. There was also Hard Corps Uprising for XBLA/PSN which is a mega-anime prequel to Contra Hard Corps.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Ha, I loved Blaster Master back in the day. Hard as hell, don't think I ever beat it legitimately. Will get this since the price is right.
Part of the reason I loved the game so much was because of this bad boy right here:
As a kid I loved this book. Also really enjoyed the Metal Gear one a lot.
What the HELL???
I owned this book. You just brought back a memory that had been lost for decades. Wow. Very cool!
Claude Augario
Member
That's because it is.
Did you not play the original US version? A kid and their favorite animal was a big part of theming.
Okay, I will disagree with these opinions. ZX Advent is one of my favorite Mega Man games, and I really enjoyed Gunvolt. It has a few problems, but Gunvolt is really fun to control.
You also messed up your chronology: MM 9 and 10 were made after ZX and ZX Advent. Mighty No 9 was a disappointment, sure, but I think Comcept deserves a huge chunk of the blame on that one.
ReyVGM
Member
It's a reboot. It's taking elements from the 1st game, adding new stuff and starting from scratch.
ReyVGM
Member
Same reasons why Double Dragon 4 is not on WiiU/Switch/3DS.
Self funding. Valve, for example, is indie.