Blaster Master Zero 2 (Switch)

Back to become the blaster master!

I played Blaster Master Zero when it got released and I got it for both Switch and 3DS and it was a fun ride. And now the sequel have arrived... although the first game was pretty much a reboot of the original game this one isn't for the second game, I assume mostly due to not being made by the original team.  Still, I haven't yet finished the original NES version. Story is that after the battle in the last game Eve was infected by the mutants and to cure her Jason, Fred and Eve set out into space to find planet Sophia where she came from. And the first thing that happens is the Gaia-Sophia dropping onto a planets surface introducing the latest mechanic as falling from great heights give you back some SP for your special attacks. Obviously the first test makes it so that you can't leave the planet due to damaging the booster so you got your work cut out for you. Basically structured the same as last game. Travel in the Sophia and find caves to enter as Jason and gather power ups. The special thing this game is star maps so when you travel back into space can find another planet or spaceship. Gather keys from bosses to enter wormholes and such.

This actually make it much easier than last game due to not having to travel across the whole planet and they bitesized it in different big and small planets. I enjoyed it since I don't get as lost and you don't need to play it relatively fresh to know where to go. This time there is also other peoples in the game, other blaster master I gather. And obviously you gotta fight them all. And they are the toughest enemies in the game. Stein in his Atom especially. He just blast me, but after slowing down and more focus on not getting hit I defeated him and continued the adventure. Like last time there is a bad ending and a good ending. This time I got it just playing normally since I gathered the different emblems from the blaster masters and nothing about getting 100 % items. The boss that divides the good and the bad ending is a huge planet that you gotta crash into. Amazing! Sadly the part up the true ending isn't that fun I think. The planet mutant had swallowed the wormhole to Sophia and defeating him separates Jason and Eve and you get to play as Eve instead. Which is nice, but it's a long walk just without a tank in the overworld, meaning that high jumps are instant-death and everything hits like a tank. You get a tank, but it doesn't have the same functions and are pretty much a downgrade. That feels bad to me, I want it to be in Metriod Zero after losing her first suit, Samus find the fully upgraded armour and just wrecks things up. Empowerment. But the scene when all Blaster Master joins up to defeat the mutant cocoon and save Jason from petrification is awesome.

It was a fun game, a bit frustrating at times with certain bosses while most tank bosses outside the other Blaster Masters were fun fighting like the walking mountain. Decent music, but there isn't something equal to the pumping level 1 track from the first game. Graphics looks nice and each planet or area is distinct. Fun playing as Eve, but she should have had something like Sophia Zero from the first game to just empower her.