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    Default Blaster Master is back (Blaster Master Overdrive)

    Sunsoft has just announced a new Blaster Master game for WiiWare within the last couple of days...and it will apparently already be available for download tomorrow!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSbslfm3aoE

    I've been waiting for a good Blaster Master sequel for 20 years...and I'm a little skeptical about this one, seeing that Blaster Master 2 for Genesis and Blaster Master: Blasting Again for Playstation were complete garbage. However, this one does look very promising...and it looks like they really made an effort to capture the spirit of the original this time around.

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    That is awesome. Loved the NES version back in the day. This is the first I'm hearing about this. How did it slip by me?
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    Damn it! I don't have a Wii, now another reason to buy one. I own every Blaster Master except for Blaster Master Boy, now this download too. It seems like a pattern now, if it's 2d, it gets the download treatment, 3d, and you get a disc. Anyways, I went to Sunsoft's page like a week and half ago, nothing. Hope this game is good.

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    im on it. def gonna get it.

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    Yup. It's true. Here's Sunsoft's page about it.

    http://www.sunsoftgames.com/news/201...rOverdrive.php

    Trailer here

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSbslfm3aoE
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    There go my plans to watch my anime backlog Monday... As long as I don't have to work, I'll play it all day. This is SERIOUS win, and I can't believe they announced it so close to release! I heard that Sunsoft was making a comeback, but this is a pleasant surprise.

    Now... will it follow Jason and his pet frog, or the original Metafight story where the PLANET is Sophia III?

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    Is anyone else getting TMNT: Turtles in Time vibes from that trailer music?
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    Ugh, crappy techno.

    Other than that, it looks like it could potentially be enjoyable.

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    Bah, if it was on Live I'd grab it. I really don't like playing my Wii.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VG_Maniac View Post
    Blaster Master 2 for Genesis and Blaster Master: Blasting Again for Playstation were complete garbage.
    I maintain that Blasting Again would be a fun game if it had directional-lock firing and much shorter loading times.

    Of course, the original Blaster Master has awkward controls, glitches, some tedious levels, and no firing lock, but fans tend to forget all about those.
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    Blasting Again certainly isn't without its flaws, but I'd say it's very far from being complete garbage. I've never understood why it gets such a bad rap, especially given its extremely low MSRP.

    At the very least, I'd take its remixed music over the music in Overdrive any day.

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