Blaster Master: Enemy Below

Blaster Master: Enemy Below
Developer(s) Outback Pty. Co. (Japan)
Sunsoft Games (North America)
Publisher(s) Sunsoft
Director(s) Hiroaki Higashiya
Platform(s) Game Boy Color, 3DS Virtual Console
Release date(s)

Game Boy Color
‹See Tfd›

  • JP: February 24, 2000
  • NA: September 24, 2000
  • EU: October 27, 2000

3DS Virtual Console

  • JP: November 22, 2011
  • PAL: December 8, 2011
  • NA: December 15, 2011
Genre(s) Run and gun, Metroidvania[1]
Mode(s) Single player

Blaster Master: Enemy Below, known in Japan as Metafight EX (メタファイトEX), is a video game for the Game Boy Color. It was also re-released for the Virtual Console on the Nintendo 3DS system in 2011.

Reception

Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
3DSGBC
AllGameN/A[2]
Game InformerN/A8.25/10[3]
GameSpotN/A8.6/10[4]
IGN8/10[5]8/10[6]
Nintendo Life[7]N/A
Nintendo PowerN/A7.6/10[8]
ONM70%[9]N/A
Aggregate score
GameRankingsN/A76%[10]

The game received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.[10] The earliest reviews came from Nintendo Power, which gave the Japanese version a score of 7.6 out of 10 in its March 2000 issue, nearly seven months before the U.S. version was released;[8] and from Game Informer, which gave it 8.25 out of 10 in its April 2000 issue, nearly six months prior to the game's release Stateside.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Harris, Craig (September 20, 2000). "Blaster Master: Enemy Below". IGN. Retrieved July 12, 2016. It's very similar to Metroid in design, but instead of controlling a babe in a suit you're behind the wheel of a Moon Patrol-style land rover with a huge cannon as a snout.
  2. ↑ Thompson, Jon. "Blaster Master: Enemy Below - Review". AllGame. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
  3. 1 2 Fitzloff, Jay (April 2000). "Blaster Master: Enemy Below - Game Boy Color". Game Informer (84). Archived from the original on October 25, 2000. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
  4. ↑ Provo, Frank (September 7, 2000). "Blaster Master Enemy Below Review". GameSpot. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
  5. ↑ Thomas, Lucas M. (December 15, 2011). "Blaster Master: Enemy Below Review (3DS)". IGN. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
  6. ↑ Harris, Craig (September 20, 2000). "Blaster Master: Enemy Below (GBC)". IGN. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
  7. ↑ Dillard, Corbie (December 11, 2011). "Review: Blaster Master: Enemy Below (3DS eShop / GBC)". Nintendo Life. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
  8. 1 2 "Blaster Master: Enemy Below". Nintendo Power. 130. March 2000.
  9. ↑ East, Thomas (December 22, 2011). "Blaster Master: Enemy Below review (3DS)". Official Nintendo Magazine. Archived from the original on October 7, 2014. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
  10. 1 2 "Blaster Master: Enemy Below for Game Boy Color". GameRankings. Retrieved May 29, 2016.

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