I'm stuck on Area 3

It's like Metroid. Amazing music, nice atmosphere for NES standards, it's a technical marvel...

But the exploration platformer genre was simply not there yet in terms of its game design mentality branching out from the action platformer in the right ways, and in terms of its now laser-focused awareness on what quality of life features the genre needs, or at least benefits heavily from.

I want to play Blaster Master Zero one day, though. It looks like good fun!

Reviewed on Apr 03, 2021


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