Picked up Blaster Master: Blasting Again a couple days ago. Sat down to play it, and right of the bat (for gameplay, I'm so used to bad FMV on PS and Saturn games it doesn't bug me that much) I had problems with it. Controls are sloppy-loose (rather like the first, though, probably how I learned to deal with it), graphics have horrible draw-in and look like crap, the camera gets the job done, but isn't very good and there's no free-look (and kinda sucks in the Roddy alone levels), there's two music tracks (I think there might be boss music as well, which brings that up to three), and there's loading for every single room. Gets ridiculous when I spend more time loading rooms then I do actually in them, cutscenes need loading (even if they take place in the same room), and even the "Game Over" screen has to load.
But I love it. I love this game, it's a blast to play, and I really enjoy it! Somehow, despite the fact that every aspect taken alone is horrid and pathetic, I really like it. Maybe it's the old-school style method of forced gameplay, maybe it's the bosses (I've only fought the first boss, but the whole specific pattern-based action style of fighting was insanely fun for me, almost nostalgic), I don't know what, but it's a blast for me. And it only took me until halfway through the second level to figure out that those giant blue glowing squares were save points. :D
I know you guys have some similar games, games that seem (or mostly are) total crap, and somehow are still, under all that crap, fun as hell. Bust out some loving!
