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 Publication Score 3DS GBC AllGame N/A [2] Game Informer N/A 8.25/10[3] GameSpot N/A 8.6/10[4] IGN 8/10[5] 8/10[6] Nintendo Life [7] N/A Nintendo Power N/A 7.6/10[8] ONM 70%[9] N/A Aggregate score GameRankings N/A 76%[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. 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. "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. "Blaster Master: Enemy Below for Game Boy Color". GameRankings. Retrieved May 29, 2016.

External links

• Blaster Master: Enemy Below at MobyGames
• Blaster Master Underground (BMUG) - a complete record of all games in the series, including external media and background development history on each game