I loved Blaster Master as a kid and couldn't understand how bringing a sequel to a more powerful system could result in such an incomprehensibly worse game. It was an indecipherable mess of structure, as it took the loosest elements of the original game and cobbled them together without the foresight to give the player an idea of how that structure should function.

If that explanation feels really vague, know that the game feels the same. I guess controls were fine, graphics were par for the course, sound effects were alright, and music was dullsville. I can't shake how much this game made me angry about the drop-off in value over the original Blaster Master. Go play that a million times over instead. Go pull up Stage 5 and Stage 6 music on YT -- it's so worth it. This game is not.