Blaster Master Zero - Episode 7: Now, For Stealth...

[Music] welcome back to the underground cavern of blaster master zero today we will be breaking into a very big drop okay so this is the underground maze this is also basically a volcano which i guess makes sense after having done area 6 which was essentially an iceberg or glacier so of course we went from uh cold to hot but there's a little more to that as well because of course there always is this is also believe it or not a stealth section we have to avoid these giant robots well we don't have to but they take a lot of hits to kill and they do at least two damage per shot you have to be very careful with them eve they have anything to tell us to kind of lead us in here looks like there's a lot of mutants in this area we should try to avoid unnecessary battles whenever we can or wherever we can so um yeah but also no well now i screwed up i tried to dodge i got here you just see how much damage they can do it's ridiculous but a lot of these guys you can just kind of skip around there's actually two different stealth elements one is avoiding the big the big heavies here well i have double jump on that's why it's messing me up this is actually a good time to switch to hover [Music] because hover will actually keep me in air uh longer so there are there's the big big beefy guys and then there's also these these are actual search lights that you cannot get around if you go straight forward which summons four of these red guys but if you have the tackle a armed you just charge through them it's actually way faster to just go through the lights now i don't know if in the actual steam or xbox or ps4 version of the game if there's any actual like uh a trophy or achievement for not getting spotted if that's the case then yes this is what you need to do you run down here use the elevator to bring sophia down with you and then avoid getting spotted by this guy thankfully you can fly so it's not that big a deal but otherwise if you're not worried about achievements if you're playing like the switch version just run through it really doesn't matter and it's way faster that door we cannot take yet oh oh bye nope not interested [Music] if you're in the right spot for two you can also just ride along the walls and in fact for the some of the stealth areas it's actually way better to do this but some of them don't give you the setup to do that because you actually need to be connected to a wall in the first place to even do this which is a little bit of the bummer aspect about uh about wall in general about wall climb let's see here i think we can go in here for our first cave so yeah uh you can just go all the way around here and just do this you know it's not that bad or two taps of the a button you can tell which one's a little bit faster cave one [Music] oh god okay so right the stealth sections don't just limit themselves to the sofia screens we now also have to worry about them here as well and just watch this so these guys are tough they take a lot of hits with striker and striker is one of the faster ways of killing them they take six to seven shots from striker wave takes it feels like 20 shots maybe it's a lot of shots in general [Music] but the real kicker is that they're the only enemies that respawn so eventually you are forced to actually avoid them thankfully it's metal gear solid rules or i guess just metal gear rules where uh if you're in the spotlight you're spotted but if you're outside the spotlight they cannot see you which is very convenient because they do that mechanic a lot in this stage honestly this stage might be the biggest letdown for me in the game because of that i i'm hit or miss on if i like stealth mechanics but in a game that hasn't had stealth mechanics at this point it's kind of a bummer you can in some areas though work around this here watch this so we'll lure him up their shots cannot go through walls so position yourself as where you can see as many of them as possible pump striker into them and striker will clear out as many in the area that it can and blue ones are just regular enemies you fought them earlier they die in two shots anyway so you can just use weight on those but that's honestly your best bet is try to keep getting them stuck on walls and strike your chain through as many as possible if you want to get through them fast if you want to stealth it by all means go for stealth there's nothing stopping you from doing that except you know maybe time [Music] but it again depends on how much you you like stealth or not like i just [Music] i guess the thing is it's optional so i really don't have too much of a means to complain about if that makes sense it just feels out of place i get that it's here for variety sake and for that i'm not gonna i'm not gonna really ding it but here watch you know what let's get a set up where we can actually hit them with wave watch how many shots it takes with wave to kill one of these guys takes a little bit they're probably the tank though they are the tankiest regular enemy hands down there's no questioning that i'm sorry sorry it's just all that hatred of four stealth mechanics just making me cough there's violently sorry that or something i ate one of the two things we're not sure okay now that we're done that we can continue zipping around here let's make sure health is topped off [Music] and pop down to another gate you're gonna be seeing gates a lot in this stage bring up the map you can see there's the three types of gates there's the actual gate to the new area or the old area there's the proper dungeons and then there's these red gates which are just warp gates we're going to be using them still a fair amount for the rest of the stage there's there's a lot of them oh that actually does count as spikes why did i think it didn't like i said these guys are blind as a bat as long as you're as long as sophia is not in the light cone they do not care shots can go through and because of that they're pretty easy to jump around they actually have a lot of holes set up here where they want you to take jason up here move the switch go up to the next one and kind of just jump around everything or once again a couple presses of the a button i don't i really don't get it really not a good fit all right that's actually where we need to go so uh let's go up here and get to another area because i think the map is up here again another thing they wanted you to do they wanted you to raise sophia up here use the ladder then go up there use climb to just run around this guy completely or just jump over here press the a button a few times and move on it's kind of a bummer it's kind of a bummer that their their mechanic can just be so easily skipped [Music] but i guess at the same time they maybe they thought you would have a bit more trouble than just using the dash that's that's my assumption anyways they thought that it wouldn't be that big an issue and now more stealth by which i mean more using striker we don't have map yet so this is not going to do anything i'll get somewhere easy working chain off for you there we go conveniently striker just hits off screen as well it doesn't quite get everything as you see like these guys avoided getting shot but it got most of the guards which makes things a lot safer oh yeah i think this is the map room one so i should actually be careful cause i think i had to go up to get the map map should be up here but i have to blow up a door yep so i have to walk around and take a long way to get this because as you can see can't destroy it or we get a little creative remember it's this blaster remember rapid attack what is it called again it's our attack right r blast remote blast there we go that's what it is remote blast it counts as a grenade that you can aim anywhere so if you aim you know around here in this general vicinity [Music] it'll blow up the wall for you because it's explosion on the other side so you can just skip the rest of an area there's three parts of the game that you can do this in to just conveniently super shortcut getting the map here area five and in area eight they actually wanted to kind of reward you for thinking to do that which is kind of neat it's a nice little speedrunner trick [Music] and as you can see this room was a lot bigger it would have taken a lot longer to get through here and in fact we're still going to fill it in anyway so for the purposes of the let's play this was redundant but hey now you can just see more annoying stealth robots i can just electrocute to death and isn't that really what this lp is about no it's not actually oh wrong gun wrong gun oh that's what i get for not paying attention [Music] is not a good idea to try to take them on front like that you will eat damage i've already lost two of my guns just from trying to get a little too greedy like that so maybe we play a little stealthy after all oh no these are just the regular guys he says as he gets hit almost immediately good job john i really wish i had a warp after this because this is just this is just all tedious busy work at this point my honest recommendation to you if you're playing this is honestly use the remote blast just do that leave you do not need to do what i'm doing right now [Music] but at least now it looks like the stage is a bit more of a threat because i'm doing this because it feels more like i'm trying and isn't that really important [Music] no not really actually in this case ah not even really if you are playing it actually proper if you want to actually be stealthy grenades also don't alert anyone and there are a lot of breakable walls just kind of run around and at least there's rocks to just kind of rebuild up your weapons so you're not gonna get stuck here at the very least and again since it's vision only here i just wanna see not even shots matter it is literally if they see jason that is it they don't see jason they do not care so shoot to your heart's content until you hit them then care a lot because you're gonna get kills if you're not careful [Music] still really satisfying to see that happen though let's get the hell out of here bye couldn't resist okay now we've got the map let's actually see the area we're dealing with now and it's long it is kind of a big area it just covers a lot of ground as you can see there's still a lot of warp doors left to go yet so let's let's pick up the pace here a little bit there aren't too many in the way of regular capes for you to do though which is at least a decent change of pace and again if you're just skipping the stealth the segments by just doing this it will go a lot faster than developer intended all right does it really count as developer intended or is it more so developer wanted developer and clyde maybe because it's it's pretty obvious they also put the other method in there for getting around and i guess i haven't really talked about this because we kind of skipped this but you know the ice mechanic we had back in in the glacier area uh it wasn't the only area in the game to actually do that same thing with the chewing through blocks we have to do the same thing here which means you are going to be using wall a lot because uh unlike the ice area it doesn't give you as neat as many neat spots to kind of roll through you do have to make your own ledges here all right stealth section you know what this one i'm actually going to skip simply because i just don't want to deal with four of these guys or do i now we are just just see how much damage i mean you could try dodging that would be the novel idea but like with regular crusher shots we took a lot of damage there you cannot just dash through them uh like they said anything big is gonna just take damage but stay there but it is kind of funny how many puzzles it breaks here i'm just gonna show you the actual intended way to do this just just for the actual sake of actually doing what the developer wanted this is how they wanted you to get through this section without getting spotted do all that climbing there press the button bring sophia down on the land on the uh elevator and then you're through or get spotted tackle this one's on a more awkward spot but yeah like that's it by speed comparison let's just let's just reload the room i think the alarm stays off yeah the alarm stays off so it's also not that big a deal so uh for speed sake just ta-da done you might have to tackle a couple bugs that's it it feels really weird it feels really weird to do it like that i guess consider it a reward for master play or something like that or you know a chance to show off or just just say you just don't like stealth that's fair that is a very valid stance to have you just don't like stealth [Music] earlier there was a fork in the road that let's take two different paths the other path is here they both lead back here one has the the stealth section and the other has digging i'm just gonna show it off just because for map completion for my own sake at this point but still there's another stealth section here too but a lot easier to actually like be stealthy in because you don't have to get out and play as jason you literally just make sure you're uh in front of these background images and you're fine there we go we looped around no big deal and even if you get caught again it's just the worms the searchlights are just the worms so the tackle does everything it's all you need [Music] back in this room let's grab those items why not uh there we go i'm sure if straight up was gonna work on that and let's pop down here because down here is the gate to the next zone uh but there's something else as well as you've probably noticed it is subtle but less subtle than it was in the glacier zone room to the left there's a spot here now the tricky thing they did here is that your shots actually hit the lava and dissipate now when i played this through this game originally i thought that meant oh shoot i can't go through that because it's still solid lava i guess i have to go kill the boss and then that'll cool it down no it's it's again fake foreground just to drive through i overthought that one that's i do that a lot unsurprisingly but it looked cool at the time and a reward is of course the cube we actually have a boss to fight for once we've been kind of light on bosses this time around and also i have to kick myself a little bit about bosses and i'm sure uh there's been a mention oh uh yeah no uh i'm sure there's been a mention of in the video back in like when we first originally got eve but for some reason i had it in my head that you didn't get different dialogue during boss fights if you called eve up and i don't know why i'm gonna assume it's because for certain rooms certain boss rooms you actually don't get dialogue well before we get that new stealth mechanic avoid these slugs but again they don't do much they kind of just teleport oh that's the first time they've actually hit me wow uh so yeah they're not that big a deal as long as you're moving they won't reach you and if they get stuck on architecture john what are you doing if they get stuck on architecture they take even longer because they teleport so they're pretty easy to avoid [Music] and again new striker striker does everything for it how did that second one hit i thought i missed that shot oh i must get one of the stealth guys that's why because now they're shooting at me uh you know it's screwed i'm not in a [Music] mood [Music] there we go much quicker ish much safer at least anyways back to my original point eve actually has special dialogue in certain fights and i didn't think that she did primarily because of situations like this the layer of the s1000 generator a nice nod to the t1000 from terminator terminal 2 that is uh this does not actually count as a boss room so she doesn't care and just tells you about wave gun anyways uh if it's a room with a health meter she does actually give you advice on what to do to fight bosses now at this point there's been probably some prompts and maybe even some pictures of some of the dialogue it's not super important so i haven't really been showing it at this point or haven't gone back to re-record it but it is a nice little uh extra fluff piece of the game here all i have to do for this guy is turn left and right this is whatever we're going to use to kill him you don't even have to move as long as you're turning it's very straightforward they will always spawn behind you and all that was for the health extension here we go area seven health extension life up increase jason and sophia's life by one anything new laser shot no no eve no why the one thing i will give them for this stage for a lot of the stages have been back and forth on whether or not they're pretty authentic to the original game uh this one is both is extremely not actually i don't know why i'm giving them that i meant that the opposite way it's kind of bugs me out a bit because it's uh the layout is more or less the same you know there's lava tunnels you have to go through but they added in the stealth mechanics there were no stealth mechanics in the original blaster master other than like i want to avoid damage maybe i should avoid damage no you just you just fight like this maze room stuff like this that's in the original game but one thing that makes me sad is they took one of the fastest and like most frantic songs from the game and kind of put in a more mellow and slow song i get it they're trying to emphasize the stealth mechanic that they put in here like this is supposed to be like very dangerous because you're so close to the enemy base stuff like that and i also get that as a personal bias of myself that i really like songs that are very fast running in high energy like that is that is a personal preference of mine but i don't know this this this stage falls flat because of that i like between the stealth mechanic and between the the change in music it just kind of bums me out but they do stick the landing i will give them that [Music] it's gonna take a little bit to get to that but let's go show this off first first up nice good use of wall climb let's just wrap around here take these out and then we have to sneak down under this thing sure we're holding down the wall right button the whole time and that'll get us to a little cave over here this one is not necessary but boy howdy does it give you something cool the downside though is again it's another giant room and it is very very full of stealth robots and regular ones too so this is actually one of those few good times where uh reflect is gonna be the the weapon of choice here he says as he forgets to reflect good job [Music] hey remember when i said this was the weapon of choice and then completely ate dirt this is also why i don't normally do this i normally go through here guns blazing but that also gets me in a lot of trouble because there's not as much cover here so it's harder to take out all the robots at once if you're stupid you can do it that was a dangerous idea i just did but it worked [Music] also this is a giant area if you're trying to cover all map it's going to take you a little bit because you have to walk around a lot and there are a lot of enemies to deal with you do not need to cover all the map if you're trying to just get through this area up into the left is exactly what you want because it will eventually lead you to the right and the exit but since we're here for another leisurely stroll maybe it's time to bring back wave because we've just gone back to start at this point now and we've pretty much pissed off every stealth robot at this point and even some that aren't [Music] oh oh well not as bad when you've actually got cover [Music] all right well here can we have a good clean really oh keep getting how fast they can shoot all right well in that case when you have a good place for cover since striker goes above cover just take a chance to just kill as many robots as you can since again it'll kill any that are off screen as well up to a certain limit as long as it can it's within rendering range it'll probably do damage to the very least but there are a lot of them there should be some up here i definitely didn't kill those already [Music] did wait did i i must have got them earlier then that striker was more generous than i thought or i just did that and completely forgot which is entirely possible this this specific area just kind of drags on if you're trying to do map completion like i've been doing just so much easier just to go up and leave don't don't be like me don't be like me oh how are you what hi how are you still there it's gonna yeah there we go and i guess another mechanic i didn't even talk about is uh if the stealth guys are on you you can just throw down a flash bomb that will actually stun them and you can just run away at that point or get set up for killing them but as soon as you shoot them after they've been stunned they will do damage i guess they knew this area was a bit of a pain because they dropped a lot of healing items right off the bat and then a lot of gun upgrades too and am upgrade so basically like we're fully stocked already we're off by what what two health pips right now that's not that bad [Music] and it's time for a boss fight and we even walk up automatically during this one say hello to the layer of venom master i'm actually going to do something a little different here first off i'm going to actually remember to put in uh the codec call from eve it's a really nasty energy coming from this thing looks like it's part of some huge mutant please be careful jason that [Music] so like i said not all of them are helpful some of them are more helpful than others eve really be careful thanks i'm actually gonna wait i'm gonna do something a little different normally i just kill this guy almost instantly i'm actually going to wait because i want you to see the cool thing this guy does this actually a good time to use reflect i said that last time famous last words but this time for real this time for real the venom master has a cool move that is not going to do despite me there we go no really i'm really not going to do it huh [Music] this is why most people don't get to see this move because you can kill this boss pretty damn fast otherwise it's really not going to do it huh you have to shoot it to start it i thought it just did it automatically or you could actually just with me that way okay that works too [Music] this is just this is just sad right now it's really not gonna oh there it is okay this move is really cool that's called acceleration blast that thing will melt you're in the middle of it don't stand there it even scorches the ground it's such a cool effect all right now that we're done bragging let's kill this sevilla striker wave oh by the way we got an extra one of these you wanna just gonna rub it in thanks sophia most people don't see that blaster move simply because it's just really easy to kill it's really easy kill i love that the scorch effect stays though that's so cool but yeah uh you use one remote blast you just electric shock uh striker the other the side robots which usually leads to getting another remote blast which means the boss fight is over wave will also eat through it even though apparently i think it's i think his weakness is the shotgun which is kind of useless because the everything else gets everything striker hits all the robots and wave can hit everything and it goes through the fence but all that for the best item for sofia the acceleration blast releases a huge amount of energy to attack sophia's most powerful weapon hold the shoot button to charge it then release the fire all right let's learn tell me about it eve oh sorry tell me about it fred so this acceleration blast lets sophia use all of its power in one concentrated super powerful blast huh it won't fire unless your sp gauge is maxed out but make no mistake it has tremendous power however using it can be quite a burden in a number of ways looks like i'll have to use it only when the timing's right that was just the dialogue for picking it up because it's technically story relevant though you do not need it for the boss though it is relevant air quotes here's the actual description acceleration blast with this main weapon you can hold down the shoot button to charge a shot then release it to fire this is sofia's most powerful attack right looks like it'll use up a lot of energy that's right your sp needs to be full or it won't be able to fire but its power is tremendous however it puts a huge burden on sophia's systems so think very carefully about when to use it gotcha this move is so cool i remember being extremely excited when we use the first time probably because i hadn't actually seen the boss use that move first so it completely caught me off guard here is acceleration blast it takes a while to charge as you've probably noticed by the meter up there but when it fires it's cool [Music] it burns your entire sp meter uh it takes a while to recharge as long as you don't have any items to charge up on uh and you have to be on the ground and the meter has to be full for it to start and it takes a while to charge but it looks really cool it's such a cool move i just wish it was more tactically viable for sophia iii okay i think we've done everything we need to so let's get to the actual boss of this area which you've noticed is not in a cave surprise surprise it's a tank fight i wonder why they gave us a giant death laser let's go find out [Music] after some more stealth not that much thankfully uh let's just you know actually i'm going to use the flash grenades i haven't really been using those that much at least i can show you that that stealth portion [Music] again slug's not a big deal just be careful we're gonna get spotted they will teleport behind you as long as you're moving at a decent clip they won't get near you [Music] okay i gotta fill that room i should just went up first just for sanity's sake because now i have to do with all this or if i'm feeling exhausted oh i'm in trouble i'm not gonna be stunned for a while go go go go that was a mistake john oh i'm so dead that ladies and gentlemen is called pure greed that was just being pure greedy oh shoot we have no gun upgrades we have no health i only have two flashbangs left eve give me a word of wisdom to get through this only your words can lead me through here [Music] gun level one long range shut up thanks eve thanks for the moral support [Music] we may actually be in a little bit of trouble i think we're actually going to die on this ground area because there's no collectible until you get through everything here yeah like there's the most like nearby rocks to take advantage of uh oh no that's long range it's not piercing oh oh one health pip no gun oh game the one time i screw up you're gonna make me pay for it huh all right i see how it is let's see how it is that fun slug [Music] let's switch to grenade because at least then i can hide up here break both of these and then just wait for our chance now i actually have to be stealthy because i would rather not die especially this dumb way i'm going to die in a dumb way later on because i am in so much trouble because i lost all that health here here are the only health pickups they will give you now so i am actually going to dip back in for a second which unfortunately does kind of take away some of the excitement of what's about to happen in the game but i really i really need the health right now actually that should be enough [Music] yeah so uh you have the platform down here don't make the mistake i've made literally every time i've played this don't jump on this platform to jump to the next one walk down because if you jump you fall too high and jason dies no matter what it's above jason's kill fall range so um let's go to the boss room without sofia we're in trouble you've got to be kidding me this thing is alive jason jason get out of there now that gargantuan mutant has an extremely tough outer armor your blaster rifle won't even make a scratch on it damn it i don't know how i can beat this thing without sofia i gotta find a way warning the layer of the planet eater skeleton boss [Music] skeleton boss cannot be damaged by jason which they just mentioned so you have to take the very obvious platforms and jump up to the ladder remember to tap jump to grab the ladder i have made that mistake a couple times jason can take a hit from that but it does four damage hit this button and get sophia down here as soon as you can how's this eve perfect i'm heading your way right now and then she did i don't care how strong this thing's armor is sophia is gonna blast right through it now i'm sure you've kind of figured out what's about to happen good on you because that's literally what we're about to do let's uh i'm gonna wait a second because our sp is low we can hide here to avoid the rocks and honestly it's the best way to do it uh the only thing we can't dodge is the electric shock so i'm just gonna wait for a shock attack before i go for this because that locks on oh and nope you're going for another one right away okay okay fine here we go you do not need to use the acceleration blast to win this fight and in fact sometimes it'll get you in trouble as you've probably noticed if you get too greedy but if you do use it to kill the boss you do get extra dialogue it's done charging ready to fire jason take this mutant's gum acceleration blast and dead in one hit it's so satisfying it's actually his weakness straight up you can just use crusher shots regular shots no big deal you just get right in front on fire but the laser's so much cooler use the laser and with that up ahead is where the ring leader the mutant lord is hiding right yeah no doubt about it this time i no we yeah we will put an end to this let's go jason yeah so skeleton boss is supposed to be at least it looks like a reference to plutonium boss which is the monster on the cover of the nes game and the second last boss of the game at least the original nes one this one as you can see it's a little bit different but the goo and the fact that it was stuck in a wall and a giant monster are really the things that kind of bring it together you'll notice at this point there is no way to get back to area seven you are forced forward to go to area eight what is this it was right before my very eyes i don't know what it was but i know that it was pulsating is this part of a mutant no i think this is a mutant wait are you saying that we're inside that gigantic mutant's body i wish we weren't but it looks to be the case this looks bad don't worry it doesn't matter where we are as long as we stick together jason yeah you're absolutely right i have no idea what could be lurking ahead so we need to be super careful what's that turn around i'm on it [Music] bye this is gross i'm out so leaving and coming back opens up the doorway to area seven so if you missed any collectibles you can just fly up here and this will actually connect to where you were which i mean it actually loops you right back to this door here that was covered in goop earlier way way back at the beginning of the zone so there's basically a shortcut that's just skipped through the entire zone if for any reason you missed any of these collectibles you do have to unfortunately go through the entire zone again which which does suck but if you want to zip back and go to the other areas that's your best opportunity just a quick fall and we're back here and now we can go to area eight and call this episode here so when we come back next episode of blaster master zero we will wrap up area eight and fight the evil mutant lord and probably see the end of this right here's hoping anyways see you guys then hey

Channel: Proton Jon

Views: 11,167

Rating: 4.986095 out of 5

Keywords: Blaster Master Zero, Blaster Master, Inti Creates, Sunsoft, Nintendo Switch, Let's Play, Proton Jon

Id: 6m6vWn_5SC0

Length: 38min 56sec (2336 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 29 2021