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Well before there was even the now-infamous Worms series there was a great title that my friends and I played on PC called Scorched Earth (or some people just would call it Scorch). Working against an enemy in a somewhat randomly drawn landscape you’d hurl bombs and even more outlandish weapons at each other using your chosen angle and power in the hopes of wiping them out before they got you. Mr Blaster is sort of a bare bones or perhaps stripped for parts version of this experience, replacing random landscapes with planets that move up and down and a fair amount of variety with only a minimal amount of variation as you aim weapons that may look different aesthetically but that only behave differently in minor ways at each other. The result is unfortunately a pretty bland overall experience that simply offers too little variety to be compelling for long.
Justin Nation, Score:Bad [5.8]