Blasto (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Sony Interactive |
| Publisher(s) | Sony Computer Entertainment America |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation |
| Genre(s) | Third-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Blasto was a third-person shooter game developed by Sony Interactive and released by Sony Computer Entertainment America on the Sony PlayStation in 1998. Although heavily marketed, the game had proved to be rather too frustratingly difficult for too many gamers. “There’s a good game here – it’s just simply hidden under many layers of frustration.” [1] The late Phillip Hart had prominently voiced the main protagonist of the game known as Captain Blasto, who is indeed an extremely muscular, alien-fighting, gun-totting and slightly dimwitted space captain who’s always in the most charming mood for a lovely babe from any solar system most specifically in the Planet Uranus.
Gameplay
The game was traditionally a third-person platform-action shooter. The game's onscreen enemies are aliens that appear and teleport within the background scenery and around the player based on the events that are triggered as the player explores each and every environment. The game also had a strong platforming element with multiple elements such as rotating 3D sections which have to be navigated while shooting at enemies. The puzzle elements were also however, limited to simple “Find The Switch To Proceed” scenarios. However, some of the other elements within the game had also required the player to utilize different weaponry at certain points in order to progress and advance to the next area.
Plot
After having been banished into and upon returning from the 5th dimension, the diabolical alien tyrant named Bosc is bent on conquering the Planet Uranus along with his army of Pear Troops and legions of uraniants and attempts to invade and destroy the Earth as well. He is seeking to reign supreme with his ambitious and terrifying power over the solar system that involves his vast, dreadful alien army capturing and enslaving the Space Babes throughout across the galaxy. Thus, Captain Blasto is the only hero who can foil him and his evil ambitions and set out to rescue all the stranded Space Babes along the way in his quest for adventure. Blasto is also the only type of hero who doesn't mind catching Space Babes in distress every now and then, especially when it comes to exploring and venturing across through the Planet Uranus.
Reception
Although, not so much typically and moreover so generally not very moderately well-received by most gamers, critics, reviews and publications, many of the reviews have rather mentioned that the game was only worthwhile playing just for Phillip Hart’s voice acting alone. Blasto would also unofficially mark one of Hart's last main gaming projects to date. The game was released just a few weeks before his untimely death. A game sequel entitled Blasto 2 was also and then supposedly in the works and was originally planned for development but was ultimately scrapped and totally cancelled due to Hart's untimely death.
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