Developed by mukagosoft
Released for XBLIG (8/2010)
Developer mukagosoft made quite a few contributions to XBLIG and Blaster and Morion was released back in August of 2010. The game is a twin-stick shooter, one of the more common genres on the platform. Blaster and Morion tries to be a bit different by having the player control an actual human rather than a spaceship. The overhead view is a bit too close to the player, making it hard to take enemies out from a safe distance due to your lack of vision. You can't continuously fire as your gun will overheat, which could have been helped had there been a button to fire rather than having aiming/shooting assigned to the right stick.
Blaster and Morion also features platforming, and this is where the games biggest faults lie. The jumping animation is severely lacking in frames, resulting in an unpredictably strange feeling jump and making precise platforming way more frustrating than it needs to be. Blaster and Morion has some very ugly textures for its 3D rendered graphics and can be quite the eyesore to look at. With such an abundance of great twin-stick shooters buried within XBLIG, Blaster and Morion is one of the many XBLIG titles you can easily skip. This game is a sequel to Blaster and Amethyst which was released only three months before this game was released. I'm absolutely certain that the first game is just more of the same and you'd be hard-pressed to tell the two games apart from screenshots.
Final Verdict: Blaster and Morion is a sub-par attempt at a twin-stick shooter and one you should avoid by all means.
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