History VideoGame / BlasterMasterZeroIII

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Jason has a habit of running his vehicles ragged, as was known from SOPHIA Zero wearing down before the previous game; likewise, Lucia is dead, leaving Leibniz to do all the maintenance himself, a subject where he probably was inferior to her. [[spoiler:Put the two in the same Metal Attacker (one that's already a quick patch-up job, at that) without [[TheEngineer Eve]], and G-SOPHIA SV's breakdown becomes a matter of ''when''.]]

*** Most notable of all, [[spoiler: the recharge system vs. the Gaia system. The Gaia system allows Jason to quickly restock his abilities simply by falling from a significant height or by getting hit. On paper, this is fantastic. Kane, however, can spend boss fights hugging walls and flying for a significantly longer period of time because Jason's Wall Drive uses energy and Kane's doesn't. The method of acquiring energy for Jason means he has to put in an actual ''effort'' to get energy back short of simply goring himself on enemies, whereas Kane can mostly focus on fighting while his energy restocks. More saliently, tying all of his weapons to the Gaia system means Jason is in a lot of trouble when his sub weapons run out, something that is deliberately made clear if the player sticks it out as Kane fighting Jason in the finale; once Jason runs out of energy, he's helpless, while Kane can still keep ticking away at Jason or use the Accel Blast. For all the Gaia system is talked up, the simple regeneration system can serve Kane far better. However, Kane's sub weapons can [[DramaticAmmoDepletion run out of ammunition]], and the original Metal Attacker's automatic regeneration does not reload his ammunition, so Kane can wind up in even bigger trouble if he runs out of ammunition than if Jason runs out of sub weapn energy.]]

*** Most notable of all, [[spoiler: the recharge system vs. the Gaia system. The Gaia system allows Jason to quickly restock his abilities simply by falling from a significant height or by getting hit. On paper, this is fantastic. Kane, however, can spend boss fights hugging walls and flying for a significantly longer period of time because Jason's Wall Drive uses energy and Kane's doesn't. The method of acquiring energy for Jason means he has to put in an actual ''effort'' to get energy back short of simply goring himself on enemies, whereas Kane can mostly focus on fighting while his energy restocks. More saliently, tying all of his weapons to the Gaia system means Jason is in a lot of trouble when his sub weapons run out, something that is deliberately made clear if the player sticks it out as Kane fighting Jason in the finale; once Jason runs out of energy, he's helpless, while Kane can still keep ticking away at Jason or use the Accel Blast. For all the Gaia system is talked up, the simple regeneration system can serve Kane far better. However, Kane's sub weapons can run out of ammunition, and the original Metal Attacker's automatic regeneration does not reload his ammunition, so Kane can wind up in big trouble if he runs out of ammunition.]]

''Blaster Master Zero III'' is a game in Sunsoft's ''VideoGame/BlasterMaster'' series of 2D side-scrolling action-platformer games developed by Creator/IntiCreates and released on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS, and PC via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and UsefulNotes/EpicGamesStore on July 29th, 2021. A playable demo was also released on Steam during the Steam Next Fest event on June 16th, 2021. It is the third and [[GrandFinale final entry]] of the ''VideoGame/BlasterMasterZero'' trilogy of the rebooted ''Blaster Master'' saga, bringing Jason Frudnick's story to its ultimate conclusion.

*** [[spoiler: Wall Drive vs Phantom Solid: The Metal Attacker can drive along any available surface, whereas the J1 can ''produce'' a surface for it to drive upon in thin air, allowing it to create its ''own'' terrain to utilize. Subverted in that the Metal Attacker's wall drive does not require SP to run, while the J1 and the Gaia-SOPHIA SV requires subweapon SP for their wall drives and phantom solid devices to run.]]

* KlingonPromotion: [[spoiler:A big plot twist in the middle of the game reveals that Eve ''accidentally'' pulled this off by helping defeat Drolrevo at the end of ''Zero II''. Her mutant corruption actually purged itself by transforming Eve's android body into an organic humanoid mutant, and by helping kill the previous Mutant Overlord while being a mutant, Eve became the new ruler of the mutants by default.]]

** There's a CallBack to the original instance in [[spoiler:Area ???. You can take a side route somewhere and you will actually come back to the area where you fought the original skeleton boss, where you'd find a wall guardian from ''Zero I''. Kill it and you'll get Accel Charge for Kane's Metal Attacker, which works the same as it did in ''Zero I''.]]

* ZeroEffortBoss: In the final battle [[spoiler: choosing Jason. Even if Kane depletes your HP, Eve will heal you. It's extremely hard to lose.]]

* BookEnds: [[spoiler: Area ??? is actually the setting of the first game, except you go through it backwards until you reach the starting point in the original Area 1. The very final shot is that of Jason and Eve departing on the SOPHIA-J1 in super-dimensional space. However, an eagle-eyed viewer will see through the pulsing exactly where this place overlaps in reality: [[WhereItAllBegan it's the very same cave Jason first set out in on the SOPHIA-III, so long ago.]]]]