Mew Mew Love Blaster!
Avoid sadness, spread the joy!
The game's instructions
Mew Mew Love Blaster! is a minigame that can be played for 3G in Café Dune in the Oasis Valley. It can be accessed via an arcade machine in the corner of the building.
Main Story[edit | edit source]
According to the "Mysteries of the Underground" book, Mew Mew Love Blaster! was created by Team Y and Blunko Industries, two human companies who also created the arcade machine next to it, and then retrieved from the Garbage Dump by monsters.[1]
The Gamer Kid NPC playing what appears to be a racing game nearby hints at the existence of the game's final boss, stating how they have never seen anyone reach it.[2] In the Wild East, the Gamer NPC states how they have studied deep lore of the game, and is enraged by people on the Undernet avoiding powerups and using incorrect terminology.[3]
Gameplay[edit | edit source]
Mechanics[edit | edit source]
Within the minigame, the player controls the titular Mew Mew, a fictional catgirl character returning from Undertale. The minigame serves an early tutorial for the mechanics of Clover's abilities against the final bosses of each route. Mew Mew can be moved in all directions with the arrow keys. Pressing cancel (usually X/Shift) triggers a dash and pressing confirm (usually Z/Enter) fires bullets referred to as "joy" at the enemies. Holding confirm charges a larger and slower blast. Both regular and charged blasts do the same amount of damage, but the charged shot has the bonus of piercing enemies.
Upgrades, shaped like rectangles, periodically fall from the top of the stage. These upgrades can radically change the way Mew Mew's attacks operate for a short time.
- A blue upgrade radically increases Mew Mew's attack speed, cued by the voiceline “Rapid Fire!”
- A red upgrade turns Mew Mew's attack into a three-way spread shot, cued by the voiceline "Spread the Love!"
Enemies fly in from the top of the stage and fire bullets referred to as "sadness" at Mew Mew. Making contact with sadness or touching an enemy deals damage. Mew Mew can sustain three hits before perishing. Two types of basic enemies spawn. They both take two hits to defeat.
- Witches move horizontally across the screen, repeatedly firing a single bullet downwards.
- Bats fly down from the top a varying distance, fire one three-way spread shot, and move left or right off-screen.
Progression[edit | edit source]
The game spawns a combination of witches and bats. Each witch or bat defeated gives 20 points. A boss is triggered at 300, 700, and 1000 points. Bosses stop normal spawning until they are defeated.
At both 300 and 700 points, a samurai boss will spawn in the center of the screen. They occasionally summon three slow homing projectiles. They are worth 80 points when defeated. Once they are defeated, the game proceeds as normal until the next point threshold. At 1000 points, the final boss spawns, a large bat that takes up most of the horizontal area at the top of the screen. It repeatedly fires at the player, occasionally summoning two bats to aid it and sometimes crying tears that explode into smaller projectiles in a circle. Once the boss is defeated, Clover earns 500 points and wins the game.
Tips[edit | edit source]
- Mew Mew can dash in any direction normally, but when she has a blast charged, she can only dash left or right.
- The bats hold still for a second before firing.
- Enemies cannot spawn at the bottom section of the map, so staying there will prevent physical contact with them.
- Timed right, one charged shot can hit the same basic enemy twice and defeat them.
- The samurai bosses are easily defeated by simply circling them, charging a piercing shot when moving around them and firing once in front of them. The piercing shot hits them multiple times and Mew Mew can move faster than the projectiles they fire.
- Dashing horizontally through bullets is very useful in the final boss, but not always necessary elsewhere.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- While ラブ・ブラスター! is meant to only play during regular gameplay and フィナーレ! is meant to play alone during the final boss, both songs play at once when fighting the final boss.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ On the cabinet, two logos reside: Team Y and Blunko Industries.
The same two human companies that created the Mew Mew Love Blaster cabinet.
Legends say it was playable for a time after it was recovered from the dump... - Mysteries of the Underground Chapter 1: Blunko's Blunder - ↑ Have you tried out Mew Mew Love Blaster? It's addicting!
I suck at it though.
I hear there's a final boss but I've never seen anyone reach it. - Gamer Kid on their first interaction - ↑ There's these videos on Undernet of monsters playing Love Blaster.
I'll tell ya what, they're playing it all wrong!
You're supposed to GRAB the powerups, not avoid them!!
Also, Mew mew doesn't "shoot bullets", she spreads joy[sic]
It's so obvious they haven't studied the deep lore like I have. - Gamer NPC in the Wild East