Planet Flosante

Planet Flosante
Travel view to Planet Flosante

Planet Flosante (abbreviated as Flosante) is the main planet of Area A and the first main stage of Blaster Master Zero 2.

Overview

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Jason: This planet is really something. Huge rocks are floating in mid-air! Eve: There seems to be a unique type of mineral beneath the surface. It's exerting a force on these rocks, causing them to float. Jason: (What a fascinating material... I'll have to collect some later.) Eve: There must have been a powerful explosion at the core to cause the planet's surface to break up like this... Jason: I'd bet anything that the mutant invasion was responsible for this...”

— "Planet Flosante" Eve Chat

Flosante is a planet that has already been destroyed by mutants. Fragments of the planet's crust remain aloft from the remnants of its core due to the properties of the minerals inside them.

Gaia-SOPHIA's Hover ability is damaged upon initial touchdown, requiring Jason to hunt down materials to fix it. Fortunately, they are easily found. Unfortunately, they are guarded by the boss mutant Mockrantula.

As more or less the "tutorial" level for the game, Flosante does not have overly much to note apart from spider-like mutants and floating rocks that must be broken apart to create traversable platforms through several areas. There are some basic enemies to fight, and four relatively simple dungeons featuring floating rock platforms which must be shot down to create safe paths across spikes. Like any other game made by Inti Creates, revisiting levels after acquiring some new abilities can lead to secrets and previously inaccessible areas.

Bosses

• Dungeon-3: Mockrantula
• Dungeon-4: Mine Mite

Items

• Dungeon-1: Map A
• Dungeon-2: Planetoid Map A-1
• Dungeon-3: Hover
• Dungeon-4: Proximity Mine (Jason); Orbital Edge (Copen); DP Up (Empress)
• Life Up
• Nu-Nusei Herb (Jason only, requires Drill Smasher)
  • "An herb that blasted off to planet Stranga. Bring it to Kanna."

Etymology

"Flosante" is a word in Esperanto that means "floating". This references how Planet Flosante is made up of large pieces of rock floating above the planet's destroyed core.

Related Quotes

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Jason: This planet is really something. Huge rocks are floating in mid-air! Eve: There seems to be a unique type of mineral beneath the surface. It's exerting a force on these rocks, causing them to float. Jason: (What a fascinating material... I'll have to collect some later.) Eve: There must have been a powerful explosion at the core to cause the planet's surface to break up like this... Jason: I'd bet anything that the mutant invasion was responsible for this... (The mutants are cosmic parasites. They consume lifeforms and resources, and with enough time, will even exhaust and destroy stars. In order to fight the mutants spread throughout the universe, Eve's home planet, Sophia, created the MA (Metal Attacker) series of battle tanks. My old tank, SOPHIA III, was the first in that series. Thanks to SOPHIA, Earth was saved... But the mutants have surely destroyed countless other planets across the vast universe. No matter how strong the Metal Attackers are, there's no way they could protect every planet in the universe... Even so... Eve will be different. I will save her, no matter the cost.)”

— "Planet Flosante" Eve Chat