They are shaded in greyscale in the same manner as Jason's Life Ups/Energy Guard in Destroyer Mode.Įkoro's arsenal in both top-down and side-scrolling modes behaves the closest to Jason's, with straightforward replacements for the Gun and top-down sub-weapons that cover all the bases. Jason's additional subweapons and the Energy Guard are turned into dummy pickups, offering no permanent benefit to Ekoro but counting towards the item completion rate. Life Capsules are changed to hearts, Life Ups are changed to angel wings, major item pickup sound effects are changed to natively synthesized versions of Gal*Gun stage clear chimes, and explosions from ordnance and defeated monsters are changed into clouds of hearts. Sophia III's primary palette becomes an angelic pastel pink and white, but its performance is otherwise unchanged. As well, all in-game character dialogue is disabled, and the Receiver has no effect in the first eight areas. Appearances & Synopses Blaster Master Zero Īs with all other Extra characters, no story cutscenes are given to explain Ekoro's appearance in the Underground, nor her acquisition of Sophia III (or Sophia Zero, should the player meet the requirements to access Area 9).