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One of my major issues with the World of Power books is that the writer takes a bit too much creative license with the original story. For example, in Blaster Master, Jason is not aided by anyone, yet in the book he's got a young girl from an alien world and a human boy who failed the same mission he is now on. Personally, I think this book would have been better if it had just been Jason against the Plutonium Boss (really, American Sunsoft employees, that's the best you can do?).

As with the other Worlds of Power books, the writing is very amateurish. While I understand that the book is intended for a young audience, that doesn't mean it should be written by one. Seriously, this book reads like an eleven year old wrote it. That doesn't really work for me, nor would it have worked for me when I was eleven (which I was when this book came out).

The most depth in the entire book comes when Jason defeats the final Underboss, only because he thinks he has killed his pet frog, Fred. Fred is also the reason Jason has found himself in this situation (which is the one detail the writer sticks to, fortunately). Of course, since writer's like this don't think kids can handle death (like all those Disney movies we grew up on didn't prepare us), things work out and everyone (and every thing) is okay as long as it isn't a bad guy.

Eve, a character invented by the writer to control the tank and explain everything to Jason (which, if I had written it, would have simply been the AI of the tank) is annoying right from the start. She speaks perfect English during her backstory, but every time she drops slang or an English idiom (the writer doesn't make a distinction and calls it all slang), she misspeaks, making her a perfect cliche of any non-English speaking character of the 80s and 90s and a bit of comic relief.

The brevity of this and the other Worlds of Power books causes a lot of potentially good story to fall through the cracks (well, that and the fact that the writer is just awful). ( )