Mega Man 9 Yea, it rawks imo.

[LLR]

Ok, so I'm moving in like 4 days and I'll be gone until my isp decides to hook me up at my new house.  So I decided to rant about something I really like..  eheheh..mods, tack this on the VC thread if you like, its fine by me

So I'm a huge Mega Man fan.  Specifically  the old ones on NES.  When I heard that Mega Man 9 would be coming out back several months ago, I squealed like a little kid with glee.  I happen to own EVERY Cartridge of the nes games.  A bit of nerdom I am proud to admit!   So when the game came out on Monday I hurriedly bought it up!  So I got home from work and decided to scarf down my dinner while playing Mega Man 9.  During the  intro there was a neat cameo of Chun Li as a news anchor saying that 8 robot masters are again running amuck.  (Nice Capcom!)  After I lol'd at that I scarfed down some more food, when I looked up I couldn't believe what I saw.  "Whats this!?  And NEW and interesting story!?   Deviating from the years of the same old boss!?  This is a TWIST!  Dr. LIGHT IS THE BAD GUY!?!
Spoiler of Story line:

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No, turns out Dr. Wily is again the bad guy..  Must have missed the part where Light was set up while feeding my face.   
Lets see here, is this original?
Mega Man = Dr. Wily was the bad guy
Mega Man 2= Dr. Wily was the bad guy
Mega Man 3= Dr. Wily was the bad guy
Mega Man 4= The RUSSIAN WAS THE BAD GUY!...no just kidding..Dr. Wily was the bad guy
Mega Man 5= ProtoMan was the Bad guy!... no just kidding again..Dr. Wily was the bad guy
Mega Man 6= Dr. Wily was the bad guy
Mega Man 7= Umm  I think.. hold on..  Its on the tip of my tongue...  Oh yea..Dr. Wily was the bad guy
Mega Man 8= I think Dr. Wily was the bad guy but I'm not too sure....

Ok, so no surprise there.   Upon the intro ending and Mega Man slapping on his helmet, it was time to battle the 8 robot masters in all their 8 bit glory. 

"Who to fight first"  Not having heard anything about this game other than it was coming out, I was clueless.  And that was great!  Lets see here, Galaxy Man, Magma Man, Plug Man (wtf?) Hornet Man..  Jewel Man...  Ah ha!  Jewel Man!  He is just asking for it..

So off to Jewel Mans stage I went.  Everything was as it should be in a classic Mega Man game.  Theres the Hard Hat guys, the things that float downward and once they land they are too low for you to shoot.  I then noticed the controls.  I could NOT charge my mega buster!  Ah HA!  Mega Man did say it had been a while since he last fought!  He also lost his ability to SLIDE!  Thats when it hit me, this WAS a OLD SCHOOL GAME for the new age!   This game felt a LOT like Mega Man 2... and if your a mega man fan, thats a good thing.  So things kept feeling more and more old school and then I saw it........  The disappearing Block Puzzles..  0_o.   Oh capcom..  You crafty devils.  The blocks were pretty predictable.  I followed them pretty well, only falling once in the beginning.  Then just as I was over those one hit kill spikes with nary a way out, I leaped to a block all by its self only to have  another block appear directly above it, pushing me into the spikes!  CRAFTY CAPCOM!  It was a trap and I fell for it!  Well done... well done indeed.. 


I then went to Concrete Mans Stage. I like to change it up a bit, see what all the stages are like! Ya know?!  This stage seemed to be a breeze!  So here I kill an enemy and I notice a STRANGE MESSAGE flashes on my screen.  "**Achievement= Killed 100 Enemies*"   WHAT?  Xbox style achievements?!  At first I thought this was just nuts... Then I saw the beauty in it.   It was genius!  I'm no mega man expert, but I don't suck.  What better way to show and tell people of my achievements than having the game keep track of them for me!  Also this was a great way to judge how good you are against other people... More on this mode later..  So anway, back to the game....I was flying though only to have my progress stopped dead their tracks by some huge mechanical elephant with a bowling ball.  Ah! A ladder!  I climbed up and delivered several dozen shots between the eyes.  At this point, I made fun of the elephant.  What a cheap enemy! I showed him!  Hahaha!   Only to meet ANOTHER elephant in the next screen.  Ahh!  This one sends the ball out bouncing!  Still noting too much to worry about!  Simply duck under the ball and keep blasting.  I took a bit of damage on this one, the elephant sucks the ball back with his trunk and also pulls you closer as well.  It was tougher dodging the ball.  So I went to the next screen and GOOD LORD!  ANOTHER ELEPHANT!  This one with pits that he would suck you into...  I died several times here before I gave up and tried another level..  Concrete Man would have to wait...

So next up I decided I would try out Splash Woman!  Yes, I said WOMAN.  First ever Woman robot master.    This would be an adventure!  Knowing Capcom, they would make her stage the toughest and her being the toughest Boss.  I thought this because I saw Chun Li in the intro and thought that might be a warning that your going to have a serous woman problem in this game.  With no power ups to speak up and nary a Tom Hanks character armed with a blow dryer in sight, it was up to the Blue Bomber to bring mechanical mermaid to justice.  Once the stage started I became very aware of the music at this point.  Mega Man games have ALWAYS been about great rockin' music in the stages and this game was no different.  I couldn't help but feel I had heard this song before.  "Perhaps it was a remake of an old Wave Man stage or something."  I thought, perhaps not.   Remembering that Capcom was notorious for using REAL popular music by real bands turned into midis for their stage music, I began thinking of what this could be.
Lists of Mega Man REAL band songs:

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Flash Man = Metallica-Seek & Destroy
Electro Man = Rem-All the Right Friends & Journy-Faithfully
Also theres a Mega Man X3 song thats really a Guns & Roses song but lets keep it old school, ehh?

  So the rif of "Dun dun daa, dun dun daa.." and some quick notes after that got me thinking it was Pat Benitar- Heatbreaker.  But only some notes..  Anyway, about the stage!   After lol'ing at the octopus enemies that turn you black with ink, I noticed this stage really wasn't that difficult.  I mean, the only part I really had trouble on was figuring out which bubbles to ride up at the end.  Then it was onto the Boss.  YES!  With 3 lives left too!  This should be fun.  I must say I was a bit disappointed in this boss.  Her moves were VERY predictable and as long as you didn't get hit with her Trident weapon from above you were gold!  She traveled left to right going up or down "singing" calling 3 robot fish, which were easily dodged.  I defeated her in my first try..  *Sigh*   Was hoping she would be tough as nails.  Ahh well!  Lets see who is next.

Galaxy Man seemed like a fitting choice.  His wacky stage was tricked out with flying saucer enemies and some PORTALS! (Having just finished portals on the pc, I had to lol at this..)  Nifty stage!  It was quite fun!  However I found my self at the boss again in no time and decided to try that Trident rapid fire weapon.  No use, only one pixel of damage.  Oh well, good thing for Mega Man he always carries a back up weapon.  Mega Buster it is!   Galaxy Mans patters was more predictable than Splash Womans!  I beat him in less than 45 seconds and in one life.   

I took a few minutes after these bosses to think about the game. I was having a ball!  This was probably the most fun I've had while playing a mega man game in a good number of years!  The Challenge was there, for sure.   But it wasn't to the point of making you want to kill your Nintendo.  No, that level of difficulty is reserved strictly for Mega Man 2.  Probably one of the BEST megaman games ever made.  Thats probably because MM2 was a labor of love though.  The game developers made the game simply to make it, they didn't intend on selling it.  Capcom told them to make this game and that game..blah blah, but no Mega Man 2.  It became a project for the game makers to do in their spare time.  Which in my opinion is why it IS such a good game.  It was made for them, the guys that MADE Megaman.  After all, mega man 1 wasn't selling all that well.  Which is understandable.  I mean, look at the box art.  Its down right Fugly!  Its as if the game designers had nothing to say about the art the buyers would see.  And they not only never spoke to each other, but had no idea what the other was thinking. "ok, so deformed police officer guy that wears blue and has a helmet and shoots robots...  in Florida..  OK!  Jim!  Draw me something like that up...and hurry!  it won't matter if the arms won't match up or his pistol looks a bit odd."  So when Mega Man 2 came out, pretty much the same kind of art.  A police officer with a gun shooting robots.  OK! fine by me!  the game rawks!  After this game it seems the art people and the game people had a nice sit down luncheon and made some decent art for Mega Man 3.  And soon after the series went to crap.  Yes, after mega man 3, all games after it sucked.  (Except 7 on snes..7 was cool. don't get me wrong..or the X series.. 123 rawked on snes.)  Seems they tried giving Mega Man too many abilities and too easy bosses.  Not enough Hard Core.  No, after that Mega Man games would let you start up pretty much where ever you died and give you 10,000 power ups and let you fuse with your dog into UBER MEGA MAN!  who had the power of Hulk and could smash walls with a single punch.  Thats all fine and everything but at  least make the game difficult enough to warrant such power.  Bah!  Anyway, this topic is about Mega Man 9!  Not 2,3,4,5, ect.  Having said all that,  if Mega Man 9 had been released 15 years ago, it would have been laughed right out of the market.  Same ol, same ol... and its HARD TOO!  Is probably what people would have thought.  But today, today where most games take you by the hand and lead you on a wondrous adventure making you simply push the "DO" button at the right moment and basically guides you though the game...  THIS GAME, was a breath of fresh air.  I loved the fact that if I died, I would most probably start AT THE BEGINNING of the board... not where I died.  Only if I made it to the boss would I get to continue where I left off.  This was my kind of game!

So on I went rampaging through the other levels.  I was met with EXTREME difficulty on the other boards.  It seems I DID choose the easy maps first.   Thats quite alright!   I enjoyed tackling these later levels and being met with death after death after death. 

After playing Tornado Mans Stage, it became apparent why this game was never released on NES.  The NES simply couldn't handle it.  It was here I saw a small red and blue pill shaped box moving back and forth.  "Do I shoot it?"  I thought.  I hopped around it and and then decided to land on it.  WHOA!  I'm spinning 360 degreese!  This is NUTS!  It makes the stage a bit like Gravity Mans stage from MM5.  (the only GOOD thing about that game IMO)  As you spin to the bottom you can jump and your upside down jumping down!  Then it shows you that there is an entire SCREEN (and its a long one) where either one hit kills you or you fall to your DOOM.  And the only thing you have to land on is these spinning pills.  0_o!  Madness!  And yes, it was awesome.  I loved every minute of it.  Tornado Man wasn't tooo hard.....  However it was tough keeping track of him when so much was going on the screen.  I died once fighting him, simply because I didn't have enough energy coming into the room.

Then onto MAGMA MANS STAGE!
ONE HIT DEATHS FTW.  I LOVED THIS STAGE.  Large streams of molten magma falls from the ceilings and can kill you simply by touching them.      This was great.  I also noticed how if you got close to the jets, by say 1 or 2 pixels, sparks fly from you!  Its neat little 8 bit touches like this that really makes me smile.  The boss again, wasn't too hard but wasn't that easy either.  I had a little voice that I hadn't heard since I was a teen, a voice that told me how to beat an enemy that I had never seen before.  "Stay on the ground, DO NOT JUMP".   I don't know why I heard that, but I followed the advice of my guardian mega man sitting on my shoulder and sure enough, it worked.  So when you fight Magma Man,  DO NOT JUMP!  NEVER ATTEMPT TO JUMP OVER HIM.  Its a trap and you will take a lot of damage.  The stage is very hilly with many peaks and platforms.  Only jump to those if you must.  Have faith that he will jump over you at the last moment.  And you should avoid most of his attacks.  Its not that he was easy.  If you attempt to jump over him you will die very quickly.  I was lucky to have had this little voice from my past.  The voice would hang around for the remainder of the game..  eheh.

On to, Hornet Man!   
OK, WAIT!  This should be BEE MAN, Capcom.  He clearly has octagonal shaped honey combs in his chest.  Hornets do not make honey nor build hives that resemble that.  Ah well.  Blast Hornet was cool in MMX3 so I guess we will let this slide.  His stage was ridicules.  Its that simple, it has moments where you feel "oh this is pretty easy!"  Then your slapped upside the head by some odd googly eyed flower mid boss that has a huge spinning arm of death coming after you.   This stage was quite fun!  When I got to Hornet man, I thought "well, he must be just like Blast Hornet from MMX3. So this black hole weapon should kill him quick!  ...  And here I was quite shocked to see not only did he basically laugh at the black hole I made... but the hornets (or frigging bees...) were simply passing through the hole with no damage.  And here I lost a few lives...  LoL!  I tried a few of the other weps I had to see if one worked.  Sure enough,  Tornado Mans weapon blew him away. hehe.  Gotta use it wisely though, that thing sucks the energy ammo.

And now on to.... HEY!  LOOK! some things are happening! Spoilers about plot development .lol and an item thing:

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It was around here that Not only did I get RUSH FREAKING JET  (FTW) But it revealed why the robot masters went nuts in the first place.  Now listen, Megaman games were never much on a deep story, just some random "oh no! teh robots went nutz! sum one killz them fast, plzkthx!"   So I didn't expect much (and neither should you, its just a good excuse to kill enemies and all sorts of bad assery)  So Wily told the robots that their expiration dates were up and they were all going to be destroyed by the government.  WTF!?  So the robot masters revolted!  (heck, I would too!)  So Wily promised he would help them NOT DIE and keep them alive.  (Jeeze, sounds like that 80s movie Short Circuit) So that was it, thats why the robots went on a rampage.  For the first time in a MM game I felt bad for the robot masters.  AHH WELL!   MORE THINGS TO KILL AND I GOT ACHIEVEMENTS TO UNLOCK!  See ya suckers!

  And since I'm on the Subject, The achievements, they are a great idea.  I mean really,  what better way to boast about being awesome than have the game log it for you and automatically (if your wii is online) entered into a bracket to see how bad-assed you really are.  Also it gives you reason(S) to play the game again and again.  Now if that sounds strange to you, clearly you've never been a Mega Man fan.  Thats basically half the fun of those games.  Beating the snot out of the game and turning it off and DO IT AGAIN only better and faster.  Usually people that like Speed Running games tend to do this behavior.  Such as the folks over at the SDA Forum Are going crazy trying to fill the top 10 spots.  Crafty devils...  So I'm all for this!   Its good filler until the Downloadable content is posted.... mwahhahaha!  More on that later...

So Now its on to JEWEL MAN AGAIN!  YOUR TOAST, SISSY!
SO here I am again, staring down the same damned 3 elephants.  I honestly probably died 9 times here before I figured out 2 tactics.  1, take your time and only shoot him about 5 shots then wait and jump over the ball... OR, use black hole bomb!  Now the black hole takes like forever to end and there for it means it takes a long time to fire a 2nd shot.  But there is a way around that.  Fire a shot and wait till you hear it HIT your enemy.  Then pause the game.  Then unpause!  BOOM!  The damage is done but the animation has ended!  Leaving you ready to fire ANOTHER b-bomb!  Rinse, lather, repeat.  Should take about 4 shots.  The rest of the stage was a cake walk compared to that stupid elephant.  Now onto the boss! Why, he fights just like SKULL MAN from MM4.  Yep!  Full of fail.  I figured the b-bomb would work here too.  Sure enough that weapon sucked the shield right off of him and only took about 5 shots to finish him off.  NICE!  Only one more to go..

Plug Man... srsly.. WTF.....His stage was FULL of enemies on the screen at one time.  I started using Tornado Blast to clear the screen.  Works pretty well!  Nothing else really to mention about  the stage.  It was fun and had some difficult parts.  However there was one thing worth noting...  Listen up all you cheaters..  I was running low on health towards the end of the stage,  I saw a place were enemies were being spawned out of a pipe and remembered a trick from Mega Man 2.  Use the leaf shield where enemies come back and you'll get power ups like mad.  So I put on my useless DIAMOND Shield.   And sat under a pipe.  The first power up that came out of there was a 1-up.  HOLY COW!  I'll sit here for a while and continue packing for the move!  So I did!  When I came back about an hour later I had 9 lives and 700 BOLTS!  YEA!  Now I can buy me some E tanks before Wily!... Oh wait!  I forgot to mention that!  A nice little bit of Mega Man 7 made the cut to old school Mega Man 9.  And that was the shop system.  Some enemies drop small bolts or large bolts, you can turn these bolts in to the shop for 1-ups and energy tanks.  There is also some hard core items too.  Such as spend 200 bolts and Mega Man will remove his helmet revealing his awesome helmet hair.  Doing this lets you take roughly twice as much damage...but hey... its achievement worthy.. Also some items that will let you walk on spikes once....  I never bothered.  I only bought up some E tanks and one M tank and some lives.  Anyway. Shop rawks.  So on to PLUG MAN!   I figured yet again that using the weapon that I was just abusing, I mean using 2 rooms earlier (again) would defeat the boss.  Sure enough it did.  He fell quickly to the ridicules power of the shield.


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[Hyruleansoldier]

Oh wow, that was a nice bunch of impressions to read.

When is it coming out on VC in Europe?

Well I should be playing it soon anyway - really looking forward to it!


But is there really no charged Mega Buster or sliding?  That is SO Mega Man 2...

[LLR]

**Continued from previous post**

LOOK!  ITS WILY! 
AHH YES!  There he is in his UFO, signifying his evilness with his wicked eyebrow raising.  Oh yea, he's bad..  I was cheering at this point because they brought back the Mega Man 2 music of the intro of Wily.  Nice touch Capcom...very nice..   So the first Wily stage was pretty tough, I died a few times here and there.  (Remember kids, use the B-bomb on the fire dragons....you'll live longer)  I was noticing at this point that nearly every weapon in your inventory had a great use!  Usually in MM games I use 1 or 2 weapons and the rest of them are there to fill up screen space.  I was using just about everything.... Except these stupid bees..  JEEZE!  They are useless!  They buzz around, do nothing, usually bounce off an enemy with a shield and die.  Bah! What udder rubbish!  I was so disappointed with them I started just walking around firing them, cursing their existence and wishing for something cooler.  I was approaching a pit and usually an enemy pops out just as you try to leap over it, well my bee killed it in mid flight.  No big deal, I thought.  Then the enemy turned into a ONE UP!   NOOOOOOO!!!! ITS GOING DOWN THE PIT!!!!   ...  I was then shocked at what I saw... The bee flew down the pit... picked up my 1-up... and brought it back to me....    Good bee....  I liked the Bees from then on..   Then the first boss of Wily Castle popped up..  Thats another thing, how does Wily always get out of jail and immediately shack up in some uber castle emblazoned with a skull?  Ahh well, the wonders of MM games.  It was 4 faces that were sticking out of man hole covers and a spikey ball was in front of them.  A neat game of tug o war here..  They would shoot the spike ball and it would move towards you, you shoot the ball and it goes towards them.  One hit death for either side... (only there are 4 of them and 1 of you)  Pretty fun fight I must say.  Mega Buster shot is what I used.

Next map was pretty easy for a Wily board but the boss....  UGGG!!! the boss..  it was a 3 stage boss where you first fought the tail end of a giant air ship,  then the middle on another screen and finally the nose of the ship where he could dish out the most damage.  During the Middle and Nose fights, use the Magma Shot, works wonders, kids.

Next map was all kinds of hard.  I really gotta say hats off to capcom for this map.  You at one point start flying upward.  You can't move at all...  Spikes are all around you as are some floating enemies.  What to do!  Try to shoot!  Pop pop pop....   As you shoot you go backwards...  turn around and shoot that way and you float the other direction.  HAHAHAHAAHAH!  Use your arm cannon as a way to propel your self through space!  NEAT IDEA!  Ohhhhhh!  The one hit kill spikes were all around.  This was quite fun!  After dieing a few times I realized I was ill equipped for the next boss fight.   I decided I needed to go to the shop and pick up some more lives and some E tanks......I knew I would have to fight all 8 robot masters AGAIN (true mega man style..hmm wonder why Wily always had 2 copies of his robots..ahh well.. who cares! Lets make scrap out of them!)  I left Wily castle and bought up more lives and E tanks and that lucky 1 M tank.  you could only hold one....  And it said it did RANDOM things.  Hmmmm!  I might need this, what ever it does.  I was poking around the shop and there I saw EDDY!  Errr..  Flip Top!  The little garbage can with legs that would give you powerups.  Turns out you can call him 1 time (for the low price of 100 bolts)  not bad.  Can hold one at a time..he may come in handy.    I bought up my supplies and back to the castle I went...  I cannot express my horror...   There was Wily in the UFO again, he gave me his famous eyebrow twitch and he flopped me back to the first room of wily castle..  NOOOOOOoooooo.  Had to do it all over again.  Ahh well, I can do it faster now that I know what I'm doing.  So off I went getting back to where I was.   So I got to the boss of Castle 3....   hmmm.. Blob Man?  The classic rock enemy that turns himself into small blocks and flies to the other side of the stage, one piece at a time.  The only weakness is his eye and you can only shoot it when its in transit.  Hmmm if thats blob man.... WHATS THAT!?  2 BLOB MEN!?   Yes!  Not 1, but 2 of them!  But only 1 eye.  Turns out the 2 blobs swap pieces and the eye will swap too.  You can only hit the Eye when its moving.  I died here ALOT.  Death after death after death... OMG!  I can't hit him!  When I DO hit him it only does 2 pixels damage!  Theres gotta be a better way.  Ok, only 3 lives left and I still got Wily, If I die... I go back to world 1... this is hard core... pressure is on...  I likes..  So I had 5 energy tanks.  I figured after I got a good strategy, I would start chugging them till the boss was dead.   Then I remembered the Elephant..  YES!  USE THE B-BOMB /  PAUSE trick!  MWahhahahahaha!  I waited for the eye to separate from the blob, Fired a b-bomb.  Paused, did it again...  He was dead in 6 hits.   HAHHAHAHA!  YEA!  I only had to use 1 E tank!  THERE YA GO!

So now its the final... Just got to battle the 8 robot masters again with out stopping then fight Wiley.  NP on  the 8 robot masters again, had to use a few E tanks but hey.  I took them out pretty fast with my new weaponry.   My problem started with Wily...  So there he is, in a Skull tank that looks like a dinosaur.  He spits out... EGGS?  WTF?  I shot the Egg, it bounces towards him.  He bounces it back, I shoot it again..  repeat..  Eventually it went into the skull mouth and exploded.   OOOHHHhhhhhh.   Thats the only way to damage him!  So I died here... several times...  I refrained from using my E tanks until I knew what was coming after that.  After that form he lost the tank like treads and just started flying. (Who saw that coming...)  He began flying up and breathing .... FIRE?!  Hey!  I've seen that before!  Its the same pattern as the Wolfs in Mega Man 2!  Wait till the last second before the fire hits you then JUMP!  YEA!  It worked!  Ok, 2 lives left.  I got to get serious now...  I got to the second form... then died again...  AHh crap... this aint good...  Ok, its on...  Its GO TIME.  I'm beating this game before I move.  COME ON WILY!   Here I pwned his first form, only getting hit twice.  Next form, was doing great dodging his fire move then my CAT jumped into my lap.. BAH!  (Oh yes, I'm blaming the cat)  I got hit 2 times from the second form which did stupid amounts of damage...  I'll have to chug a E tank....1 left...  Gulp.  Took another hit from him before I took him down...  And then there he was...  The UFO Wily always flew around in..  I noticed 2 lightning rods extended from the sides.....  This didn't look good..  I remembered those..  A spit second later my worst fear was confirmed.  This was the same final boss from Mega Man 7,  And I was horrible at that.  He fires 4 energy balls, each zips across the screen quickly before coming to a halt, and then zipping to a new direction.  REALLY hard to avoid and now that I don't have the ability to slide.... hoo boy.. this would be rough..   I then got a shot off and hit him... 1 pixel damage to him...  This is impossible..   I then remembered in EVERY mega man game the final FINAL boss was always weak VS the shortest ranged weapon you had.  (snake mans wep on mm3, ring mans wep in mm 4, rolling shield wep in mmx) So I thought, My weapon I got from PLUG MAN seems pretty worthless....  However its out of ammo...as were just about ALL my weps..  I figured now was a great time to use that M tank.   SCORE!  The M Tank filled ALL me weps AND my health!  Now I can fight!  Armed with the Plug Shot I fought on.  YES!  The plug shot (which has a bout a million ammo)  done 4 pixels damage to him.  Trick was waiting till he was low enough to the ground to shoot him.  We played a deadly game of swap licks until he edged out in front of me by not going to the bottom of the screen for a total of 6 times re appearing.  DOH!  He is half way there and I'm almost dead....  Last E tank...  Here goes..  *Gulp*   I now feel stupid..  I don't know if its murphy's law or not.. but Wily pwned me so badly after the E tank fill up...  I nearly just gave up.. It seemed hopeless.   I finally managed to corner him for split seconds and went nuts with the plug shots.   he had about 4 pixels of health left and I just ran out of ammo.... and I had only 2 pixels of health left..  This was doom..  I un paused it..  Jumped, Fired...  HIT 2 TIMES!  Now its even!  but Wily just moved up to the top of the stage..  No more E tanks... no nothing... But wait... Whats this?  EDDY!   OF COURSE!  I STILL HAD EDDY!  Now would he just give me a 1-up?  a weapon charge?  HEALTH!?  Its random!  What will he do!?  I clicked the button and held my breath.  Eddy appeared before me and flung me a power pellet worth 5 energy.  Not bad!  I was hit immediately though by a flying ball of fire from Wily and he re appeared in front of me.. "If I don't get hit again,  I can still win.."   I  fired as many shots as I could and wily unleashed 4 more of those energy bolts of doom..  But wait... Eddy is still here?!  "Flop!"  And out popped a LARGE energy capsule!  YEA! 10 ENERGY!   the ball passed through me, did 5 damage, I hit Wily... And killed him.....  Eddy had just saved my life..

My Hero....

So now was the ending! Spoiler, duh!

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I wasn't expecting much with the ending.  I knew the bad assed ending of Mega Man 7 was going to be no where to be seen. (Wily begs for mercy and Mega Man holds his arm cannon up to his head and said "you always ask for mercy....and you just do it again..and again... no more...  Then you see Mega Man walking away from Wily Castle bursting into flames with rawk music playing in the back ground as credits rolled.  Yea..  I doubt we will see that. 

So what did we see?  Wily falls to the ground and begs for mercy..  Mega Man says: "Look, you always do this.."  It then shows in spit screen Mega Man 1 where Wily begged for mercy, then Mega Man 2.. then 3.. then 4...  I lol'd at this, it was as if Capcom was poking fun at its self with the cheesy storyline...  So what did they do...  *insert more cheese here, plzkthx*  Wily looks up, and magically I guess he can see all the spit screens of him self begging and says "Well,  I was all set to take over the world, but then after I captured Dr. Light he fell very ill!  He is sick Mega Man, you must take him to a hospital!  They then casually stroll over to a jail cell with Dr. Light slumped over inside.  Mega Man tries to open the door and he was then stopped by PROTOMAN!   "Mega Man, its a trap....  you should know this..  Thats just a robot made to look like Dr. Light so he could video tape him confessing to being evil.  Its a robot, dude...srsly..."  Mega Man then says "well, what if its not.... he could be sick and he needs my help!"   Wily just watches with a smile.    Mega Man opens the door...then BOOOOM!  The robot Light explodes knocking Mega Man out.  Wily leaves, exit stage left and laughs all the way.  Proto Man pickes up Mega Man and saves his life..again...  The End.

At this point I wiped away my tear (ok, not really..) and watched the Credits rolled.  This was a fantastic Mega Man game.  In conclusion,  if you liked mega man games in the past, then do your self a favor and get this game.  Its fantastic and probably one of the best old school games ever made.  If you hated the other Mega Man games then avoid it like the plague.  This is not the Mega Man game that will convert you to loving the blue bomber.  If you already love the games, then its for you.  If you hate attempting to speed run games or simply see no point in playing a mega man game then you should not get this game.  I must say this was the most fun playing a video game I've had in a while.  I was on the edge of my seat most of the time and that was 100% because of the challenge!  It certainly wasn't the awesome storyline..  LOL.

So lets talk about the downloadable content, shall we?
Ok, where is it?  heeh,  ok thats not really fair.  I know its coming but its a shame I wont have internet when it does.  So I go on the net to see what IS coming out and I must say..  When I read "purchase download content"  I think of the following 2 words.  "Rip" and "off"  however with this game I may bend my rule a bit.  I love megaman games and I would have gladly paid 30 bucks for this game.  Paying 10 I feel was just right.  If I have to pay a little extra (8 extra dollars total for ALL downloads) I really wouldn't mind.  Some of the options are:
Play as Proto Man.  (FTW)
Play as Bass  (WHOA! Really!?)
Hero Mode (extreame Hard Core difficulty)
1 hit death mode (bragging rights, I'm sure)
Extra MAPS!
EXTRA BONUS BOSSES!
and a few other modes that imo are worth playing if you enjoyed the game.
Each of these modes cost about a dollar or 100 wii points.  Not too bad imo.  I'll probably go for it!

In total, if I had to give a score to this game..  I would give it a
9/10

Docked half a point for MORE hardcore.  (its never enough...) I would have liked to see harder bosses with the 8 robot masters and another half a point for costing extra $$$ for downloadable content. 

Not bad.  LLR gives his approval of this game.

And with that.  I think I will go to bed and prepair to move in the morning.  Thanks for reading guys.  I'll see you in a month or so.

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-I'llMissUguysRancher

[Link Reborn]

Nice post!

This game seems awesome. I really need to start playing this franchise again.

[LLR]

Finished editing my first and second post.  I'm done with the review thingy.

Enjoy!  I had fun writing it and it will be fun to see years on down the road that I wrote that before I moved.  Ahh... memories..

[Hyruleansoldier]

Finished editing my first and second post.  I'm done with the review thingy.

Nice extensive review there, LLR!

Enjoy!  I had fun writing it and it will be fun to see years on down the road that I wrote that before I moved.  Ahh... memories..

Nostalgia... unchanged...

I hope this clears the way for more retro games released, perhaps even a MM 10 if the popularity of 9 ends up going through the roof.

Sounds like a truly epic one, worthy of being called a 'classic' Mega Man game (i.e. one of the first 5/6 NES Mega Mans).

The downloadable stuff seems awesome, as does the shop thing - I'd never heard about that before.  Just buying E-tanks is kind of cheating in a way, but hey.  I usually redid the E tank stages if it let you redo stages, or just manage to hold on to them as long as possible and basically don't die a lot, heheh.

How's the password system this time around btw?  Does it save E-tanks or other stuff like that?