For a year the city has been quiet, but a new robotic terror has gripped the city! That scheming scientist, Dr. Cossack has arrived in town with eight new metal maniacs who are bigger and badder than anything Dr. Wily dreamed of. It's going to be a cybernetic showdown as the streets of the city erupt with the sizzling sounds of molten metal! Armed with the new Mega Buster, Mega Man runs, jumps and dodges his way through mazes of metallic munchkins on his way to the Siberian citadel of Dr. Cossack for the final cataclysmic clash!
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oh man I'm glad that Capcom is giving us another Mega Man on the NES even when the SNES is out. Wonder what they'll be able to do when they use the stronger hardware for the next game.
100% - Balloon and Wire adaptors, pretty sure I got all the fixed extra lives and E-Tanks
I'll keep the review short since all the NES Mega Man games are basically the same with some small incremental changes.
Story - Better than 3 in that they try have a twist villain that surely won't become an overused trope in the series and also have a pretty neat opening cinematic. Worse in that they got rid of the cool Protoman interludes and didn't really replace them with anything (sorry Eddie).
In terms of the actual gameplay it sure is more Mega Man. New weapons are fine, some rehash and remix old ideas, others are wholly new, all are fine. The charge shot on the Mega Buster is a good addition that doesn't really alter how you play the game but does give you another option both against bosses and regular enemies. Rush is also back and largely unchanged.
Adding optional side items is a pretty good idea provided that they aren't too hard to find. It's a little weak that there are only two of them.
Replacing the Doc Robot stages with a second castle is both better and more annoying. The weakness of the castle stages is that I often find myself forcing a game over at the beginning of each of them to recharge my energy, and that's really made worse by doubling the amount of stages.
In terms of music and graphics I think that we're really seeing what Capcom can do with the NES after 6 years of working with it, and the improvement from Mega Man to Mega Man 4 is dramatic, most stages have cohesive aesthetics and are up to bar with the last game.
Everything from the boss rush onward is kinda BS difficulty but honestly that's pretty good for an NES platformer.
Next Mega Man is Mega Man II
100% - Balloon and Wire adaptors, pretty sure I got all the fixed extra lives and E-Tanks
I'll keep the review short since all the NES Mega Man games are basically the same with some small incremental changes.
Story - Better than 3 in that they try have a twist villain that surely won't become an overused trope in the series and also have a pretty neat opening cinematic. Worse in that they got rid of the cool Protoman interludes and didn't really replace them with anything (sorry Eddie).
In terms of the actual gameplay it sure is more Mega Man. New weapons are fine, some rehash and remix old ideas, others are wholly new, all are fine. The charge shot on the Mega Buster is a good addition that doesn't really alter how you play the game but does give you another option both against bosses and regular enemies. Rush is also back and largely unchanged.
Adding optional side items is a pretty good idea provided that they aren't too hard to find. It's a little weak that there are only two of them.
Replacing the Doc Robot stages with a second castle is both better and more annoying. The weakness of the castle stages is that I often find myself forcing a game over at the beginning of each of them to recharge my energy, and that's really made worse by doubling the amount of stages.
In terms of music and graphics I think that we're really seeing what Capcom can do with the NES after 6 years of working with it, and the improvement from Mega Man to Mega Man 4 is dramatic, most stages have cohesive aesthetics and are up to bar with the last game.
Everything from the boss rush onward is kinda BS difficulty but honestly that's pretty good for an NES platformer.
Next Mega Man is Mega Man II
Starting to form into the ones I jumped in on as a kid. The changes are small each time but feel huge.
Far better than its predecessor, Mega Man 4 offers the same amount of content without resorting to rehashing old bosses and stages. No more padding, just a full, complete Mega Man experience that plays it safe, but almost never misses.
This game is amazing. Looks very pretty, sounds great and plays fantastic. The stage design is pretty strong and some bossfights are also pretty fun. This game is where the quality for the NES Mega Man games reached a plateau but coming from the very fun but issue-filled trilogy that came before this game really stands out.
Take the level quality from Mega Man 2, with the pixel art from Mega Man 3, and you one of the better Mega Man games in my opinion. I get people don't like the "it's Wily again" twist, but I think it works better than people give it credit for. Problems I had with 3 were fixed, and only really one boss I thought was unnecessarily unfair; Ring Man.
8/10 (score may change later)
8/10 (score may change later)
It exists? Megaman 4 is a perfectly fine game I think that’s kinda it? Just more megaman 3 which is more megaman 2 which is better megaman one does this make sense? Atleast castlevania made a trilogy. Im sweating at the ideas of 2 more nes games and then two throwbacks.