Another Megaman game down, another Megaman game where the bosses curbstomped me into Haggis. You know, I feel like I was a bit harsh with the previous game, since I didn't mention anything but the ball busting difficulty. The music is really great, all tunes sound nice if a bit forgettable, this and Zero 1 look really damn good, with a pixelart that is still a joy to look at, and even the goddamn story has some nice moments. My complaints are on gameplay, unfortunately. This game replaces Zero 1's lance with a whip, which does the exact same, only adding the ability to hang from walls. Its mildly useful against like two bosses, and necessary for completing some levels. Therefore, it would help if it wasn't so wonky to use. Making it actually latch onto walls when you need it to is more of an art than a science, I never figured out how to consistently get it to work. Pretty cool continuation of the series, I'm interested on where the story is going, took me about 2 and a half hours to finish

Yeah these games kick my ass and it's mega man so yay spikes! I don't think anyone has ever been excited about spikes.

There's too much bullshit in this for me to feel like playing it. Like that train level where the enemies spawn right in front of you so you have to know exactly when to jump and hit. Bold of you to assume I have the time and patience to memorize the map.

This has the same problem as other platformers on almost square aspect ratios. I can't see what's next. It severely increases the barrier to entry, not to mention all of the enemies put in awkward locations.

I'm gonna go play Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 to get this game out of my system.

I really enjoyed the first zero game, so I entered this game with high hopes. Unfortunately, I came back with deep sorrows instead of flowing joy.
I enjoyed the fact subtanks were brought back and the new armors that can be unlocked. It makes the game feel more similar to megaman X which is a good thing to me.
Anyway, aside from all these new upgrades, the level design is disgusting. What's this game's deal with instant death traps seriously ? Enemy placements are put in every akward spots which is frustrating as well...
Anyway after struggling your way through the game you'd expect the final boss to live up to the challenge that was presented to you throughout the entirety of the game...But that's not what happened, the final boss was piss easy and only took 1 attempt to beat.
So yeah, I was pretty disappointed and I hope Megaman Zero 3 will make up for the bad experience that was the second game.

Big improvement over the first game. Level design and bosses are much more fair and thus the game is a lot more fun than frustrating. The story is better but still nothing really special. It does suck that you have to fight the 3 boss characters from zero 1 again with few changes but thankfully you only have to fight them once each. The new chain weapon is cool but the swinging is kinda janky and it could get pretty annoying when they had you use it to get over spikes. I also miss the jump spin attack I had in zero 1 but I think it's probably relegated to one of the forms. The forms and EX skills are a much better incentive to get people to play the game longer than just jacking up the difficulty but I only ever ended up getting one form since I like to use just the z-saber so I didn't really get to enjoy them much.