Mega Man: The Wily Wars is an interesting collection of 16-bit remakes of the first three Mega Man games, featuring an equal amount of improvements and bad changes.
The most obvious change are the graphics and they are a mixed bag for me. On one hand, there are some really nice backgrounds that the first Mega Man in particular benefits from, but then there are the character and enemy sprites, which I didn't like nearly as much as the Iconic NES counterparts. Worst of all are the larger enemies, which have weird and ugly shading.
Gameplay is mostly identical to the originals, however there are occasional small changes, some of which I liked and some of which I didn't.
For example, the super arm's throwing arc was changed so that when fighting Cutman I would throw the rocks directly over his head, which led to me finding out that for some reason Cutman no longer takes extra damage from the buster which was a little annoying.
Better are changes for some of the more unfair or difficult to dodge bosses like Fire Man or Wood Man and the biggest positive of this game was how much more forgiving the Doc Robot stages in Mega Man 3 are.
But I think it's a missed opportunity for them to not change some of the more obvious shortcomings, like the parts where you need a certain weapon to progress, but when you run out of energy you have to farm or get a Game Over.
Just place some respawning weapon energy at these points and it would make it so much better.
Then there's the new Wily Tower mode, which was a nice and unexpected bonus for beating all three games and allows you to choose a set of weapons between all of them for a series of new levels that combine elements from across the three games.
The weapon balance could be better tho as I obviously chose the metal blade for each level and they could have made it so that more enemies from 1 and 3 are resitent against it, but that wasn't the case.
Over all nothing to crazy but it was enjoyable.
As a fan of the first three Mega Man games, I think its worth playing through Wily Wars at least once, but I prefer the originals.
The most obvious change are the graphics and they are a mixed bag for me. On one hand, there are some really nice backgrounds that the first Mega Man in particular benefits from, but then there are the character and enemy sprites, which I didn't like nearly as much as the Iconic NES counterparts. Worst of all are the larger enemies, which have weird and ugly shading.
Gameplay is mostly identical to the originals, however there are occasional small changes, some of which I liked and some of which I didn't.
For example, the super arm's throwing arc was changed so that when fighting Cutman I would throw the rocks directly over his head, which led to me finding out that for some reason Cutman no longer takes extra damage from the buster which was a little annoying.
Better are changes for some of the more unfair or difficult to dodge bosses like Fire Man or Wood Man and the biggest positive of this game was how much more forgiving the Doc Robot stages in Mega Man 3 are.
But I think it's a missed opportunity for them to not change some of the more obvious shortcomings, like the parts where you need a certain weapon to progress, but when you run out of energy you have to farm or get a Game Over.
Just place some respawning weapon energy at these points and it would make it so much better.
Then there's the new Wily Tower mode, which was a nice and unexpected bonus for beating all three games and allows you to choose a set of weapons between all of them for a series of new levels that combine elements from across the three games.
The weapon balance could be better tho as I obviously chose the metal blade for each level and they could have made it so that more enemies from 1 and 3 are resitent against it, but that wasn't the case.
Over all nothing to crazy but it was enjoyable.
As a fan of the first three Mega Man games, I think its worth playing through Wily Wars at least once, but I prefer the originals.