Marking this as the NES version but I played it on my Switch via the Mega Man Legacy Collection Vol. 1. Meaning that a rewind and savestate system are present, I didn't really abuse savestates (moreso just used them for breaking up a single-session game into multiple playsessions, saving before stages). While I didn't abuse the savestates I definitely abused the heck out of the rewind feature, and I am not ashamed of this. I've beaten this game "legit" before on an emulator, which people are always gonna question the legitimacy of beating a game on an emulator but I'll let that rest as I really cannot be asked to care that much about how people beat old games in [current year]. In some cases, rewinding actually made the game harder on me as instead of dying and having more health to redo the stage with, I just soldiered on with 1 hit left on the Wily stages and kept rewinding, having to constantly figure out boss movements as I rewound. Maybe this detracted from the overall experience, I'll let you be the judge.
Anyway, my experience with megaman is rather limited. I enjoy the franchise, but I've only ever really beaten 1 and 2, and played a bit of 3-6 and a bit of x1 and x2. I'm looking forward to this journey but I am a bit hesitant as to how much timesink this will be in the long run.
The game itself? It's alright. About what you'd expect for a 1987 NES game. Graphics are very nice, sound design is there, there is actual level design even if it can be a bit unfair at times and you're forced to take damage, bosses can be trial and error until you figure out the right strategy (the copy boss in particular is very trying), etc etc... I can't complain about anything here, but I also can't rave about it. The version I played patched out the pause glitch making bosses like Wily Machine Phase 2 and Yellow Devil much harder, but as I said earlier, rewind eventually put this to rest.
Overall, do I feel a little guilty that I'm about to go into this classic 6-game series with rewind abuse? A little bit, yeah, but at the end of the day I suppose it was baked into legacy collection for a reason, those being newer gamers that aren't used to 'NES-hard' or people that simply don't wanna dedicate days to trying to beat a single game. I feel like I got the proper amount of difficulty out of this game rewind or not and it was mostly just a trip down memory lane. I'm interested to see how 3 and beyond fare for me as those are uncharted territory but 2 comes first. Mega man is mega mid. But 2 is leagues better and from what I hear they keep improving so I'm excited for this little endeavor.
Beaten on 7/4/23 on Switch.
BEATEN
Anyway, my experience with megaman is rather limited. I enjoy the franchise, but I've only ever really beaten 1 and 2, and played a bit of 3-6 and a bit of x1 and x2. I'm looking forward to this journey but I am a bit hesitant as to how much timesink this will be in the long run.
The game itself? It's alright. About what you'd expect for a 1987 NES game. Graphics are very nice, sound design is there, there is actual level design even if it can be a bit unfair at times and you're forced to take damage, bosses can be trial and error until you figure out the right strategy (the copy boss in particular is very trying), etc etc... I can't complain about anything here, but I also can't rave about it. The version I played patched out the pause glitch making bosses like Wily Machine Phase 2 and Yellow Devil much harder, but as I said earlier, rewind eventually put this to rest.
Overall, do I feel a little guilty that I'm about to go into this classic 6-game series with rewind abuse? A little bit, yeah, but at the end of the day I suppose it was baked into legacy collection for a reason, those being newer gamers that aren't used to 'NES-hard' or people that simply don't wanna dedicate days to trying to beat a single game. I feel like I got the proper amount of difficulty out of this game rewind or not and it was mostly just a trip down memory lane. I'm interested to see how 3 and beyond fare for me as those are uncharted territory but 2 comes first. Mega man is mega mid. But 2 is leagues better and from what I hear they keep improving so I'm excited for this little endeavor.
Beaten on 7/4/23 on Switch.
BEATEN