(Also played via Legacy Collection)
Damn, much better than I remember! Amazing visuals and probably my favorite soundtrack out of the 6 NES Mega Man titles. The levels are all-around pretty great and make some neat usages of the Robot Master weapons, as well as Rush. I love the weaknesses for the Robot Masters, they're pretty bonkers but they make sense in this series' absurdly comical and over-the-top logic.
Some hiccups here and there keep this from being a top-tier Mega Man game, the charged shot doesn't feel as polished as in later games and there is a few bullshit moments that Mega Man games (especially the classic series) insist on doing for some reason, like stupidly precise jumps and enemies that unexpectedly rise from the bottomless pits. But overall this is an incredibly solid game and a huge improvement from the messiness of Mega Man 3. I might actually like it as much as Mega Man 2 honestly.
Damn, much better than I remember! Amazing visuals and probably my favorite soundtrack out of the 6 NES Mega Man titles. The levels are all-around pretty great and make some neat usages of the Robot Master weapons, as well as Rush. I love the weaknesses for the Robot Masters, they're pretty bonkers but they make sense in this series' absurdly comical and over-the-top logic.
Some hiccups here and there keep this from being a top-tier Mega Man game, the charged shot doesn't feel as polished as in later games and there is a few bullshit moments that Mega Man games (especially the classic series) insist on doing for some reason, like stupidly precise jumps and enemies that unexpectedly rise from the bottomless pits. But overall this is an incredibly solid game and a huge improvement from the messiness of Mega Man 3. I might actually like it as much as Mega Man 2 honestly.