As a huge Mega Man fan, it's a disgrace to my honor that I've never played this series. I've known about them, I know what happens in them, but I've never actually played them myself.
Finally, that has changed; my new issue with MMZ will be fighting against every person who has an incorrect opinion on this game like Zero during the ending. This game sucks. A very likable game, for sure, but it's not a good one.
One of the biggest issues at work to make MMZ1 annoying as hell to play are the universal system mechanics-- ones that don't have to do with anything specific in the game. Leveling up your weapons is stupid and encourages grinding which I despise, the screen crunch will often get you hit (if not killed) by things you couldn't possibly have seen coming, and you can't forget the godawful life system that makes death damn near require (unless you want to spend your very limited stock of lives) restarting the game over from a save point and mashing through multiple boxes of slow, unskippable text. Outside of the system mechanics, the level design is exceptionally weak, basically containing no interesting layouts until the endgame, and I'm not the biggest fan of the music-- which is fairly disappointing in its own right for Mega Man. Z1 has it particularly bad.
Despite me spewing all that venom at the game, I'm not going to pretend it doesn't have swag. It absolutely does, and it's the only reason I didn't give it a lower rating. Not all of the bosses in this game are very well designed (the Guardians :/), but god damn if Zero is not fun to destroy things with. If you're good enough at the game you can absolutely clean house with him and shut down any obstacle in the game. It saddens me to hear that the Triple Rod isn't coming back in any game after this because it's a very intelligently designed and fun to use weapon.
Besides the music, MMZ1 is also presentationally sick as hell. I appreciate what the connected world does for building it up, and so many little things you can't help but think are badass. The banner for this page is the "Warning" siren and I eat that for breakfast. Give me more games with stuff like that!
All in all: Zero 1 has shit, and Zero 1 has sauce. If they can make a game that is just Zero 1 but an actually good game, I think I'd love it. Let's hope Z2 is better.
Finally, that has changed; my new issue with MMZ will be fighting against every person who has an incorrect opinion on this game like Zero during the ending. This game sucks. A very likable game, for sure, but it's not a good one.
One of the biggest issues at work to make MMZ1 annoying as hell to play are the universal system mechanics-- ones that don't have to do with anything specific in the game. Leveling up your weapons is stupid and encourages grinding which I despise, the screen crunch will often get you hit (if not killed) by things you couldn't possibly have seen coming, and you can't forget the godawful life system that makes death damn near require (unless you want to spend your very limited stock of lives) restarting the game over from a save point and mashing through multiple boxes of slow, unskippable text. Outside of the system mechanics, the level design is exceptionally weak, basically containing no interesting layouts until the endgame, and I'm not the biggest fan of the music-- which is fairly disappointing in its own right for Mega Man. Z1 has it particularly bad.
Despite me spewing all that venom at the game, I'm not going to pretend it doesn't have swag. It absolutely does, and it's the only reason I didn't give it a lower rating. Not all of the bosses in this game are very well designed (the Guardians :/), but god damn if Zero is not fun to destroy things with. If you're good enough at the game you can absolutely clean house with him and shut down any obstacle in the game. It saddens me to hear that the Triple Rod isn't coming back in any game after this because it's a very intelligently designed and fun to use weapon.
Besides the music, MMZ1 is also presentationally sick as hell. I appreciate what the connected world does for building it up, and so many little things you can't help but think are badass. The banner for this page is the "Warning" siren and I eat that for breakfast. Give me more games with stuff like that!
All in all: Zero 1 has shit, and Zero 1 has sauce. If they can make a game that is just Zero 1 but an actually good game, I think I'd love it. Let's hope Z2 is better.
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I AM MEGAMAN ZERO AND I'M HERE TO FUCK YOUR WIFE
we love boss warning sirens
PKMudkipz
10 months ago