This game is such a marked improvement over MM1 up until the Wily Castle where I sure hope you can a beat boss in one go because Crash Bomb is required to beat it and your dumb ass is NOT getting refills after death.
I kinda love how much of a mess this game's boss weakness diagram is, with absolute nonsense like Metal Blade being strong against four of the bosses, including himself where it instantly KO's him. And even then, it's an effective upgrade over the Mega Buster against pretty much anything. There's still a lot of jankiness to it and a smidge too hard for something with limited lives, but almost all the stages are really short anyways. Just gotta do the NES thing of really practice at it.
Just if there's ever a Mega Man where you're better off acting like beating the 8 robot masters is "beating the game" and disregarding Wily Castle, it's this one.
I kinda love how much of a mess this game's boss weakness diagram is, with absolute nonsense like Metal Blade being strong against four of the bosses, including himself where it instantly KO's him. And even then, it's an effective upgrade over the Mega Buster against pretty much anything. There's still a lot of jankiness to it and a smidge too hard for something with limited lives, but almost all the stages are really short anyways. Just gotta do the NES thing of really practice at it.
Just if there's ever a Mega Man where you're better off acting like beating the 8 robot masters is "beating the game" and disregarding Wily Castle, it's this one.