the original mega man series has always kind of reeked of that whole 80s retro gamer neckbeard thing that ran rampant on youtube during my early years as a y2k baby. you know the type of loud white guy i'm talking about, the ones that called sephiroth a mama's boy and shoved down your throat how banjo-kazooie was the second coming of christ?
yeah, but for real, i've always felt mega man's success on the nes was very much 'right place, right time'. i like me some challenging platformers - hell on the nes alone i can think of tons i enjoy - but i think nes mega man as a series has a lot of shitty game and level design that gets swept under the whole 'nes hard' bullshit moniker that was basically code for 'i have nostalgia for this inherently poorly designed video game' and due to the charm of the characters, art and music (all of which i also enjoy) it got away with it.
still, there are moments you can see the potential for something great here and i'll give the original a slide for some of its jank because it was the first one. by the time 2 comes around and a lot of this archaic bullshit is still around... i'm less tolerant. i like this franchise as a whole but nes mega man is easily the most overrated aspect of the bunch. i'll take contra any day of the week.
yeah, but for real, i've always felt mega man's success on the nes was very much 'right place, right time'. i like me some challenging platformers - hell on the nes alone i can think of tons i enjoy - but i think nes mega man as a series has a lot of shitty game and level design that gets swept under the whole 'nes hard' bullshit moniker that was basically code for 'i have nostalgia for this inherently poorly designed video game' and due to the charm of the characters, art and music (all of which i also enjoy) it got away with it.
still, there are moments you can see the potential for something great here and i'll give the original a slide for some of its jank because it was the first one. by the time 2 comes around and a lot of this archaic bullshit is still around... i'm less tolerant. i like this franchise as a whole but nes mega man is easily the most overrated aspect of the bunch. i'll take contra any day of the week.
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i mean i think it's a good game but it definitely fits the stereotype of that type of Nerd Culture-y gamer dude
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Not sure if you'd be interested but the PSP remake of Megaman 1 is pretty good
yeah ive played it actually. it’s aight. hate the visuals and ost though
Ah gotcha nice, just curious what was it that you didn't like about the visuals?
the art style just has this really polished clean look that i don't really care for. seems too plasticy and kiddish. i just dig the more 80s toei look of the nes designs
That's fair, I get wanting the toei style. I personally enjoyed the artstyle, it's really cute and fits very well, the original designs were always kinda chibi-is so them going from that to hyper-chibi wasn't that big of a change for me.
Archagent
1 year ago