Mega Man 9 Review

Mega Man 9

NOTE: NOT MY REVIEW, JUST POSTING BECAUSE WE ARE IN NEED OF A MM9 REVIEW. PLEASE DONT GIVE ME CREDIT.

If you weren’t around for Mega Man’s heyday (waaaay back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, around 1990), all this commotion about an archaic, unsophisticated platformer may make about as much sense as the robot elephants that populate Concrete Man’s level.

The confusion is understandable - Mega Man 9 is an old-school 8-bit NES game through and through, with pixel-perfect jumps, one hit kills and crushingly difficult boss encounters that will shred wrists from here to Japan. It does absolutely nothing to court new players, opting instead to cater directly to fans and longtime gamers who tire of recharging health meters and forgiving checkpoints.

The gameplay is dead simple: choose one of eight bosses, make it through their level, acquire their weapon, then figure out which boss is weak against your copycatted arsenal. Along the way you’ll have to make perfectly timed leaps, avoid spikes that shatter Mega Man when one pixel is out of line and tackle enemies that are dead set on pushing you into one of a hundred different bottomless pits.

The WiiWare version can be controlled using the Wii Remote held sideways using the control pad and the "1" and "2" buttons. It can also be controlled using the Classic Controller. The game runs on a new, engine that emulates 8-bit video games, even going as far as including the option to add sprite flicker, known as Legacy Mode.

If all of that sounds endlessly frustrating, you’re going to want to pass. You’ll stare blankly at the seventh Game Over screen in 20 minutes and wonder how the hell anyone else can get past this jump, let alone beat the entire game. However, gamers who love a challenge, anyone who slaved through Mega Man 4 and 5, all of you are going to eat this up and love every single second.

Mega Man 9 perfectly agrees with Mega Man 2, which is widely considered to be the best of the bunch. You can’t charge a buster shot as in 4 onward, nor slide as in 3, but honestly who misses those unnecessary perks? The comparison continues even into the sound effects and music, with a couple of tunes lifted directly from the 1989 classic.

Replacing the lost moves are new treats that make the game a hell of a lot more playable. You’ll deal with the store the most, a piece borrowed from Mega Man 8. It’s loaded with helpful items that make the bastard-hard levels a bit more manageable; boots that protect you from spikes, a Beat call that pulls you out of pits, a half-damage token, stuff like that. There’s also a punishing set of achievements to complete that will put even the absolute best players in their place. Example: beat the game without dying. Ooookay, Good Luck.

Buy it, finish it, love it, because if this takes off we’re going to see a renaissance of new-old games. And if that happens, a whole new batch of gamers will grow up learning why rock-solid gameplay, not tera-flipping flop-bib shaders, make games truly exceptional.

SOURCE:
http://www.gamesradar.com/wii/mega-m...26165055938021