Saturday, June 26, 2004
Mega Man Anniversary Collection
I picked this up on Thursday and I absolutely love it. I was always a big fan of the old-school Mega Man games and this is a fantastic compilation for any fan of the Blue Bomber. Mega Man 1-8 are all on here, plus a couple formerly Japan-only fighting games which are unlockable. There's also a bunch of other hidden stuff that you unlock by playing and beating the various games. There are also platform-specific bonuses for each version (Cube and PS2). PS2 owners get an episode of the Mega Man anime, while GameCube players get some developer interviews. I was more interested in seeing what the developers had to say so I picked up the Cube version. The PS2 game also has remixed background music as an option.
I'm playing the games in order and I'm at the end of Mega Man 4 now (played through the original twice already). For the most part the games are straight ports with a few minor changes. First, all the games have a button for auto-fire which is very useful, and the game has an auto save feature which saves you from writing down those stupid passwords all the time. For some reason, the Cube version has jump assigned to B and fire assigned to A which feels completely backwards at first to anyone accustomed to the NES setup. I died a few times due to this, but I've finally gotten used to it. There's also one odd thing that I've noticed. For Mega Man 1 & 2 they didn't retouch the graphics at all, the same sprite flicker is still there, but they have fixed up Mega Man 3. While I've played the rest of the games at some point, I've only owned Mega Man 2 & 3 so I won't really know if they've improved the rest or not.
This is really a must-buy for anyone that can appreciate a good 2D action-platformer. With a price tag of just $30 it's really quite a bargain too.
I picked this up on Thursday and I absolutely love it. I was always a big fan of the old-school Mega Man games and this is a fantastic compilation for any fan of the Blue Bomber. Mega Man 1-8 are all on here, plus a couple formerly Japan-only fighting games which are unlockable. There's also a bunch of other hidden stuff that you unlock by playing and beating the various games. There are also platform-specific bonuses for each version (Cube and PS2). PS2 owners get an episode of the Mega Man anime, while GameCube players get some developer interviews. I was more interested in seeing what the developers had to say so I picked up the Cube version. The PS2 game also has remixed background music as an option.
I'm playing the games in order and I'm at the end of Mega Man 4 now (played through the original twice already). For the most part the games are straight ports with a few minor changes. First, all the games have a button for auto-fire which is very useful, and the game has an auto save feature which saves you from writing down those stupid passwords all the time. For some reason, the Cube version has jump assigned to B and fire assigned to A which feels completely backwards at first to anyone accustomed to the NES setup. I died a few times due to this, but I've finally gotten used to it. There's also one odd thing that I've noticed. For Mega Man 1 & 2 they didn't retouch the graphics at all, the same sprite flicker is still there, but they have fixed up Mega Man 3. While I've played the rest of the games at some point, I've only owned Mega Man 2 & 3 so I won't really know if they've improved the rest or not.
This is really a must-buy for anyone that can appreciate a good 2D action-platformer. With a price tag of just $30 it's really quite a bargain too.
Comments:
Post a Comment
