This game is better than it looks at first glance, although it also has its flaws. Overall, this game is good and is one of the best games out there for the GB.

It starts off normal, just another Mega Man game where you face off against 8 space robots.... eight space robots? Yep, and to make it even better, Mega Man V does not reuse or copy anything from previous games, both the music and the scenarios are completely new, and look great. The boss and enemy designs are outstanding, although the boss fights this time around were a bit bland compared to other Mega Man games.

Being a GB game, it suffers from constant slowdowns that make the experience a little less enjoyable, although in terms of graphics it looks pretty good.

It will not be the best Mega Man, but the game gives us everything we could ask from a classic Mega Man game (and a little more), ending up being a good portable experience.

I recommend it to all those who enjoyed the other Mega Man games for Game Boy.

Angel_Arle Rockman reviews
Part 1: Rockman for Famicom
Part 2: Rockman 2: Dr. Wily no Nazo for Famicom
Part 3: Rockman 3: Dr. Wily no Saigo!? for Famicom
Part 4: Rockman World for GB
Part 5: Rockman 4: Aratanaru Yabou!! for Famicom
Part 6: Rockman World 2 for GB
Part 7: Rockman 5: Blues no Wana!? for Famicom
Part 8: Rockman World 3 for GB
Part 9: Wily & Right no RockBoard: That's Paradise for Famicom
Part 10: Rockman World 4 for GB
Part 11: Rockman 6: Shijō Saidai no Tatakai!! for Famicom
Part 12: Rockman's Soccer for Super Famicom

Wanted to write an apology. This review should have been done months ago but I was just lacking motivation at the time to finish it. This review will for a lot of it be stuff that was already done but I replayed the game just to keep my mind fresh on it and write the rest of it so enough talk, now with the actual review.

Well we’re here at another finale that I wasn’t expecting to happen already. We are at the end of the Rockman World games, it’s been fun replaying them but it’s now time for Rockman World 5. If people were to tell you to play any of these games, it would most definitely be this title. It’s the only one to be fully unique without having to reuse past Robot Masters. After the many titles on the handheld, it was finally time to see what they have cookin here. Let’s finish these Game Boy games once and for all!

It’s another day for Rock and Roll as the two are walking outside until suddenly a new threat arrives. He doesn’t look like anyone Rock has seen before but he lets Roll retreat for the rest of the game, seriously she never shows up again after this. Rock becomes Rockman and it’s time to get rid of this mysterious foe. He charges the Super Rock Buster and…it doesn't work! Even charging it did nothing, can Rockman not win? We find him awakened back at home and thanks to Dr. Right, we now have a new buster called the Rock’n Arm! With this new power, no new threat will be able to thwart our blue hero. Now it’s up to him and a new robot cat named Tango that accompanies Rockman to stop this new mysterious threat.

Like the plot showed, we now have a new buster. While buster shots are once again the same as they’ve always been, Rockman can shoot his fist at enemies. Think of it like a faster version of Hard Knuckle but it comes back to you. The move is strong but the one con it has is that Rockman can be offensive less if he misses so try to not miss too much. Otherwise everything is about the same as it was in World 4.

Oh man the stage design in this game. It’s so awesome in this game! There’s so many cool new ideas they put into this one. Since we are now fighting new robots called Space Rulers, a lot of levels feel like they have the inside of something in space or actually in space. You first start with four stages starring the trap ridden floors of Mars’ stage, the long strip of outside before going into a location filled with leaky pipes and water of Neptune’s stage, the bubbly and bounciness of Venus’ stage, and the treadmills that constantly move with many spikes around in Mercury’s stage. They are all a good length and aren’t too easy but nothing too difficult outside of a few months. Really the only issue I had was the bouncy floors being a bit finicky in Venus’ stage. They are all of a good length too. This goes for the other stages you’ll do in the second half of the game. Saturn’s stage has a really cool gimmick where some rooms change the gravity for platforming to make you floatier or heavier depending on the setting. They even have an optional path to get special items that I’ll talk about later. The stages also fixed the issue I have of World 4 where sometimes the level design rinses and repeats things. While not every stage is 100% original as stuff like water is obviously not new, there isn’t a single bad level in this game. Enemies are also well placed and really the only complaint I had with the level design is that there were one or two moments of praying you don’t fall on spikes falling down a long corridor. Otherwise, it’s pretty awesome! The order I went was Mercury -> Mars -> Venus -> Neptune -> Pluto -> Uranus -> Jupiter -> Saturn.

Well I can actually talk about the fights in this one as they’re all unique here. Mercury is pretty simple, his Snatch Buster can steal your items but as long as you hit him then he will rush to the other side as a liquid. Parts of his liquid body move in two different ways but he never changes his pattern so learn how to dodge and you’ll beat him in no time. Venus can be tricky as his jump depends on if you try hitting him or not, reminds me a bit of Clash Man. His Bubble Bombs can be hard to dodge so watch out for those! Mars can shoot Photon Missiles that you can slide or jump over but watch out as he can shoot a very fast projectile that you’ll need to mash the buster button to avoid getting hit. As he rushes to the other side, focus on dodging mines as he’s invincible anyway. Neptune likes to jump a lot so be wary of that and be careful if you’re too far away as he can do a move to drop water from the ceiling and during this you can’t even slide. Pluto is fast and likes to dash around. Watch out for his fast projectiles when he’s up on the ceiling and don’t bother hitting him when he’s dashing around. Uranus has huge defense! You’ll be here for a while without his weakness and worst of all he can crush you when slamming the ceiling down and he hurts like hell. Jupiter is pretty easy since you’ll always have Bubble Bomb for this fight and he’s got a pretty easy pattern anyway. Saturn…uhhh I forgot to actually learn what he does since he dies very fast to his weakness. I’m sorry. Overall they are pretty fun bosses though I wish Uranus was better but some of the more fun fights also to do Buster only or would that be arm only? Totally not doing that cause I’m too lazy to remember all of the weaknesses.

Alright time for the usual special weapon discussion and this will be a good one! Grab Buster from Mercury is really good as it fires a projectile that not only hits hard but also gives you back a small amount of energy to refill on health. Perfect if you are needing it but don’t want to use an E-tank. Bubble Bomb from Venus is pretty good too as it fires upwards in a wavy pattern and hurts anything on contact. It also runs along walls and ceilings. This move is just excellent on a lot of enemies so enjoy using this one a lot even if the aiming can be a bit challenging at first. Photon Missile from Mars is alright, I like the power and multiple missiles you can send out but it’s a little too slow for my liking when you first send it out. It still can be useful at times. Salt Water from Neptune is eh for me. I’m sure it’s good but I never feel the need to bring it out and the only time I ever use it is when seeing the enemy named Birdy. It can be good for walls and ceiling as it splits into three smaller balls of water. Electric Shock from Jupiter is really cool as you can use electricity from your hands, making the range small but perfect for killing enemies in seconds. It feels very satisfying. Black Hole from Saturn sends out a black hole that then shoots out a lot of projectiles expanding as a circle and is very useful for killing enemies but lacks much energy. Deep Digger from Uranus is sadly the worst weapon in the game. It lets you pick up rocks to throw at enemies but they mostly use this to find secrets making the weapon extremely situational and kind of useless. Finally we have Break Dash from Pluto and it’s awesome! They finally did one of these physical attacks right. It’s strong, you can go through enemies no problem, you have i-frames during and after the move, and best of all YOU CAN ACTUALLY SHOOT WITH YOUR BUSTER WHILE HAVING BREAK DASH ON! It’s like everything I wanted from Charge Kick and even more! The only real flaw is it can’t be used in the air and immediately ends if you go off the floor. You also can’t charge your buster since that activates the move but not a big deal. These are a very solid set of weapons and I’d argue they are really underrated!

Rush Coil and Rush Jet are still here and honestly they just feel obligatory at this point so let’s talk about the new cat in town, Tango. Tango will attack enemies by rolling up in a ball and moving around hitting anything it makes contact with. He can be helpful but I find him not that worth using once you get more weapons since he’s a bit slow to get working well. Eddie is also here to sometimes give you items along with Blues too, though sometimes you’ll have to find him in secret areas. Oddly no Beat though which is odd. Dr. Right also has a shop where you once again buy stuff with P-chips. This store even has upgrades for the Rock’n Arm. Sadly this game also does that thing where the 2nd half doesn’t refill your energy and you have to buy an item to refill it everytime. Honestly just purposefully get a game over to refill it for free. You can also buy a special item but I gotta rant real quick.

In Rockman 6, I complained about the game having some poor replayability due to how you get the Beat letters. In the 2nd half of the game, you can collect jewels for Dr. Right since he’ll make an item for free with them. The item is the Power Generator which halves weapon energy consumption. It’s really helpful but you need to find them in secret areas. These areas require Break Dash and Deep Digger. This means you will have to go to them first if you want to beat the game faster. This sucks because the weapons from Jupiter and Saturn are really fun to use but it’s just not optimal to them first. Even worse, Pluto’s stage requires Deep Digger and Uranus’ stage requires Break Dash meaning you have to replay one of those stages anyway which feels like bad design to me. Could they really not find a better way to hide these? At the very least they are optional unlike the Wily letters in World 4 but I don’t think that makes the situation any better. I could see this hurting the game for me whenever I decide to replay the game more which kind of worries me ngl.

I didn’t mention it but halfway you’ll fight a boss named Dark Moon. It’s just another Devil fight and it’s pretty easy this time so just use Photon Missile and you’ll be fine. Once you’re done with all of the eight Space Rulers, you’re off to fight the foe from the very beginning of the game who is Earth by the way. Well the game gives you blocks so just use Deep Digger and it’ll be over before you know it. You’ll get Spark Chaser from Earth and it’s awesome as well. A laser that homes in on enemies and is really powerful. Worth using if you have the chance to in the final part of the game. You think it’s over but nope you learn the Space Rulers were working for sigh Dr. Wily…God they really can’t let go of Wily. So yeah he’s the main threat now so off you go into space some more with Rush and the final act commences.

The first level is a shmup section and like many games that aren’t shmups, this shmup section sucks. Starts off with asteroids you can’t hit, one single type of enemy and giant ass lasers you cannot predict and do a ton of damage. The boss is also very easy and boring. Probably the worst level in the game. The last level in the game is long and you’ll be going through a level with multiple paths and you’ll even rematch all of the Rockman killers and Quint. It’s a pretty cool callback to the previous entries. Though whoever thought the rooms after them should all end with spikes on the right side every time needs to be told they’re not funny. Otherwise the level is pretty solid but nothing too amazing. By the end you’ll be doing a…boss rush. Goddamnit. Beaten, destroyed, bye bye, dead, go away, wait why is Neptune weak to Spark Chaser, boom, and bam. Ok off to the final boss which is Dr. Wily. First you get a ton of weapon energy refills and then it’s off to fight the left and right knuckle of Wily’s Machine. They’re pretty easy to dodge and just a little bit of aim of Salt Water will knock them both easily. Now you’re fighting the main thing, Dr. Wily’s Brain Crusher. The first phase is easy as you just need to dodge and bounce the bomb back with your shots and when the enemy that changes gravity shows up, I just use Spark Chaser. With enough explosions the first phase is done. The second and final phase is even easier as with enough uses of Spark Chaser, he goes down fast and his shots are pretty easy to dodge. Congratulations you have beaten-wait there’s more? Wily isn’t the final boss? Nope you still have one more opponent. You must now fight Sungod. He is strong and he moves fast. You even at times have to deal with different gravity with your jumps. He’s easily the hardest fight in the game. Though if you can still use Spark Chaser, it can make it a bit easier for you even though Sungod has zero weaknesses surprisingly. Once he’s down, he barely lives but it’s too late for him as Rockman has to book it out of there with Rush after a bit of small talk. The base explodes with Sungod still inside, ending his life for good. Once Rockman gets back on Earth, he sits down and thinks about the journey he had. Sadly it’s cut short as Dr. Wily continues to fight Rockman until his saucer breaks leaving him defenseless. With no other choice, he flees with Rockman giving chase, ending Rockman World 5.

When it comes to the graphics, they’re pretty nice. This game actually has SGB support this time though the colors are nothing amazing. I wish there was a full color version but there isn’t. The border is at least nice. The framerate issues are also still here but honestly I didn’t even notice it that much when playing. All the sprites and stuff are of good quality as expected. Really love all the new boss designs. My only real issue with the graphics is the lack of cool cutscenes that World 4 had. At least the weapon get screen is still very cool and awesome. I also love how they still give stuff like the level select screen such a cool look and not do the same old design of bosses in Squares. The music is some really good stuff too, it’s impressive they could make so many good songs on their own. Though I’m not sure who composed it sadly. My favorites have to be Mercury’s stage theme, Pluto’s stage theme, and the ending. God the ending feels like an amazing way to end this series of games on the GB. I think it’s about time to wrap things up.

So, there you have it people. Every World game is finally done and in the end, I love World 5. This game is so far my favorite Rockman game I’ve reviewed so far. So much of the game is just so fun to play. The level design is really good, the bosses are fun for the most part, and there’s not even really a bad level besides the shmup one. We have seen the highs and lows of these GB games and it’s great to see it end on a high note. I’d be surprised if any Rockman game surpasses this one for me. I’d strongly recommend playing it if you have the chance to. Sadly it’s gone on 3DS VC so you’ll have to get an original cart unless one day Capcom decides to put the World games on NSO. Rockman will also never be seen again on a Nintendo handheld after this unless you want to count Rockman & Forte on GBA. I had a great time reviewing these, yes even World 2. I hope you enjoyed this and I hope it can even motivate you to give this great game a go! Next time on the Rockman reviews, I’ll be moving to the Mega Drive with Rockman: Mega World. I’ll see you then!

A culminação de toda a experiência do estúdio Minakuchi Engineering. Pega a estrutura dos Mega Man de GB desde II (4 chefes iniciais > batalha contra chefe especial > 4 chefes finais > Wily fortress ou similar) e as inovações trazidas por Mega Man IV e as coloca num jogo que dessa vez é totalmente original. Nada aqui é remixado ou reaproveitado dos jogos de NES: estágios, músicas, chefes, poderes... Até os inimigos comuns são originais e, mais importante, de ótima qualidade!

Não só um dos melhores jogos de GB, um dos melhores games da franquia.

Ah Mega Man V, I've heard praises of this one for a while and figured it'd be worth it to go through the 5 games just to end it on this one. Unlike its predecessors, this one is completely original in its concepts! It still uses a few concepts from Mega Man 5, but they're so few with the new ones mixed in that it feels like that "mix and match" aspect from Dr. Wily's Revenge that I loved so much.

I'm kind of mixed on the Mega Arm, which feels based on the shot from Mega Man 6. On one hand it's cool for flavor and to balance the Charge Buster, but on the other it feels kinda frustrating to use when wanting to shoot a ton of shots. You can upgrade it to grab things for you or attack multiple times, but I really just want to keep shooting.

The Stardroids and plot are fun, even if all their weapons aren't the most useful (I'd say Venus's weapon carries and Pluto's is very fun, but stuff like Saturn feel pretty useless in comparison. The stages also run a tad long and even on the 5th and final game they never solved that lag problem that is so prevalent in these games, which is a bit of a bummer but it's still playable.

All in all, the Game Boy Mega Man games (ignoring 2) are a great show of progression and improvements, always managing to keep getting better and add little surprises to get the hype going. Perfect game to cap off the quintilogy.;

After over four Gameboy games that spent their time regurtitating level themes from the NES Mega Mans, the final fifth Gameboy game throws in a surprise: it's a fully original title! Hey, whoever gave up on the Gameboy games after two or three of them, did you hear me?! THIS ONE'S ORIGINAL! COME BACK!

They had the opportunity to throw in some levels from Mega Man 5 & 6, and call it a day. Instead, Mega Man V chose to create its own robot masters and its own set of stages, centered around cosmic planetary themes. One boss is called Venus, the other is Jupiter, and so on, and so forth. Levels are imbued with newly-created mechanics to spice things up here and there, and I've found the arsenal of weapons to be more interesting this time around, such as a weapon that saps enemy health and gives it to you.

The game feels like it's trying to do some creative things from a team that wanted to push the boundaries of what was expected from them, to create a Mega Man title that they could call their own. There's a sincerity to it, a much greater sincerity than some of the more recent Mega Man games that seem to exist just for the sake of sucking out all the honey from the formula. Of course, the gameplay here isn't anything new, it's still Mega Man, you still platform and shoot things to death... it's the aesthetic that shines brighter, it's the music that hits harder (I love the Venus theme, it feels so unconventional for a Mega Man title but it gets stuck in your head so easily), it's the level design that's more enjoyable. It's the same, yet it feels so much fresher in all the subtle ways.

Overall, an underrated title. It only took them 5 tries, but Capcom finally landed on a Gameboy Mega Man that's memorable, and would be likely to make you come back for more, especially as a Mega Man fan. Highly recommended.

MMV (Not to be confused with MM5) is probably the BEST mainline spin-off of classic Megaman.

Despite it being on the gameboy and somewhat sharing a name with it's console counterpart, this is the only original portable game on the Gameboy whereas all the others were ports/alternatives.

With the expectations Dr Wily's Revenge (the other kinda OG portable game) set, you'd expect this one to be mediocre/just suffices for portable systems back in the day. But this game is just as good as, or even better than most of the NES games.

The first thing is the game is actually balanced, it feels fair and not bullshit at some points like DWR. The levels are excellently designed and the bosses are challenging and fair.

Speaking of the bosses, you get an all original cast, each robot master being based on a planet in our solar system. This is such a cool fucking concept and it was executed brilliantly.

The weapons you get here aren't as useful as I'd like them to be, they all do the job they need to do. You even have a shop to buy E tanks, lives etc like you do in the later classic titles.

Honestly if you are a fan of classic MM but haven't played this yet, you owe it to yourself to go play this now. You don't wanna miss this game, it is really as good as a mainline title.

I took a look at some Nintendo Power archives for fun and I'll tell you what, they straight up fuckin lied about the order you're supposed to beat the robots here. Yeah, Mercury first, but then Mars?! Then Neptune, and Venus last? Mercury barely gives you a weapon, it's like an extension of your mega arm that picks up health items. It doesn’t work at all on Mars, Nintendo Power. It doesn't work. They charged a monthly subscription just to show a few rushed maps of the first few levels of a handful of games and now years later I can go on the internet and in seconds look up just some shit some dude wrote out in his spare time that just says yeah, you'll want to make sure you get Salt Water before you fight Mars.

Oh, what's that? The game? It's fine. It's probably the only good Mega Man on the GB.

The entire project of playing the Gameboy Roman Numeral Megan Mann games in the first place was all leading up to this one. I knew it was 'the one' so to speak. The people who actually played these ones would be like "This is the good one. This one rules." and while I am happy to report that they are correct and I don't think you have to play all the previous games I am glad that I did. This sucker is a victory lap. The team finally had the chance to go all out and make something entirely their own and they did it while also creating a sendoff to the entire MMGB project.

This time around, Mega "The Blue Guy" Man is travelling the solar system to fight a new, original set of bosses themed around the planets (Pluto is still in this is 1994 suckers) and all of the content is original. The music is new and catchy, even if it's not the absolute best soundtrack in the series. The levels do tend to repeat themes of machinery and outer space a lot, but they are now. Keiji Inafune had a hand in the boss designs and they're all a lot of fun. The weapons are all really weird and unique and I gleefully experimented with them, finding lots of uses.

This is helped by the boss weaknesses feeling fairly de-emphasized this time around. There's more than one fight where you just can't have it the first time around no matter what (at least according to what the wiki calls the weaknesses) but some of your other choices will tend to work fairly well.

For plot reasons, the buster itself has been replaced such that the charge shot is now a rocket fist that isn't automatically better than just shooting. This does a TON to improve the combat over a lot of Megas Men with charge shots, and also rocket fists are sweet. You also get a CAT which is only useful in a few places but he's a CAT and listen even if my pfp is not set to my cat as I write this I'm still a cat furry I gotta point out Tango the Cat.

The level designs have also been given that crucial bump into being just fully good without any caveats. The boss fights are complex enough and in the right ballpark of difficulty. There is a scrolling shooter segment that absolutely sucks shit and requires rote memorization but you won't get too hung up on it.

This is the one, kids. It clears the bar of being, if not the absolute best game in the OG Megaman series, then still high up. The same goes for its place in original Gameboy games. This one comes highly recommended.

Alright now where can I get a wonderswan

Fifth time's the charm, Minakuchi Engineering finally made an actually good game, and all it too was finally getting a budget and original ideas!

It's not perfect, with a few annoying trappings in the final stages especially; the "drop down into freefalls of moving spikes" got under my ass a bit, and I didn't really jive with some of the weapons, but between the high production values, entirely original levels and bosses, and pretty good bosses? Yeah, this is the only Mega Man GB title that I'd say is really all that worth playing. Though, it actually kind of rewards you for playing them, with the final boss gauntlet actually pitting you against Enker, Punk, Ballade and even that fuckass Quint, blud thought he was on the team. If you want V to be your rite of passage for suffering through a lot of mid, be my guest!

Just don't shotgun II-V in a single day like I did, I think I would've died from mid if V wasn't as solid as it is.

I was ready to agree this was the best of the GB Mega Man series, the main levels and weapons were really solid and the level design was decent up to that point. There's great weapon variety, unique level gimmicks, a new original line-up of bosses and some nice detail in the environments and backgrounds.

If it wasn't for the last few levels I would rank it with the very best of the classic series.

The typical forced Mega Man boss rushes are usually the low point of any Mega/Rock Man game for me but here it was more tedious than usual, it's very easy to get a game over and have to do the entire 20+ minute marathon again, and there's some really badly placed spike traps right after a falling screen transition in several spots.

Every secret is blocked behind the same two weapons, and one of those is a charged tackle move, you have to collide with the enemy to damage with it, why does this get a pass when the Spin move in Nes 3 and charge kick from Nes 5 are heavily criticized for the same thing?

I'd heard about a flying shooting section near the end is, but it's so simple and repetitive and ends with giant lasers that just blast by the screen with no indication where they are going to be, dying means starting the boring slow level again.

The checkpoints in most of the game were placed badly in that they were too far into the level, most bosses and enemies have very annoying invincibility states, and the rocket punch upgrade often gets blocked or can't to extra damage because of this, it just didn't work most of the time and takes too long to travel across the screen.
The things that annoyed me about this game are very reminiscent of Mega Man X3 like the upgrade being worse than the normal charge shot and invincibility states being overused.

Wily was not just super slow, it was also really boring to fight. There's so much unnecessary waiting around for a chance to attack and most special weapons were useless against him, it was unique but I did not enjoy it. Also Mercury stole all my W and E tanks I spent all my chips on in the refight, that's just obnoxious.

It's alright. IV while more challenging and suffering from it's own specific problems felt like it had more thought put into the level design and didn't have all the bosses and enemies put up shields or force fields that block everything. It was still worth the time I spent on it and fun to replay and I'd still rather return to this than some of the Nes titles.

Honestly what’s taken me rather long for me to drop this log is that this is the most I’ve had to sit on a review and what to say in it before posting. This is it, this is the final game for this classic Mega Man marathon. I’ll do more in the future but this marathon in particular… It means a lot to me. This is the point in my life where I’ve finally asked myself “what does Mega Man mean to me?” And in this review, I finally plan on answering that very question.

Now my introduction to Mega Man was with both classic and X, through a combination of Smash Bros, countdown creators on YouTube shit talking Sigma and eventually culminating in Worlds Unite. I saw that Mega Man had a Snake Man and a Shadow Man and I knew immediately I needed to play these games. I didn’t manage to play through them until 2017 though. I had Legacy Collection on my 3DS but the games kicked my ass constantly and I dropped 2 completely after the robot master stages. Before 2018, I was reading the Archie comics constantly, looking up to see anything else I missed, and I beat the mobile version of Mega Man X before. I was on Fandom daily for hours trying to get as much robot master info as I could. And I finally got the legacy collections on Xbox One. I struggled at first… then I beat Galaxy Man and the rest was history.

I have marathoned all of the mainline classic games multiple times, beat the first four game boy games three times, and beat 5 on Game Boy and Bass on SNES twice. I have dedicated a disgusting amount of time to this franchise and it finally hit me. Before this marathon, there were always games I liked and didn’t like, but the ranking has shifted constantly. I then realized that these have made for the games I have played and beaten the most in my entire life. I think only Pokemon comes close but most of that time was spent grinding instead of really enjoying myself. If I really didn’t like some of these games, why was I replaying them constantly?

I’ll admit my feelings on the X games are far more mixed, I love X1-4 but not as much as the classic games, and Zero and ZX I have far less experience with. For a while I’ve considered X1 my favorite video game of all time and… OK I think it’s technically the best I’ve played, or at least one of the best, it is truly flawless. And yet X1 wasn’t really a game I was super passionate about, even though it is the first ever Mega Man I have beaten. And then it finally hit me. I love X1 but it’s not my favorite game at all. In fact I don’t even have a favorite game… because the classic Mega Man games are my favorite games of all time. All of them except for 2 on Game Boy and Battle and Fighters I’d replay on the drop of a hat regardless of quality and my emotional connection to all of these games is unparalleled. Classic Mega Man is by far my favorite media franchise of all time, not only making for incredible games but also giving me so many of my favorite stories of all time, those mainly being found in Archie and Megamix. Classic Mega Man has made me happy, it’s made me laugh, it’s filled me with dread (in good ways) and it’s gotten me to cry. The impact this franchise has left on my life is unmatched and I will share my passion until the day I die.

I ended it all off with 5 on Game Boy because like I’ve said before, this game isn’t just the best of the franchise, it’s the epitome of everything I love about classic Mega Man. It’s a masterfully designed game that’s endlessly replayable and has some of the most creative set pieces and greatest moments that I have ever witnessed in a platformer. But as I’m writing this review, the last stage I played was Mega Man 10’s 3rd special stage. It’s a stage that’s packed with everything I love in a Mega Man game as well as what may be my new favorite song in the franchise… Farewell to Ballade. It’s funny really, there was an 8 year gap between 10 and 11 and before we got 11 we got the Archie comics, shitty mobile games… and this absolute banger of a swan song. We may have said our farewells years ago, but the Blue Bomber has stood his ground, and Ballade will always be in my heart. I’m so glad the collections have given me and so many other people the chance to finally play these incredible games, and I’m glad this franchise has finally opened my heart to get me to share my love and passions. I have more stuff in store for everyone, but for now I’m bumping all the classic games to (subjective) 10/10s. 5 on Game Boy is the only that 100% deserves it on an objective level for me but that doesn’t matter to me anymore. These games will always be the peak for me and I’ll do my best to spread the good word.

Happy 35th Anniversary, Rock Light. I love you so damn much.