Primer megaman que terminó completo.
Tiene un buen diseño de niveles aunque tiene unas partes que flaquean mucho, lo que más me gusta es que tiene rejugabilidad con la recolección de los discos con los 2 personajes ya que el escenario está construido para pasarlo de forma diferente con cada uno.
La música es mucho mejor en la versión de GBA y los jefes varían mucho en dificultad dependiendo del personaje.
Megaman tiene varios pros, por su parte el diseño de niveles se acopla bien se nota que hay partes donde lo favorecen y otras que no. Aunque no es una crítica ya que se manejan con Bass así que es más de rejugabilidad que otra cosa. Aunque megaman si necesita más los poderes que Bass para pasar ciertas zonas.
Bass es mucho más ágil respecto a Megaman con su doble salto y se siente más fácil manejarlo que megaman aunque la desventaja del Buster jode un poco en las primeras zonas.
Con respecto a la tienda hace más digerible el combate que puede llegar a ser muy útil en los tramos finales.
La versión de GBA si bien tiene los problemas de la pantalla no daña tanto la experiencia como muchos dicen.

its like a less good mega man 8 also bass is there

edit: OKAY SO BASS PLAYS LIKE OBJECTIVELY BETTER IN EVERY WAY WHAT THE FUCK
i dont think ill go through the entire game as bass, but from doing a couple levels as him just to see what hes like, it genuinely feels like his way is the intended experience and mega man is an afterthought. rapidfire, omni-directional aiming and double jump holy shit it feels so good
im bumping it up a little from my initial rating, and saying this is probably better than mm8

Miren, he jugado los juegos de Mega Man del 1 al 8, y este, y, sin pelos en la lengua, les digo que este juego es Peak, al menos de los que he jugado.

El juego presenta 2 personajes jugables, Mega Man y Bass (por si no era lo suficientemente obvio), cada uno se controla de forma distinta. Mientras que Mega Man, se controla de la misma forma de la que se esperaría, Bass tiene básicamente una metralleta de Buster, la barrida de la saga X, y un doble salto. A simple vista, parecería de que Bass está más roto que con Mega Man, pero no, ya que, a diferencia del Bombardero azul, este no le hace mucho daño a los jefes, además de no poder usar la barrida para pasar por ciertas secciones.

Ahora, hablando del diseño del nivel, es simplemente Peak. Son niveles bastante variados, repletos de gimmicks bien introducidos, etc. Además,bde que se fomenta el uso de habilidades especiales como el muro de hielo para atravesar pinchos, el doble salto de Bass para ir por ciertas secciones etc. Son niveles, que si bien, son difíciles, al final nunca se me hicieron pesados.

Hablando de las armas especiales, todas estas son bastante útiles, literal, no creo que haya ninguna a la que no le saque provecho. Cosas como el taladro, el rayo, el copia cuerpos etc. tienen bastantes usos a lo largo de este.

La tienda regresa, mejorando el concepto de las mejoras de Mega Man 8, esta vez, haciendo posible la obtención de todas en la misma partida, además de que los tornillos se consiguen de la misma forma que Mega Man 7, haciendolos bastante más cómodos de conseguir.

Los jefes son muy buenos. A estos, a diferencia de algunos de los juegos de la NES, no bastara con spamearle su arma de ventaja, sino que requiere más habilidad del jugador al momento de luchar contra estos.

La única razón por la que no le subo más nota es, porque el posicionamiento de enemigos suele ser algo molesto en varias secciones, y por un pequeño detalle llamado King Fortress 2. En este nivel, el jugador deberá pelear con 4 jefes, los cuales son bastante tediosos a su manera.

En fin, creo que ya no hace falta decir que me parece uno de los mejores juegos de la saga clásica, si no es que el mejor. Lo recomiendo bastante.

So, you intended to use King to take care of me, did you? You dirty son of a bitch!

I promise I’m not just trying to be different. Am I missing something here?

Playing as Mega Man feels like, well, Mega Man 8, which was already one of the better controlling games in the classic series. Playing as Bass, on the other hand, turns Mega Man into Gunstar Heroes, and I’m not sure how it could possibly be more entertaining. The levels are astounding, the boss designs are deeply imaginative and memorable, the graphics are truly mind-bending for the SNES, and the shop/upgrade system is the best it’s been in any of these games so far. Capcom hits a difficulty balance that lies perfectly between intense and rewarding; it is truly a joy to hit one of this game’s many walls, only to finally overcome it through sheer tenacity. You have the tools, you just have to put it all together. I’m not sure where the mixed reaction for this game comes from, but my assumption is that most detractors played the terribly compromised GBA version (or died a lot). The ONLY real complaints I have is that the music could be better, and the absence of E-Tanks feels a little strange. If you play Rockman & Forte/Mega Man & Bass on the SNES, as it was meant to be played, you may see this in a whole new light. This is literally my favorite game in the mainline Mega Man series, and I don’t see a world where that changes. Next level stuff.

My first playthrough was with Mega Man and it was a miserable experience most of the time. Some enemies take way too many hits, most robot masters are too difficult to fight without their weaknesses and the level design can be infuriating, like cheap traps, the typical disappearing blocks but here they have inconsistent timing and the biggest annoyance are large rooms where you cannot see what is below or above you, so you may end up jumping into hazards sometimes instant-death ones.
And I played the Super Famicom version, I dont want to imagine how bad those parts are on the smaller GBA screen.

My second playthrough with Bass was a little more enjoyable. Mainly because I was familiar with the boss weaknesses this time and because of his double jump that makes some parts less frustrating. But it also makes others too easy.

If you don't feel the urge to play through the entire series like I did at the time of writing this, I'd say you can ignore this one or just play through it as Bass.

(This is a review of the SFC game, playing as Mega Man. I will revise or provide an additional review one day with the GBA port and Bass)

Maybe it’s the re-use of assets, maybe it’s how different it feels from the first generation of Mega Man titles, maybe it’s how ridiculously cheap it feels at times, but if someone had told me this was a fan-game that Capcom decided to publish for whatever reason I would believe it. It just feels so off.

The gameplay is rough. Mega Man’s descent from one of the tightest action-platformers into a loosey-goosey one where it’s never clear if it’s you or the game’s fault for any given sudden death is disheartening. The robot masters are alternately minor distractions or cheap nightmares, save for the rare gem of Dynamo Man, who is incredibly exciting to face off with, even with his weakness in play.

The item store returns again, with a few good options and a WHOLE PILE of needless crap, all at prices that really push the player to grind bolts, which is a miserable concept for a Mega Man game. Even the really useful ones are lesser to what has come before, or as cheap as reducing energy use or increasing health gain, which feel more like the way things should have been as default than actual fun power-ups.

Nothing feels good. Enemies aren’t that satisfying to destroy, hard jumps feel more like luck than tests of skill, and so satisfaction is low. Using the aesthetics of MM8 really drives home that Mega Man needs a level of simplicity to its visuals and feedback to get that serotonin flowing.

All this said? The King/Wily levels are some of the series’ best in the 16/32-bit generations, and course corrected a bit on what I was sure was going to be one of the worst in the series. Not that I’d want to be that harsh, but as a sort of Mega Man 8.5, released as late as 1998, I was hoping for something that built upon the presentation-lead design of that game, and polished things up to a mirror shine. Alas, hopping back from the PSX to the SNES has reduced that presentation to… basically nothing. Some speech bubbles and a tiny little window for an ending scene during the credits.

This review feels a little scatty, though I’ll put that down to this taking almost a full month to complete. Hopefully as we see out the final 3 games of the classic series I can pull myself together, and maybe the games will, too!

GBA Version: This review is Going to be Complicated...

To start Off well, This is the only Megaman game So far that I needed To use Save State (Most of the times I Saved were in Front of the Boss door) The lack of E-tanks Also helps in this Aspect.

Now talking about the Playable Characters and Stages.

Bass:

bass is very More or Less at the beginning, The good thing About it is That it can shoot in 8 Directions and Has the Double jump and The bad thing is that its Shot does very Little damage, it Only gets very Good Towards the End with Items from the Shop making it the Beginning It's Very difficult in My opinion

Megaman:

Honestly, Megaman is very Good at the Beginning and in the Middle of the Game because of His Charged shots. But at the End it gets a Little Complicated Because of the Stages designs, But other Than that He is The best Character to Start with.

Stages:

To begin with, I want to say that I hate the Stage designs in This game, Depending on the Character You are Playing, it Can be Very Easy or Very Difficult to Pass the Stage and The Worst Stages are the king's Without a Doubt. The worst of All Is that the GBA Screen doesn't Show Everything, Causing you To fall Into holes and Take Random Damage.

It's not a Bad game But it's a Terrible Megaman to Begin with. Maybe I'll play The SNES Version... Maybe.

After playing through Mega Man 1-10 a while back, I had a good few people tell me I should play this game as well to genuinely finish out the classic series. I had the GBA version as a kid, and I got fairly far in it but never managed to beat it. I had hesitated for a bit, as this version actually isn't available for sale digitally anywhere (not in any of the collections, and the only versions on Virtual Console are the very inferior GBA port), but I discovered much to my joy that I actually did have this ROM sitting around in my collection (it was just filed differently than I expected it to be). I broke out my Xbox One game pad and it took me about 4 hours to complete the game without save states or rewinds using ZSNES.

Coming out on the Super Famicom in the mindbogglingly late year of 1998, Rock Man & Forte (better known as "Mega Man & Bass") was the last of the classic Mega Man games until Mega Man 9 a decade later. You can play as either titular character (I myself picked Mega Man) as you fight against the mysterious new robot King, who has raided Wily's lab and Dr. Light's Robot Museum to collect blueprints of past robot masters to create his new master army to make a world devoid of humans where robots can live in peace. It's got a fair amount of text for a Mega Man game, but the story still boils down to a very familiar formula where King was actually being used by Wily the whole time. It does the job just fine, and King himself is a well-designed new character (even if he has the life expectancy of most new Mega Man antagonists ^^;).

The game recycles two robot masters from Mega Man 8, Tengu Man and Astro Man (who both fight quite differently than their PS1 counterparts), but then has six more original robot masters for you to fight in addition to the fortress at the end. However, this is definitely one of the weakest of the classic series, and it is arguably also the worst of them for similar reasons for why Mega Man 10 isn't very good. Sure, the bosses vary between some of them being really weirdly easy (especially with their weaknesses) or being trials of frustration to deal with (the category into which most of them fall), but the big bugbear here is the stage design and how it relates to the two playable characters.

Mega Man 10's big problem comes from its stages feeling too homogeneous because they need to be completeable with all three main characters. Rock Man & Forte has the opposite problem but for the same reason. Mega Man has the charge buster and the dash-slide he has in every other classic series game between Mega Man 4~8. Bass, on the other hand, has no charge beam but an 8-way rapid fire (which are each a little weaker than Mega Man's normal shots), as well as a Mega Man X1-style dash ability instead of the dash-slide. This means the game is divided into two significantly difficult variations depending on whomever you picked to play as, because you can't change character midway through the game. If you picked Mega Man, your charge shot will allow you to generally have an easier time with most bosses, as will your ground slide in dodging attacks. If you're Bass, your dash ability will give you a generally much easier time with the stages, but your eight-way shot and lack of a charge shot will make certain bosses easier and certain bosses harder.

I would tentatively put Bass as the easier to play of the two, as it doesn't much matter if you can beat bosses if you can't even GET to them, but the problems are there all the same. The stages are generally really meanly put together in ways that remind me of games like Mega Man X6 and Rock Man World 3. Particularly as Mega Man, there are some jumps he can JUST barely make due to his lacking a dash ability, and the difficulty curve of the game is all over the place as a result. Inafune apparently wanted this game to be made for the more "hardcore" of the Mega Man fanbase, but the effect is similar to how the original Super Mario Bros 2 was also made for "super" players. The overall experience feels designed to be difficult rather than fun, so it's far more often frustrating that you're dying to cheap deaths rather than satisfying as you conquer a good challenge.

The game also has a shop where you can buy a bunch of (very good) upgrades, though only one of them can be equipped at a time, for most of the best ones. There are also a bunch of collectibles to find scattered through all the levels in the form of little ID cards of genuinely all of the boss and allied robots that have appeared in prior Mega Man games (even super obscure ones like the bosses in the Wily Tower in the Mega Man: Wily Wars). However, just to add insult to injury in one more tiny way regarding the playable characters, some of them can only be gotten as either character, so if you want a completed collectible database, you'll need to play through the game at least once as each character.

The presentation is pretty good for the most part, particularly the graphics. This is pretty damn amazing looking for a Super Famicom game. Tons of assets are taken right out of Mega Man 8, sprites, animations, and all, and the game still runs great despite that (though that could easily be due to my running it on an emulator). You do have the problems that Mega Man 7 has with Mega Man being a bit big and overly animated so it's hard to do the platforming, but it's nowhere near as bad as it is in that game. The music is also pretty good, but that part of the game is overall nothing special.

Verdict: Hesitantly Recommended. This game is veeeery close to being not recommended, but while it may be mean as heck, it's still got a baseline level of quality in its design that can make it an enjoyable time. If you're a BIG Mega Man fan and just have to play every game in the series, or just really like action platformers and don't mind a bit of a sub-par experience, this is worth playing (although likely not importing with how expensive it can be ^^;), but if you're a more casual enjoyer of either of those two things, I'd avoid this one like the plague. This is easily the worst of the classic series, as far as I'm concerned, and you'll need to be really dedicated to conquer this bugger and see the adventure through to the end.

This game fucks so hard. Notorious for some, I went in really expecting to hate it especially on my first playthrough with Mega Man but this really blew me out of the water with how good it is. It is challenging as hell, and definitely feels like a step up on difficulty from 7 and 8 before it, but it really hits that Mega Man sweet spot of feeling frustrating but still beatable. For most of the runtime anyway. The SNES Mega Man games really have a habit of being incredibly great right up until the final bossfights. This gauntlet isn't really as bad as Wily Machine 7 if I think about them, but I think I hated them a little more in the moment due to the sheer quantity of challenging bosses this endgame has. Two playable characters who both can get through the story with different strengths and weaknesses really gets a lot of points for me though. I haven't given 10 a fair shake as each character, but in my humble opinion right now this is the best multi-character setup in the classic series. One of the best, despite what people will tell you!