It's Mega Man. Not a "spiritual successor" like some people claim it to be, just a clone with good production value.
RKS is closest to Mega Man 4 or *5 in particular, which means you have a charge shot and slide; most other early clones or fangames had only one or the other, so it's nice seeing this one with both.
Somehow I keep thinking I'm forgetting at least one of the first eight bosses. I only ever played Arcade mode so I can't go off of their dialogue. Let's see who I can remember:
- Freudia, whose stage spams Quick Man lasers but whose boss theme is nice
- Grolla, the one with the sword whose weapon I kept forgetting existed
- Luste has my favorite stage theme and gives you Metal Blade but chargeable, but I wish she didn't wear that
- The swimsuit one whose name I forgot how to spell is like Air Man but slightly more annoying
- Sichte, the time-stopping lady who fights you in a clock tower and throws knives at you
- Zorne, the one whose weapon is just a bomb from Bomberman, never really gave it a chance either
- Pamela is a girl with rain powers whose stage is in an electric tower for some reason?
- Schwer-Muta, a girl in a goofy cat/wolf/bear/other unspecified animal suit who has a tiny squid man. Can't argue with that design, honestly.
Yup, that's all of them.
I think the fortress stages have the issue people keep having with Mega Man fortresses in the sense that they're too "samey" compared to each other; in this case, a lot of them actually do have unqiue gimmicks, but share very visually similar tilesets. There's still a few standouts when it comes to the bosses, like "Glass that's out for your blood" and "Yellow Devil but both you and its gravity flips."
I always thought it was respectable, but weird that they bothered putting in a complete password system for this game (and its sequel.) For comparison, since Mega Man 8 every game in that series had a more traditional save file system, including 9 which came out the year right after the first RKS and was famous for being just like the NES games in most aspects.
Yeah, it's Mega Man.* Guess you can't expect too much out of it, it's pretty old.
RKS is closest to Mega Man 4 or *5 in particular, which means you have a charge shot and slide; most other early clones or fangames had only one or the other, so it's nice seeing this one with both.
Somehow I keep thinking I'm forgetting at least one of the first eight bosses. I only ever played Arcade mode so I can't go off of their dialogue. Let's see who I can remember:
- Freudia, whose stage spams Quick Man lasers but whose boss theme is nice
- Grolla, the one with the sword whose weapon I kept forgetting existed
- Luste has my favorite stage theme and gives you Metal Blade but chargeable, but I wish she didn't wear that
- The swimsuit one whose name I forgot how to spell is like Air Man but slightly more annoying
- Sichte, the time-stopping lady who fights you in a clock tower and throws knives at you
- Zorne, the one whose weapon is just a bomb from Bomberman, never really gave it a chance either
- Pamela is a girl with rain powers whose stage is in an electric tower for some reason?
- Schwer-Muta, a girl in a goofy cat/wolf/bear/other unspecified animal suit who has a tiny squid man. Can't argue with that design, honestly.
Yup, that's all of them.
I think the fortress stages have the issue people keep having with Mega Man fortresses in the sense that they're too "samey" compared to each other; in this case, a lot of them actually do have unqiue gimmicks, but share very visually similar tilesets. There's still a few standouts when it comes to the bosses, like "Glass that's out for your blood" and "Yellow Devil but both you and its gravity flips."
I always thought it was respectable, but weird that they bothered putting in a complete password system for this game (and its sequel.) For comparison, since Mega Man 8 every game in that series had a more traditional save file system, including 9 which came out the year right after the first RKS and was famous for being just like the NES games in most aspects.
Yeah, it's Mega Man.* Guess you can't expect too much out of it, it's pretty old.