This game is weird. It's good, the best Game Boy Mega Man. The biggest problems being it's on the Game Boy so its got weird lag and slowdown, and also it feels very sink or swim in some sections of the level design being on a small screen but...shit this game is good. Like NES quality good.
I always found it weird the Game Boy games had mechanics like cutscenes and the shop that the NES games never quite had, but this Mega Man V is the first time a GB Mega Man game feels like its own thing. On top of that it just feels like a fitting finale for the 80s born era of classic Mega Man as a whole before the franchise. The story is simple as always but it still felt like a fight Mega Man never had before. The bosses losing the -Man suffix and their designs make them feel more alien, and the final stage itself was a fun gauntlet for once.
I can't say the same for the entire GB library, and I still kinda wish this game was on the NES but this one is a must play and probably one of the best GB platformers.
I always found it weird the Game Boy games had mechanics like cutscenes and the shop that the NES games never quite had, but this Mega Man V is the first time a GB Mega Man game feels like its own thing. On top of that it just feels like a fitting finale for the 80s born era of classic Mega Man as a whole before the franchise. The story is simple as always but it still felt like a fight Mega Man never had before. The bosses losing the -Man suffix and their designs make them feel more alien, and the final stage itself was a fun gauntlet for once.
I can't say the same for the entire GB library, and I still kinda wish this game was on the NES but this one is a must play and probably one of the best GB platformers.