Wily's castle is an exercise in learning a sequence of unpleasant nonsense in order to proceed.
My playtime looked like this:
Hour 1: Blast through the 8 robot masters. Decent gameplay, cool music. Much more forgiving and fun than the first game.
Next hour and half: Search my soul and yell at my computer while I muddle through Wily's castle. I had to learn the unfun and arbitrary nonsense required to proceed. You can see that they designed things here... they just forgot to make it fun.
Before you get to Wily's castle, this game is a real improvement on the first. Once you get there, the designers seemed to remember they loved bullshit and load you up with it.
There is still something here. I like it, even though it is filled with shitty design. But no way this thing is an all-time classic. A smidge better than the first.
Ranking so far:
1. Mega Man 2
2. Mega Man
My playtime looked like this:
Hour 1: Blast through the 8 robot masters. Decent gameplay, cool music. Much more forgiving and fun than the first game.
Next hour and half: Search my soul and yell at my computer while I muddle through Wily's castle. I had to learn the unfun and arbitrary nonsense required to proceed. You can see that they designed things here... they just forgot to make it fun.
Before you get to Wily's castle, this game is a real improvement on the first. Once you get there, the designers seemed to remember they loved bullshit and load you up with it.
There is still something here. I like it, even though it is filled with shitty design. But no way this thing is an all-time classic. A smidge better than the first.
Ranking so far:
1. Mega Man 2
2. Mega Man