Mega Man 1 is always an odd game to play again. The rough stage design, the useless score pellets, only six robot masters, Super Arm being completely useless 98% of the time, the magnet beam being hidden behind Guts Blocks in Elec Man's stage instead of being given to you via stage completions, etc.
I try not to abuse turbo button on mega buster for the classic games, but MM1 always feels like it's needed especially with the fucking Big Eyes tanking so much damage (20 hits apparently!!). Even the little gun turrets that come out of the ground/ceiling take like three hits from it. If any game has the mega buster feeling like a pea shooter it's definitely this one.
Ice Man's stage is ass, disappearing blocks AND the flying shooty platforms? That's too much for one stage that doesn't belong to Wily. Far worse than Guts Man stage which IMO is easy in comparison, pretty sure people just didn't pay attention to where on the platform's sprite to look for as it moved on the railing for when it was gonna drop. Also, it didn't happen to me in this playthrough but I'm pretty sure it's possible to also fall right through those shooty platforms, making me hate them more. Elec Man stage is also fairly boring, it sucks when you don't know about the Magnet Beam and have to repeat the entire thing and kill Elec Man again.
I'm still convinced 98% of players just threw shots at Fire Man constantly in a hope to out-dps him, because god does the fight always look that way.
If you use pause trick on the Yellow Devil, no harm done. I don't blame you, because even when you memorize the pattern it still takes way too damn long to kill that yellow play dough bastard. I hope the memeing shitlord at Capcom who thought it was funny to make him a reoccurring boss fight in the series gets a grand piano dropped on them.
Game is fine and a bit better than I remember, but every game afterwards is superior it feels like. I could easily be misremembering 7 and 8, but every NES sequel is better for sure. Also, Rock looks so much like Astro Boy in the ending that it might as well be copyright infringement.
Favorite Enemy Name: Pickelman
Favorite Music: Elec Man, even if it's just REM's "All The Right Friends". OST is weak compared to the sequels for sure.
I try not to abuse turbo button on mega buster for the classic games, but MM1 always feels like it's needed especially with the fucking Big Eyes tanking so much damage (20 hits apparently!!). Even the little gun turrets that come out of the ground/ceiling take like three hits from it. If any game has the mega buster feeling like a pea shooter it's definitely this one.
Ice Man's stage is ass, disappearing blocks AND the flying shooty platforms? That's too much for one stage that doesn't belong to Wily. Far worse than Guts Man stage which IMO is easy in comparison, pretty sure people just didn't pay attention to where on the platform's sprite to look for as it moved on the railing for when it was gonna drop. Also, it didn't happen to me in this playthrough but I'm pretty sure it's possible to also fall right through those shooty platforms, making me hate them more. Elec Man stage is also fairly boring, it sucks when you don't know about the Magnet Beam and have to repeat the entire thing and kill Elec Man again.
I'm still convinced 98% of players just threw shots at Fire Man constantly in a hope to out-dps him, because god does the fight always look that way.
If you use pause trick on the Yellow Devil, no harm done. I don't blame you, because even when you memorize the pattern it still takes way too damn long to kill that yellow play dough bastard. I hope the memeing shitlord at Capcom who thought it was funny to make him a reoccurring boss fight in the series gets a grand piano dropped on them.
Game is fine and a bit better than I remember, but every game afterwards is superior it feels like. I could easily be misremembering 7 and 8, but every NES sequel is better for sure. Also, Rock looks so much like Astro Boy in the ending that it might as well be copyright infringement.
Favorite Enemy Name: Pickelman
Favorite Music: Elec Man, even if it's just REM's "All The Right Friends". OST is weak compared to the sequels for sure.