Megaman 10

[A Black Falcon]

9 wasn't all that hard, though I was weaned on the NES games so might just be numb to the pain of a hard game. Sure, the first time I played it it kicked my ass a bit, I'm fairly certain I could sit down and beat it in about an hour now.

DJ: You omitted one of Bass' other major flaws in his weapon, the one that threw me off the most: His shots don't pass through solid obstacles.

No way, I've beaten all six of the NES games, and 9 is significantly more difficult than any of them. Several of the Game Boy ones are probably harder than any of the NES ones (NES Mega Man is tough, but just not as impossible as some people remember it to be, as I've said it is later MM games that are nearly impossible), but 9 is harder than any of them too.

It isn't the hardest MM game, though, at least I've gotten to the Wily stages... in MM&Bass, I haven't even gotten past two or three robot masters, much less to the beginning of the Wily part. That game's insane. Haven't gotten much farther than that in X6 either, hardest of the MMX games I have (X1, 4, 5, 6) by a good margin. All of them are hard -- the only one I've actually beaten is X4, in X1 of course I got stuck at the last boss and in X5 I never managed to get past the Black Demon -- but X6 is harder.

But still, MM9 is just a merciless game, extremely difficult in almost every stage. No actual 8-bit Mega Man game is as cruel.