15th February 2011, 9:57 PM
Wii
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Mega Man 9 - Whew... Inspired mostly by DJ's recent MM10 review, I decided to go back and try to finish this game yesterday. I managed to get to Wily's second form that day, but I'd used up all of my E-Tanks and M-Tank, and just couldn't beat the second form of Wily without health ups. So, I turned it off and decided to try again the next day. I'd done well, sure I went through 9 E-Tanks and an M-Tank, but it'd been a while since I'd played and I'd forgotten the Wily levels (it came back to me as I played, but still used up a bunch of health), and then I had to beat all 8 bosses at the end...
Anyway, today I tried again, with 9 E-Tanks and an M-Tank from the start. I used two E-Tanks on the first boss (those four balls and turrets), but still did much better than my last try and got to the final level with 5 or 6 E-Tanks and the M-Tank left. After getting a game over to refill my weapon energy (I tried to beat the bosses, but just didn't have enough special weapon power to quite get through, and this time I didn't want to waste my E-Tanks before the last bosses in this level, as I had done the previous time), I beat all eight bosses -- not as hard as I thought it would be, really -- and then took on Wily. I did look up online for some hints, but they weren't especially useful really... the first one you just have to shoot at those stupid egg things (I got hit by them quite a few times, had to use an E-Tank there), the second's fire was quite hard to avoid and I just had to keep using tanks, but the last form wasn't too bad. It did take up most of my remaining e-tanks, but I think I still had one or two more when I beat him. I found the three-way magma shot was the best thing against him.
The ending... eh, it was amusing, and about as expected considering this game's story, but it wasn't exactly anything great. The best thing were the cinema scenes in the credits showing the Robot Masters doing helpful things for the goodguys, that was entertaining. :) Really though, it's about the gameplay, not the ending. That was how it was in most NES games, and this is no exception.
Overall, very good game. It is quite difficult and very frustrating, and it took me quite a while to finish it (eight months or something now, or more?), but I finally did it, and it feels pretty good. I didn't think I'd actually win... :)
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Mega Man 9 - Whew... Inspired mostly by DJ's recent MM10 review, I decided to go back and try to finish this game yesterday. I managed to get to Wily's second form that day, but I'd used up all of my E-Tanks and M-Tank, and just couldn't beat the second form of Wily without health ups. So, I turned it off and decided to try again the next day. I'd done well, sure I went through 9 E-Tanks and an M-Tank, but it'd been a while since I'd played and I'd forgotten the Wily levels (it came back to me as I played, but still used up a bunch of health), and then I had to beat all 8 bosses at the end...
Anyway, today I tried again, with 9 E-Tanks and an M-Tank from the start. I used two E-Tanks on the first boss (those four balls and turrets), but still did much better than my last try and got to the final level with 5 or 6 E-Tanks and the M-Tank left. After getting a game over to refill my weapon energy (I tried to beat the bosses, but just didn't have enough special weapon power to quite get through, and this time I didn't want to waste my E-Tanks before the last bosses in this level, as I had done the previous time), I beat all eight bosses -- not as hard as I thought it would be, really -- and then took on Wily. I did look up online for some hints, but they weren't especially useful really... the first one you just have to shoot at those stupid egg things (I got hit by them quite a few times, had to use an E-Tank there), the second's fire was quite hard to avoid and I just had to keep using tanks, but the last form wasn't too bad. It did take up most of my remaining e-tanks, but I think I still had one or two more when I beat him. I found the three-way magma shot was the best thing against him.
The ending... eh, it was amusing, and about as expected considering this game's story, but it wasn't exactly anything great. The best thing were the cinema scenes in the credits showing the Robot Masters doing helpful things for the goodguys, that was entertaining. :) Really though, it's about the gameplay, not the ending. That was how it was in most NES games, and this is no exception.
Overall, very good game. It is quite difficult and very frustrating, and it took me quite a while to finish it (eight months or something now, or more?), but I finally did it, and it feels pretty good. I didn't think I'd actually win... :)