Not bad...

[A Black Falcon]

Mega Man 8 - got to first stage of Wily's Fortress, gave up because of very high and frusterating difficulty (the stage with the jet-skateboard thing and the spider-ish boss).

I would just like to say that I bought the Saturn version of MM8 last week (I didn't mention it in the "games I bought" thread, did I? Well, I'll add it soon...). It was $50, complete, at a local store; pretty expensive, but less than the thing is costing now on ebay. I was very unsure if it'd actually be worth it, because, well, my memories from '04 of MM8 were not exactly positive overall (STUPID FIRST WILY FORTRESS LEVEL!), but I'd heard the Saturn version was better, so I got it anyway.

Well... I like the game more than I remember liking it before. The graphics still aren't as good as the NES games, and I do sometimes find myself wishing for MMX's wall-grab ability, but overall, the game's fun. I posted this, though, because I just... got past the first level of Wily's Fortress in MM8! In the Saturn version, of course. The game wasn't quite as hard as I remember it; I was probably mostly remembering how hard that level was, and forgetting that the Robot Master stages are only average in challenge. But yeah, I got through all of them over the past days, and today beat level 1 of Wily's Fortress. It was a tough stage, but I got through it in only a couple of continues... not bad at all! The jet-bike stage was tough, and I died at the last jump like six times, but I've played the first jetbike stage several times in the last week, so the second one was doable. As for the boss... he killed me like seven or eight times, minimum, and I did get a game over or two there, but I finally managed to beat that stupid, horrible thing. Why they thought that a boss that you are required to only fight with the games' worst weapon, the mega ball thing, was a good idea I have no idea, but yeah, it's not. That was such a frustrating, unfun boss fight... the jetbike level's actually kind of fun, but that boss? None whatsoever. So yeah, I'm glade that's done. Now on to the rest of Wily's Fortress...


Also, I have indeed not finished any of the games from the first post in this thread. :p