24th July 2009, 5:49 PM
Megaman 1 is a classic that basically set up the formula. It's a good game, but I have to say that it's main claim to fame is laying down the groundwork. Otherwise it's rather "rough" in terms of design. There are a number of recycled rooms with elements not even used in certain points of stages, for example. Further, there are some awkward glitches that result in some really random deaths like being shoved off platforms sideways for no good reason. The bosses are rather easy but most of them use basically the exact same AI pattern rather than moving in unique ways as in later games. Certain obstacles were "binary" in the sense that there was really no telegraphing at all to warn you of things, namely those insta-death platforms in Guts Man's level (the thing you end up having to do is jump before actually reaching the gap, give yourself a nice safe buffer of a quarter second before the danger actually comes around, rather than the natural instinct to jump only at the "very last second").
A good concept that was executed in rather rough almost amateur terms. There's a reason (aside from the box art) that this game vanished out of stores while 2 and onward stuck around even after 6 came out. Most of my friends never even played 1.
Essentially, the Megaman series for most of us started with 2, kinda like Street Fighter, and pretty much for the same reasons.
Again, this is still a good game, but not nearly as good as what came next.
A good concept that was executed in rather rough almost amateur terms. There's a reason (aside from the box art) that this game vanished out of stores while 2 and onward stuck around even after 6 came out. Most of my friends never even played 1.
Essentially, the Megaman series for most of us started with 2, kinda like Street Fighter, and pretty much for the same reasons.
Again, this is still a good game, but not nearly as good as what came next.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)