20th July 2018, 8:20 AM
I also think it handles the disappearing blocks in a cheap way, especially near the end of the last Wily stage, where following them means you get hopelessly stuck unless you know in advance to perfectly time your jump to get to the platform that's about to murder you by preventing you from jumping onto itself.
In any case, a little more info.
http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Minakuchi_Engineering
Minakuchi Engineering handled 4 of the 5 Gameboy Mega Mans, as well as the Wily Wars Genesis port which was unreleased in the US (except as a Sega Channel exclusive). They also did a lot of the coding for X3, one of my favorite games in the X series (alolng with X4).
http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Biox
Japan System House handled Mega Man II specifically. And well, we know how that went.
In any event, just to do it I went ahead and beat Wily's Revenge a second time. The unfair stuff is still there, and I still gotta knock it for all that stuff, but this time I went in with the benefit of hindsight, and beat it without getting a Game Over. I even tried for an all P shooter win and (with the benefit of a little luck on the part of 1up drops) made it through. It's not exactly a bad game, but again it's hard to really recommend either. I still say anyone wanting to try these should start with MMIII. That one's still hard, but its entirely fair challenge, and the boss's attacks are actually avoidable rather than a series of fights where you basically just brute force take hits until the enemy explodes before you do (They're not all like that, most of the MM2 bosses are avoidable, as well as Iceman).
In any case, a little more info.
http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Minakuchi_Engineering
Minakuchi Engineering handled 4 of the 5 Gameboy Mega Mans, as well as the Wily Wars Genesis port which was unreleased in the US (except as a Sega Channel exclusive). They also did a lot of the coding for X3, one of my favorite games in the X series (alolng with X4).
http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Biox
Japan System House handled Mega Man II specifically. And well, we know how that went.
In any event, just to do it I went ahead and beat Wily's Revenge a second time. The unfair stuff is still there, and I still gotta knock it for all that stuff, but this time I went in with the benefit of hindsight, and beat it without getting a Game Over. I even tried for an all P shooter win and (with the benefit of a little luck on the part of 1up drops) made it through. It's not exactly a bad game, but again it's hard to really recommend either. I still say anyone wanting to try these should start with MMIII. That one's still hard, but its entirely fair challenge, and the boss's attacks are actually avoidable rather than a series of fights where you basically just brute force take hits until the enemy explodes before you do (They're not all like that, most of the MM2 bosses are avoidable, as well as Iceman).
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