Mega Man 9 Comments by Dan Whitehead

Do you get an achievement for dying the most?

This is madness!

Sounds like it would drive me insane in a jiffy... 'fraid I am too old and slow to eve try to play this... If Contra 4 on DS is anything to go buy, hard games these days just remind me how crap I was at games in the eighties and that save anywhere mechanic was invented for the people like me. But, all that said, hats off to Capcom for being hardcore in a pretty good way...

"You can even lay claim to being Mr Perfect if you manage to clear the entire game without taking any damage. At all."

Pah, easy right?! Ahem...

This game would frustrate the hell out of me far too much to be enjoyable I think.

Are the controls decent?

Mega Man doesn't love you. He mocks you. He laughs everytime you get hit and fall down that pit.

He laughs because he knows that no matter what punishment he gives you, you'll always come back for more.

Mega Man is EVIL!

Some shit needs to stay in the past. Including this.

I just can't understand why I would want to buy this after playing the demo. There are so many good games out right now, download and retail, what is the point?

I finished the Demo (PS3) and thought it was pretty tough, that f'ing elephant with a ball !

I might pick this up on Wii, as the controller feels proper NES like and they've got Megaman 2 on the shopping channel too.

Anyone know how well this controls on a 360 pad? And does the 360 version have Achievements?

Gotta love those mega man sprites!

Really fun game and the difficulty feels really good. Took couple nights for me and my friend to get to all bosses, and so far we've managed to down one. Surely we'll get the rest soon as they get quite much easier once you manage to get more weapons. Now we just need to figure out which boss will die with that weapon...

9/10 game for me.

@robg The controls feel almost like original at least with PS3's pad. You can use digital or analog stick, whichever feels better. I prefer digital but my friend uses analog.

"Anyone know how well this controls on a 360 pad? And does the 360 version have Achievements?"

Every 360 game has Achievements, why this would be diferent? Anyway..., it has. They went public long ago.

I think it's a great style, they did the right thing with this and I hope they do more games in the 'old' style.

There's also something to be said about the precision found when you play an old school 2D sprite game, the new 2.5D stuff feels a bit too fluffy at times.

edit: couldn't spell precision

Anyway..., it has.

So Achievements in this game really are achievements.

Jitterbug (20 points)
Clear the game in 60 minutes or less.

Invincible (30 points)
Clear the game without dying.

Almost Invincible (20 points)
Clear the game without continuing.

No Coffee Break (10 points)
Clear the game without using any Energy or Mystery Tanks.

Peacekeeper (20 points)
Clear the game by defeating the fewest number of enemies possible.

Conservationist (20 points)
Clear the game by using the least amount of Weapon Energy possible.

Gamer's Day (20 points)
Clear the game 5 times in 1 day.

Whomp Wily! (5 points)
Clear the game once.

Destroyer (20 points)
Defeat your 1000th enemy.

World Warrior (5 points)
Defeat every type of enemy.

Trusty Sidearm (20 points)
Defeat the 8 Bosses with the Mega Buster.

Blue Bomber (10 points)
Defeat a Boss without getting damaged.



good luck! ;)

Bought it, just because I love Megaman 2 so much, this seems raher nifty.

Oh and I didn't die on every screen, do I get a a medal? Now to figure out which boss needs to go down first.

I tried the PS3 demo of this and to be honest I'd have had more fun if I'd just mashed the controller into my nuts instead.

It's everything that was bad about retro gaming with very little of the good stuff. Instant deaths that you have to experience whilst you memorise the attacks, restarting from way back, crappy graphics just because they want it to look old (I love 2D art but when you deliberately make something blocky you had better have a great art style, this doesn't) and more evilness that my brain must have blanked out for me.

When I deleted it I hit the button extra hard in the hope it would delete it hard enough to remove every trace.

Get one of the old retro collections instead, they are often around this price and there's guaranteed to be at least 5 games in the collection that shit on this from a great height.

hummm the graphics are alittle too retro for my liking fair enough if it was one of the old mega mans, but would have prefered nice hd 2d renders for a new game

For some reason, I don't think "Solid as A Rock" is a good slogan for our company when we are trying to shed that whole "middle eastern fiasco."

I read on Wikipedia that the Wii version is getting DLC in October to make the game even harder. Yes, just in case the game isn't hard enough already, you can pay more to make it so.

...when completing the latest game was a feat you spent weeks or months obsessing over, earning enormous playground respect in the process...

That's a telling quote, I think. I'm not at school any more, I'm not looking for playground respect. I'll definitely skip this one.

Reading this review just made what Yahtzee said in last weeks Zero Punctuation ring even more true. There's a reason why certain parts of retro games are all but non-existent in modern gaming and that's because they were frustratingly pointless and ruined the experience.

I won't be buying this.

One of the best games of the year for me, brilliant! I feel like I'm five again playing it. Ohhh the good old days...

@Chub - probably just as well, I've already heard there's one video out there of someone completing the game without taking any damage...

I'd feel ripped off at the fact that hey're charging as much as bloody BCR.

I can't get over the Nes graphics, would have appreciated Snes more.

Can you save your progress in this?

Game of the year for me. Absolutely brilliant in every way. The presentation, gameplay and feel are all spot on. I enjoy a good challenge and Mega Man 9 offers a lot of that. Call me insane but I would give this a 10/10.

This is one of the best sequels in any series ever. This should feel incredibly outdated but that's simply not the case. It feels fresh yet so familiar. Mega Man 2 is almost 20 years old and yet Mega Man 9 - which is clearly based on Mega Man 2 and even discarding some of the later enhancements to the gameplay - manages to deliver pure and challenging gameplay. The only thing retro about this game is the presentation - the gameplay is more than up to modern standards easily surpassing a vast majority of today's games.

LOL!

You have taken screenshots from Megaman 2 and put them in the review.

Nice reminder of how far we've come by putting this next to Mario Galaxy or Little Big Planet ... :) Wonder if we'll see megaman themed levels in LBP now, there's sure to be bits that could be an inspiration.

These 2d spamfests can go suck a dick. Give me Donkey Kong Country 4 or Mario World 3.

It's amazing to see just how successful a well-oiled PR machine can be. This game is clearly a crock of shit, but bit of persuading here and there, and you people will lap up any old crap.

"Fact: Capcom used over 5000 polygons to make Mega Man look like a flat 8-bit sprite."

i couldn't see him in that image for a very long time

LOL!

You forgot to put this review in the RETRO section..

o come on manic miner was the best platform game ever...
and it used the same pixel perfect jump or die mechanic.
this is a marmite game for 8 bit lovers.. you either do or you don't.

@Kinky mong

Yatzee should pull his joypad out of his ass if he really had that much difficulty completing BC on easy. the levels were freaking 3 minutes long.

What a load of crap. Tried the demo and deleted it as fast as i could. Going to the dentist is more fun than this game.

I'm sorry but companies like Capcom and the like have been doing this for to many years. You games journos should be ashamed.

For every next gen console all you harp on about are re-issues of old sh*t, like this, like Mario Kart etc.....giving praise to companies who just release the same game over and over with a couple of graphical fixes.

By this reckoning EA's Fifa should be top of you wish list every year!

Now pack it in and start campaigning for some original ideas please.

Wow. Sure are some angry people here. I'm not quite sure everyone knows what Capcom was trying to accomplish but whatever.

This just makes me realise how AWESOME Bionic Commando Rearmed is!

Ninja_Tino: It's easy, it's like every other review thread. Some people doesn't like the game and thus other people isn't allowed to either.

Capcom are just lazy cunts.

"We're making Mega Man in 3D, time to fire up 3ds max, Hiro!"

"We have a million sprite graphic files on here. Shall I just use those instead?"

"You're right! Game done! The boss will be proud that we finished it 2 years ahead of schedule!"

@ dancingphil

Yes!

Hopefully this will start a new trend of MODERN RETROISM.

I haven't brought a new game for ages, because they're just not interesting me anymore. MegaMan, however, was an absolute MUST.

Retro is the new cool. I'm not cool. Next...

@Bluetooth

Hey, at least they didn't do it the Sega way, like anally rape it, in 3D.

Fact: Capcom used over 5000 polygons to make Mega Man look like a flat 8-bit sprite.

Surely, you mean over 9000? :-D

I'm going to buy this now. People railing against it in this thread have decided it for me.

I tried this game last night and absolutely hated it. It's old-school level design which forces you learn where enemies are rather than relying on subtle signposting instantly put me off. It's just a horrible, horrible game IMO.

That review letter has Leo written all over it!

I hated this game for 45 min. Just too "hardcore" for me.
Anyway, I struggled thru and beat the game in 5hours.
And I SUCK at videogames. Im really worthless.

So, bottomline, this game is not AT ALL as hard as people say it is. It just makes you feel worthless and sucky the first hour or so.

If a game doesn't grab me in the first 15 to 60 minutes (depending on the type of game it is) then I know it's not for me. Mega Man 9 is one such game. It's contains everything I despise about retro game design from having played these things in the 80s and early 90s; I have absolutely no desire to relive them, thank you!