Mega Man 9: HARDEST GAME EVAR
As I’m sure most classic NES nerds will admit, when we first heard of Mega Man 9 we had visions of a classic remake, somewhat faithful to the original but just not the same experience. Boy, did Capcom prove us wrong! I remember* playing Mega Man (specifically Mega Man 2) and just bieng in awe of its difficulty. Well Capcom has definetly kept the same theme in this new game. It looks EXACTLY like the classic games, right down to the graphical flickrs when there is too much motion in one spot.
Bullet-Tooth Tony and I have a habit of sitting around my apartment, drinking, playing classic Nintendo games on my Wii while we proceed to get drunk (fun, eh?). So last weekend we thought this would be a great throw-back game for our classic gaming ritual but after playing for something like 2 hours we had only beaten two robots (I also again must confess, both of the defeated foes were the work of Tony).
I’ll confess I bought this off of WiiWare. While I usually evangelize the Xbox360 as the console to beat, I hate hate hate hate the D-pad on the 360 controller. A d-pad needs up, down, left and right and when you are playing classic games on a d-pad with diagnals (like Bionic Commando: Rearmed) it just screws things up.
So pick this game up from your favorite game dispenser and give Capcom the money they deserve for giving us new content in a familiar format!!!
*Now, disclaimer time, I routinely was behind the times as a child. While I did have a Nintendo Entertainment System, I rarely got new games and when I did they were gifts from family members who had no clue what the “hip” and “happening” games were, so I played Mega Man first in my late teens via an emulator.
Tags: mega man, NES
god dang how I miss sitting around an apartment getting drunk playing 2-D games….. or if your drunk enough, 3-D that resembles 2-D games.