Having bosses hang out at the top of the screen where you can't reach them. Getting frozen in ice until you can mash buttons enough to break free. Getting knocked down whenever the boss falls to the ground. Part of my unfavorable opinion of the robot masters stems from their special attacks MM10 manages to capture all the most annoying boss abilities in the same game! Projectiles that deflect your shots. I barely even like sports! How can Strike Man possibly be my favorite boss when I can barely identify a football!? (That's the round ball, right?) It's a bad sign that my favorite boss is Strike Man, a sports-themed robot master with a sports-themed stage. okay, I sorta like Pump Man, too, even though he's mildly disturbing. Blade Man is a purple banana with swords. Nitro Man transforms into a cool-looking motorcycle, but his regular form looks to me like Bloated Man. Chill Man looks like he was uncreatively assembled from the remains of Cold Man and Dynamo Man from Mega Man & Bass. Solar Man looks like a regular stage enemy, the wimpy cousin of the fireball-tossing robots in Quick Man's stage from Mega Man 2. except for the bosses, who were all rescued from the Island of Misfit Robot Masters. There are vibrant brown waterfalls, flashing wall panels that indicate the presence of SCIENCE!!! and even cute little robots with baseball caps and an attack pattern that makes me want to hate them forever. The faux 8-bit look suits Mega Man quite well, and the level of graphical detail surpasses most other Mega Man games in the same visual vein. The rest of the game looks quite nice, for the most part. The visual feast that was MM9's ending is a hard act to follow, but MM10 could have at least tried to compete by.
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You see, the ending is the worst offender not only are things wrapped up quickly and slightly illogically, but half of it is told through text and sound effects against a black screen, followed by end credits that can only be described as a glorified Windows screensaver. Perhaps I'm overly judgmental after being treated to nearly two decades of interesting and action-packed cutscenes involving allies teleporting in at the last minute, about-to-collapse castles falling apart at the seams, skull-shaped mushroom clouds, and scientists frantically waving their arms about, but the cutscenes in MM10 tend to resemble a slideshow with only about seven slides, two of which are missing. Story sequences feature either a bunch of sprites who mostly stand around and talk at each other, or close-up illustrations with as little animation as possible.
However, anything I like about the plot is nullified by the presentation, which can either be classified as "probably rushed" or "inexcusably lazy," depending on my mood. It's not my favorite Mega Man story ever conceived, and the few minor plot holes along the way don't help, but I give it credit for allowing character development to have a cameo. Ask your mad doctor is Roboenza is right for you. Wily tells Mega Man to go after eight boss robots to recover his "stolen" invention that will help him cure this so-called Roboenza, which sounds more like a prescription drug. Wily is totally not responsible for the outbreak because he shows up begging Mega Man for help. Robots everywhere are coming down with a robo-flu and going berserk (in the game, though not in real life-no need to panic). The game's primary undoing is that it is being reviewed by a guy who has played waaaay too much Mega Man, a guy who gets annoyed whenever Capcom replaces something that worked perfectly in one game with something appallingly inferior in the next game.Ĭlassic Mega Man games aren't renowned for their gripping plots (unless you count gripping the controller while watching the cutscenes), so complaining that Mega Man 10 has a hokey plot is like whining about how your Game Boy doesn't make toast. Mega Man 10 has the potential to be the greatest Mega Man game of all time, but while the core gameplay constitutes one of the finest Mega Man experiences to date, Mega Man 10 falls short in a few critical areas. One of the statements in the sentence above is a lie. Mega Man 10 is the greatest Mega Man game of all time.
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