Very nifty indeed, if potentially ear grating.
These bad boys don’t just refill your health, but every single weapon on your person. E-Tanks of course make a return, but alongside them are the significantly more powerful M-Tanks. You plop it out, jump on it and away you go. Balloon and Wire are both absent this time round, instead being replaced by the Super Arrow – a plunger like weapon that kind of acts like Item 2 from Mega Man 2. Rush Marine is completely gone, but thankfully Rush Jet remains unchanged. You can jump higher thanks to Rush leaping into the air with you, but it is a little bit harder to execute and the added height doesn’t seem to be of any benefit. If you get booped on the snoot whilst charging however, you completely lose your charge which helps balance the mechanic – sort of.Ĭharge shot aside, Mega Man 5 makes some other adjustments to the formula. I am not joking when I say this thing is as large as your character sprite. Instead of being a narrow sploot of blue plasma, you now have a humongous, pulsating wave of destruction. Now there has been some changes to how the charge shot functions. Pick whoever you think looks coolest and go from there.
As with that game, your initial boss encounter is much easier thanks to your naturally high damage output.
Mega Man 5 carries over just about all the trimmings found in 4 – including the charge shot. Not that you even need to adhere to the games logic to begin with, of course. From the mug shots alone, you can clearly tell a lot more effort went into designing this ragtag gaggle of Robots, even if once again, their weaknesses are galaxy-brain levels of convoluted at times. No longer must we fight literal bins, we instead get to go toe-to-toe with steam-powered trains, a humanoid gyrocopter, DC’s Aquaman and even David Bowie – just to name a few. Unlike in Mega Man 4, we actually get some creativity in terms of boss designs. You have eight Robot Masters, all of whom must sate your endless thirst for woobly orbs via the ancient art of death.
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It’s a bit disappointing that the series has never managed to recapture the subtle character development and intrigue found in Mega Man 3, but this is certainly passable when compared to the series as a whole.įluff aside, this is a Mega Man game through and through. Once the introduction is over, you are not going to see anything relating to the story until the last stretch. With this still being an NES era Mega Man game, the story is not exactly fleshed out. Wily is inevitably behind it, but pondering on what exactly he has done, is all part of the fun. This being the fifth game, we all know Dr. With Proto Man once again taking centre stage, and Proto Man being awesome, I can’t help but feel a sense of wonder as to what’s going on, and why it’s happening. Explosions, static images of shadowy figures and even a spattering of in-game graphics. Can this new title keep the series momentum going, or is this where it all goes horribly wrong?įinally becoming series tradition, Mega Man 5 starts with a plot dump backed by a sparkly new cutscene. One year after the fourth installment, Capcom released Mega Man 5. Whilst Mega Man has largely remained the same over the course of the previous four titles, the small tweaks and additions over the years have helped define what a Mega Man game should be, or shouldn’t be. Light is abducted and it is down the Mega Man to uncover the truth about his brother, and save Dr. Out of the blue, Proto Man, aided by eight Robot Masters, attacks the city causing untold devastation. With Wily still on the loose, the world wait for his return with bated breath. With the help of his enigmatic brother Proto Man, Mega Man defeated Dr.
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Due to a full review of the collection coming soon, I will not be mentioning everything the collection brings – only mentioning those that pertain to Mega Man 5. Disclaimer – This review is part of a 7 part series of reviews for the the Mega Man Legacy Collection for the Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Xbox One and PC.
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