1UP writes: "If you're one of those crazies who naysays Mega Man 9's retro vibe, I totally don't understand you. As a lifelong NES lover and evangelist, I'm overjoyed; it's a pretty daring stylistic choice in 2008 -- and, if anything, the 8-bit aesthetic underscores MM9's similarly old-school platforming elements, which are equal parts satisfying and difficult.
Let's talk about that last part -- difficult. Forgiveness is absolutely not one of this game's virtues. In all fairness, you can say that about most of the classic Mega Man games, but MM9 routinely ratchets up the challenge a couple of notches past "insane." The structure's fundamentally unchanged: You guide the titular character through eight themed side-scrolling stages (in any order you wish), armed with a simple gun and an ever-growing arsenal of useful weapons nabbed from an octet of android bosses -- who each exhibit weakness to a specific weapon. So, your task is twofold: Survive each successive gauntlet and deduce an effective kill order (some charitable advice: Start with either Splash Woman or Galaxy Man)."
Like any franchise, there are entries in the mainline Mega Man series have proved better than others, either because of how much they did (or didn't) alter the gameplay design philosophy that made it legendary in the industry. Today, we've got every mainline entry in the series ranked from worst to best.
Neil writes: "Let's be honest - the Xbox Live Deals With Gold sale last week was a bit rubbish. Yeah there were a few titles worth taking a punt on but the vast majority saw non-appealing discounts and the lack of super cheap pocket money games was noticeable.
We can forget about all that now though as the Deals With Gold and Spotlight Sale for 3rd-9th July 2018 is now in place and it is bringing a whole new range of discounts to both Xbox One and Xbox 360 players. Want to check out the full list of games on sale?"
Replies(1)Several of these games have been on GWG, Slime Rancher and Super Mega Baseball 2. Others are on Gamepass. There is an Anime sale going on with up to 75% off. Fifa 18 at just 15quid, although I'll wait until it's in the EA Access Vault and get it for free.
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "The official end of the WiiWare service may not be until early 2019 but we wanted to give everybody as much of a chance as possible to remember all of the great games that Nintendo’s first every download service brought us. Last week we counted down the first 10 games in our look at the Top 20 WiiWare games ever made, and if you haven’t had the chance yet you can check out those picks right here but now we switch our focus over to the very best that WiiWare has to offer so if you still have a Wii (or a Wii U) kicking around make sure to download these games before they are lost forever."
Hey, have you guys heard of the Protomen? They do this really great Rock Opera that re-imagines the world of megaman as a dystopian future, much in the way of what batman begins did to the batman series. Check 'em out!
http://www.protomen.com/