MegaMan (NES) is really friggen hard! o_0

[Mise]

Words Of Wisdom said:

Mise said:

demacII said:
Megaman 9 is much harder than, 2,3 and quite a bit harder 4,5,6

I have beaten all of those with relative ease. Megaman 1 and 9 are the hardest I have yet to encounter.

I dunno - Mega Man 9 has the shop feature, none of the stages have really frustrating segments (Wily 1, Plug and Tornado are probably the worst offenders), every weapon is not only useful but good, there's a save feature, and the game is quite short. Plus you have unlimited continues. I'd say that 9 is harder than 2 and 4-7, but easier than the rest.

I miss the difficulty in the really Megaman games.

I remember playing MMZ for the GBA and being really disappointed in th ending.  I got to the final boss and beat it without getting hit once.  I'm like "well that was easy, what's next" when the credits start going.  I couldn't believe that was the boss.  I didn't have to heal.  I didn't have to restart and try again.  I didn't have to memorize its patterns with retries, I just ran through and killed it without even breaking a sweat.

Yeah, only the so-called "überhard HC games" seem to put up a fight these days. Hell, you can put games like FFXII on automatic and let it fight for you!

But then again - a lot of the difficulty of many ye olde games came from technical constraints and harebrained design, instead of being well-designed and challenging at the same time.