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#28
'Mega Man 2'
for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) released in 1988.
'Mega Man 2' is action-packed platformer that doesn't get boring quickly. It's fast-paced and challenging, though not near-impossible like a lot of games on the NES were. 'Mega Man 2' instead is well balanced and fair and it's platforming is intuitive and can be hard yet is never frustrating.
The game is an action-platformer, where the player chooses one of eight levels to play. At the end of each of these levels is a boss which grants the player with an additional power or weapon to use in the other levels. This brings a bit of stretegy into the mix because certain bosses are vulnarable to certain weapons. This means there's an optimal path to take through the game. Once these eight levels are completed, the player can play the final ninth level which consists of multiple stages ending in the final boss.
Luckily, unlike a lot of early games, 'Mega Man 2' doesn't need to be completed in one sitting as it includes a password system. Nothing too shocking, but the password system is quite a complicated one because of the non-linear nature of first eight levels. Actually, that system is what's probably most meorable about the game, it kind of looked like you were playing tic-tac-toe!
#27 Hint
I said two games before this one in the list that this developer has amazed me most this past generation. Here, at #27, is another game by them. The third in what's probably an even more famous series of theirs.
