This sucks so much. It feels awful to play, MM is so slow and the animation makes him look like he's running in place, jumping is super floaty too. The game is pathetically easy with checkpoints and health refills every five steps, and they had so little faith in the core gameplay that it's constantly interrupted by stupid gimmicks, like the lame SHMUP sections, jump jump slide, the awful labyrinth in Astro Man's stage, etc. It sounds nice and I like the vile but I'd rather watch it than play it.
>>12616360*I like the vibe
>>12616360>>12616360>This sucks so much. It feels awful to play, MM is so slow and the animation makes him look like he's running in place, jumping is super floaty too.You are correct. For many people this was their first MM since it was on a new console, and it made a very sour impression on people. The longtime producer for the series, Tokuro Fujiwara, left Capcom and Keiji Inafune was promoted to head Mega Man producer. His first order of business was to hire his artist friend Hayato Kaji to direct Mega Man 8. You can tell he's an artist and is clueless on gameplay since so much of the focus is on the visuals and animation, but the gameplay is very poor. And it's telling that Kaiji never once again directed a game again and stuck to art. Longtime Mega Man fans will know Kaji as the designer of X.
That classic series should have ended when X released.
>>12616383Didn't know that, makes sense.
>>12616581He still works at Capcom. GOod for him. Just keep him away from hands on directing.https://www.mobygames.com/person/59089/hayato-kaji/credits/
>>12616384Pretty sure that was intended with MM6's ending that seems to finally put Wily in jail for good and tease that the story would continue with a new direction, but Capcom later went back on the decision and made MM7.
>>12616360good game and difficult to boot, dont care what schizo op and his samefag posts say tbqh
>>12616360Hating on this game was pretty popular for a while, but I actually really enjoyed the gameplay. It's pretty tough at times, which is why I think it gets a lot of hate. The gimmick sections can be a bit annoying, but they're not that hard when you figure them out. The shmup parts are actually kind of a nice departure. The music and vibe of the game are awesome. I actually fkn love this game.MM7 can suxdix though
MM7 got bad reviews for being too "safe", especially after X, so Capcom though they needed to force innovations, hence all the half baked gimmicks. Terrible idea, journalists were cunts who never liked Mega Man in the first place and shouldn't have been listened too. Well at least we got &Bass out of this game.
>>12617291No. 7 is shit.
>>12617381Can you even read? Whether MM7 is bad or not, it certainly isn't because it didn't "innovate" enough, retard.
I've always been saying this about the animations but since a YouTuber made a video about it now I look like someone who gets his opinions from YouTube if I mention it, so I don't say it anymore. Fuck youtubers, it's also a lose even if you don't watch or engage with them.
Why was this random-ass ball in the game?
>>12618159Not sure why this wasn't a boss weapon. At least they fixed it with the Rebound Striker in MM10.
>>12618159between this and legends it seems like they wanted kicking to become part of mega man's base kit? I dunno.maybe the devs just really liked mega man soccer
>>12616383That makes so much sense. X is VASTLY better than Megaman. Megaman is classic arcade quarter eater design, and X feels much more like a forgiving home console title.
>>12618159This is the better part of the game once you learn to do infinite jumps with it
>every time you die your weapon energy gets completely refilled>even if you game over you restart from the last checkpoint This was the start of the era of extreme casualization that trampled over old and proven game design
>>12618906Oh yeah I forgot they also refill your weapons every time you reach a checkpoint. Why even bother having weapon energy at all at that point? Or lives? Really it's better to look at this as an audiovisual spectacle rather than a game
>>12616360Sup, Phil.
>>12617406Fuck you seven is shit, dumbass.
>>12617406It wasn't innovative you fucking retard.
>>12616360Better than MM4, MM7, MM10.
>>12620849Retard.
