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#86. Mega Man 9 (Wii, 2008)
I realize as I do these write ups I struggle to come up with differences in different games in the series when I haven't played them in a while, and just going off of a memory, but mostly I remember the excitement I had to play a game like this in 2008, because as I recall, or at least personally, being able to play a new NES-like sprite game, an official Nintendo one at the very least, was an innovative and unique thing to be able to do. So I played it and took to it. For some reason, Mega Man 10 is not on my Top 100 (though I do like that game), and I'm not really sure why. I draw Mega Man 9 sort of in parallel to Mega Man 2 since you didn't have your later Mega Man game powers, like charge beam or slide, but of course that gives the game its own unique style, which works with this game's mechanics.
I also remember this game being one of the more difficult Mega Mans (could be wrong here though), which was enjoyable. The music really knocked it out of the park in this one, what with some of the best Mega Man themes ever in Tornado Man's theme and the Wily Stage we're the robots (I like Hornet Man's also). Hornet man also has a pretty funny weapon, the Bee Tracker or whatever it happens to be called. Also thanks Capcom for finally having a female robot master! The ending where Wily is like plz forgive me and Mega Man is like hey uh you've done this like 9 other times, showing the clip with Wily begging on the ground is a good one too.

Quick shoutout also to some Mega Man 10 stuff since I won't talk about it otherwise, but the different characters (Mega Man, Bass, Protoman) all being unique was great. Plus I think it had overall better robot master design- especially Sheep Man, Blade Man, and Strike Man (A BASEBALL!!!!--also the best theme in MM10)

One joke I always appreciated that I don't know how many other people notice, or if it's even supposed to be a joke at all, but I always thought as the MM Classic series progressed, when they drew the lines between the stages in the Wily's Castle stages "map", the lines got slightly more and more twisted and complicated as the series went on. So in MM9 (and I think 10 also), they just went goddamn nuts all over the place with these lines between stages, before drawing a simple straight line between the last 2 levels. Always makes me laugh. I'm weird.



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