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AxemRedRanger posted...

Dr. Wily's Revenge is maybe not that special overall but I've always thought it was better than Mega Man 1.

II is definitely not up to par with the games its borrowing from though. Only played III once, couldn't really say for it.

...Hmmm. Maybe I'll blow through some of these this weekend.

I did in fact play all 5 games over July 4th weekend.
Still think Dr. Wily's Revenge is better than 1. Still think Il pretty whatever; Quint in particular might be a contender for most pathetic boss in all of Mega Man. Kinda liked the final boss of III, but not much else stood out. The Mega Man 3 remix levels in particular feel redundant because Mega Man 3 already remixed half of them in its own game. Mega Man IV was probably the best of the first four but nothing that special.

Mega Man V is the best of these and is a good game, and even moreso a unique game that's not mostly a remix of levels of the NES, but it's still probably not on as good as any of 2-6. The Wily levels aren't very good, although some of the end game bosses were neat. The game particularly seemed to like forcing you to drop screens vertically onto places with spikes below (to an unusual degree even for Mega Man) - and the Game Boy's smaller resolution was particularly not well suited for this. When Dr. Wily's Revenge pulled stuff like that in the last couple levels, there you at least had the Carry to potentially save you. They kept giving me pity Mega Arm upgrades for losing I didn't ask for that seemed in combination with the buyable upgrades to kinda unbalance the game. The Super Game Boy colors are a nice attempt but still obviously falls short of the NES games' aesthetic.