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Games/Mega Man 9/Reviews
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Mega Man 9
Mega Man returns to his roots in this deliberately retro side-scrolling platformer that simulates the style and simplicity of the first six Mega Man games.
Too retro for its own good
Mega Man 9 is often described as a game that started the retro boom in the industry. It's not the first game that decides to go for a retro look, but it was one that proved that such revivals can be s… Read more
Speed Metal
Mega Man 9 fixed Mega Man by distilling the Blue Bomber’s staid gameplay to its essentials: moving and shooting. By striving to limit itself to the restrictions of twenty year old hardware, Inti Creat… Read more
Well... More Mega Man!
Let us not kid ourselves here. Mega Man has never really had a significant change made to the formula. There have been neat additions, graphical upgrades, and numerous deviations utilizing the Mega Ma… Read more
A game that will make you relive your childhood all over again.
First off I would like to start this review off by saying I have beaten all 9 of the original Mega Man games and this game ranks up their with the best of them. In my opinion I have always loved Mega… Read more
A return to roots and business models
Mega Man 9 is a great game. If you like Mega Man games. Or old school side-scrolling. Or a difficulty setting that has you setting down the controller and walking away for hours at a time (Capcom has… Read more
Mega Man 9
With the recent announcement of Mega Man 10, I decided to pick up the controller and play Mega Man 9. The storyline that they came up with was interesting. It's obviously another Dr. Wily story and th… Read more
A return to gaming roots.
When I first heard about this new game with a new direction in the Mega Man series I thought to myself: "Genius!". After all, let's be serious here, technology advancement wasn't easy on Mega Man. The… Read more
Dying is Easy.
Kids these days don’t know what a hard video game is. That’s a pure, unchallenged fact. When the Game Genie came out, the challenge in video games went into a downward spiral that it never recovered f… Read more
I Hate You Mega Man
JerkMega Man 9 hates you, and isn't afraid to let you know. Here's news for you Mega Man 9. I hate you back. Please let me have one more E-Tank. It's just as hard as everyone says. Most games of the M… Read more
8-bit in HD
The most important thing you need to realize about Mega Man 9 is that if you don’t like the style, then you’re a terrible person. 8-bit has returned straight from the NES and onto your next-gen consol… Read more
Go for it, if you like a real arse kicking.
It’s not every day that you see a big game developer create the next game of a well-established franchise by going all the way back to its roots, even if that may have been twenty years ago. This is e… Read more
Get Ready to Retry a lot.
Mega Man 9 is a new sequel to the long running Mega Man franchise. Instead of using an up to date graphics engine, the developers opted to go retro and use the same engine that powered the old NES gam… Read more
Rock out with your Cock out
Your favorite band, after years of solid rock albums, worldwide touring, partying and hotel smashing, decides that they need to evolve or mature their sound. Therefore, they produce some “experimental… Read more
Albeit stripped of content, Mega Man 9 succeeds.
Capcom, who has perhaps observed Nintendo’s use of nostalgia to maintain its relevance to “true gamers” and recently revived the Bionic Commando franchise with the sublime Rearmed, is resurrecting ano… Read more
Mega Man 9 Review
How many times does this happen...Ill answer that, not many at all. Mega Man 9 harks back to what i myself grew up with, the 8-Bit Era. This includes the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Mas… Read more
Welcome back to the 80s...
Nearly twenty years ago, Mega Man was introduced to the gaming world and provided a challenge and a formula that worked for the rest of the series. Recently, the franchise has been in hiatus in terms… Read more
Megaman returns in a deliciously difficult 8-bit romp
Capcom’s Megaman 9 is the latest game in the long running Megaman/Rockman series which originally made its debut on the NES all the way back in 1987. Considered as the follow-up to Megaman 8 released… Read more
Mega Man 9: The Modern Retro Title That Could
Let's be completely honest with ourselves: if your heritage of video games begins and ends primarily in the realm of polygons and textures, chances are high that Mega Man 9 is going to seem rather for… Read more
Perfectly Executed
this is a totally old school 8 bit game that is VERY challenging. it took me 4 days to finally beat the game! At first this game can be frustrating because it's so hard, but after a while, you start t… Read more
The first great 8-bit title in 15 years
I never really got into Mega Man games. The first game, a kiss of death waiting in my Easter Basket, taunted me with its unbeatability. Even after summoning the power of game genie to defeat it years… Read more
Megaman's got 99 problems, and gameplay is one.
Mega Man and Mega Man 2 were two of my favorite games released one the NES - Megaman 2 is still quite possibly my favorite game of all time. Level design was perfect, and the soundtrack can put John W… Read more
The Blue Bomber is Back
But is he up to scratch? Mega Man 9 is a completely new iteration of the classic Mega Man series, which had its humble beginnings on the NES. Alot were skeptical about whether Mega Man 9, with its del… Read more