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[Xinyta]

For anyone who has ever played Mega Man 8. You know this poor soul's pain and mine.

This is one of two Mega Man games I own. The other is the first Mega Man Ledgends.

Truthfully. MM8 isn't a bad game. It's a pretty fun game in fact. But the jet board sections are absolute nightmare fuel. I and many others have burned lives trying to beat these sections.

The Frost Man ones are actually not too hard to do well. It's Willy Stage 1 that is the most painful one. After a good while if not playing the gimmick. They slap it in your face first thing as soon as you start doing the Willy Fortress stages.

It wouldn't be an issue if the jet board sections appeared more and got harder. But nope. It's a gimmick strictly in Frost Man's stage. Then SUDDENLY, "Oh. You remember those jet bloads sections in Frost Man's stage? Yeah... do it again. And do it well, or else".

It's just... screw you Capcom.

 

[Misery]

Ya know, as much as I love retro games, there's one thing I really, REALLY dont miss from that era: anti-rental design. Which is exactly what this looks like to me.

I play a lot of bullet-hell games, stupidly difficult things, but this bit in MM8 looks like it'd test my patience just a bit too much.

Whole series seems like it never really needed that, from the start they were difficult games, but someone at Capcom apparently thought otherwise.

Kinda reminds me of two other things: Guts Man's level in the original Mega Man, and the unexpected speed level in Gradius 3. Difference though is that MM1 gives you a way around the Stupid Platform Things (Magnet Beam) and Gradius 3 as a whole is just very easy, and the ZOOOOOM section is only one level and pretty short.

And of course Battletoads.

 

[tkcartoonist]

Mega Man 8 has some of the worst English localization, even for the time. Bass is pronounced like the fish, and Dr. Light sounds like Elmer Fudd, for starters.

 

[Xinyta]

Mega Man 8 has some of the worst English localization, even for the time. Bass is pronounced like the fish, and Dr. Light sounds like Elmer Fudd, for starters.

And that is a problem why?

It makes the game 1000 times more entertaining. At least in my book. I'm not disagreeing with you, nessissarily. I just find myself finding humor in it.

I have mentioned before, albeit in a joking tone, that I am 100% for goofy English Dubs. Though I there is a limit to that, when it's just generally terrible voice acting that is hard to listen to.

I find MM8's voiceacting in the entertaining category. It also kinda has that 80s-90s kind of cheesy charm to it, in that way.