E-Heroes - Mega Man 2 Retrospective

[@BoshMind]

I keep re-watching his quickman breakdown...

[@relaxalax]

Someone told me on a stream to check you out because you were like me - a small channel that has potential (that sounds really cocky but I mean that's what they tell me I'M BUILDING TO A POINT NO PLEASE KEEP READING). I'm glad I came and checked you out, there's not enough fresh blood in these parts. Hell, just your intro sold me. It has the utmost creativity. I hope you go far buddy, you're seriously underated.

[@MegaRobertTV]

Been forever since I’ve seen these videos. Just as great as I remember!

[@SonicbandicootART]

11:43 I LITERALLY DIED AT THIS PART poor Quickers XDD

[@HellfireLynx22]

That intro was fraking hilarious. I am SO glad I subscribed!

[@TheWhippleEffect]

4:43 Interestingly enough, different companies had different philosophies on the subject of difficulty. With Capcom, and even Nintendo as seen with SMB2, they felt American gamers were more fun-loving, whereas Konami felt we were more Hardcore challenge hungry, doing things like taking out the Practice setting in the original Castlevania.

[@hedgehoundable]

Why is this man not more popular? Internet! You make this guy more popular right this second!!

[@EagleOrDie]

11:50 I love how over the top you went xD Great video overall, btw

[@brynnanderson1912]

does anyone know where the art from 3:16 came from? it looks really nice imo and i would love to see the whole thing

[@tyleronhiscomputer33]

I can honestly say that I enjoy your videos. I have just started watching after seeing your pacmania videos on TGWTG and enjoyed it but when I saw your Shovel Knight Review I was hooked. I watch a lot of reviewers, most that are from TGWTG or used to be and after a ton of reviews of people talking about movies or games they hate I am glad there are reviewers like you. Don't get me wrong I still like their reviews but after seeing your retrospective on Mega Man I can honestly say that I'm a fan of yours now. Thank you for your videos as well as helping me want to check out games that I've never played before. A new loyal fan -Tyler

[@animegeekstein]

Please keeps doing these they're great to watch.

[@SonicGman]

Somebody is dedicated. Staying up just to say the start to a game anniversary! That's nice

[@InkubozuNikki]

I love everything about Quick Man including his immunity to Metal Blades. Beating Metal man with Quick Boomerangs is some kind of satisfying.

[@NovalithRaven]

I really love your art style, Andrew. I miss the old animations you did! Keep it up and happy holidays!

[@madskillz808]

new to your channel dude and all i have to say is that your title sequence is amazing :D

[@Rokku-D]

15:48 Kai Highway from Goemon! owo

[@TheCodedtestament]

The music, exceeds all expectations, and was some of the best on the nes at the time.

[@bluetarantulaproductions6179]

Megaman 6 is the most nostalgic entry for me, concidering it was the only Megaman game I had as a kid (favorite robot master in this game is Knightman). Favorite part of this guy's video is with the animation where Wily is dancing, lol.

[@GRex7777]

I kinda hope someday you're able to come back and do the rest of the series. I really enjoy your work.

[@knetge]

cool vid. also I can see your Earthworm Jim toys on the shelf in the back ground. They stood out to me B/c I'm in the proses of editing the toy revues I'm doing on them. Coodos on the collection.

[@KarakatoDzo]

I'm with you on MM3 being a personal favorite. (Can't wait for a retrospective). Even if I played MM2 first, there were so much things in its sequel that were polished. The way MM controls, the support items, the music(IMO) not to mention the more forgiving difficulty. Plus, the addition of Rush and "Breakman" only added character to the game.

[@ShawnoftheDeadly]

I love the Megaman series but Megaman 2 will always be my favorite. It had a great soundtrack and was wonderfully straight forward. My opinion? Ten outta ten.

[@shadowscribe]

Ahh, the wall boomies. When you beat it, you were so happy you were pissed off.

[@OmegaX74]

While I can't say the game was THAT hard for me (But I can't deny that it is challenging), I will agree that it does have its annoying/unfair moments. The Boobeam boss is a perfect example of that. But I really enjoy the hell out of this game. Its a fun adventure with good looking levels, an awesome soundtrack and nice weapons of choice. Its not my favorite in the classic series either but its a very solid game indeed! Well made retrospective AWD!

[@TheBlueExplosion9000]

Which remix is this? 11:58

[@kenshirotakahashi]

Who did the Megaman 2 ending remix from 17:55-19:04?

[@gutterguy720]

Your thoughts on Quick Man made me LOL.

[@jakighcolburnchannel2oldve466]

What was that commercial in 2:21

[@xcar0982]

I never had problems with the domes... maybe because I knew how many shoots I had with Crashman's weapon, so I had to develope an strategy where I didn't have to destroy all the walls.

[@phuturephunk]

You can actually take out more than one wall with one shot, saving ammo. It's something I didn't pick up on until I was an adult and went back to play it.

[@yaboi3413]

megaman 2, quickman's stage is literally the only challenge, and I LOVE HIS STAGE

[@MrVibeless]

I love Megaman 2. I love it so much I recently reviewed it myself. Great vid. Your editing is ace!

[@MrVibeless]

MrVibeless I once got my little MrVibeless junior caught in a pair of megaman coloured jeans. I was obviously pretending to be the big hero himself. My Dad had to up-zip me really fast. Most embarrassing pain I've ever experienced:)

[@cbottube]

first minute and 26: brightens up my end of the day.

[@ClexYoshi]

15:48 I want that remix of Kai Highway, Andy. >_>;; I also wanna say that Item 1 is amazing for skipping half the bullcrap in Mega Man 2 and for doing Wall zipping!

[@Wslasher]

11:43 Best speech ever!!

[@shengjhegong8770]

but my japan version only get one [press star] at intro .why??

[@marscaleb]

Thank you for the honest review of this classic game, instead of jumping to some bipolar extreme.

[@RokkuDixon]

3:57 Andrew: What could possibly be so great about Number 2? o3o *fart sound's heard* Classy.. XD

[@nyanya660]

I have the same feeling with you about the Boobeam Traps...I quit playing the Japanese Wily Wars because of it...

[@TheGeckoNinja]

awesome episode :D

[@pursuing222]

Personally I like mega man 3 more and I had mor trouble with number 2! It was many years until I actually beat number 2!

[@muthesquirrel]

Mega Man 2 was the first Mega Man I played and completed, which I borrowed off a friend decades ago... But still, Mega Man 4 is my favourite and I don't care what no one says! Much like Castlevania III, I thought the balance of difficulty was best in MM4. It was still hard, but not ridiculously so, so as a kid I could still have fun with it without getting frustrated. Also, Dr. Wiley is really a robot created by Dr. Light to test Mega Man's powers before Dr. Light turns Mega Man's free will off and uses him to take over the world. YOU'LL SEE!

[@FireBomberBassist]

Those wall laser things on Wilys stage were the reason I never finished this game. I could not figure it out. As far as I was concerned getting there was beating the game to me.

[@randidesu]

11:52

[@Gamma0_0]

Continue? HELL YES, SIR DICKMAN

[@HobbyandFuninKorea]

Man can you upload a full theme of your Intro

[@brigidocervera3295]

Very good video and humor

[@ivo5486]

What's the opening theme?

[@Renegadetothe64th]

Your really funny! I like the witty humor, references, and fart jokes! Subscribe! (Plus you have good opinions and an awesome opening)

[@sw1tchpoint]

Megaman is 26? Damn that means World's Collide Megaman/Sonic started a year ago. For those that don't know the comic event by Archie was a celebration of Sonic's 20th and Megamans 25th

[@wastedpotential616]

I love this game,that said I've only ever beaten it on an emulator were I could save at any point in the game.Good video although you could have talked about the music which I believe was a big factor in the games popularity

[@MrPhantaze]

ohohohoh, this is funny entertaiment. Thank you, Andrew

[@ChadWSmith]

where did you get that shirt?

[@MrChiefjc]

North and South was AWESOME.

[@Bar-Kun]

megaman 2 was my first megaman game... i regret nothing

[@20centslender]

This theme is epic

[@tengudwn57]

I love you to bud

[@nickpekor4450]

9:46 Hey look! He got in Mega Man 6! (Wind Man, idiots)

[@Krukmeister]

And Blade Man got in, nearly 25 years later. Lagarriet Tounes must've been so happy when that happened. They must've used his design. The blades are in the same position and even the colours are the same!

[@MiloticMaster]

Wait you found Megaman 2 harder than Megaman 1? ... You didnt fight Yellow Devil did you? You used the pause trick didnt you? The Boobeam Trap boss may be hard and stupid- but Yellow Devil... I cant even... that was the first time my fingers physically hurt while playing a game.

[@brianriff8550]

Well...with Yellow Devil, he was actually a boss and not a room puzzle. Sure, Devil is damn frustrating (it took me a week to finally kill him, and that's not even the end of it), but you could still shoot him with the Mega Buster if you ran out of Elec Man's attack. With Boobeam, you have no choice but to die if you lose all your Crash Bombs.

[@nickvanderpool4822]

I, too, always thought that was the mouth...

[@Michael_aka_Psycho]

North vs South was awesome.

[@gianlucasabatini1630]

In Mega Man 6 contest winners from North America and Europe made some robot masters

[@HelloFade2]

Whoa I didn't know this guy made videos I thought he was just a title card artist for other reviewers.

[@Kingpinn02]

I don't know whats with the whole not beating Airman thing. I beat him pretty easily.

[@skyrimlover777]

I think it's a meme however I could be mostly from the song can't defeat air man by team nokoa or something I forgot the name

[@bits8342]

Quick man: :(

[@mattwo7]

Those are COpipis... pipis are the larger ones with the eggs full of copipis.

[@supergeno128ds]

Wow. I never thought I'd find someone with the same opinions as mine when it came to MM2 vs MM3. I find it really surprising that- with the exception of the slide, no one mention's how "slippery" Megaman was in the first two games. In 3 he is SOLID. Boobeam trap. Yeah, enough said. Also, something that not a whole lot of people comment on, is the fact that MM3 had a "unique" victory theme- most games in the series recycled stuff from 2. I'm not saying I HATE MM2, I just like the third installment more. HATE COMMENCE!

[@Mr3DLC]

I actually played mm2 on the ps2 collection, and apparently, the game was ported without the option for difficulty but still set to difficult. that game was hard!! still, I managed to scrape by and finish it. still, I didn't get that you could use the blades for everything, so I still feel like a noob.

[@phazeredge380]

Megaman and bass was my first owned megaman game and i have to say i still surprisingly enjoy its BS difficulty

[@rodakscreens]

Also those birds are called peepees. I really have no words

[@Dutchtica]

I LOVED North and South.

[@thehoovyinashellnut2645]

15:44 when you do drunk science

[@eckitronix]

Crashman's Crash Bomber isn't that bad of a sound. IT IS MY FAVORITE SOUND IN THE GAME!!!!

[@Bioninja10]

lol like the opening XD

[@Xandermorph]

LOL a game every couple of MONTHS?? I'd have been ECSTATIC to have gotten a deal like that as a kid... the only two occasions in a given YEAR's time that I could even begin to hope to get new videogames were my birthday and Christmas, which are within a month of each other. On the one hand it was cool because I could conceivably obtain new games back to back - but on the other hand, whatever I got was what I had for the rest of that year, aside from rentals, which I'd get if I got an A or B on a test or something (I rarely was able to finish a game in the 3 rental days though...)

[@skaznguyna968]

I felt the same way, I was lucky to get 1 game a year (Good grades were expected, so were chores). But I was always grateful just to have one, I had to beg for several years before my parents felt I had "earned" a NES.

[@BizarroBravo]

@ 5:23 Wait . . . is . . . that not the mouth?

[@ShadowoftheMask]

But... I thought Japanese version was USA normal mode and difficulty mode was added for USA. I mean, thats what was told to me when someone commented on that they don't get "I can't beat airman" song because Japanese version is the easy one... HAVE I BEEN LIVING A LIE? D:

[@dusknoir64]

actually megaman 10 also had a difficulty setting.

[@minyite1667]

The wall boobies can be defeated on the first time. It's hard as balls but I spent 2 hours doing it and won.

[@combatrobot1443]

Honestly, Mega Man 2 is arguably the easiest game in the entire classic Mega Man series, even when you play on "Difficult" mode. 1 is more difficult mostly because of somewhat poor, sometimes even "cheap" level design (Ice Man's stage in particular). In 3 and 4 the bosses are on average more difficult than the ones in 2 (because let's face it, all the bosses in 2 are pushovers except for Quick Man and the Buebeam Trap). In 5 the special weapons border on useless, leaving you stuck using the buster most of the time. 6 is fairly easy though, but the level design is a bit more complex in 6 than in 2, giving a bit more challenge in my opinion. You want to play a hard Mega Man game? Try Mega Man & Bass. That game is brutal, and at certain points it just gets downright stupid with how hard at is. It'll take ages for you to get past King Stage 2. Mega Man 9 is also decently hard, probably harder than most of the other classic series games, but it's a refreshing level of difficulty and I rarely found it frustrating. Hornet Man's stage gave me a good deal of trouble though, especially the mid boss. MM&B is definitely frustrating though. Prepare to tear some hair out if you tackle that game.

[@thejordyoshi]

I've got the first trilogy of Mega Man games and I've only beaten Rock Man 2 more than once..

[@rrthiel]

What's more, it can be even worse on such a tiny GBA screen.

[@railwayaccident7837]

Megaman and bass isn't hard...

[@combatrobot1443]

Have you ever beaten it? All the way through? King Stage 2 is the most evil thing ever.

[@MorbidSatan24]

Mega man and bass is pretty intense. I can't get through astro mans stage. His level is way harder in that game than in Mega Man 8.

[@MazterP28]

Where your retrospect for mega man 9-10, or 4,5,6

[@666falco666]

geez, i finish this game when im was 7, 2 week after i but it, yea it's hard and thats the fun part of megaman 2

[@MavReviews]

It took me 5 fucking years to bet the Wily 2 boss

[@tavionmcneil64]

I think think we all hate the Boobeam Trap boss.

[@KnightLineArtYT]

The part with Quickman was hilarious. He was rather annoying anyways.

[@megamanleo1312]

0:25 DAT Beginning video

[@hectormendoza2138]

Megaman 7 was my first

[@cursedkevin]

9:44 "Black Man"

[@bloodysteel6429]

I have the X-series version of that shirt

[@Dutchtica]

also i loved this video

[@Kajichuu]

never have i heard someone whine (no offence~ assuming you're acting as such on purpose) how hard megaman 2 was, yes it had its hard points but by no means did it ever bring me to rage quit the game, even as a kid it only took me maybe 3 trys max to beat the boobeam boss, frustrating yes to sit there and die but you made it seem it was the hardest thing ever. Megaman 2 is my goto game i play and on "Difficult" with just M-buster, only using weapons when the games makes me. altho i too just say fuck it to the puzzle jumping in heat mans stage cause eh im here to fight bosses not jump for days. Megaman 2 and 3 are by far my favorites and the most memorable with Megaman 9 and 10 close behind. Megaman 2's Metal man's and Wily stage 1 music was something that'd stick with me, i remember just pausing the game and listening to it for a good while. Meanwhile in megaman 3, the intro was just so mysterious and gave a feeling that a great adventure awaited, also remembering leaving the game on for a while to listen to the intro music of mm3. Never have i had a truly bad experience with megaman 2. it was a great game and i see why the 2 difficulty options were given, japenesse gamers are that bad ass with games and dont need to be soft-balled in like we americans do, cause i know somewhere some kid would have complained to his mommy saying the game was WAY to hard and have capcom make another MM2 copy JUST for this reason, soo way to think ahead capcom, they predicted people would find this game too hard and You are proof of this (again no offence). This was also later brought back in megaman 9 and 10 cause once again we Megaman fans in the states just found megaman too hard in general. But i digress, it did let people of all skill levels play and thats fine but is it really all that hard? i dunno maybe im just a natural at megaman games but i never really saw the insane difficultness my friends did as i watched them die over and over again as they attempted to play, often telling me i make it look crazy easy and to this day am stumped how it was THAT hard.

[@e93sports80]

👍👍

[@ZoanBlade90]

10:06 Ahh! =)

[@howdoiputthecheeseintheove8437]

i like mega man 1 over 2, i dont know why

[@furrygamingplush554]

Dude, I beat the game already! It's so easy!

[@Kingpinn02]

I was able to beat the wall boss mainly because my version of the game was the Virtual Console version with restore points. It was a bit hard to get to the highest one without exploding its door, but I eventually did it. I feel bad for the poor kids of the NES age whom were unable to beat these poorly designed wall boobs.

[@kevinmcallister3740]

Back in the NES days, gamers relished in the crazy difficulty of games like Mega Man. Especially kids like me who only got a new game a couple of times a year. The incredibly hard difficulty of Mega Man let it last a long time. If the game was as difficult as most platforms today, it'd be over quickly. But the crazy difficulty of these games let them last a long time. Mega Man 2 and 3 lasted me months, and they were such a challenge that I'd go back to them to see if I could beat it again. In today's age, the extreme difficulty is frustrating to most gamers. But we didn't have games (outside of turn-based RPGs) that would give you 20+ hours of gameplay. Most of our games, if played well, could be beaten in an hour or two. So this was a way to make the gameplay last ages.

[@Kingpinn02]

Wow, that's a very nice way to look at it. If I was born around that time, I probably would've been use to the hard difficulty. Do you still play games today?

[@ultrakirbyfan100]

Bomberman music

[@Menacepaintball]

cool shirt where can i get one

[@MijoMixMusic]

0:36 so easy,almost too easy

[@Darkkfated]

...how can you do a retrospective on Mega Man 2 and never ONCE mention the soundtrack? I mean, it's only the single best 8-bit sound track of all time, and Dr. Wily Stage One is almost inarguably the catchiest 8-bit track ever composed, but let's instead ramble on about how one of the easiest Mega Man games was sooooooo frustrating in a few spots for 10 minutes. >.< Oh well, the video was still pretty entertaining, overall.

[@joggingscout]

im going to play megaman x street fightersince capcom didnt make a new megaman game