A Journey Through Mega Man On Game Boy (Rockman World Series)

[@gillythekid]

Use code GILLY50 to get 50% off your first Factor box at bit.ly/46GXEvE So have you played any of these? How do you think they stack up to the NES games?

[@muffin8460]

A Journey Through Ever Mario Party

[@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852]

MegaMan 2 on the GB was the first megaman i ever finished.

[@marbles8641]

It's actually a very simple pronunciation, Bal-lad or Bal-add, either way it's with a soft a for both syllables.

[@retroprogamer7009]

You forgot Xtreme

[@Nazo-kage]

20:56 I figured the Megaman killer robot was named ballad Sticking with the musical theming.

[@felman87]

21:00, I this it's meant to be ballad, like a musical ballad. Since Rockman has a lot of music motifs in its games. GTA4 had a DLC called Ballad of Gay Tony.

[@Mark_of_Tread]

Hah it’s always fun to find out the game you endlessly played has a child and loved was considered the worst in the series

[@MissAshley42]

Right? Hearing him go to town on the first one kinda stung (though I get it).

[@treysandbothe3748]

Ooh, that one hit Danger Close.

[@BlazingLarvesta]

As someone who loves Dragon Quest 7, I can relate.

[@summercrews5620]

A bad megaman game is still usually a pretty good game

[@summercrews5620]

​@@BlazingLarvestafucking based

[@aweiz6265]

Man I will never get over them cancelling the GBA collection of these, probably my most significant childhood game cancellation

[@ilikecurry2345]

They had to cancel it - the data was lost and corrupted.

[@aweiz6265]

@@ilikecurry2345 such a bummer, part of me hopes it’s sitting backed up somewhere on a forgotten drive and will surface some day. The crazy thing was how much it was advertised at the time - anytime you would see an ad for Anniversary Collection, Mania was always right there too. Childhood me was a Game Boy fanatic, and I was super into Battle Network too, so this was a memorable disappointment

[@Waffletigercat]

@@ilikecurry2345I find that very sus. The GB games still got released on DS VC, and the cancelation happened right as the falling out between Inafune and Capcom occurred.

[@randallrutherford1384]

Mega man Mainia

[@jessicastoker8932]

​@@WaffletigercatThe main issue was they wanted to EDIT the games. They wanted them to better fit the GBA screen - meaning that they'd have to literally change the way the game displayed it's graphics - and they also wanted them to all be in color - meaning they'd have to manually go in and re-color all the sprite to be on-par with their NES titles. Without the original source code, doing all of that was going to be hell, and was going to take far too much time, effort, and therefor money. The reason it was easy-enough to drop them as-is on digital platforms like VC later was because they just released that EXACT game running on that VC emulation software. No edits needed to be made, so no need for the original source code. Also, it wasn't all the source code that was lost - I think specifically, it was just 1 or 2 of the games (I believe it was actually the first two, but for sure the second game's source code was never properly preserved). And if they couldn't make a collection of all of them, Capcom just wasn't going to make a collection at all. Also also, the Anniversary Collection, which was supposed to release alongside "Megaman Mania" as it was called, released in 2004. Inafune didn't leave the company until 2010, well after working on many, many more titles for Capcom, such as Dead Rising, Street Fighter IV, and Lost Planet (not to mention all the Megaman titles). So the timing is off by a full 6 years.

[@HubPie3]

Fun Fact: Mega Man 10 brings back Enker, Punk, and Ballade for extra stages that are all based on the Wily Castle stages from Worlds 1, 3, and 4 respectively. You can even get their weapons!

[@TheZero1312]

And after you get them you'll have them in every following new playthrough.

[@anscr-hdfan4739]

@@TheZero1312 too bad proto man and bass can't use them.

[@alexfischer7876]

@@anscr-hdfan4739 At least _Mega Man Legacy Collection 2_ allows you to fight them as Proto Man or Bass.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Neat!

[@rcmero]

Timestamps for your convenience: 2:18 Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge (Rockman World) 7:07 Mega Man II (Rockman World 2) 12:18 Mega Man III (Rockman World 3) 17:15 Mega Man IV (Rockman World 4) 22:22 Mega Man V (Rockman World 5)

[@gameman250]

An epilogue of sorts to the Rockman World series: The Mega Man Killers (sans Quint) make a special appearance in Mega Man 10 as part of the DLC Special Stages. And yes, you can get their weapons after beating them. In fact you permanently start each playthrough with 'em which is wild to me.

[@Jar_Jar_Twinks]

they're also some of the hardest stages in that game, with no checkpoints since they're only playable in time trials

[@Squirrelsquid]

If you ever fancy a replay of 5, I would recommend Mega Man 5 DX. It's a patch that makes it a GBC game, complete with excellent colors and to top it off: NO SLOWDOWN AT ALL!

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Ooh!

[@PSIHedgehogChris]

A year late to this comment, but that just means I can also point to colorization hacks of all of the Mega Man GB games, with Mega Man 4 DX getting released the day I write this reply!

[@aeon87]

Ballade might be pronounced like Ballad, another musical term.

[@neonhalos]

was gonna say this lol it's literally just pronounced "ballad"

[@Ziggaton]

Yeah him pronouncing it like that made me do a double take lol. Should be obvious considering the usual musical themes most other mm characters have

[@joshuasanderson7359]

Thank you for saying it so I didn't have to

[@Shelby_Arr]

This fits the Japanese for it, which is phonetically “Baraado,” with the trailing “o” getting largely swallowed.

[@Anakunus]

No, it might not. "Ballad" is prounounced [ˈbæləd] whereas "ballade" is prononounced [bælˈɑːd]. You should see the difference.

[@abraveastronaut]

One detail I really liked in Mega Man V is that there actually are a couple of variants on classic enemies in there, but they're disguised at first. Among the common enemies you encounter throughout the game are a little walking-head guy who will probably remind you of a Met, and a humanoid guy whose attack pattern will probably remind you of a Joe. After the big Wily reveal happens and you move on to the fortress, you start encountering enemies that have the same behavior and look *mostly* the same as those two, but are redesigned so they now have the usual Met and Joe faces.

[@ilikecurry2345]

I'm surprised you didn't cover the second twist, where: SPOILERS AHEAD Where Sunstar has a heart attack (in the JP version, he's like "no, this'll never work out, I'm from an ancient warmongering civilization and you're from a happy little lab on Earth, I'm gonna kill myself lol bye").

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

Nice of you to treat us this Halloween with a look at all the Game Boy Mega Man games! I bought Mega Man World 5 on the 3DS eShop last year when the eShop closure panic was happening. I managed to beat the game, getting every crystal and both Mega Arm upgrades. It's honestly one of the greatest Classic Mega Man experiences out there!

[@thomasffrench3639]

Man seeing the charge shot being used in Mega Man 3 levels is cursed.

[@waypastcoolkid]

This aged remarkably well

[@masonasaro2118]

there’s a fan remake of mega man world 2 where you play as quint. it’s really good bonus second comment: quint might actually be a reference to captain n the game master, a terrible 80’s cartoon featuring a strangely redesigned mega man that looks a lot like quint.

[@jeffharrison6059]

Quint's Revenge

[@JohnnyFromVirginia]

I always thought Mega Man 4’s Killer robot was named Ballad like the musical theme. A love ballad. BALLAD.

[@GeneGerald925]

I'm like. 50% sure that Ballade's name is meant to fit the song-name theme. With his name being a nod to a Ballad.

[@BeachDrAgonBumm]

You are correct... Ballade's Name is a Play on the Style of Song, a Ballad, and is pronounced the same... 👍🏼

[@poptheweasel100]

Honestly I always really liked Mega Man World 2's compositions, they're all original and some of them are actually really great, but the game was essentially out of tune. There's a lot of great fan remixes that show how good the songs actually are.

[@jekblom123]

Man I remember Megaman 2 on Gameboy. Playing it over and over because it was the only classic Megaman game I had (I had X on snes). It was a fun game. The music stuck with me, in a good way.

[@quentc]

I didn't see anyone mention it so sorry if this was addressed, but wanted to note that the grating pitch of World 2's soundtrack was unintended (idk the full story but I think the compositions were just implemented incorrectly on the programming side?). I know some pitch corrections exist on KZbin that are a lot easier on the ears, idk if anyone has implemented those fixes in a hack or anything tho

[@CrimsonMoonM]

Mega Man IV is one of my favorite games in the franchise, it really went above and beyond what people expected from a handheld game to the point where it introduced an in-game shop and a heavier focus on story months before Mega Man 7 and X brought the same concepts to consoles. The cinematic final boss is my favorite Wily Machine from presentation alone.

[@Emberson-9000]

Obligatory World 5 DX comment. Also, Minakuchi had developed Bionic Commando for Game Boy as well, and its essentially as good as World 4. Its basically a remake of the NES game, but set in a more futuristic world, and they gave Radd an arm cannon. Thats right. Minakuchi loved Mega Man so much that they turned Bionic Commando into Mega Man.

[@AkiDave]

Noticing a weird sentence in the script while recording is the most relatable thing of all time. Great video man! I gotta check these games out 💙

[@davidm4566]

Wow, after watching this, I'm blessed to have MM4 as the only MegaMan gameboy game that I own and/or have played. I got it tight before Thanksgiving and took it on a road trip to NC. That trip and playing it with a gamboy light attachment is burned into my memory. I just always enjoyed it.

[@jessicastoker8932]

"Bal-ed"... like a rock ballade... not "buh-lodd" or "buh-lade". Wait, to better clarify, "Bal" like the word "balance" and "ed" like the name Ed. Ballade. The musical term.

[@faultyvideos2215]

5:37 so i recently played through Mega Man Dr. Wily's revenge as part of a marathon where im playing the vast majority of mega man games (basically all of them except for a few niche spinoffs like the DOS games or that one FMV game for the PS1 that i just dont feel like playing) and you dont need to attack Enker's lance to damage him, or at least you don't need to aim for it. If you shoot him at any point while he's charging his lance, your shot will be redirected towards his lance, meaning you don't need to commit to a jump just to damage him and you can instead prepare to jump in response to his attack.

[@drizzziit1]

A ballade is yet another music related pun

[@striderskorpion]

I'm mildly disappointed that you didn't play Mega Man V in a Super Game Boy (or with SGB mode set if this was emulated) as this is the only one in the GB series with SGB support.

[@aronoc3599]

There's at least one music improvement patch out there for RMW/MM2 that fixes the super high-pitched notes, and another broader scope patch that was in development in 2022 but I don't know if it's finished. (didn't look before typing, lol.) Definitely a known issue, it was why I would play it with the sound off when I was young because it was still a lot of fun.

[@AceTrainerX3]

It's pretty funny watching this video *right after* I binged all 5 of these games (having beaten 1-4 and making my way through 5 still). I don't really regret playing through all of 'em instead of just skipping to 5 like everyone does. Rockman World 1 definitely feels like the first of the subseries, but much like Famicom/NES Rockman 1, I still found myself enjoying some of the brutal challenge up till the end. Also, I still feel it was the most clever game of the first 4 when it came to the Mega Man Killer's weapon being Wily's final weakness. 2 doesn't need much to be said: ear bleed-worthy music (which was apparently caused by some rendering errors), pretty lacking in challenge, the stupidest and most wasted potential of a mid-game boss (Quint would kinda be redeemed with Rockman & Forte on WonderSwan at least), and ultimately doesn't leave much of any kind of impression on me. 3 definitely felt the most undercooked of the later ones, but it having straight renditions of Mega Man 3's ost does save it some. It was probably the one I felt the most forced to play of them all, which sucks since I looked forward to fighting Punk. As for 4, apart from the Mega/Rock Buster' charge shot pushing you back upon fire (you did kinda fail to mention it, and it actually did become an annoyance in certain spots), it definitely did feel the most polished of the "derivative" entries. My biggest complaints with both 3 and 4 would probably be how long each stage was; I wouldn't say a Mega Man/Rockman stage has to be 30 seconds or bust, but some stages like Crystal Man and Dust Man start to wear on me after a while (those were probably the low lights of each game). Rockman World 5 doesn't really need much else said that fans haven't already: easily the most interesting, polished and fun of the 5 games, the stage length gripes I had with 3 and 4 are gone, Sungod has the best final boss theme in Mega Man history (with some of the best fan remixes I've ever heard), and the list goes on. One final thing to mention is Mega Man World 5 DX, which is probably the best way to experience 5. In conclusion... yeah, just go try 4 and 5; maybe give 3's ost a listen, but the first 2 are only really worth it for die hards. And give Enker's theme in Mega Man 10 a listen, you should definitely do that as well...

[@someguymayber]

14:33 i personally dont think the sound itself is bad, but what i do fnd bad is that the sound cuts into the sound channels used for the actual music, making the music sound worse.

[@rezonace8628]

Though my first Mega Man game was Mega Man 6 at age 3, Mega Man World 4 was the first Game Boy Mega Man game I played, and I utterly fell in love with the series as a result. And on February 27, 1997 at a local Funcoland (I feel sad now), I found Mega Man World 5. I remember the date since I had been looking for the game ever since I learned about it from a Nintendo Power a family friend showed me. I was but a lad of 7.

[@LeftyPem]

Still a damned shame the GBC collection was cancelled.😢

[@crispincain1665]

While the GB Megaman games were officially a different series, my young brain just put it together that Wily was a Saturday Morning villain, coming back over and over. The GB titles fit rather well in between each game with this mindset. Didn't help that there was an actual saturday morning cartoon for Megaman during this time. P.S.: it's pronounced "Ba-luhd", you were putting the emphasis at the second syllable, instead of the first.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

😁

[@Thepopcornator]

Mega Man 3 on Game Boy was the first Mega Man game I ever played. Lots of good memories with it as I found it with a Game Boy that someone left in the bathroom of my parents’ retail store. We couldn’t find the owners and no one ever came to claim them, so they let me keep them.

[@entropy1457]

I love your content gilly, genuinely hope you’re doing well and take care of yourself

[@baalfgames5318]

I feel people’s problem with RMW2 is that it feels like "Baby's First Megaman" as far as difficulty goes, and the music's problem isn't the melodies, but the pitch of a lot of the songs. I don't mind it on certain tracks, and I even have a soft spot for Air Man's theme for how dire it feels, and there is a sense of urgency to the music I kinda like in general (which makes me wish the game wasn't so pitifully easy), but I can see it's problems for people. Heck, the ending theme starts out sounding very grim, despite it being the ending of the game, and it comes off as jarring. Heck, the ending theme is awful, in general. But, I do think RMW2 gets a little more hate than it deserves. It makes me wonder what would have happened if Thinking Rabbit was given a chance to inprove upon RMW2.

[@BasVoet]

I love that you pick games off the beaten path. Nice! Thanks!

[@mat0vm]

Honestly, world 2 isn't the black sheep as "it's bad in a good serie" but as "it's nice in a very nice serie". It's kiiiiiinda lesser. Not by a mile, but it is. My favorite is world 1 for some weird reasons (I love how bit sized it is) but I often replay them all just because I have fun with them. All of them. Which also means there's less world games that I don't like than there's games in the 6 nes games I don't like. Everyone who's into megaman should try this serie.

[@otaking3582]

Someone needs to remake these games to be more like their NES counterparts, similar to what's been done with Sonic Triple Trouble and AM2R.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

That could be fun

[@ajaxmaxbitch]

Well there's mega man maker

[@otaking3582]

@@ajaxmaxbitch Isn't that limited in the amount of features one can implement, just like Mario Maker?

[@solonsaturngaming3727]

Happy Halloween! 👻

[@philiplonidier]

I just call Ballad "Ballad" to make it fit the musical naming scheme. Mega Man World IV is still my favorite, and I'm glad to hear you gushing over it!

[@MrMegaManFan]

Thanks Gilly! Sharing this now.

[@Ptigeek]

5:30 You didn't have to jump to attack Enker, is lance attract bullets to absorb it :)

[@putridscene]

I had 3 growing up and never made it very far. I recently decided to give it a go again and enjoyed it enough to try 4 and 5. All of them were quite a bit of fun. I do wonder why Capcom hasn't put together a compilation of these along with the Game Gear and Wonderswan games.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

I'd be down for it

[@ToshisGarden]

Thanks for continuing to be a gjft that keeps on giving, Gilly! Hope you enjoyed your spooky day!

[@MysticMike]

Just a point out but the shop for mega man world 4 was the 1st in the entire series of mega man to do such a thing. This predates Mega Man 7.

[@jessicastoker8932]

Interesting Fact: Enker is a mistranslation. Enker's name is musically-based, as a lot of Megaman/Rockman characters are, but just like how Blues (Protoman) is named after a genre, so is Enker... the Japanese islander genre of music called "Enka". No 'r' at the end. "En-kah". This is one of those weird examples of not being an egregious example - it's fairly common for words ending in "aah" to be the romanized "er", but this is the rare case of that not being true.

[@ajaxmaxbitch]

Enker is my word but you can call me Enka

[@tossingturnips]

Great video, Gil! I hardly ever played GB games as a kid, so it goes without saying I never touched any of these games before. I'm a diehard MegaMan fan as well and will gladly try all these. Also, I loved your Ballade quip. It got a good laugh out of me. It reminded me of a lot of your earlier videos before YT went ham on demonization.

[@TeryJones]

Yeah not gonna lie, Megaman World 3 is my absolute favorite. It was the first Mega Man game I ever owned as a kid and I even like it better than the NES MM3. Lot of nostalgic attachment to that game.

[@aweirdwombat]

I still remember the first time I tried Mega Man 5 on Gameboy. I was used to the other ones being remixes of the original games. I even owned 3. But then one day I tried 5 and was blown away. How was there an entirely fresh Mega Man game I had never heard of. Glad to see it still getting love. Very underrated.

[@trevorsreya8277]

Mega Man 2 (GB) was my intro into Mega Man, with Wily's Revenge being my second game for it. Also, I loved the MM2's soundtrack, but I've seen people complain about the pitch specifically. If you look up pitch corrected versions of the soundtrack on youtube, it's a much more enjoyable experience.

[@KBXband]

At first I didn't like the Game Boy Mega Man games but they've grown on me quite a bit. Each subsequent entry is better than the last.

[@TheZero1312]

What I find baffling is that no one attempted to create a fangame of World 5 in NES style.

[@supercamborg4218]

It does have a hack that turns it into a GBC game

[@TheZero1312]

@@supercamborg4218 I meant more than just color. All eight Stardroids are present in the stage select, the Wily Star is divided to multiple stages instead of one long stage.

[@supercamborg4218]

@@TheZero1312 Fair. Maybe it’ll happen some day, but the hack is still a very nice improvement in the meantime and shouldn’t be written off.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Could you imagine if it got an upgrade to Mega Man 11 specs?

[@milesaway1980]

I learned recently that the issue with the music in the Gameboy Mega Man 2 was that it's all 1 octave too high. The original music was developed and then sent over to the guy responsible for coding it into the game. He made an error and put it in 1 octave too high. The original composer didn't hear it until after the game was released and couldn't do anything about it at that point. There's a video floating around on KZbin where of all the music is resampled correctly and (while still Gameboy music) sounds a whole lot better. "Mega Man II GB Soundtrack - Pitch-corrected"

[@burgertim7878]

MM2's music composition isn't that bad, it's just that its way too high pitched. There's a remix album by Rushjet1 that's worth checking out.

[@alexnocraphole]

Mega Man II isn't considered a bad game, just the weakest of the Game Boy series. For the Game Boy overall, it's pretty okay, but the fact that it came out AFTER Dr. Wily's Revenge just makes it seem inferior rather than a okay, if very easy start.

[@NSegaStuff]

didn't know these existed. thank, Gill(or Gil?), for adding more to my backlog.

[@KBXband]

The third game is the one I prefer the most. Its a much more reasonable difficulty and the music rocks. 3 and 4 had my favorite stages so its nice to see them together. And its on the frickin' GAME BOY!!!

[@setteplays]

Just adding a lil bit of information, Enker is also named after a musical thing, "enka" is a traditional japanese style of music

[@Frieowksf1293]

I actually managed to get a copy of Mega Man V on Game Boy from a retro game store for about $10

[@ToyFreddyGaming1987]

I really hope the Mega Man Killers (and Quint) make a proper return one day. I know they appeared in 10, but those were just bonus stages, and they didn't even have Quint! Maybe in Mega Man 12, if that happens.

[@hgmd3284]

ok but what about Xtreme?

[@NSegaStuff]

what a Halloween right here!

[@canman87]

There's a fan-made colorized version of Mega Man 5, which you should check out if you haven't already. In addition to the updated color, it has other quality of life improvements like the removal of slowdown and the NES pause menu, but it actually works on real hardware as well if you're so inclined to want to try it that way 🙂

[@DaPepster]

Well done in this review, sir~ I 100% agree with every single thing you've said. I've been a huge fan of 4 & 5 for the GB since new and have completed them many times, and have only played 1-3 partially once.

[@thanoskell1335]

It's interesting to see someone talk about the game boy games outside of V, it always feels like the other four are always written off as just ports. I might give iv and v a shot since those two seem the most my speed out of these entries.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

On the one hand im glad for light's shop. On the other hand, damn. Light charges his own creation.

[@rockmanfan5104]

Megaman world 2 actually had a glitch that caused the music to all play a few pitches higher and even change some of the sounds completely. There is a romhack that fixes this glitch and plays the music as it was intended to sound. Its actually pretty darn good!! They have all the tracks posted online

[@dudujencarelli]

And their influence carried over to the main series in more ways than one. Mega Man 7 with its bigger sprites and cramped corridors is a spiritual sequel to MMV rather than the NES MM6. It starts with only 4 Robot Masters. It even has the rocket boomerang powerup, partly hidden R.U.S.H. letters for the Super Adaptor, plus collecting bolts for Auto's shop - a natural outgrowth of the P-chip shop system.

[@SiIverLeaf]

I genuinely think the worst part of the Rockman World games is the lack of rereleases outside of the 3DS Virtual Console. They are hard to play in any legitimate way without tracking down gameboy cartridges. I genuinely would think it'd be cool to see something like a Legacy Collection 3 that has them along side some other obscure titles like the Game Gear title.

[@LightningSizzle]

I always loved the gameboy games with Megaman World 5 being my favorite classic game in the series. The gameboy games hold a special place in my heart because it was where I got my start with the Megaman series. I owned all five of the Japanese version of these games which I got from a flee market and I was hooked on the series ever since then.

[@LightningSizzle]

Btw they are rom hacks for these games that I feel improve them/are neat Megaman World 1 (Full Color Hack) Megaman World 2 (ost improvement/fix that makes it one of my favorite Megan osts) Megaman World 3 (there are hacks that make the game easier) Megaman World 5 (Full Color Hack)

[@alexaldayLC]

Mega Man V (RMW5) was the first GB Mega Man I played back in the day, when I was a Teenager, I absolutely loved the whole of it, thus I was thrilling about playing the four previous ones, thinking they all had the same formula than V, Ohhh, how wrong I was

[@1080ike]

I'm hoping that you're going to cover the Mega Man Xtreme games on GBC. These are probably the most obscure X games, and I never hear anyone talk about them. I'm interested in learning more about them.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

Don't think I've heard of those

[@kozo213]

LETS GO I JUST REWATCHED THE CLASSIC VIDEO WHILE PLAYING THROUGH MEGA MAN AND BASS😂

[@SparklingWithNiGHTS-yv5fe]

*My Ranking:* 5>4>3>1>2.

[@randy7894]

Not bad? Mega Man 1 wilys revenge is glorious! One of the most fun mm games. period.

[@OmegaFox09]

You forgot to mention that you CANNOT run out of weapon energy for the mirror buster against Dr. wily. Once you’re out…THAT’S IT

[@yazarc]

I bought Megaman 4 on the gb brand new when it came out. I’ve played through it many times over the years. I had no idea about the charge shot upgrade..

[@mohamad20zx34]

Love your videos gily keep up the good work and you have yourself a new subscriber

[@capgorski]

Great video concept. I'm a fan of the Game Boy, but never got around to this series.

[@PowerPandaMods]

There are 2 MM Classic handheld games that you missed: Megaman on the Game Gear, which presents itself like a Megaman World game with bosses from MM4 and MM5. Then there is Rockman & Forte: Challenger from the Future on the Wonderswan, which is somehow a sequel to both MMW2 and Mega Man & Bass. Both are worth playing for completion's sake.

[@gillythekid]

Good thing this video is about the game boy games.

[@PowerPandaMods]

@@gillythekid Yep, hoping to see them in the next video. Thematically, they fit with the World Games though, so i wanted to mention them so other people know they are out there.

[@zeliardforty-two4692]

I was a big fan of the original three but I guess that could be by the fact that I had them as a kid. Absolutely loved my old Game Boy and definitely wanted the whole set. Unfortunately, like many Mega Man games, trying to get 4 and 5 requires taking out a small loan for a copy! **sigh** perhaps one day I’ll get to play these legit

[@space470-1]

what are you talking about? you don't need to shoot Enker's lance to hurt him, you can just spam shots at his body but can only hurt him then he's holding his lance up

[@keaton5101]

Rockman World 2 is actually the odd one out, having been developed by Thinking Rabbit. CAPCOM switched back to Minakuchi Engineering because they weren't happy with how it came out. Source: The Mega Man Complete Works Artbook

[@MegaMet98]

So Thinking Rabbit were the real devlopers. But how did people figuring out this conculsion?

[@BustershotTV]

Mm2 was my first gb game, i had no idea it was the black sheep and i didnt know he fought his future self?

[@safebox36]

You mentioned the charge shot being a love-hate thing for some people. I think I'd compare it to Sonic's spindash; not necessarily needed in every game, but definitely makes you feel naked / incomplete not having it.

[@abraveastronaut]

Another thing you could compare to Sonic's spindash is Punk's attack pattern.

[@SquirtleMan12]

The way to pronounce Ballade’s name is (Ba-lehd) (I heard it’s the British version of saying it) it’s a bit confusing, but that’s the more common way of saying it and it makes more sense.

[@Sylvauraa]

rockman world 2's soundtrack is a tragedy. behind those bleeps and bloops, there's an absolutely fire ost imo. Its just the soundfont is absolutely dogshit. Why was it raised so high?!

[@mrpiccionedivino5598]

It was raised so high because (from what i read) thinking rabbit developed games in the master system and trought the two console pitch(or whatever it's called)were similar, leading to the soundtrack we have now. At least we have fan remixes.

[@LadyWitchfox]

It might not be correct. I always pronounced his name, ballad, keeping with the musical theme of the naming conventions. Also, MegaMan IV on the game boy was the first MegaMan game I ever owned. It is a staple game of my childhood.

[@trevfirth6803]

Pretty sure the Megaman killer in world 4 is named after a form of classical music that's meant for dancing with a partner. A ballade

[@Shad809]

21:00 think it's supposed to pronounced as Ballad, like the music

[@williamdrum9899]

You'd be surprised to hear this (and forgiven for not being aware) but, other than the lack of full color and smaller resolution, the Game Boy is no slouch in the hardware department. Believe it or not it has 4 times as much RAM as the NES!

[@MissAshley42]

Rockman World isn't _that_ bad. It's just very. . .deliberate. Due to the screen crunch and limited options, you'll rarely be able to clear challenges in any way other than what the developer presumably intended. Like many early Game Boy action games, it's almost Tiger handheld-like in that regard.

[@bezoticallyyours83]

It's nowhere that bad

[@HANK_MC4]

I really wish capcom would port Megaman world to switch if not make a collection, they're Really good games and i used to constantly play rockman world 3 and 4 on 3ds

[@Zararthur]

Liked and Subscribed for "Added challenge they add" 👍 It sounds sarcastic, but I actually got a chuckle out of it. Plus, algorithm.

[@riahlexington]

Dude why the hell does Quint have Blues’ glasses, Quickman’s headpiece and a fucking pogo stick?

[@masonasaro2118]

why does he look like the captain n mega man, while we’re at it?

[@joek5882]

Keep the use of musical terms in mind as the developers used an old French spelling "ballade". His name is Ballad: in reference to a slow sentimental or romantic song. 😎 😎

[@Protoman85]

I beat the first four games recently so having this show up was timely. Crashmans music in 2 is good though, even you used it so I guess it was the most bearable to you? And I don't think the bossfights are easy at all(except 2) not Punk either, but I'm bad with timing-based challenges. 5 is definitely the best game.

[@cc_tw]

Wow I never knew about the secret Mega Buster upgrade in World 4 and 5. I can't find any footage of it being used. I'd appreciate if anyone can post a vid about it!