Every level has branching paths now, including two different boss doors to reach, some of which will net you a circuit board, gather all of which will get you the bird sidekick Beat (who thankfully isn’t a near-necessity for certain bosses this time…) These both combine to give your certain alternate paths which you can only reach with the jet, or can only get to by breaking large blocks with the “Power Mega Man” blast. While the basics of the game remain the same (run, jump and slide your way through the levels, you can shoot rapid small blasts or hold to fire a larger charge shot, every time you beat a boss robot you get a new gun based off of their abilities, health, energy, refills for both being collectible, etc.) there are at least a couple of new things.įirst off, you get two new forms where you combine with robot dog Rush and gain new abilities, “Jet Mega Man”, where you can fly upwards and hover for a bit but you can’t use charge shot or slide, and “Power Mega Man”, where you can unleash a super-powerful short range blast, but you’re slow, have no reach and also can’t slide. I strongly considered jumping out of a window trying to do this part of the level…
It’s an odd mix of really basic elemental attack types and historical warriors. He has a long spear which probably has a specific name, but hey-ho). The final (NES-era) line up of Robot Masters are Blizzard Man (surprisingly only the second ice-based robot master so far!), Centaur Man (a Centaur robot who… can stop time…?), Flame Man (take a guess!), Knight Man (uses a medieval flail and shield to battle), Plant Man (creates a shield of plant bits and throws it, just like Wood Man’s Leaf shield, or Star Man’s Star Shield), Tomahawk Man (Stereotypical Native American garb, throws tomahawks!), Wind Man (I’m just surprised we haven’t used that one yet…) and finally we have Yamato Man (which just like Knight Man and Tomahawk Man, is based on an old warrior type, in this case, Japanese Samurai. It never got a release in Europe, therefore the 3DS Virtual Console version of the game, released in June 2013, is Mega Man 6’s PAL release date… Mega Man 6, known in Japan as “Rockman 6: The Greatest Battle of All Time!!”, which may be a slight case of over-hyping, was first released in November 1993 in Japan, and March 94 in the US. Keeping up the tradition of forgetting to take a screenshot of the select screen! Anyway, does Mega Man’s original run end with a bang or a whimper? Let’s find out! If this is your first time visiting this blog, you may be thinking “Why Mega Man 6?”, well, throughout the year I’ve reviewed 1-5, so this not only ends the original NES run of Mega Man games on this blog, but it’s also the Mega Man franchise rep for the Smash Bros.