Everything feels a bit off, from the slower speed to some out-of-place new graphics to squashed enemy sprites (how does Wily shrink into his final mech?). For example, Wood Man’s level matches a shrunk copy of the NES’s, aside from a Gemini Man-inspired water segment with Needle Man spikes to dodge, in order to shoehorn in an area to use the Rush Marine. Rather than fully reimagine the original stages, most layouts are cribbed from the Nintendo titles with new elements slapped in haphazardly, much like a plagarized piece masking its swipe with some amateurish additions. The game this time was outsourced to Biox, a company unfamiliar with the Mega Man series, and it shows. Rush is available only after Mega Man beats the bosses who hold his powerups, which means Rush Coil isn’t available to at the start. However, the latter four Robot Masters now have complete stages selectable from teleporters in Wily’s Fortress.

Wily’s Revenge show up here, along with Top Man, Needle Man, Hard Man, and Magnet Man from Mega Man 3. The four Robot Masters from Mega Man 2 that didn’t appear in Dr.

Much like the first Game Boy release, the sequel merges two NES titles into one, though it is a bit more expanded in scope than before. Good job, Wily! He doesn’t even die when Mega Man fights him he just teleports out after taking enough hits. Instead of giving him a mega buster, he instead equips him with a pogo-jackhammer called a Sakugarne that only tosses up a few rocks. He is captured, brainwashed, and modified by Dr. Mega Man’s later self from some utopian future.

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