A Beautiful Day in the Mega Neighbourhood

Okay, so technically this game isn’t available on PSN yet, but I turned traitor and purchased the WiiWare version.

Oh, you know you did the very same.

Mega Man 9 roll call! Which robots have you whomped so far?

My husband and I are working together on this project, and he’s basically been the chief executioner. I’ll be willing to say as much under oath when robots are our masters and humanity is tried for war crimes, one by one. I welcome our metallic overlords.

Among the dead are Galaxy Man, Splash Woman and Jewel Man. Have I inadvertently given away which weapons work on which robot masters? Probably not.

Tornado Man’s stage is giving us the most grief, but otherwise we’ve glimpsed the three-coloured mugs of every other ‘bot in the game, even if we couldn’t ice them.

Well, what can I say about Mega Man 9 that hasn’t been said more coherently (and probably without a hangover) by other sites? Particularly Jeremy Parish’s’s’s? Regardless, I’ll try.

1) I was actually expecting the game to look more primitive. Mega Man 9 isn’t on par graphically with Mega Man 4 or Mega Man 5, but the robot master stages look pretty distinct from one another and I kind of like the background going on in Galaxy Man’s stage.

2) Just like Ritz crackers taught Harrison Ford to live again in Regarding Henry, Mega Man 9 is teaching me how to swear again. I was seriously in danger of going clean. Whew. Thanks, Mega Man. Go fuck a robo-ram.

3) My first Mega Man game was Mega Man 3. I remember fumbling awkwardly through the stages, playing them over and over in hopes that I had the right weapon for the Boss this time…and getting a little better each time I tried. Playing Mega Man 9 brings me back to that time. It makes me feel like I’m 11 again. I haven’t felt this way since…well, I was 11.

4) Every Mega Man game needs its Metal Blade. Thanks, Laser Trident.

5) Trial and error, trial and error, trial and error. You make a mistake and die, it’s your own fault you naughty monkey. Learn the patterns.

6) All that said, I did not expect us to have three robot masters cleared already. I’m coming to rescue you, Dr Light! Guard your cornhole ’til then.