Lets Play: Mega Man Legacy Collection Part 5: Mega Man 5

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 Oh goody, Mega Man 5. You know at this point in going through all of these games back to back the flaws in them start to become pretty clear. We have the same structure, aesthetics and honestly it's starting to get hard telling these games apart. But yeah, Mega Man 5 isn't exactly my most beloved entry in the franchise since the NES cut and paste formula is starting to get to me. But that's with hindsight and an all that if you love Mega Man 5 more power to you it's just that basically playing the same game 5 times in a row with various spurts of innovation is tiring.

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Month of Mayga Man: Worst to best Classic Mega Man games

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 To conclude the first (and hopefully not last) month of Mayga Man I’ll go down the list of almost all of the classic Mega Man games and list them all from the ones I’d rather not play again to my personal favorites. I’m not saying that the worst one on this list is terrible I mean all of classic Mega Man is sound and has a fantastically simple yet effective foundation but it’s just the one that I felt didn’t do much more then that at the end of the day. Though before I start with anything; no, Mega Man and Bass is not on the list. Mostly due to me not playing it, I mean I have the GBA version but with everything else wrong with Mega Man and Bass on top of that screen crunch, no thank you. So we'll start with my least favorite to my personal favorite.

 Well you know what they say, worst is first and for me that’s Mega Man 5. Now I've been marathoning the classic games and I guess that my have affected my ratings I fully admit that, but yeah there's other reasons why I'm not the biggest Mega Man 5 fan. Namely some of the weapons suck, looking at you Power Stone, Charge Kick and Star Arrow (yes I know it's not a weapon technically but it's the weakness of one of Wily's forms so it counts.) Though this entry did introduce Beat and the Mega Tank, literal lifesavers during the Wily Castle stages. But yeah I may give Mega Man 5 another shot in my spare time but for right now, it's at the bottom of my list.

The one time anyone was afraid of Dr Wily. 

 Following that is the one that started the annoying extra castle gimmick to begin with, Mega Man 3. But not only did we have the predecessor to the extra castles but we also had to figure out the weaknesses of the Mega Man 2 robots with Mega Man 3 weapons thanks to the Doc Robots. Those stages are merciless, if you die against the first Doc Robot of the Extra stage then it's back to the start with you. Now with the rewind feature in the legacy collection this is more of an annoyance than anything but without it, welcome to pain, especially in the Needle Man Doc Robot stage. This on top of the final boss being taken out with one of the worst weapons in the game doesn't help, but at least we got Rush and sliding which became main-staples of the classic series (except when 9 and 10 took out sliding but whatever.)

 Now I would have put the original Mega Man at the bottom of the list just for the American box art alone. But it’s the first of the series so of course it wouldn't hold up compared to the later games. Hell, this would most likely be just a one hit wonder if not for Mega Man 2 but I’ll still cut the first game some slack since it was the first untested game in the series so some missteps are expected. Nevertheless this game is classic Nintendo hard and if you can beat it without the rewind feature or exploiting the Elec beam trick then you deserve all the credit out there. But of course if you use the rewind feature I certainly won't blame you, especially with Guts Mans stage, ugh.

 After Mega Man 1 is the end of the retro revisits, Mega Man 10. Sure it still has the store and selectable difficulty that could help less experienced players and it does let you play as Bass without having to suffer Mega Man and Bass, but it doesn't get much higher on my list. The special weapons are a major step down from Mega Man 9 in my opinion, some of the robot masters are borderline impossible to beat without their weakness or just have very annoying patterns "cough Commando Man cough".  Though this again could be because of me being burnt out on the series due to my marathon play though of the classic series for this month. But if I still put it so high on my list despite said burn out it does speak to its quality so make it what you will.

 After 10’s annoyances next on the list is the proper end of the original NES era, Mega Man 6. After playing though 5 NES games a little annoyance does tend to creep in when it feels like you're playing the same game six times in a row. Though this game did introduce the power and jet adaptors, while we did lose Rush due to this the trade off was not only becoming one of the most powerful iterations of Mega Man and making the robot master weapons almost useless. Unless you were using them against the castle bosses I mostly just stuck to the adaptors for the majority of my play through. So while the adaptors make this game the most fun I had with the NES era it came at the cost of what made the series special to begin with so I have to knock some points off there resulting in a rather meh entry overall.

 Now here’s where we start to get to the good ones. After the meh of 6 we get the revisit to the classic design that was the pinnacle of the NES aesthetics but with modern sensibilities, Mega Man 9. It seems that after 10 years of hibernation, the classic series got the revamp it needed thanks to Inti creates' take on the blue bomber. Not only creating a challenging game but giving us some of the absolute best Robot Master weapons in the game. Though the trade off was removing the charge shot and slide but it seems fair with weapons this good and level design this solid to complement them.

 Here we have what is considered to be the best game in the series, Mega Man 2. Now I have to admit that Mega Man 2 does hold up far more than the original game. The weapons are very versatile, the introduction of E tanks was a god send and the difficulty of the level design was just right. However there is the problem of the seizures that this game can cause you around the Wily stages. So I have to knock off points for a game that while overall very solid and genre defining can still seriously hurt people.

 Now we have the only Super Nintendo entry of the classic series, Mega Man 7. After the 6 NES games in a row, this with the new graphics, music and challenging game play was just what the doctor ordered. They even brought back the adaptors by finding all of the letters to spell out RUSH hidden in the first four stages. Yes the 8 robot masters are split up into two categories for story purposes that, while it does hurt replayability quite a bit doesn't hurt the sheer fun that this entry can provide. But its not perfect, like I said the story decision to cut the stage selection in half hurts replay, some of the bosses suffer from Spark Mandril syndrome and that Wily Capsule final boss fight, like Caddicarus said can suck on cold meat!

 Coming in at #3 we have my personal favorite entry of the NES era, Mega Man 4. After the very shaky implementation of the extra castle stages that felt like padding in Mega Man 3 and after this game Mega Man 4 somehow seems to perfect the concept. Also the Robot Masters while many can be challenging (especially Skull Man) can be much easier to handle with the newly introduced charge shot for the Mega Buster. The special weapons are also very effective for more than just Robot weaknesses, not a terrible one in the bunch. This combined with the introduction of easy E-tank dispenser Eddie makes this is the most balanced and refined NES era Mega Man game as of this list.

 #2 has the the slot filled by the only PS1 entry, Mega Man 8. A key factor for me in judging these games seems to be how useful and fun the robot master weapons are to use and does that ever show with Mega Man 8. Not only do they help with normal enemies as well as not being instant win buttons against the Robot master they're strong against but they can also help you with environmental puzzles and cover the 40 bolts hidden throughout the 8 stages. The upgrades while limited due to the limits placed on them via the 40 bolts can make Mega Man into an unstoppable force if you have the right combination of upgrades. This combined with the MST3K quality English dub makes Mega Man 8 a personal favorite of mine and it saddens me that we'll most likely never return to the 32 bit aesthetic of this game again, but c'est la vie progress marches on and what not.

 We end this long, long list with what I consider to be the best of the classic series so far, Mega Man 11. Now it’s not because it’s the newest game, I honestly feel like this is the most refined, enjoyable and overall fun classic game so far. The weapons are fun to use, the stages are not too long, have a good difficulty balance and the inclusion of the double gear system allowed the developers to really change the challenge of Mega Man. Though that’s mostly with the speed gear, the power gear does the impossible job of making these great weapons even better (even potentially alluding to how Dr Light got the idea to let Mega Man X charge his special weapons with the arm parts.) Also we finally get some proper backstory as to how Dr Light and Willy’s relationship started to sour back when they were students at the Robot University. 

 On top of the main game and its multiple difficulty options it comes with a plethora of optional challenges while, superfluous can still give you a few hours of challenges for those looking for it. But whoever came up with the Dr Light trials is as nuts as Dr Wily. I'll platinum this one someday but not today. Also the extra bolt item is only available if you play on a Saturday, what, why? But those trials combined with the outright awesome music makes this, for the time being my personal favorite classic Mega Man game.

 So that's it for me and Mega Man for a little while. Though I'll still post my lets play of Mega Man 5 at the end of the week I won't be touching classic Mega Man until they come out with Mega Man 12. Next year I'll get to gushing about my favorite series, Mega Man X in pretty much the say way as the classic series. But for now it's high time I got back to covering Homura's Revenge. At least as long as nothing else unexpected pops up of course.

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Lets Play: Mega Man Legacy Collection Part 4: Mega Man 4

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 We've reached Mega Man 4 and here's where I believe the series has reached a certain level of comfort with its design. While the Robot Master weakness' do require a bit of brain power to figure out (without looking it up) there are still some that can be easily taken down with knowledge of their strategies. Besides with the slide, new charge shot and some patience you could at least get started on figuring out the patterns with enough trial and error. But when we get to the castle stages, oh dear me. Sure the platforming might not be a challenge but it's the length and lack of resources that will really test you more than anything if you're not that observant.

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Lets Play: Mega Man Legacy Collection Part 3: Mega Man 3

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 Oh Mega Man 3, you are quite the odd duck. Apparently one whole Robot Master weakness chain was too much for you to handle so you had two lopsided ones instead. But then we have the Doc Robots to really cheese my onions, each of them is a Mega Man 2 Robot Master that you have to beat with Mega Man's new weapons, good luck with that. But then we still have a Dr Wily castle to get through in addition to the Doc Robot stages. And the last boss is weak to Top Spin, aka the worst weapon in Mega Man period, done moving on to Mega Man 4!

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Month of Mayga Man: Worst Robot Masters of each Mega Man game.

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Nit exactly the best image I can find but for these clowns it's fitting.

 Ok, now that I’ve got my favorite Robot Masters out of the way it’s time to empty my barrels at the ones I hate the most. Once again I’m only counting down my least favorite ones from each game.

 Starting with the first game there’s only one Robot Master in this bunch that haunts my nightmares, Guts Man. His stage is unholy with the bottomless pit jumps with the dropping platforms, his weapon is far too situational and without his weakness I can never beat him because I can never get the timing for his jumps down so he just steamrolls me. Not to mention his overuse in the series as a whole makes me really tired of the guy, really fast. Why Wily insists on reusing this bucket of bolts is a mystery to me. But one that I'm in no hurry to solve.

 Speaking of hurry my pick for worst in Mega Man 2 is Quick Man. Once again like with Guts Man if you don’t have his weakness he’ll reduce you to scrap faster then you can say Gangsta’s Paradise. But when you do have his weapon he’s a complete and utter joke. Literally just press the button and he goes down with the power of Za Worldo, even if you can't use your Mega Buster while he’s immobile he just takes damage from not being able to move. It like his restless leg syndrome is absolutely fatal to him or something.

 As for my pick for my worst Mega Man 3 boss of course I was going to pick Top Man. I could go on about how his boss fight is rather easy but of course I’m going to pick on him for his special weapon. Why wouldn’t I; his weapon the Top Spinner is one of the absolute worst weapons in Mega Man history. You can take major damage just from using it, it doesn’t damage any of the regular enemies as far as I can tell and it just drains your weapon energy from one use and do nothing, even if it’s used on the enemies that it’s supposed to work against. But yet for some ungodly reason it can take out Gamma in one attack if you can do it right because the game seems to hate you.

 Moving on to Mega Man 4 we have the biggest jobber in the series. All you have to do to beat Toad Man is just hit him with the standard lemon blasts. It will restart his patterns and cause him to just jump over you, repeat until you win and get not only his weapon but the Rush Marine.  If it wasn't for the fact that his weapon is basically a screen nuke I'd honestly consider Toad Man to be the easiest boss in the series. I mean even Spark Mandril and all the flack he gets for the naming of the trope doesn't even compare to how pathetic Toad Man is.

 Charge Man from Mega Man 5 is a robot that runs on coal and steam, as confirmed by the Wiki this design makes Charge Man incredibly impractical and high maintenance. Why in god's name would Wily design Charge Man off of a steam engine instead of an electric train, aesthetics? It just makes for a pissed off Thomas the Tank Engine. If that wasn't bad enough his attack is almost as bad as Top Man and his weakness, the Power Stone hits with one of the worst firing patterns I've seen for a weapon. Combined with the invincibility of his charge and coal attacks make him a pain to fight, just an all around pain in the caboose to deal with.

 I have to be honest, I really don't have an issue with any of the Robot Masters of Mega Man 6. But if I had to make a pick I guess Wind Man would have to get the short straw. Though most of the Robot Masters and their respective weapons are easily ignorable in this entry due to the existence of the Rush Power and Flight Adapters making the weapons almost useless except agains the bosses. Though speaking of Wind Man he has the same weakness as Quick Man and can be taken down in 7 shots with the Centaur Flash. So I guess that's my reason, sorry buddy.

 Moving on to Mega Man 7 we have Freeze Man the only one of the first 4 robot masters of that entry that I have issue with. The rest of the three have easy to dodge patterns and can be great for first time players. Freeze Man on the other hand has very hard to read patterns and seems to have counters for every attack you have. Unless you have his weakness and exploit it he'll just leave you out in the cold. I mean I could have gone with the ones who actually have Spark Mandril syndrome but in this case this guy is a beginners trap as far as I can guess.

 From the first four Robot Masters of Mega Man 8 I have my pick, Clown Man. Like I said with Freeze Man; Clown Man is the one of the first four that can give first time players a rather sizable headache. Not to mention I find his final design a major step down from his submitted and design. In case you don't know Mega Man 8's Robot Masters aside from Tengu Man and Astro Man were contest winners, and Clown Man's original design is much more terrifying and cool than the one they went with. Yes I know the original might not fit in aesthetically but come on!

 For Mega Man 9's retro throw back my pick for worst Robot Master is the hot headed Magma Man. His attack pattern is annoying and almost guaranteed to hit you thanks to the uneven terrain of his boss fight room, his weakness doesn't even fully kill him and just how does he even move his shoulders? Though at least his special weapon isn't too bad. But then again so are most of the Mega Man 9 weapons so what makes his so special? Honestly just like with Mega Man 6, I'm kind of reaching on this one.

 The same cannot be said for Mega Man 10's Commando Man. Remember Guts Man and my complaints about him? Well imagine his jump causing quakes coupled with recision jumps and rocket launchers that cause major splash damage and you have Commando Man. Not even the fact that he's green can save him from my ire since he reminds me far too much about my most legit hated Robot Master in the series. Besides his Weapon isn't too bad even if it is too fast to control properly and is basically a remote controlled Crash Bomber.

 Oh dear lord Torch Man where do I start with his guy. Let's start with his stage where unless you know what you're doing you'll be treated to more instant deaths then you can shake a stick at. It's full of tight jumps, instant death fire walls (that admittingly can be stopped with Tundra Man's weapon) and bottomless pits. Then there's the guy himself, unless you know what you're doing with the speed Gear his Torch Jutsu, overwhelming power, insane speed and awesome voice will make you his brand new punching bag. Not to mention that when he activates his Power Gear he can become a flaming meteor of fiery death.

 So that's my picks for my least liked Robot Masters in the Mega Man games released to date. Now I would keep up the pattern for next week's entry but since John Wick Chapter 3 comes out this week that takes priority, since you do not refuse John Wick by any means necessary. But in case you haven't seen them (shame on you first of all) he's my link to the second movie to get you prepped for the third one. Afterwords I'll go over my overall favorite Mega Man games of the classic era. Which I bet won't be controversial at all.


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Lets Play: Mega Man Legacy Collection Part 2: Mega Man 2 (Seizure warning)

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 Ah Mega Man 2, what many consider to be the best game in the series. I can see why some people think that, the balance of difficulty is much improved compared to the first game, the weapons are varied and useful and the introduction of E-tanks and the navigation items are worth a mention. But I still think that there are some games that come after that took what this game did and improve on it, but without Mega Man 2 we wouldn't have the proper balance that the series needed. But the game does have some flaws, not the least of which is the potential for seizures once you get to the Wily stages. So yes, viewer discretion is advised with the second video on this page if you are susceptible to seizures.

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Month of Mayga Man: Favorite Robot Masters of each Mega Man game.

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Sorry for the lack of Mega Man 11 Robots this was the best one I could find.

 Welcome one and all to a new theme month. For every Monday of May this year I’m going to cover a topic related to one of the most beloved game series of all time, Mega/Rockman. After going through both the Classic and X legacy collections i’ve got a bit of the Blue bomber stuck in my head and I figured i'd just go with it. As for this list I’ll be covering my favorite Robot Master from each of the 11 games of the classic series so far. But before I start let me clarify one thing, this list is only listing my favorite robot master from every numbered entry, not overall just going from Mega Man 1 through 11 mostly focusing on their design and aesthetics. So without further ado we'll start with my favorite Robot Master from the first game, Elec Man.

"Well isn't this a shocking choice?!"

 Now considering that the original game had only 6 Robot Masters (not counting Time Man and Oil Man from Powered up) there wasn’t much to choose from. So I figured I’d just go for the one who annoyed me the least and Elec Man won by a landslide. Since it was the first game I’m willing to give the lack of diversity in design some slack since, hell everybody thought that Mega Man was gong to be a one and done series with the first one until Inafune and his guys completed Mega Man 2 on the side so for the first game, Elec Man gets the job done. Plus his weapon the elec beam is an undoubted life saver. I did the Elec Beam trick agains the Yellow Devil and Wily, I admit it and you all did too!

"Guess I was just a cut above the rest."

 For my pick from Mega Man 2 what many people consider to be the best game in the classic series my favorite Robot Master is Metal Man. Yeah unoriginal but you have to admit that his weapon the Metal Blade is by far one of the most broken weapons in gaming. Aside from that a robot that was made strictly for the purpose of killing Mega Man and was given said OP weapon to do it while covered in sharp, pointy blades it seems like this was the one that would get the job done. Though the name for this guy is more than a tad redundant since, well robots are made of metal. It'd be like calling a human, Meat man.

"Expecting someone else? The world just bites doesn't it?"

 For the third game which apparently had the worst production history that Inafune worked on (until Mighty Number 9 that is) we have Snake Man. Now how a snake themed Robot would fit into gathering energy crystals to power a giant peace keeping robot is questionable but hey I guess Wily just wanted an excuse to make this guy. Nevertheless this guy does look cool, I mean there's just some constants that make things cool by default, one of those being snakes. Plus he's green and with my favorite color on top of a basic but functional design makes Snake Man my favorite Mega Man 3 Robot Master.

"Yep, I'm awesome, no bones about it."

 Another default design that earns cool points, skulls. I mean if you want a robot that just screams evil, just add a skull or two and you're good to go, why do you think Wily has the whole skull motif in the first place? Now as for the functionality of this guy as a combat robot he pulls it off really well as without his weakness it's a hard time taking him down. Though sadly this Skull Man has no relation to that other Skull Man but oh well he works well otherwise. So from a design and fighting stand point I kind of dig Skull Man.

"Sorring high above the, HEY, great now I'm hungry."

 Oh I had to make that joke. Sadly Mega Man 5 seems to be where the Robot Master designs were getting to be a bit of the same old, same old. So I had to go with the Robot most often mistaken for a Sandwich. On his own he can be taken down pretty easily with the Mega Buster and provides a fair challenge, though with his weakness he's no trouble at all. But just keep an eye out for him because if you're not careful this green menace will make you a Mega Sandwich, right Barry?

"Sorry, this steed's anything but noble!"

 After the meh of Mega Man 5 Mega Man 6 takes a page from G Gundam's book and goes for an International theme for their robots. (Though thankfully nothing as stupidly hilarious as the Windmill Gundam, HAH.) (Side note possible list for dumbest robot designs in future.) And representing Greece is the time master Centaur Man. Now aside from the fact that he's my favorite color I also like the, well Centaur design of him.

 Most of the time the Robot Masters just stick to a humanoid form but as the name implies Centaur Man is definitely going to stand out from the crowd with his equine design. Though just like Gyro Man if you know what his patterns are he makes for a decent first boss in Mega Man 6. Though no, I won't be making a Jojo reference with Centaur Man's time stop powers, we have more then enough of them thank you very much.

"What a lovely night, care to go get a drink with me?"

 Now that we're finally done with the NES aesthetics (for now anyway) we move on to the Super Nintendo with Shade Man. Now, I love the blatant evil vampire design of this guy. He was originally built for a haunted house amusement park and after Dr Wily made some modifications he became a real threat. Not only could this guy unleash super sonic attacks but he can also make like his design and suck oil out of robots to regain his strength making for a tough fight if you're not careful. Also the fact that even with his weakness he doesn't have Spark Mandril syndrome and reset his patterns after being hit it is a major plus.

" Oh dear, why'd I have to be here?"

 Moving to the PS1 entry we have Astro Man. Once again its the green guy that gets the pick but I also like the spherical design and how he flies around with his anti-gravity spheres. Though trying to fight this guy can be a problem, when you fight him it can get really hard to hit him and his Astro Crush attack is basically a screen nuke. Though to compensate somewhat is that he has a terrible case of Spark Mandril syndrome since if you hit him with his weapon you'll stun lock him if you keep the offense on and he'll never get a shot off. Also since he shows up in Mega Man and Bass he's technically my pick from that game as well since I'm not touching that beast, especially the GBA version since it's the only one I have access to without emulators.

"When I'm done, you'll be seeing a lot more then stars!"

 After the classic blue bomber's 10 year hiatus we go back to the 8-bit aesthetics. So for that entry we have the goofy looking but somewhat cute Galaxy Man. Aside from green and unique designs I also have a weakness for robots that can transform such as Galaxy Man. He can turn into a classic 50's style UFO, fly around and even drop black holes to draw Mega Man into a painful love tap if you're not careful. Also his stage is a rather interesting challenge with the warp tube gimmick and the grabber enemies are a decent test of your memory making for an overall decent robot.

"That Terui Ryu guy stole my entire gimmick, where's my lawyer?" 

 Yep another transformer for this list and boy this guy is a beast without his weakness. Now the transformer gimmick was cool enough but if you go into a fight with him without his weakness Nitro Man's going to leave you as roadkill pizza. On top of the wheel cutters he throws he can also go so fast he can climb up the walls of his arena. Even if you know his weakness triggering the major damage can be a pain, but I won't give it away for those who haven't played. But yeah a fast, transforming motorcycle bot, of course he's cool.

"It's playtime everybody!"

 Last we have my personal favorite from the most recent classic Mega Man game, Bounce Man. I mean, how can you not like this guy, he's a big, bouncing ball of joy who looks like if the Disney version of Baymax was painted pink. On top of that his personality makes him seem like a big kid who just wants to have fun and bounce around. Which makes the fact that you have to fight and destroy him just because he was reprogramed by Wily into a war machine all the more sad. Also his stage is just my personal favorite one from Mega Man 11 since it's just a big old bounce castle/ indoor amusement park and I've always loved those when I was a kid so seeing that got my nostalgia gears turning.

 So those were my favorite Robot Masters from Mega Man 1 though 11. If you didn't see yours here let me know who's your favorite from each game and why. But if you think that this is going to be all fun, sunshine and cool designs, it's not. Next week I'll go over my least favorite Robot Masters from each game. Spoiler, Top Man is going to be my pick for Mega Man 3 because everything about him just sucks.

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Lets Play: Mega Man Legacy Collection Part 1: Mega Man 1

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 Hey folks, this week we officially start a new tradition for the blog, the month of Mayga Man. For the entire month of May (except for my Saturday streams "wink wink nudge nudge" I'll be covering something related to Mega Man. So where better to start than with a Lets Play of the NES classic that started it all? Also yes, I will be playing it from the Legacy Collection and yes I used the rewind feature, why, cause I played the original and payed my dues that's why! Especially when it comes to the original, because without it I'd go insane.

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Lets Play: Mega Man 11: Wily's Gear Fortress

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 So yeah, Mega Man 11 is one of the best games of the year and a great return for the Blue Bomber. Though is it just me or is this like the easiest Wily Castle so far? I mean there was more then a fair share of troubles what with the gear jumps, Yellow Level Mk3 and Wily's new machine is crazy but yeah overall it's not too bad. Now hopefully there'll be some DLC with Protoman or Bass. But you know what would be really awesome, Mega Man X9, hopefully this game's success will get Capcom off their butts and get on that.

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Personal Post: Top 10 monsters in fiction I can’t take seriously Part 2

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Yep here we are with Part 2 of what might be my most controversial list in the history of this blog. So to reignite the fires of anger, here's the link to Part 1 of my list and off we go.

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Alright here's where the real hurt starts.

#5 The Ganma from Kamen Rider Ghost

 Ghost was a botched mess of a show. While it did have a moderately good opening arc it just kept dragging on the whole 99 days to collect the 15 eyecons to resurrect Takeru arc. Not helped by the Ganma, the villain faction for the series. Not only did we have to wait until the V-Cinema to actually get any backstory for them but before hand their MO was inconsistent between the series and movies. In Movie War Genesis the main bad guy was the Da Vincci Ganma who apparently was the real Da Vincci who turned evil for some reason but its inconsistent with the Advanced Ganma in the main series. 

 Not to mention the designs for them is rather, economical. It’s basically just an advanced Ganma Grunt suit with some parka style alteration, a good inversion to Ghost and Specter’s parka ghosts. But then again maybe if they had a bit more of a budget to work with these issues could have been mediated, but I wonder how that could have been resolved eh?!

 Now I’m not expecting complex backstories for every monster faction in Kamen Rider but at least have a consistent one. But with how Ghost was handled we should be grateful that it turned out at least as coherent as it was.

#4 Christabella from the Silent Hill comics.

 In the big debate between which 90’s horror video game franchise is the best I’ll always take Silent Hill over Resident Evil any day of the week. That's even in lieu of the unholy bullshit heaped upon the series due to Konami being Konami. When you think of Silent Hill monsters you think of nightmares brought to life, abominations against god, man and everything decent brought forth by an otherworldly force to torment some schlub who just so happened to wander into the titular town. Each of these creatures are manifestations of the twisted and dark psyches of the visitors to the town as either a form of punishment, judgement or what have you. All we do know is that they’re unholy monsters that will not stop until you’re dead.

 What we don’t think of is an annoying demon girl who thinks that doing her worst impression of the Angry Video Game Nerd is being scary. What we have is Christabella, a reoccurring antagonist in the dreadful Silent Hill comics written by the late Scott Ciencin. Linkara just covered the very last Silent Hill comics written by him so he can give you a general view of his Silent Hill work, in short it’s not good. 

http://atopthefourthwall.com/silent-hill-hunger/

 Forgoing any of the themes of Silent Hill Christabella is an inconsistent little brat who is either a ghost of a girl who was killed by child molesters or is a shapeshifting demon. Either way she's an overly snarky, annoying, bratty waste of ink who is the complete antithesis of the spirit of Silent Hill. Whatever Scott was going for with this character and his version of the town we’ll never know; so what we’re left with is 11 issues of this stupid demon trying to do, something while dancing around the machinations of her sociopath sorcerer sister Lauren and the even more pointless and annoying not-villain Whately. Also, no she has no relation to the Christabella in the equally bad Silent Hill movie so there, I just saved you more time avoiding bad Silent Hill content. Now if only there was a way to get rid of those Pachinko machines.

#3 The Daleks from Dr Who

 No I’m not trolling with this one, I have absolutely no idea how anyone can take these Cycloptic trash cans seriously. Now I have very little exposure to Dr Who and the Daleks in particular. What little I’ve seen is from Nash’s reviews of classic Dr Who which includes such highlights as Daleks in Manhattan, Evolution of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks and the two Dr Who movies where the Daleks are portrayed as basically weaponized bumper cars. 

https://vimeo.com/radiodeadair

 Anyone who’s seen these episodes or those reviews can see why I can’t take these dumb things seriously. Yes I'm aware that these are apparently supposed to be Nazi allegories but if I wanted that I’d stick to the real deal as Alucard rips them to shreds thank you very much. Oh and I can’t really take these things seriously when I see what they really look like out of the weaponized bumper cars either. I don’t get a feeling of dread and terror I get a feeling of relief that there aren’t any Japanese High school girls nearby as well as annoyance that I don’t have an open grill, olive oil and lemon wedges. To reiterate I’m not a Dr Who fan and I don’t have a vendetta against the show I’m just calling it as I see it. And all I see is the oddest serving of Fried Calamai I’ve ever seen.

#2 Sparkly Pricks (Vampires from Twilight)

 Yeah yeah you all knew this was coming, like anyone who has a functioning brain cell I cannot take these glitter ghouls seriously. For the longest time Twilight has tainted the image of the Vampire from a blood sucking demon of the dark who turned his back on God and is cursed to stalk the night, feasting on the blood of innocents to survive to Sploosh material for a horny cougar. Yeah not exactly the best adaptation of the French classic Beauty and the Beast but hey if it makes money who cares? Though granted considering how convoluted the myth of the vampire is there’s plenty of depictions and routes for adaptation. Hell the only other thing in popular media that’s more disconnected from the source material are Ninjas. 

 But there has to be at least some standards. Not to mention these things were so influential they’ve tarnished the image of the vampire in popular culture. For those too young to remember Twilight was everywhere and of course everyone with merchandise, parodies and what have you. If you mentioned vampires you were automatically redirected to Twilight, all the classics, replaced with that tool from the fourth Harry Potter movie. Now werewolves didn’t get off so easily since they got dragged into this BS too but the vampires were the focus and thus got dragged through the mud the most. 

 Especially since the main focus was a boring plank of wood trying to save another plank of wood from getting killed every other second. Whether is was by her own doing, trying to boink a grown up Shark Boy or by being a manipulative psychopath he still wound up with one of the worst types of people you could hope to never come across. At the end of the day Twilight and its author was forgotten and for good reason. It’s a real shame that Toei did better with the concept of the Vampire in Kamen Rider Kiva (which I have no doubt was made that way to cash in on Twilight’s popularity like how they later copied Persona 5 with Lupinranger vs Patranger.) then Stephanie Mayer, just put a steak in this franchise, it’s done.

 Now for a list of honorable mentions.

The Robot Masters from Mega Man.

 I was going to put them on for the their non threatening appearances, weak powers, not being as intimidating as the Mavericks from Mega Man X and Dr wily being him. But then Mega Man 11 happened and the double gear system made that crop of Robots completely change my opinion of them, especially if Mega Man games following 11 keep up the Double Gear gimmick and make them just as hard to beat.

Monsters from Stephen King

 Now King has made some great work as well as hilarious so that’s why I cut him some slack this time. But still there’s plenty I could have chosen. Let’s see we have Tim Curry as a shapeshifting killer clown who likes to troll people, Bill Skarsgård as another shapeshifting killer clown who likes to do crazy dances, killer chocolate rum balls with chainsaw teeth who eat every second of time, killer corn, the Green Goblin’s face on a sentient truck, a modern day flowers for Algernon patient becoming Skynet, rejects from Cats, and to top it all off, Shit weasels.

Space Shogunate Jark Matter from Ucchu Sentai Kyuuranger

 Now I never finished Kyuuranger thus why this villain faction didn’t make it on the list. But from what I can tell it was just a random mishmash of aliens lead by a dumbass immortal who got beaten by a group of dumbasses lead by the worst Red Ranger in Sentai to date.

Majin Buu from Dragonball

 He’s a giant pink man child who turns people into candy with it’s antenna thing that quite frankly should be censored. He did get more dangerous when he regressed back to Kid Buu but the big pink bubble gum Jinn is still around and you can tell that Toriyama wanted to end Dragonball Z with Cell because it really does show here. But now all that leaves us is my #1 pick.

#1 Any monster by M. Night Shyamalan

 Yes of all the monsters I’ve gone over are debatable and up to everyone’s own personal standards. What’s scary for some people might be silly for others that’s totally understandable. But for the life of me I cannot think of anyone who was truly scarred of any of the monsters created by M Night Shyamalan. From the dumbass Aliens from Signs, the killer tree farts from the Happening to the, whatever it was in Lady in the water, the dumbest depiction of the lord of lies in Devil to the monsters from After Earth who were killed by a guy named Cypher Raige. Whenever Shyamalan tries to go off the beaten path he just winds up going off the rails. 

 I’ll tell you how they’re just so dumb in their own unique ways going in the order I just listed. In Signs it turns out the aliens are weak to wood and water is like acid to them. So why in the name of Jesus Paint huffing Christ did they try to invade a planet that is mostly wood and water?! Also focusing on Mel Gibson and his farm instead of major government capitals? You know you’re dumb when the aliens from Mars attacks are doing more logical military moves then you. 

 On to the trees from the Happening, apparently they can somehow make people decide to kill themselves in over the top fashion because of, reasons that make Birdemic look like a nature documentary. I mean at least Bridemic give a cause for their stupidity, this is just because the plot said so! Also Devil taught us that if you drop a piece of toast and it lands Jellyside down, you’re under the light of the Morningstar, uh huh. The lore behind the whatever they are in Lady in the Water is so convoluted and ridiculous it only could have come from the mouth of sheer, unfiltered, Kishin grade madness. As for the monsters that can only hunt by a person’s fear in After Earth, they were killed by a guy named Cypher Raige, need I say more?!

 I know that Shyamalan has been making a come back with the Visit, Split and the soon to be released Glass but we can never forget the many, many time we took a look at his body of work and just asked “what was this guy on?!” So that’s it for the top 10 monsters in in fiction that I can’t take seriously. Any thing I overlooked, got wrong or just didn’t get? Then leave a comment as we wait for next time where we cover my personal list of villains of the MCU to cap off the 10 year anniversary.

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Kamen Rider is owned by Ishinomori Productions, Toei Productions, and Bandai.
Silent Hill is owned by Konami Computer Entertainment #FucKonami
Doctor Who is Owned by BBC, Sydney Newman, C.E. Webber and Donald Wilson.
Twilight is owned by Stephanie Meyer
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