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It makes sense why so many people started saying that mega man 2 is the best in the series, it was probably one of the only nes games children beat in that age, since almost every other nes game is extremely hard, meaning that mega man 2 gave a lot of children very fond memories of it
Fun fact: the Metal Blade has potentially infinite ammo. Your ammo goes down one tick with every 4 shots, and the counter resets every time you pause. Same for the Quick Boomerang.
It’s likely my nostalgia talking, but MegaMan 2 is my favorite. It was the first MegaMan game I had played, which was the week it was released. For me, it was a bit easy, but I still enjoyed it as a leisurely escape without frustration.
I've just recently played mega man 1-7 and I didn't grow up in the 80s/90s since I was born in the 2000's. I personally think the second game is good for a sequel but broken in design and I consider 3 to be better than both 1 and 2 for reasons I'll probably state in the next video. Nice review glad to see someone non-biased when it comes to judging something.
(SON OF MAIN USER SPEAKING) THE NAMES OF EVERY MINOR ENEMY AND WILY STAGE BOSS IN ROCKMAN 2 I have way too much time on my hands ._. prepare for worthless information the Flying enemies that try to stomp you in Crash Man, Heat Man, and Wily Stage 2 are named Fly Boys the Anglerfish enemy that appears in Bubble Man's Stage is named Anko, and the Shrimp-like robots it sets loose are named Shrinks the Birds that appear in Air Man, Wood Man, Crash Man, and Wily Stage 1 are named Pipis, the tiny enemies they release from the eggs are smaller versions of themselves named Copipis The Monkey enemies that appear in Wood Man's stage are named Monkings the Cyclops enemies in Flash Man, Heat Man, and Wily Stage 1 and 4 are named Returning Sniper Joes, their mechs are called Sniper Armors the Circle enemies that hose out shots in Crash Man, Flash Man and Wily Stage 3 are named Shotmen the Blue can-like enemies that home in on you in Crash Man, Heat Man, and Wily Stage 1 and 4 are named Tellies the Frogs in Bubble Man's stage are named Kerogs, and the little frogs they shoot out are called "Petit Kerogs" the chain-chandelier things that drop down on you are called Presses the Block-Towers in Metal, Flash, and Crash Man's stages are called "Blockies" the thing in Heat Man, Metal Man, Quick Man and Wily Stage 1 that moves along the floors, speeds up when you are on its level, and springs when it its you is called Springer Wily Stage 1's boss is named Mecha Dragon Wily Stage 2's boss is named Picopico-kun Wily Stage 3's boss is named Guts Tank Wily Stage 4's boss is named Boobeam Trap Wily Stage 5's boss is named Wily Machine 2 Wily Stage 6's boss is simply named "Alien" the black things in the Hardhats in Clash Man and Wily Stage 4 are called Neo Metalls the Sliver fish in Wily Stage 3 is named Big Fish the Drills in Metal Man and Wily Stage 2 are called Moles the Heads in Air Man's stage are called Goblins, and the machines they deploy out of their sides are smaller versions of themselves named Petit Gobilns The Gear-Riders in Metal Man's Stage are named Pierrobots the fat fan guys that blow you away in Air Man's Stage are named Matasaburo the Metroid-Jellyfish-like things in Bubble man's stage are named M-445 the Red things that shoot blue bacon at you in Flash Man, Quick Man, and Air Man, and Wily Stage 1 are named Scworms, and they don't actually shoot blue bacon, it's really Metal pipes the Rabbits that fire Carrot missiles at you in Wood Man's stage are named Robbits the Blue, dog-like Robot in Wood Man's that fires flames is called Friender the Torso robots that toss lightning and have Cloud Platforms are called Kaminari Goros the Shell Robots in Bubble Man's stage are named Tanishis the Crabs that fall from the ceiling in Bubble Man's stage are named Claws the Bats in Wood Man's stage are named Battons the Ostrich-like Robots in Wood Man's stage are called Kukkus oke that's all now shoot me
Quite the balls you have. Calling out Megaman 2 like that is something not many dare to do. I salute you. And yes I do agree with you, mm2 is said to be good by popularity alone (same with X) and not by its performance. Good review.
The whole debacle about it being bad because one person said so is so fucking stupid it actually gives me a migrane.....each game in the series has its ups and down there is no need to start a civil war in the megaman fandom over what games are better etc. Just play what you like :)
I think the reason this entry catches a lot more hype is that it's the "most improved" winner, adding the most foundational elements without even a change of console for additional possibilities. Certainly cements its quality relative to the first game, but further games had diminishing returns as a result (though my favorite is 4 hands down). Basing it on small polls and assuming people haven't played it is kinda off-base but there's definitely truth in its advertising.
Have you ever explained your ranking system? I agree with prettt much everything you've said, but the end rating doesn't really make any sense Kinda just reminds me how much I hate score/rating systems for reviews, especially longform stuff like this
His rating I based on the rate he gave to mega Man 1, he considers the game to be pretty good and balanced, and it creates a quality that the other games need to achieve, so if a game has a B, it's because it's very fun, a good experience just like the first mega Man, basically, with those ratings he's kinda saying "this game, in my opinion, (doesn't) lives up for the legacy of a good mega man game"
@@user-fy1nq3nf1q Nonetheless, I think he would agree with the conclusions of this video. Also, TGX does say that the Metal Blades invalidate the other weapons.
@@quadpad_music I don’t remember, it was three years ago. Perhaps the person I was responding to said that they doubted Nico Evaluates would be aware of TGX?
To be fair, with calling this game "Mega Man with a 2 after it", I'd argue a good way to think of it is that Mega Man 1 is Mega Man 2's Rough Draft. There's something vaguely a bit more refined about Mega Man II that wasn't in Mega Man I, aesthetically and in gameplay. Mind you, I do have some criticisms of it, the big one would probably be the Metal Blade, which is horribly overpowered.
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Bad level design was the Wily castle stage with that wall turrets and breakable wall that require you to have full crash bombs to beat it, and you can't easily farm on the stage going back in with all the enemies over spikes, so you might as well game over if you don't get him your first time. Sure you can akwardly kill the infinite spawning enemies to die barely on the ledge near the ladder down. That level is just terrible design.
Honestly, 2 is FAR from the best Mega Man game IMO. It's not bad but I like 3, 5, 7, 9 & 11 more than 2. And that's not even counting the X series, Zero series and Legends games.
I understand your points, but I still consider Mega Man 2 one of my favorite entries. It’s the reason why I prefer Sonic 2 over 3. Mega Man 2 is just a purely fun game. Sure it’s unbalanced and doesn’t have the most substance but I don’t care. It’s an enjoyable experience all around that doesn’t take much out of you.
I'll always think MM2s a fun game but I honestly like aspects of 1 better. Then 3, 4 and 6 are flat put WAY better and I enjoy them the most of the NES MMs. MM7 and 11 are the other two in my top 5
I disagree. Mega Man ZX has the best Mega Man music in franchise, in my opinion. Just listen to MMZX songs like Sky High, Ultramarine Meditation, Misty Rain, Ogre Claw, Industrialism and Black Burn. I'm playing it in Zero/ZX collection with Remastered Soundtrack mod using official remastered soundtracks by the developers themselves, and it's the most pleasant, music-wise, experience i had with Mega Man games. As for classic series... Mega Man 7, 10 and 11 music are better than Mega Man 2 music. Mega Man 2 music sounds just... bland to me, maybe because i listened to it so many times, or maybe because i played NES games with much better music.
The music of Mega Man 2 has true BANGERS, I give it that. The music is amazing! But that's just it. It is great music in a technical spectrum and I'm glad it exists, but throughout the series, especially since Mega Man 4, the music actually became meaningful. My favorite is the soundtrack of Mega Man 6. The music doesn't have the same concise impact in your mind, but it's very emotional! It serves a certain feeling of finale, epicness and melancholy. Throughout the whole game! Like, I love Blizzard Man, Wind Man and the Mr. X stages just for that reason so much! Also Tomahawk Man and Yamato Man's themes are so tremendously underrated! Mega Man 2 doesn't serve this kind of meaningfulness. Maybe except for Bubble Man and Wily Stages 1-2 because they actually fit the environment and feeling. thank you if you actually read this comment :P
The pallate swap jumpy things, are due to the level pallate. The NES only let you have a few colours at once on screen, to save on file size and system RAM and sprites simply refred to a colour ID currently loaded. It's also why the energy refills match Rock's current weapon colour and in futre NES games why they flashed alongside Rock when he's charging.
You got balls for saying what u said. Respect but you are mistaken. Megaman 2 kept kids interested in the game, as much as Mario. The challenge is all there but not impossible. Kids and adults love it!
It is interesting to see the modern perspectives on this game as not so great. But if you were a 12-year-old boy in 1989 (like I was) and had to endure the tons of shitty NES games of the era, you'd see why our ilk think this is a Top-5 game for that console. Now that you're off my lawn, I will finish my bowl of Member Berries...
I'd say Mega man 2 is like Sonic 2. Little more than what the original did but better. Though, with games like mega man 1, Mega man X6 and X7, and, hell, even the Game boy port of Mega man 2, I wouldnt go as far as to say it's one of the weakest, just sorta middle of the road.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 yeah..... maybe sonic 2 was not the best example. I guess more like.... the japanese version of Mario 2? Idk I'm tired as fuck rn
Nah, Mega man 2 gb is way better than this game. It has better music too (I know most will disagree with me on that, but I think gb metalman is better than nes metalman). The only bad song on that soundtrack is Quint's theme. Mega man X6 is also my favourite X game. And I like x7 better than x8 and x1, my least favourite x games, both of which are still better than 2 and 9 (9 mostly for bad story and meaningless nostalgia pandering), in my opinion.
@@genyakozlov1316 I can agree with nostalgia pandering, hell there's literally an option to make sprites flicker at random, but the story isnt that bad. Not great, but story is never the focus of classic megaman
I always found this notion of this game being the best one to be extremely overstated. It's not only a pretty flawed game, but it has some fake difficulty and questionable design choices (Boobeam Trap, the infamous section in Heat Man's level, the quick lasers, and a bunch of other shit). And if the later games didn't add so much substance and polish to the series, I wouldn't find this so baffling, but because they do, I just feel like most of the people who call this "the best one" nostalgia biased. Even as a kid when I was crazy about these games, I've never found this one more enjoyable than 1, and definitely didn't find it better than anything that came afterwards. I always thought 4 was the best of the NES games, and I still stand by that, but we'll get to that when the video on that one is out. I feel like it's a mix of nostalgia and them playing this one first, so everything else seems less impactful as a result, but if you play them in reverse order, by the time you get to this, a lot of things feel obviously lacking. I don't think the game is bad, but I do find it severely overhyped. I especially dislike that because of the notion that this one was the golden standard, 9 and 10 ditched features from after this game, which I'm still disappointed about, but 11 fixed that, and 9 and 10 are still better than this, so whatever.
@@EpicMarioPlayer Yeah, I don't wanna start pointless debates BUT MEGA MAN 6 IS THE BEST ONE BY A LONG SHOT LOL seriously tho 6 is my favorite in the classic series and people don't give it enough love god damn it
I swear to god for the life of me no matter how many times I replay mm2 I can never remember the weaknesses of the robot masters. Most of them make no sense.
I replayed Mega Man 2 a couple months back for my channel, and I have to say that I disagree with it being worse than Mega Man 1. I like it more than some of the later games too. That being said, it's not my favorite Mega Man game. You are probably right when you say that it's only considered the best one because its the most popular one. Mega Man X1 gets the same treatment when it comes to the Mega Man X series.
Nice review. I'm attempting to play as many of the games as I can. I just finished 2. After doing one, I honestly think it was too easy I breezed through it.
To be honest, I quite enjoy Mega Man 2 like a lot of others and think it’s a good game overall, but I certainly wouldn’t consider it the best of the Classic series (let alone the best of the entire franchise). If I was to rank all of the Classic Mega Man titles from Best to Worst, it’d be: Mega Man 6 Mega Man 7 Mega Man 11 Mega Man V GB Mega Man 9 Mega Man 10 Mega Man III GB Mega Man & Bass Mega Man 2 Mega Man 3 Mega Man IV GB Mega Man 8 Mega Man Mega Man 5 Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge Mega Man 4 Mega Man II GB Mega Man GG
Actually really like 2, minus the block puzzle with heat man which I skip with item 2, and that absolutely stupid crash bomb boss. It’s one of the easier mega man games so it’s fun to play and remember level designs to beat it fast, but I do think it’s over rated.
I've always heard people say that Megaman X is the best, but I can't hold an opinion myself since I haven't played any of them for a significant amount of time.
Only now in 2022 after playing through Mega Man 2 for the first time can I appreciate this. This game was way too difficult for the target audience. Same goes for TMNT and Ninja Gaiden. Without using an emulator and save states, I would have put it down and never picked it up again. It was frustratingly difficult for no good reason.
If you are decent at the game - you can beat it in a few hours. There’s a few broken spots - such as the crash bomb boss in Willy’s castle - but I wouldn’t say it’s unplayable hard.
Quick Man's trial and error stage design, terrible bird enemy placement in Crash Man's stage (if you don't have Leaf Shield/Metal Blade/Flash Stopper), some of the worst weapon balance in the franchise, and Boobeam Trap's entire existence aren't a lot of issues, but goddamn did they leave a bad impression on me. I played classic Mega Man 1-8 before I had proper internet access so I was confused to find that people considered 2 the best. I'm assuming it's just as the video says with early internet personalities playing it up and everyone else just going with it. Personally, I find Mega Man as a whole to be on the same level as Sonic the Hedgehog as far as consistency and quality are concerned, but one is somehow beloved while the other lambasted.
Only bad take was the invisible floor thing, I don't think spikes would just be in the floor if they were not there to warn you. The game teaches you this mechanic early in the only stage it's in. Bad criticism in an otherwise solid video.
Y'know, I agree that MM2 isn't as great as people make it out to be, but I feel that on the other side of the spectrum, there's people who overly criticize games mostly because of their overblown reputation. It honestly seems that you review games somewhat more on their reputation more than the game itself. You even said That MM2 doesn't do much better than MM1, yet you ranked it worse than MM1. Was it because the game was overhyped and you found yourself disappointed, or just generally not what you expected it to be by the consensus? Was it that the fact that there was a weapon imbalance? If those are the reasons why games get lowered to mediocre and/or garbage MM games, then I'm surprised you haven't said nearly the same thing about every Classic Mega Man game. While yes, Metal Blade is an unbalanced weapon. But MM2 has more Powerful, Unique, and Practical tools. Besides Metal Blade, you have weapons like Air Shooter, a powerful, triple-shot, and ironically anti-air weapon that's great as a shotgun to enemies as much as it gets rid of aerial foes. You have Quick Boomerang, that shoots fast and has arguable more ammo than Metal Blade, and the arc that it shoots covers a good amount of distance. You have Crash Bomb, a simple forward moving bomb that latches itself onto walls for massive explosion damage, and that's only to name a few. Compare that to MM1's line of weapons and what do you get? Elec Beam, Fire Storm and arguably Rolling Cutter? And even then, Rolling Cutter is super situational.
Mm1 has much better weapon balance than 2 tho. Literally every weapon except for metal blade and quick boomerang in 2 are hot garbage for 99% of the game. Air shooter is way too niche and doesnt do much damage to aerial enemies bc the tornadoes spread out, crash bomb barely does damage to most enemies with a ridiculously high cost, same with bubble lead but not as costly, leaf shield doesnt block projectiles and flies away the second you move, and time stopper doesnt last long enough, and really isnt that useful outside of quick man stage, which isnt well designed to begin with. Even if the other weapons were actually good, metal blade simply outclasses all of them, theres basically no reason to use the other weapons in the stages when metal blade does it all. Mm1 does a marginally better job with weapon balance, which is really sad for mm2 since mm1 was the first game. Hyper bomb sucks, super arm is too situational and rolling cutter is outclassed by its better peers, but the other weapons have legitimate uses and advantages. Thunder beam is the best of the bunch, but it isnt so overpowered like the metal blades. Fire storm has a lingering dmg shield, which is really useful against the small enemies that are grouped like the fleas. Ice slasher is a great utility weapon as it freezes enemies in place for a decent amount of time, and allows u to switch weapons. Not to mention there are less weapons to begin with, so even though 3 good weapons isnt much better than 2 good weapons in a vacuum, in game that results to 1/2 of the weapons being good in mm1 as opposed to 1/4 in mm2, and the fact that metal blades are the most op weapon in mm history, while thunder beam is great, but isnt so great that it vastly overshadows the other options. No other game except 2 and 5 has such awful weapon options, and its due to one or 2 options being so good relative to the rest, that there is no reason to use the other options, which is bad design, and is a pretty major flaw in classic mm games
@@moonman4307 I'll rebut that the Elec Beam Pause trick (That ate through bosses like Atomic Fire eats up weapon energy) is bad design and also argue that its more broken than an 8-way, low cost weapon. My main point of that comment was mostly the hypocrisy of his statements.
@@fogblades6811 i see where ur getting at but im not sure if its fair to count the pause exploit into the weapon design and balance since not only is it external from the actual weapons, but you can use any lingering weapon for pause exploit, such as fire storm and rolling cutter. I think another major point to consider is that mm1 is the very first game in the series. Most things arent gonna be super refined, so as such, some things such as weapon balance arent gonna be great, as seen with hyper bomb and super arm. The problem is that mm2, a sequel, has worse weapon balance than the first game, which is really unfortunate since it shouldve learned from its predecessor, and improved weapon balance, but instead, all the power went to metal blades and quick boomerang.
@@moonman4307 sorry, but just because a game came out during when it was the only game in the series, doesnt absolve it of its poor qualities. MM1 had it's fair share of unbalanced weapons, outdated mechanics like score, and enemies that did WAAAY too much damage. Honestly, people mostly used the pause trick when they found out that you can do that. Regardless of whether or not it was a symptom for "First game syndrome", it's a bug that Capcom fixed in all games after MM1 for quality of life changes within the series. MM2 did a lot of good for the series as it brushed up a lot of the problems that plagued MM1. Keep in mind that this is coming from a MM7 fanboy. But I'll sum it up like this: MM1 to MM2 is like SF1 to SF2. Sure, both are playable and have things about them that may make them clunky and VERY unpolished compared to later titles, but you can clearly see which one ironed out most of the kinks the other game had and just how fun one is over the other.
@@fogblades6811 good points if you want to judge each game objectively, i just wish 2 didnt have such garbage weapon balancing and wily stages, couldve actually been one of the best. I do think that the games shouldnt just be judged by their objective nature, factors like the first game in a series should be taken into account when judging a game, but you do you. I also wish that tgx acknowledged the impact of having 8 robot masters. Its such a huge change, one that basically is synonymous with mega man now, and adds more potential for robot master routes, and adds more content without bloating it. But yea, 1 and 2 are definitely not the best around, but are good blueprints for the future titles.
I think it’s safe to say mm2 is the most influential. Level design, I would give the nod to MM4. Mm3 has too much padding and weak Wiley stages. 5 and 6 didn’t add a lot of new mechanics. 9, 10, 11 are all great modern entries, but it’s hard to beat something so influential and far and away the best soundtrack.
So like...you're saying people heard MM2 is the best of the series, so they just regurgitated this opinion, even if they hadn't played it? You like, didn't really elaborate on this and just basically skipped over it. Like, maybe if you repeated this claim several times in slightly different sentence structure, I'd like, understand it better. Like...wow.
1. You weren't even born when the game came out, and you are playing on an emulator so your experience is completely different 2. You're riding on the shoulders of giants, the metal blade exploit wasn't common knowledge when the game came out 3. The music is the best we'd see till Mega Man X, arguably best music in nes history. 4. Beating this game is a right of passage, up there with Ninja Gaiden 5. You are talking complete shit the whole 21:05
1. That's out of my control, just because I was born in 96 doesn't make anything invalid. Especially seeing as I was poor and had only an NES until I was 9, and I've beaten this game 4 times on authentic hardware, did you not notice me holding up the cartridge 2. So what? You can put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig. In any case, I found it out on my own volition, so it couldn't have been that hard to find. 3. Debatable, but you seem to have already made up your mind. 4. Except Ninja Gaiden is actually hard, I also have the NG cartridge and that's a game that would genuinely take me years to beat. Mega Man 2 is the easiest out of all six of the NES games. 5. If you say so.
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2 was waaaaaaaay better imo. So was 4,6,7 and pretty much every other game.
3 is unfinished unoptimized trash
2 is overrated but not horrible.
Let's be honest with ourselves man, 6 is the best one (Also I still love 2 no matter what the funny youtube man says)
Ian Campbell I wouldn't go that far, but it's certainly worse than what most people say.
It makes sense why so many people started saying that mega man 2 is the best in the series, it was probably one of the only nes games children beat in that age, since almost every other nes game is extremely hard, meaning that mega man 2 gave a lot of children very fond memories of it
I can definitely understand and respect that. But to quote TGX himself: "Nostalgia lies and poor design doesn't."
@@DADA-yt1ptapparently good design doesn’t either if he’s missing it when it’s shouting at him
Fun fact: the Metal Blade has potentially infinite ammo. Your ammo goes down one tick with every 4 shots, and the counter resets every time you pause. Same for the Quick Boomerang.
IKR
you can shoot 8 quick boomerangs before your weapon unit goes down by 1. pause at 7 and you got 7 more shots immediately without using ammo.
I swear this game was called the best because of the "normal" mode.
Difficult isn't even much harder, Capcom just thought Amercians we're wimps who can't take a challenge.
@@giittleton6311 item pick ups from enemies is also reduced
I played the Japanese version so by default it was on difficult
normal mode is sooo easy!
Then Konami and Tecmo thought the exact opposite yaay
It’s likely my nostalgia talking, but MegaMan 2 is my favorite. It was the first MegaMan game I had played, which was the week it was released. For me, it was a bit easy, but I still enjoyed it as a leisurely escape without frustration.
Oh man, that Pavlovian response take. Brutal, but true.
Brutal?
Beating Quick Man without his weakness weapon is actually pretty hard.
You can actually carry 4 E Tanks at a time in Megaman 2.
which kinda sucks
I've just recently played mega man 1-7 and I didn't grow up in the 80s/90s since I was born in the 2000's. I personally think the second game is good for a sequel but broken in design and I consider 3 to be better than both 1 and 2 for reasons I'll probably state in the next video. Nice review glad to see someone non-biased when it comes to judging something.
2 is a good game for sure, but 3,4,5,6 being better games, 4 In opinion the best one.
(SON OF MAIN USER SPEAKING)
THE NAMES OF EVERY MINOR ENEMY AND WILY STAGE BOSS IN ROCKMAN 2
I have way too much time on my hands ._.
prepare for worthless information
the Flying enemies that try to stomp you in Crash Man, Heat Man, and Wily Stage 2 are named Fly Boys
the Anglerfish enemy that appears in Bubble Man's Stage is named Anko, and the Shrimp-like robots it sets loose are named Shrinks
the Birds that appear in Air Man, Wood Man, Crash Man, and Wily Stage 1 are named Pipis, the tiny enemies they release from the eggs are smaller versions of themselves named Copipis
The Monkey enemies that appear in Wood Man's stage are named Monkings
the Cyclops enemies in Flash Man, Heat Man, and Wily Stage 1 and 4 are named Returning Sniper Joes, their mechs are called Sniper Armors
the Circle enemies that hose out shots in Crash Man, Flash Man and Wily Stage 3 are named Shotmen
the Blue can-like enemies that home in on you in Crash Man, Heat Man, and Wily Stage 1 and 4 are named Tellies
the Frogs in Bubble Man's stage are named Kerogs, and the little frogs they shoot out are called "Petit Kerogs"
the chain-chandelier things that drop down on you are called Presses
the Block-Towers in Metal, Flash, and Crash Man's stages are called "Blockies"
the thing in Heat Man, Metal Man, Quick Man and Wily Stage 1 that moves along the floors, speeds up when you are on its level, and springs when it its you is called Springer
Wily Stage 1's boss is named Mecha Dragon
Wily Stage 2's boss is named Picopico-kun
Wily Stage 3's boss is named Guts Tank
Wily Stage 4's boss is named Boobeam Trap
Wily Stage 5's boss is named Wily Machine 2
Wily Stage 6's boss is simply named "Alien"
the black things in the Hardhats in Clash Man and Wily Stage 4 are called Neo Metalls
the Sliver fish in Wily Stage 3 is named Big Fish
the Drills in Metal Man and Wily Stage 2 are called Moles
the Heads in Air Man's stage are called Goblins, and the machines they deploy out of their sides are smaller versions of themselves named Petit Gobilns
The Gear-Riders in Metal Man's Stage are named Pierrobots
the fat fan guys that blow you away in Air Man's Stage are named Matasaburo
the Metroid-Jellyfish-like things in Bubble man's stage are named M-445
the Red things that shoot blue bacon at you in Flash Man, Quick Man, and Air Man, and Wily Stage 1 are named Scworms, and they don't actually shoot blue bacon, it's really Metal pipes
the Rabbits that fire Carrot missiles at you in Wood Man's stage are named Robbits
the Blue, dog-like Robot in Wood Man's that fires flames is called Friender
the Torso robots that toss lightning and have Cloud Platforms are called Kaminari Goros
the Shell Robots in Bubble Man's stage are named Tanishis
the Crabs that fall from the ceiling in Bubble Man's stage are named Claws
the Bats in Wood Man's stage are named Battons
the Ostrich-like Robots in Wood Man's stage are called Kukkus
oke that's all now shoot me
i always prefered 7 as my favorite megaman game
Are you really gonna release a Mega Man video every day now? Well, im so on board with it
Makes me wonder what day 12 will be, since there are only 11 mainline games in the series.
@@ruthmcnally310 Mega Man and Bass came between 8 and 9
Mega Man 2 is one of my favorites in the series (3rd Only behind 9 and 6) but the best? How do people still carry that belief?
Wow. You're the only other person I've ever talked to who also likes Mega Man 1 more than Mega Man 2
Hello, yes, we do exist-
Daibuman Thought I was the only one
@@TheDaibu I too am here.
You should check out Nico Evaluates then.
Quite the balls you have. Calling out Megaman 2 like that is something not many dare to do. I salute you.
And yes I do agree with you, mm2 is said to be good by popularity alone (same with X) and not by its performance. Good review.
But Mega Man X was great though. It kinda deserves its popularity
The whole debacle about it being bad because one person said so is so fucking stupid it actually gives me a migrane.....each game in the series has its ups and down there is no need to start a civil war in the megaman fandom over what games are better etc. Just play what you like :)
I think the reason this entry catches a lot more hype is that it's the "most improved" winner, adding the most foundational elements without even a change of console for additional possibilities. Certainly cements its quality relative to the first game, but further games had diminishing returns as a result (though my favorite is 4 hands down). Basing it on small polls and assuming people haven't played it is kinda off-base but there's definitely truth in its advertising.
Have you ever explained your ranking system? I agree with prettt much everything you've said, but the end rating doesn't really make any sense
Kinda just reminds me how much I hate score/rating systems for reviews, especially longform stuff like this
His rating I based on the rate he gave to mega Man 1, he considers the game to be pretty good and balanced, and it creates a quality that the other games need to achieve, so if a game has a B, it's because it's very fun, a good experience just like the first mega Man, basically, with those ratings he's kinda saying "this game, in my opinion, (doesn't) lives up for the legacy of a good mega man game"
Nico Evaluates approves
@@user-fy1nq3nf1q Nonetheless, I think he would agree with the conclusions of this video.
Also, TGX does say that the Metal Blades invalidate the other weapons.
@@nicoloenricorimoldi7425 What did the deleted comment say?
@@quadpad_music I don’t remember, it was three years ago.
Perhaps the person I was responding to said that they doubted Nico Evaluates would be aware of TGX?
D is way harsh man.. Especially after saying it was an improvement over MM1 which you gave a C (?)
To be fair, with calling this game "Mega Man with a 2 after it", I'd argue a good way to think of it is that Mega Man 1 is Mega Man 2's Rough Draft. There's something vaguely a bit more refined about Mega Man II that wasn't in Mega Man I, aesthetically and in gameplay. Mind you, I do have some criticisms of it, the big one would probably be the Metal Blade, which is horribly overpowered.
I don't know who the hell you are, or why the hell I am getting you in my recommendations, but I subbed after watching the video. :3
Maybe that means the algorithm is finally working worth a damn. Welcome to The 12 Days Of TGXmas. 12 reviews in 12 days. This year, we're covering the entire classic Mega Man series
@@RegretfulDeadMan I ended up watching a lot of your longer videos after the megaman ones. Good job.
Bad level design was the Wily castle stage with that wall turrets and breakable wall that require you to have full crash bombs to beat it, and you can't easily farm on the stage going back in with all the enemies over spikes, so you might as well game over if you don't get him your first time. Sure you can akwardly kill the infinite spawning enemies to die barely on the ledge near the ladder down. That level is just terrible design.
Honestly, 2 is FAR from the best Mega Man game IMO. It's not bad but I like 3, 5, 7, 9 & 11 more than 2. And that's not even counting the X series, Zero series and Legends games.
arbereshe There, people like you are the reason why 5 is too underrated! 🖕🏻
Haha Metal Blade go brrrrrr best game of all time right guys HAHAHAHAHAHA
-Basically most game reviewers on the internet
I understand your points, but I still consider Mega Man 2 one of my favorite entries. It’s the reason why I prefer Sonic 2 over 3. Mega Man 2 is just a purely fun game. Sure it’s unbalanced and doesn’t have the most substance but I don’t care. It’s an enjoyable experience all around that doesn’t take much out of you.
Finally someone with common sense, it shouldn't matter as long as the game is still enjoyable.
@@RangerQwerty Yeah. It's how I feel about mario 64 as well. Flawed but very fun.
@@RoweReviews That's actually the same reason I defend Mega Man X3 to the death
@@RangerQwerty Thanks for the sub btw. I have a review of mario 64 in the works rn belive it or not
@@RoweReviews Lookin' forword to it 💙
I'll always think MM2s a fun game but I honestly like aspects of 1 better. Then 3, 4 and 6 are flat put WAY better and I enjoy them the most of the NES MMs. MM7 and 11 are the other two in my top 5
2:30 he wasn't arrested Mega Man just left hoping Wily would reform
I didn't play every game, but I can safely say that the music of Mega Man 2 is one of the best in the franchise.
I disagree. Mega Man ZX has the best Mega Man music in franchise, in my opinion. Just listen to MMZX songs like Sky High, Ultramarine Meditation, Misty Rain, Ogre Claw, Industrialism and Black Burn. I'm playing it in Zero/ZX collection with Remastered Soundtrack mod using official remastered soundtracks by the developers themselves, and it's the most pleasant, music-wise, experience i had with Mega Man games. As for classic series... Mega Man 7, 10 and 11 music are better than Mega Man 2 music. Mega Man 2 music sounds just... bland to me, maybe because i listened to it so many times, or maybe because i played NES games with much better music.
Mega Man 2 and ZX have some of the many greatest Mega Man soundtracks.
But The ZX series is superior.
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It's probably my 2nd favorite
The music of Mega Man 2 has true BANGERS, I give it that. The music is amazing! But that's just it. It is great music in a technical spectrum and I'm glad it exists, but throughout the series, especially since Mega Man 4, the music actually became meaningful. My favorite is the soundtrack of Mega Man 6. The music doesn't have the same concise impact in your mind, but it's very emotional! It serves a certain feeling of finale, epicness and melancholy. Throughout the whole game! Like, I love Blizzard Man, Wind Man and the Mr. X stages just for that reason so much! Also Tomahawk Man and Yamato Man's themes are so tremendously underrated! Mega Man 2 doesn't serve this kind of meaningfulness. Maybe except for Bubble Man and Wily Stages 1-2 because they actually fit the environment and feeling.
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How come the Rockman title screen (Japanese MegaMan 1) is better than the USA MegaMan title screen
The pallate swap jumpy things, are due to the level pallate. The NES only let you have a few colours at once on screen, to save on file size and system RAM and sprites simply refred to a colour ID currently loaded. It's also why the energy refills match Rock's current weapon colour and in futre NES games why they flashed alongside Rock when he's charging.
No Mega Man game that doesn’t have the slide can be considered the best Mega Man.
Mega Man 4 and 6 I thought were way better.
@Noah Hafer gonna cry?
@Noah Hafer 4 is amazing
You got balls for saying what u said. Respect but you are mistaken. Megaman 2 kept kids interested in the game, as much as Mario. The challenge is all there but not impossible. Kids and adults love it!
It is interesting to see the modern perspectives on this game as not so great. But if you were a 12-year-old boy in 1989 (like I was) and had to endure the tons of shitty NES games of the era, you'd see why our ilk think this is a Top-5 game for that console.
Now that you're off my lawn, I will finish my bowl of Member Berries...
I'd say Mega man 2 is like Sonic 2. Little more than what the original did but better. Though, with games like mega man 1, Mega man X6 and X7, and, hell, even the Game boy port of Mega man 2, I wouldnt go as far as to say it's one of the weakest, just sorta middle of the road.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 yeah..... maybe sonic 2 was not the best example. I guess more like.... the japanese version of Mario 2? Idk I'm tired as fuck rn
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 I am talking about lost levels. I said the japanese version of mario 2.
Nah, Mega man 2 gb is way better than this game. It has better music too (I know most will disagree with me on that, but I think gb metalman is better than nes metalman). The only bad song on that soundtrack is Quint's theme.
Mega man X6 is also my favourite X game. And I like x7 better than x8 and x1, my least favourite x games, both of which are still better than 2 and 9 (9 mostly for bad story and meaningless nostalgia pandering), in my opinion.
@@genyakozlov1316 I can agree with nostalgia pandering, hell there's literally an option to make sprites flicker at random, but the story isnt that bad. Not great, but story is never the focus of classic megaman
I think Mega Man 2 might be over-hyped, but it is an iconic game and it's certainly not bad.
I think 3 is the best
I think 4 is the best
I always found this notion of this game being the best one to be extremely overstated.
It's not only a pretty flawed game, but it has some fake difficulty and questionable design choices (Boobeam Trap, the infamous section in Heat Man's level, the quick lasers, and a bunch of other shit).
And if the later games didn't add so much substance and polish to the series, I wouldn't find this so baffling, but because they do, I just feel like most of the people who call this "the best one" nostalgia biased.
Even as a kid when I was crazy about these games, I've never found this one more enjoyable than 1, and definitely didn't find it better than anything that came afterwards. I always thought 4 was the best of the NES games, and I still stand by that, but we'll get to that when the video on that one is out.
I feel like it's a mix of nostalgia and them playing this one first, so everything else seems less impactful as a result, but if you play them in reverse order, by the time you get to this, a lot of things feel obviously lacking.
I don't think the game is bad, but I do find it severely overhyped. I especially dislike that because of the notion that this one was the golden standard, 9 and 10 ditched features from after this game, which I'm still disappointed about, but 11 fixed that, and 9 and 10 are still better than this, so whatever.
Agreed, I don't think "Best One" is the phrase people should blindly use "Personal Favorite" is more endearing.
Exactly, it's all subjective anyway.
@@EpicMarioPlayer Yeah, I don't wanna start pointless debates BUT MEGA MAN 6 IS THE BEST ONE BY A LONG SHOT LOL
seriously tho 6 is my favorite in the classic series and people don't give it enough love god damn it
MM2 is my favourite, but I can't deny that Wind Man is an absolute banger of a tune@@RangerQwerty
This has nothing to do with 2 but my favorite megaman game is zero 3
I also like Zero 3, X4, ZX, adn Mega man 11 as my favorite mega man games
I swear to god for the life of me no matter how many times I replay mm2 I can never remember the weaknesses of the robot masters. Most of them make no sense.
Could you talk about other megaman series?
No
@@RegretfulDeadMan Just out of curiosity why not?
honestly mega man 2 was very inferior to mega man 4
I will say this though Mega Man 2 is better than Mega Man 5
However Mega Man 2 has horrible balance
Mega Man 2 is worse than Mega Man 1
@Noah Hafer Watch this if you want to complain ruclips.net/video/KlxCMwFjh9w/видео.html
Mega Man 1 is fun to play but Mega Man 2 is boring most of the times becuase of the Metal Blade
I replayed Mega Man 2 a couple months back for my channel, and I have to say that I disagree with it being worse than Mega Man 1. I like it more than some of the later games too. That being said, it's not my favorite Mega Man game. You are probably right when you say that it's only considered the best one because its the most popular one. Mega Man X1 gets the same treatment when it comes to the Mega Man X series.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 Interestingly, 1, 3, 5, 8, & Bass, and 10, are my favourite in the classic series.
At least X1 isn’t broken In the same way this game is, though I will say X4 is way better
I have never thought mega man 2 was the best. It's got really good levels , but I think 4 has better levels and 3 has better Willy stages.
2:41 he would probably take over the world and force his opinion that he's the greatest down everyones throat
Considering The reason he started his career in terrorism is because he was always second fiddle to Light
Mega man 4 was the best in the 6 NES games.
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Nice review. I'm attempting to play as many of the games as I can. I just finished 2. After doing one, I honestly think it was too easy I breezed through it.
To be honest, I quite enjoy Mega Man 2 like a lot of others and think it’s a good game overall, but I certainly wouldn’t consider it the best of the Classic series (let alone the best of the entire franchise).
If I was to rank all of the Classic Mega Man titles from Best to Worst, it’d be:
Mega Man 6
Mega Man 7
Mega Man 11
Mega Man V GB
Mega Man 9
Mega Man 10
Mega Man III GB
Mega Man & Bass
Mega Man 2
Mega Man 3
Mega Man IV GB
Mega Man 8
Mega Man
Mega Man 5
Mega Man: Dr. Wily’s Revenge
Mega Man 4
Mega Man II GB
Mega Man GG
I beat the famicom one that’s hard mode only
Actually really like 2, minus the block puzzle with heat man which I skip with item 2, and that absolutely stupid crash bomb boss. It’s one of the easier mega man games so it’s fun to play and remember level designs to beat it fast, but I do think it’s over rated.
Hey TGX, since you and I are Iron Maiden fans, I'll point this out: Mega Man 2's soundtrack is heavily influenced by their Somewhere In Time album!
I've always heard people say that Megaman X is the best, but I can't hold an opinion myself since I haven't played any of them for a significant amount of time.
This music in end you videos is from ratchet and clank2 gg/ll from planet oozla
Great Vid!!
Mega Man 4 was the best among Mega man 1 to Mega Man 6
Only now in 2022 after playing through Mega Man 2 for the first time can I appreciate this.
This game was way too difficult for the target audience. Same goes for TMNT and Ninja Gaiden.
Without using an emulator and save states, I would have put it down and never picked it up again. It was frustratingly difficult for no good reason.
If you are decent at the game - you can beat it in a few hours. There’s a few broken spots - such as the crash bomb boss in Willy’s castle - but I wouldn’t say it’s unplayable hard.
I was 10 when it came out and I rented it and beat it on easy mode in a weekend. TMNT however took months to beat
Quick Man's trial and error stage design, terrible bird enemy placement in Crash Man's stage (if you don't have Leaf Shield/Metal Blade/Flash Stopper), some of the worst weapon balance in the franchise, and Boobeam Trap's entire existence aren't a lot of issues, but goddamn did they leave a bad impression on me. I played classic Mega Man 1-8 before I had proper internet access so I was confused to find that people considered 2 the best. I'm assuming it's just as the video says with early internet personalities playing it up and everyone else just going with it.
Personally, I find Mega Man as a whole to be on the same level as Sonic the Hedgehog as far as consistency and quality are concerned, but one is somehow beloved while the other lambasted.
I love this game.
Only bad take was the invisible floor thing, I don't think spikes would just be in the floor if they were not there to warn you. The game teaches you this mechanic early in the only stage it's in. Bad criticism in an otherwise solid video.
I will never like this game
Wouldn't call it overrated, but overhyped. The word overrated sucks, BTW
The word overrated is for retardeds
I agree, "overrated" is just cheap a way to try and invalidate people for liking something popular.
MEGAMAN 2!
Rank them!!!!
MegaMan three was a better game
Y'know, I agree that MM2 isn't as great as people make it out to be, but I feel that on the other side of the spectrum, there's people who overly criticize games mostly because of their overblown reputation. It honestly seems that you review games somewhat more on their reputation more than the game itself.
You even said That MM2 doesn't do much better than MM1, yet you ranked it worse than MM1. Was it because the game was overhyped and you found yourself disappointed, or just generally not what you expected it to be by the consensus? Was it that the fact that there was a weapon imbalance? If those are the reasons why games get lowered to mediocre and/or garbage MM games, then I'm surprised you haven't said nearly the same thing about every Classic Mega Man game. While yes, Metal Blade is an unbalanced weapon. But MM2 has more Powerful, Unique, and Practical tools.
Besides Metal Blade, you have weapons like Air Shooter, a powerful, triple-shot, and ironically anti-air weapon that's great as a shotgun to enemies as much as it gets rid of aerial foes. You have Quick Boomerang, that shoots fast and has arguable more ammo than Metal Blade, and the arc that it shoots covers a good amount of distance. You have Crash Bomb, a simple forward moving bomb that latches itself onto walls for massive explosion damage, and that's only to name a few.
Compare that to MM1's line of weapons and what do you get? Elec Beam, Fire Storm and arguably Rolling Cutter? And even then, Rolling Cutter is super situational.
Mm1 has much better weapon balance than 2 tho. Literally every weapon except for metal blade and quick boomerang in 2 are hot garbage for 99% of the game. Air shooter is way too niche and doesnt do much damage to aerial enemies bc the tornadoes spread out, crash bomb barely does damage to most enemies with a ridiculously high cost, same with bubble lead but not as costly, leaf shield doesnt block projectiles and flies away the second you move, and time stopper doesnt last long enough, and really isnt that useful outside of quick man stage, which isnt well designed to begin with. Even if the other weapons were actually good, metal blade simply outclasses all of them, theres basically no reason to use the other weapons in the stages when metal blade does it all.
Mm1 does a marginally better job with weapon balance, which is really sad for mm2 since mm1 was the first game. Hyper bomb sucks, super arm is too situational and rolling cutter is outclassed by its better peers, but the other weapons have legitimate uses and advantages. Thunder beam is the best of the bunch, but it isnt so overpowered like the metal blades. Fire storm has a lingering dmg shield, which is really useful against the small enemies that are grouped like the fleas. Ice slasher is a great utility weapon as it freezes enemies in place for a decent amount of time, and allows u to switch weapons. Not to mention there are less weapons to begin with, so even though 3 good weapons isnt much better than 2 good weapons in a vacuum, in game that results to 1/2 of the weapons being good in mm1 as opposed to 1/4 in mm2, and the fact that metal blades are the most op weapon in mm history, while thunder beam is great, but isnt so great that it vastly overshadows the other options. No other game except 2 and 5 has such awful weapon options, and its due to one or 2 options being so good relative to the rest, that there is no reason to use the other options, which is bad design, and is a pretty major flaw in classic mm games
@@moonman4307 I'll rebut that the Elec Beam Pause trick (That ate through bosses like Atomic Fire eats up weapon energy) is bad design and also argue that its more broken than an 8-way, low cost weapon. My main point of that comment was mostly the hypocrisy of his statements.
@@fogblades6811 i see where ur getting at but im not sure if its fair to count the pause exploit into the weapon design and balance since not only is it external from the actual weapons, but you can use any lingering weapon for pause exploit, such as fire storm and rolling cutter.
I think another major point to consider is that mm1 is the very first game in the series. Most things arent gonna be super refined, so as such, some things such as weapon balance arent gonna be great, as seen with hyper bomb and super arm. The problem is that mm2, a sequel, has worse weapon balance than the first game, which is really unfortunate since it shouldve learned from its predecessor, and improved weapon balance, but instead, all the power went to metal blades and quick boomerang.
@@moonman4307 sorry, but just because a game came out during when it was the only game in the series, doesnt absolve it of its poor qualities. MM1 had it's fair share of unbalanced weapons, outdated mechanics like score, and enemies that did WAAAY too much damage. Honestly, people mostly used the pause trick when they found out that you can do that. Regardless of whether or not it was a symptom for "First game syndrome", it's a bug that Capcom fixed in all games after MM1 for quality of life changes within the series. MM2 did a lot of good for the series as it brushed up a lot of the problems that plagued MM1. Keep in mind that this is coming from a MM7 fanboy. But I'll sum it up like this: MM1 to MM2 is like SF1 to SF2. Sure, both are playable and have things about them that may make them clunky and VERY unpolished compared to later titles, but you can clearly see which one ironed out most of the kinks the other game had and just how fun one is over the other.
@@fogblades6811 good points if you want to judge each game objectively, i just wish 2 didnt have such garbage weapon balancing and wily stages, couldve actually been one of the best. I do think that the games shouldnt just be judged by their objective nature, factors like the first game in a series should be taken into account when judging a game, but you do you.
I also wish that tgx acknowledged the impact of having 8 robot masters. Its such a huge change, one that basically is synonymous with mega man now, and adds more potential for robot master routes, and adds more content without bloating it. But yea, 1 and 2 are definitely not the best around, but are good blueprints for the future titles.
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I think it’s safe to say mm2 is the most influential. Level design, I would give the nod to MM4. Mm3 has too much padding and weak Wiley stages. 5 and 6 didn’t add a lot of new mechanics. 9, 10, 11 are all great modern entries, but it’s hard to beat something so influential and far and away the best soundtrack.
So like...you're saying people heard MM2 is the best of the series, so they just regurgitated this opinion, even if they hadn't played it? You like, didn't really elaborate on this and just basically skipped over it. Like, maybe if you repeated this claim several times in slightly different sentence structure, I'd like, understand it better. Like...wow.
Someone is like mad that someone like had a different like opinion than them. Like...damn.
@@mattsch21 You, like, totally missed my point. Like, yeah...like.
it easily the best - change my mind
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lol no wonder why you have such low views, likes and subs.
1. You weren't even born when the game came out, and you are playing on an emulator so your experience is completely different
2. You're riding on the shoulders of giants, the metal blade exploit wasn't common knowledge when the game came out
3. The music is the best we'd see till Mega Man X, arguably best music in nes history.
4. Beating this game is a right of passage, up there with Ninja Gaiden
5. You are talking complete shit the whole 21:05
1. That's out of my control, just because I was born in 96 doesn't make anything invalid. Especially seeing as I was poor and had only an NES until I was 9, and I've beaten this game 4 times on authentic hardware, did you not notice me holding up the cartridge
2. So what? You can put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig. In any case, I found it out on my own volition, so it couldn't have been that hard to find.
3. Debatable, but you seem to have already made up your mind.
4. Except Ninja Gaiden is actually hard, I also have the NG cartridge and that's a game that would genuinely take me years to beat. Mega Man 2 is the easiest out of all six of the NES games.
5. If you say so.
You're free to believe whatever you want, but MM2 being a rite of passage is corny as fuck lol. it's not even that hard
@@schlockfather I am equally as trash at both.... 👍
@@schlockfather you had to be there....remember in the 80s this is all we had. But you are right it gets a bit repetitive after 7 or so levels.