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Rockman & Forte - Mirai Kara no Chousensha
06-21-13 03:02 PM
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The One Mega Man Everyone Forgot
The Mega Man games are praised for their incredible music, level design, and, for the most part, character design (coughPlantManCough). Apparently, with this game, Bandai was getting sick of Nintendo dominating the handheld market with Pokemon and the Game Boy, so they went up to Capcom in hopes of releasing an EXCLUSIVE for their handheld, the WonderSwan. Capcom didn't have that much to lose in the handheld market, having already released five- er- V games on the Game Boy. Thus, after a while of collaboration, "Rockman & Forte: Mirai Kara no Chousensha" was born. But how does this game hold up next to the rest of the Classic Mega Man series? In this, I will use the first Mega Man and Bass game as a comparison point to this game.
SOUND- 9/10
I'll start with the ways it works well then go into where it really falls short. One of the things I especially like about this game is the way that the music is 8-bit renditions of Mega Man and Bass' already excellent soundtrack. It was a very nice touch, and I would probably give the sound a high score in any Mega Man game. For a game released in '99 on a handheld, the instruments sound incredible. There are sillier little sound effects, like the weird shrilly noise when Mega Man or Bass climb a ladder, or the fact that shooting repeatedly with Mega Man causes the cliché "power down" sound effect to play. Occasionally the music screeches, but for the platform, it's comparatively great.
DEPTH- 8/10
This game has a bit going for it in that you have two distinct characters to choose from, as in the first Mega Man and Bass. You cannot change freely between them mid-game, so if you want to fully experience both characters, you have to play through twice. Oddly, you can buy the upgrades for the other character in the shop (I'll go into that later) Unlike the previous game, Bass can dodge more attacks with his dash-slide-thing, and their robot master weapons have more v... Read the rest of this Review
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