Mega Man 9, elaborated

[redrocketwestie]

So here's the thing. People who write about games for a living play a lot of games, and they have an incisive eye towards game balance factors, etc. But they're not necessarily good at games. I recall a review of Splinter Cell: Double Agent that claimed the game's new mechanism of counting any disabled enemy (killed or not) against you made it "

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[muddbstrd]

I'm not even going to attempt most of the challenges. Aside from the easy ones like "Destroy X amount of enemies" or "Destroy a Robot Master with only your Mega Buster", I got a slightly harder one by accident ("Get through a level without stopping").

I've nailed 4 Robot Masters. Unfortunately, the last four I've never even faced before because their stages are ripping me new ones (Tornado Man, Magma Man, Hornet Man, and Concrete Man).

[redrocketwestie]

Yeah, I breezed through Galaxy Man, then got Splash Woman after a couple more tries. I got Concrete Man this morning. I'm betting you're stuck on the elephants. They're not bad after you learn their patterns (like everything else).

I got that one by accident too, which is good, because it probably would have been really hard to do intentionally. I also did a level without shooting (wasn't too bad), and I still have yet to use any Energy or Mystery tanks, or used any special weapons on a boss, so I'll see if I can keep that going.

The time trials are going to be the tricky ones.

[muddbstrd]

If you can nail Plug Man without a special weapon or Energy Tank, you will have my heartiest congrats.

[redrocketwestie]

I got him down to 1 pixel TWICE last night and then moved on in frustration. A lot of it depends on luck, though, as his patterns are pretty heavily randomized.