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One factor of game design in these early era games was the transition from arcade machine to home console, and the changes in design philosophy that come with that not being established yet. When you design a game that's meant to provide entertainment while also eating a steady diet of 100 yen coins, quarters, etc., having these "cheap shot" designs like unexpected spikes or nigh-unavoidable environmental hazards are a "tax" to ensure that players are having moments of failure that require another coin. Home console games don't need those moments, but they were just part of normal game design that everyone was used to.

WHERE IS POWER STONE WHERE IS BREATH OF FIRE WHERE IS MEGA MAN _X_

While I agree it's silly to introduce them so early into the level the Gutsman platforms are way too exacerbated to me. They're very consistent, they're clearly telegraphed, and le falling glitch is nothing more than a visual wtf than a bullshit hurdle because if you fall you fall, you're not gonna steer your way to safety regardless of velocity. The FOOTHOLDERS however are terrible. Purely random and literally don't fucking work 50% of the time. If you wanna talk about bugs ruining a mechanic that should be your Great Filter, makes buster runs way more of a bitch than any boss could dream of. And while I'm here dropping hot takes I also think the disappearing blocks in Ice Man's stage are the most forgiving in the entire franchise so idk why people always bring those up as the number one example on why the mechanic sucks. Not one block leads you to a pit, just a minor annoyance and maybe a tussle with a Roomba if you don't have any weapons

I think the game is AMAZING and I haven't even finished to bird story yet but I think its a AMAZING game sure side quests are annoying but I don't do them also I get loading screens are a bit excessive but not as bad as sonic 06

I don't doubt we'll get a new Mega Man, but I doubt we'll ever get Legends 3 if Capcom and Inafune don't make up somehow.

I totally disagree, gutsman stage is my favorite from megaman 1

For the "bad area" of Fireman Stage, i feel like its a foreshadow of Fireman attack!

Gutsman level design is kinda brilliant. When you have to wait before the platform, that's the development team telling you to be patient. Of course, I never was. I'm glad I got to see this. I liked & subbed. Keep it up. Love the content.

Gutsman stage negative emotional aura

cool idea that would have 100% flopped.

I definitely would’ve been an X type

It'd be great to see you try and give a fix to the level design. I think that in the guts man stage, itd be good to put a screen where the player has the option to test the rail mechanic safely, like above some ground and put a prize (not something game breaking, maybe a 1up) on the top to make them want to climb and see the mechanic by themselves. That would make them want to test and experience the mechanic and get used to it safely and receive something in return for understanding it well

2:30 ish - something else, the forced scrolling of the position of the ladders means the top-center screwy will always respawn - hinting at respawn mechanics

Is it just me, or why does Duo look like an alternate Optimus Prime?.....

I hate to be ''one of those'' guys but, I completely cheesed the GutsMan platforms when I was 7 years old. Never understood people's issues with them.

Nice idea but isn't it counterproductive if 9 out of 10 people play the Zero type xD

11:30 "land safely" followed by a very obvious cut XD Guts Man's level makes sense in a way. Put the hard part right at the beginning so if the player does game over or have trouble, they don't have to play through the whole level again to practice the hard part.

Zero type

I think after seeing the overview of Gutsman, the intention is to test your reaction speed and quick-thinking. Mastering the moving platforms and the blind falls teach you that the boss is going to be something that requires split-second decision making and precise jump timing. Gutsman requires you time your jumps to not get stunned, and quick speed to avoid his cluster rock attack. I say its good level design. What does Fireman's stage teach you about his attack pattern?

Honestly these are great analyses. I’d love to see you go through the entire series, as well as your thoughts on Battle Network/Starforce.

All of the issues in the second level highlighted here are why I never got into the MegaMan series. The stages are just unforgiving, and have entirely too much "randomness" involved. (The vertical section where you have to guess, or know, where to go.) This is just straight up bad game design, and MegaMan as a franchise does this kind of thing constantly.

The big eye was fine in cut man’s stage because if you get bad RNG before you kill it you can just go back up the ladder and reset

Demon's quest!!!!

My suspicion on Guts Man's stage is the moving platforms weren't actually supposed to be very hard, but limited testing meant the full scope of the monster they'd created wasn't known until it hit retail. I'd actually wager the development team also did most of the testing. To the team, the platform behavior is reasonable, and after jurt a little bit of practice navigating the segment becomes trivial. To anyone outside the team, the platform behavior is extremely counter-intuitive and the timing is excessively tight.

X type and Zero for sure

After all these areas I NEVER knew you could freeze the fire towers!! Thank you for enlightening even a veteran player!

If it's Megaman Legends 3, I'm on board. Also, it just said "vs Capcom." Doesn't necessarily HAVE to be marvel, does it? Let's have a Bible vs Capcom! Or Steven Spielberg vs Capcom!

You can bait the big eye to big jump by jumping right before it does. About %80 of the time, anyway... Also, if you use the word 'problematic,' I have no choice but to assume you're a they/them. Anyway, I don't think they turned off gravity when you're on the ground in Megaman 1, and to a lesser extent, 2. You're ALWAYS at terminal velocity unless you preceed your drop with a hop. Look at how fast you rocket down a bottomless pit if you fall from your perch. There's no smooth acceleration, it's just NEEEEEBOOM! I'm fairly positive that the only way to reset your vertical acceleration is to jump...

I was a young kid when this game came out. Saw it in some multi-story mall in Minneapolis. Eventually got it and played it. A lot. Less than 2 though lol.

The rails in guts man man are even worse than you mention. I remember when I first played the game I had so much trouble because the platform's sprite didn't actually make sense - the platform is "raised" when the green ball is on the solid part of the rail whereas it is instinctual to assume that the platform is "raised" when the sprite shows the platform as raised. I rented this game several times and played this stage thinking the game was bugged because the platforms wouldn't work reliably and I kept falling through seemingly solid sprites so I eventually made sure to enter the stage with the Magnet Beam.... ...and then I discovered the screen wrap death glitch, which is stupidly easy to pull off in the Guts Man rail section it took me a while to figure out what was happening. Using Magnet Beam to go too high above the top of the screen causes the game to register Mega Man to have wrapped to the bottom of the screen and hit the death plane

Megaman 1 and 2 were my favorite in the whole series.

wait.. ddnt Mega Man came out first in DOS?

I said this before. Someone at Capcom woke up. Called a meeting and said we need to change our entire strategy before we sink this ship. And they chilled out. Bowed their heads a Nd decided to go behind the scenes to give us banger after banger!

OK, so here's a question. In which order were the levels made, and, do the follow the boss weakness order? Then compare that to the later games and you'll probably see another angle of game development where you can see how they progressed in level design with each new game they made in the series. You may even notice some regressions between later games too indicating how development teams changed or just that they were trying new things and mistakes were made as they went through the series. Something like that could be an interesting video series given how in-depth you went on just these two stages.

They was cooking hard with this one, but ultimately failed

I never minded the speed of shipshape once you got the speed up ability. Never took more than a minute or two to go from one end to the next, and it was pretty rare when you actually had to travel to a specific Great Lighthouse or islet. That never bothered me. The only thing that did bother me were the achievements for getting 30 Excellent ratings for each individual Bros. attack. That just requires you to spam them way too much. If it was 10 or even 15 it could feel more encouraging to use them in a pinch or to quickly wipe out enemies, but 30 just makes it feel like I've got to watch the same animations far too often. Of course it is optional, but the prizes for getting them don't suck.

I remember as a kid, I made a drawing in "High School" of Zero. The drawing was very similar to this "Zero type". The world shall never see my drawing. Cool to know this was a thing back then.

Gabyoall has always been the name for the spinning enemies in Megaman 1 There are also Big Eye like enemies(Big enemies that jump, do a lot of contact damage and have a lot of HP) but aside from the ones in 2 are much more balanced and less random than Big Eyes themselves

Larkman Tuah! Dive Bomb on that thang. What could have been remedied in the conveyor belt section in Gutsman's stage is that instead of a bottomless pit, there's a safety net that will catch you should you miss the jump and a ladder to get back up and try again with only ONE conveyor belt to teach the players on how to be patient and have the entire stage built around those conveyor belts, rather than have them be a one-and-done mechanic almost as if it's a construction site, you going higher and higher until you square off against Gutsman at the top floor. Kind of taking all the best parts of Fireman's waste disposal stage and applying it to Gutsman's stage.

it is funny that i had the same impression about that level , and that occurred to me about last week despite i've been playing it for at least 30 years now we go from 0 to 100, then 30?

More pls

Are you doing the rest of the levels in MM1?

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I've been replaying the games lately, it's funny, I prefer the stage design of 1 over mega man 9 for example. Overall my favorite is 7 though.

I'd much prefer such a punishing difficult section to be at the beginning of the level. After getting a game over, you feel the tension before even going back into the stage, but don't have to spend time getting back to the section to practice it.

Putting the most challenging sections at the beginning of the level isn't a bad idea, imo.

Really good analysis!