Mega Man 1-6 found a winning formula and stuck with it, and helped to define the NES’s greatest years. Mega Man’s next four games -- those in the Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 -- may span several console generations but don’t stray far from that original formula.
The selection of games in Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 is slim: this package only includes four Mega Man games, the DLC for Mega Man 9 and 10, a concept art gallery, and a handful of brand new, remixed stages and boss rush challenges.
What links these Mega Man games together, aside from their kooky robot cast and sequential numbering, is their unrelenting, old-school difficulty. In fact, they’re some of the hardest Mega Man games ever made. That’s welcome for old-school fans like me, but Legacy Collection 2 lacks some now-expected features to make it more accessible for modern audiences. In the first first Mega Man Legacy collection that challenge was made a little more forgiving for modern audiences with a “save anywhere” feature, and others, like the Disney Afternoon Collection include a handy instant rewind. Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 doesn’t include either, and they’re sorely missed. You can save your game and return to a few pre-determined spots in each level, and turn on an easier "Legacy Mode" that gives you a few more hits per level, but together are still an inadequate substitute.
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The selection of games in Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 is slim: this package only includes four Mega Man games, the DLC for Mega Man 9 and 10, a concept art gallery, and a handful of brand new, remixed stages and boss rush challenges.
What links these Mega Man games together, aside from their kooky robot cast and sequential numbering, is their unrelenting, old-school difficulty. In fact, they’re some of the hardest Mega Man games ever made. That’s welcome for old-school fans like me, but Legacy Collection 2 lacks some now-expected features to make it more accessible for modern audiences. In the first first Mega Man Legacy collection that challenge was made a little more forgiving for modern audiences with a “save anywhere” feature, and others, like the Disney Afternoon Collection include a handy instant rewind. Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 doesn’t include either, and they’re sorely missed. You can save your game and return to a few pre-determined spots in each level, and turn on an easier "Legacy Mode" that gives you a few more hits per level, but together are still an inadequate substitute.
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