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For those confused about the story up until this point and still care, a rundown, because there's a bit more intricacy than there maybe should be for such a simple game:

After his first two defeats, Dr. Wily apparently came to his senses and somehow got Dr. Light (sometimes translated as Dr. Right due to the Japanese R/L thing before they settled with Light) to agree to continue working with him. They started work on a gigantic peacekeeping robot called Gamma, but the project required a bunch of rare "elements" that happened to exist in places where eight powerful robots randomly went crazy, so of course Mega Man has to defeat the robots and collect the elements.

Though we've seen him around plenty now in 2017, when this game came out, nobody knew anything about Proto Man, so it's a mystery when he shows up as a miniboss in some of the stages. Unusually for an NES game, he's not even hinted at in the manual!

After collecting all the elements, we finally meet "Break Man", as revealed by the boss select screen, and beat him up one more time without any explanation. Cue the "cutscene" where Light explains to Mega Man that Wily took off with all of the elements, as well as the unfinished Gamma. How crazy, it was his plan all along, who knew.

Mega Man reaches Wily and spins around in front of Gamma's face for a couple of frames until it blows up, the castle falls apart, they both get buried in rubble, and a MYSTERIOUS FIGURE swoops in and saves Mega Man, apparently also wondering if he's "too late" for Wily. Then, Light's brief exposition that it must have been Proto Man, now revealed to be Mega Man's older brother, a prototype that ran away on its own and just now decided to come back for reasons.

Proto Man is now nowhere to be seen. Wily's flying saucer wobbles off into the background. At this point Capcom actually wants players to still be on the fence about Proto Man. You have to fight him at several points in the game, he's always the one to attack first, but crucially there's that one moment where he just hangs out on screen for a few moments, then opens the way forward and takes off again, and he does rescue Mega Man at the end (but also wanted to rescue Wily...?)

They let this ambiguity brew all the way until Mega Man 5, and one of the reasons why I want people to know about it is because this context makes the plot in 5 actually mean something, and that's my second favorite game in the series after this one!

Can't wait. Best of luck with 4, Alex.

Nah, it's just like Dark Souls in that way. You trudge your way through it and every step of the way you fail to imagine how the game could treat you any worse, and then it finds a way. The key is that, when you're done, you can look back at what you just managed to conquer and feel like a goddamn god. That's what difficult games are all about!

Nah. Too many other factors. A controversy like this one could spring up and generate a zillion comments on a video that isn't the run. How does one determine ahead of time how many zillions of comments is actually indicative of an actual run? One won't know until one knows it's the run. Besides, those zillion comments will only accumulate in several hours, if not days, after the release of the video, risking only spoiling those who already arrive late to the video. If I understand things correctly, this one was "spoiled" within about half an hour after being uploaded, affecting almost all other viewers.

So "we guys" won't do anything, because it's not gonna happen like that.

I love how Mary's about to tell a story about playing "the original" Mega Man for the first time, and then proceeds to talk about Mega Man X, the seventh console game to bear the title. It's not your fault, Mary, I just found it cute!

Edit: Oh my god I just went back to catch the fence pun and I'm dying! Drew is a master at playing to the camera when the couch fails to deliver

You know how there's an official Classical Period in music history? There's one for classic rock, too. It's just slightly less officially recognized because it's not hundreds of years old yet, so it has yet to enter "history". It spans from around 1960 to 1990, and one day it'll be in the history books, and music from that exact era will be the only thing that anybody will be allowed to refer to as "classic rock".

Editor's note: The preceding review is a re-evaluation of Shenmue on GameSpot - the original score overlooked certain significant features that, after consideration, invalidated the original score that the game received. GameSpot regrets the error.

Wowwww. They seriously bumped it up from 6.8 to 7.8 and apologized for the "error" that is the original review. That's sort of unbelievable. Makes me glad certain events happened the way they did so we could end up where we are now.

I'm happy for Vinny and Max! It's a great time to be involved in Transformers. RID really is a fantastic line for the littler ones, and Combiner Wars is solid fun for the more patient or slightly older (or a lot older). Grab a voyager and four deluxes and you have enough moving parts to keep you entertained for a full work day (I used to work with tech support at a call center and would bring a handful to keep my hands busy and my mind at ease during long calls, so I know that works (though maybe I crossed the line by assembling Devastator at my desk)) without getting as frustratingly convoluted as, say, the movie toys.

Man, fun! Fun stuff. Great gifts.

I'm really looking forward to Mario Party 13: Luigi Returns.

Thanks for an excruciating feature of which I have watched every minute for reasons I do not understand. It's somehow been a blast?

Oh thank god, I figured it out! I knew I'd heard that Motorsport Manager music somewhere before!

Came for the roller coaster dollars, stayed for Lock Down and Chief Beef.