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Quick Look: Mega Man 11

? Here I am! Rock Man like a hurricane. ?

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Oct. 1 2018

Cast: Vinny, Alex, Dan

Posted by: Abby

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Mega Man 11

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WOO!

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Just to get this in first.

Albert Wily and Thomas Light. After Einstein and Edison, who their appearances are inspired by.

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Yes, Dan. Dr. Wily is a bad guy.

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Double. Gear?!

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That talk about wily being a bad guy reminded me of this classic by mitchell and webb

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First use of emojis in a video description?

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I'm not a fan of Mega Man at all, and this QL was extremely entertaining.

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These millennials. Putting emoji in decks. What a load of ?

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what was on fire?

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What was on fire?

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Never been into Mega Man past playing the first few ones back int he day, but for some reason this one looks really appealing to me.

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@toug said:

Just to get this in first.

Albert Wily and Thomas Light. After Einstein and Edison, who their appearances are inspired by.

I get that Edison did light stuff, but was Einstein wily?

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It's all good, Alex. Don't fear the reaper.

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@csl316 said:
@toug said:

Just to get this in first.

Albert Wily and Thomas Light. After Einstein and Edison, who their appearances are inspired by.

I get that Edison did light stuff, but was Einstein wily?

He helped with the development of the atom bomb so the Japanese aren't very fond of him.

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I plan on buying this, but it's a shame to see how "by the numbers" it is. Powered Up is still the best Mega Man game with the most replay value.

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Light may HAVE the double gear prototype, but at least he cited Wily as its source.

Attribution is important, folks!

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@csl316 said:
@toug said:

Just to get this in first.

Albert Wily and Thomas Light. After Einstein and Edison, who their appearances are inspired by.

I get that Edison did light stuff, but was Einstein wily?

He helped with the development of the atom bomb so the Japanese aren't very fond of him.

While I agree that Einstein is one of the most visually recognizable scientists in history, and Wily's design and first name are clearly allusions to Einstein, do the Japanese really think of Einstein as a villainous historical figure? Other than co-writing a letter to Roosevelt that essentially warned "the Germans are going to develop an atomic weapon, you might want to do the same", Einstein had no direct involvement in developing the atomic bomb and was known to be a pacifist.

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I hate this art style so much that it completely turns me off of the game honestly.

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Roll calling Mega Man "Mega" is a little weird, just like it was in Powered Up. I guess it makes more sense in the Japanese version, since Rock sounds more like an actual name. Kinda wish that they had went the Archie Comics route of just keeping his non-Mega Man name Rock in English as well.

I was recently reminded of just how gosh darn good Mega Man 9 was. This looks to at least have decent stage variety, I´m just not fully sold on the stage gimmicks I´ve seen so far. Either way, I´m playing this sooner or later.

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So does this mean Mr. X is Wily's Lord Tensai?

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It's the demo level...damn

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So does this mean Mr. X is Wily's Lord Tensai?

He'd have to be wearing a giant cowboy hat, have six-shooters and an American flag jumpsuit while constantly eating cheeseburgers for that to be TRULY apt. But I like the direction!

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Modern games should not have lives.

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Skyrockets in flight, afternoon T Light.

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The CG stuff doesn't look horrible, but it doesn't have the Mega Man charm and really emphasizes how empty some of the stages are. I'll say it: I was making unfavorable comparisons in my head to stuff like Mighty No. 9's freeway and radio tower stages, which had interesting gimmicks and at least some effort put into background stuff (despite the numerous problems with the crowdfunding campaign blah blah disclaimer here).

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Shoutouts to the forever-spinning turkey leg in an unreachable microwave in Doctor Light's lab.

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I don't know... the 2.5D look is decent (slightly better than MightyNo9) but still not nearly where it needs to be. There are games out there which nail the perspective (+stage/art design and FOV requirements) much better. Also, the vibe feels off. I love the 90s cartoonish, edgy-cute anime art style of the NES/SNES games but this is too whimsical.

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The character animation, and to an extent the effects animations, all look like Capcom polish but the backgrounds and levels all look budget to me.

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Wily being based on Einstein, well, he was rather a scurrilous character for sure, an avowed racist in his earlier days.

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I usually hate 2.5D stuff but this looks pretty good. The ".5" is way more subtle than it often is. (I think MN9 looks like ass)

As someone who was never really into this franchise I'm actually thinking about picking this up. Especially with that Casual Mode. The bouncy level looks like a ton of fun, a lot more interesting and fun to traverse than anything in the more classic games that I've seen.

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Roll referring to Mega Man as just "Mega" seems like somebody on the translation team doing a Ctrl+F, replace all "Rock" with "Mega". I think the PSP remake of Mega Man 1 did the same thing.

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After seeing the Bounce Man part of this QL, I totally see Dan as the sort of person who would put a ball pit in his house.

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This looks okay, not great, not bad, just okay. No matter, I'm happy they are finally doing something new again.

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I can not - not hear the Completionist tune every time a level is selected.

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Well, if it's anything like some of the other Mega Man games, the bolts are used for buying upgrades or different characters.

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So does this mean Mr. X is Wily's Lord Tensai?

No, that was Dr. Wily as the Higher Power, or the "Houwer Power" to the Undertaker.

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apparently Proto Man isn't in this game so fuck it, this is the worst Mega Man game

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I can forgive the drop before the boss screen, the lack of pause when picking up health and the uncharacteristic sound effects, but man, they really dropped the ball with the music. This doesn't sound like Mega Man music at all.

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Am I the only one that noticed that delicious looking chicken leg?

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@veganwa: I agree with you there. None of those things come close to being deal-breakers for me, but when a Megaman game doesn't have some of the best music ever, it comes close to being a deal breaker.

HOWEVER, if you haven't played the demo for this, you should. I played that one stage over and over because the gameplay ultimately is exactly how Megaman should feel, and the new stuff like the double gear system actually adds an incredible amount of depth to it and was a smart update to very old and simple mechanics.

In short, I'm getting this game because I'm a huge fan of the series but I wouldn't be getting it if it weren't also incredibly fun.

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"Pretty cool that Rush is a dog that can turn into a submarine. You don't see that a lot."

-Dan Ryckert.

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@tshngo: He probably thought Wily was a pirate.

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"Pretty cool that Rush is a dog that can turn into a submarine. You don't see that a lot."

-Dan Ryckert.

I mean, you really don't see it a lot.

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I think the player this time was pretty bad. Not using the gears much and not charging his buster hurt him a lot.

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Youse guys missed a Tron Bon Scott joke

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Quick Look of the Yearâ„¢

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@zerocrescent said:

So does this mean Mr. X is Wily's Lord Tensai?

No, that was Dr. Wily as the Higher Power, or the "Houwer Power" to the Undertaker.

Does that make Impact Man the "Heh...IRON" of the group?

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While I agree that Einstein is one of the most visually recognizable scientists in history, and Wily's design and first name are clearly allusions to Einstein, do the Japanese really think of Einstein as a villainous historical figure? Other than co-writing a letter to Roosevelt that essentially warned "the Germans are going to develop an atomic weapon, you might want to do the same", Einstein had no direct involvement in developing the atomic bomb and was known to be a pacifist.

I'm not sure how common this thought is throughout Japan but Capcom has multiple villians with the first name "Albert", like Wesker for Resident Evil.