![]() Being forced to rerun entire levels due to a run of bad luck near the end made sense as a form of enforced pacing when the size of games was relatively limited, but games have long outgrown the mechanic and it's distracting here - an ugly cumbersome appendix on an otherwise perfectly calibrated update to the series. My one complaint about the game would be that it hasn't been quite as successful modernizing its older style of gameplay as recent throwback games like Shovel Knight - It insists on tying itself to an arbitrary lives system, which can sometimes destroy pacing. Optional text blurbs about enemies and masters add even more setting details without intruding on the actual gameplay. This leads to some really fun and surprisingly inventive stage concepts for the series, including a campground in the middle of a raging wildfire (complete with midboss fight against the camp's mascot) and a Universal Studios-esque theme park laced with pyrotechnic effects. Some surprising thought has also gone into what the Robot Masters are this time around, and what their places would actually be within the setting. The story's still predominantly an excuse for a brace of bosses and platforming challenges -and wouldn't feel out of place in a Saturday morning cartoon show besides- but this one's as close to having any real substance as one has ever gotten and gives us some surprising meat on a few of the characters. ![]() I also find myself enjoying the concessions to modern storytelling sensibilities in this installment, as small as most of them are. I'm going to cut against the grain and say that the Double Gear system is one of the chief factors in the game being as strong of an update as it is - the gameplay's been tweaked so that using the Gear intelligently is necessary to deal gracefully with a large part of the game while still feeling unmistakably like the same classic jump-and-shoot fans have been enjoying for decades. I'm going to cut against the grain and say that the Double Gear system is one of the chief An excellent modernization of the Mega Man series. An excellent modernization of the Mega Man series.
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