Like, you can't go more hardcore than that, literally. It's very hard even to make just a simple run of a Mega Man game under these rules, and doing a speedrun on top of all the rules gets it to a real hardcore extreme level. But this is not a proper explanation, the truth is - it's extremely, extremely, extremely hard. However, not many fans, just a few actually, play Mega Man games under these specific rules: using only buster (so no RM weapons or items/Rush jet unless mandatory), not using the E-tanks (E-tanks are the items that you can collect in some levels, and keep for future usage to use whenever you need it, to replenish your health to full) or any other tanks (there are the tanks that you can use the same way like an E-tank but it replenishes some specific RM weapon, or all of them, or a specific Item/Rush Jet, or all of them), not losing a life, not glitching the game at all, and not using the turbo button (PC emulators usually have the turbo button built in, which the NES controller didn't have, and some later Mega Man games are built for consoles that have the turbo button).Īnd, the reason why just a very less players go for this category and these rules, is because it's - extremely hard. Therefore, your runs are actually a bit shorter and faster if you glitch the game.Īnd there are many other categories with specific rules that you can play Mega Man games under. Some Mega Man games, especially the early ones, contain lots of glitches that, if exploited (which is usually very tricky to pull, by the way), let you pass entire screens, sections of the levels, sometimes even the entire or almost entire level. And, each of these categories you can play under 2 different subcategories - glitched (it's called "any%") or glitchless (sometimes called "zipless"). Of course, speedrunning is very popular with Mega Man games, and you can do it in 2 main different ways: you can do just an ordinary speedrun, which means using all RM weapons and Items/Rush Jet (the accessories that let Mega Man jump high, fly, swim faster under the water etc), or you can go famous "buster only" speedrun, which means you use only the default weapon, buster, in your walkthrough, therefore of course no RM weapons or Items/Rush jet are allowed, unless mandatory (in most Mega Man games there are some screens and bosses that can be cleared only by using an Item/Rush Coil or a RM weapon). Or simply "buster", as we shortly call it.Īmong Mega Man fans and fan communities, there are many different styles and rules under which the games can be played. However, there is also a default Mega Man's weapon, that you start with, and have an infinitive ammo of - Mega Buster. Well, of course, since all enemies are vulnerable to specific RM weapons, that makes any Mega Man game considerably easier. As said above, by defeating RMs you gain the ability to use their weapons. SOME SPECIFIC DETAILS ABOUT THIS WALKTHROUGHĪnd now, back to the features of Mega Man games that are related to this walkthrough. Most of RM weapons can be real fun to mess with!
Therefore, your difficulty level basically depends a lot on the way you choose to play the levels. This basically gives you endless opportunities to try different paths, as all the RMs and other enemies/obstacles are vulnerable to some specific RM weapon. Prior to Mega Man, this was unheard of, you always had to play a game in one specific order the game was designed for.Īnd this is actually closely related to our next specific thing in Mega Man games - each Robot Master (RM in the rest of the article) upon defeat grants you with the ability to use their weapon! So, since the moment you defeat a certain RM, you can use his weapon for the rest of the game.
You can choose which one of 8 levels to play, in any order you want.
In each Mega Man game, there are 8 Robot Masters (in the first game 6, since then always 8 ). All 6 are listed in IGN's list of top 100 NES games.Īs some of you probably know, Mega Man games are specific in many ways.įor example, Mega Man is the game that invented choosing your own path through the game. There were a total of 6 Mega Man games for NES. Mega Man games were among the most popular NES games, along with Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, Castlevania, TMNT, Metroid etc.
This article is about a walkthrough of Mega Man 3, a retro game for the NES.