{"id":11,"date":"2010-04-10T17:32:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T17:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2010-04-22T13:13:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:13:57","slug":"mega-man-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Mega Man 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--  p.MsoNormal \t{mso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmargin-bottom:.0001pt; \tfont-size:12.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmargin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:0cm}  li.MsoNormal \t{mso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmargin-bottom:.0001pt; \tfont-size:12.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmargin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm; margin-top:0cm} -->I finished <em>Mega Man  10<\/em>. I sure took my sweet time! I downloaded it over a week ago and didn&#8217;t  get finishing it until today, whereas I&#8217;m pretty sure I finished <em>Mega Man 9<\/em> fairly quickly.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not bad. It&#8217;s a  classic series <em>Mega Man<\/em> game, so it&#8217;d have to try pretty darn hard to  even register as sub-par in my books (the X series seems more blatant in its  good-to-crap ratio), but while I personally found Mega Man 9 to be a  reinvigorating breath of fresh air, <em>Mega Man 10<\/em> just came across as very  average. The kind of <em>Mega Man<\/em> average where there&#8217;s decent level design,  moderate challenge and nice graphics and music, mind you. Average average is  something else entirely.<\/p>\n<p>I think Mega Man 9 was  appealing was because it really pushed the standards without necessarily  breaking them &#8211; the weapons are almost universally useful, offering all kinds of  support during levels and there&#8217;s a memorable variety of levels and bosses. 10,  meanwhile, just seems to have lost its imagination. Yes, some of the bosses are  quirky, but a lot of the weapons I struggled to find decent uses for them. It  also didn&#8217;t help that it almost seemed like it was trying its hardest to adhere  to the traditional Robot Master weapons &#8211; Nitro Man has a totally kickass  motorcycle, and just when it looks like the game can homage the vehicle  sequences from <em>Mega Man 5<\/em>&#8230; you get a screw-shaped Search Snake.  Disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>I repeat, it&#8217;s not a  bad game, but there&#8217;s not the same &#8220;wow&#8221; factor I got from 9. Maybe playing it  again with Proto Man and Bass will rectify that (I still think the Bass sprite  is terrible. Sorry, but what was wrong with the ones from <em>Power Battle &amp;  Fighters<\/em>? It&#8217;s kind of sad when I have to say that the sprites in an  official game look like they belong in a wonky fangame).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished Mega Man 10. I sure took my sweet time! I downloaded it over a week ago and didn&#8217;t get finishing it until today, whereas I&#8217;m pretty sure I finished Mega Man 9 fairly quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,12,6],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-game","tag-mega-man","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}