Samurai Deeper Kyo (PSX)

 I think manga about samurai is firstly popularized with Rurouni Kenshin or known as Samurai X. When i'm high school student, i got a glance about another manga with same genre: Samurai Deeper Kyo. Hey! There's a game adaptation on it! Samurai Deeper Kyo (2002) by Bandai on Sony Playstation. 

There's bunch of character from the manga. I don't think there's option menu there. That most bottom menu takes me to some character selection and controller setting for them but leave it that alone for now. The menu in middle is exhibition mode where you choose to fight CPU, or 2 players. Or even see CPU fighting each other. Language barrier is serious problem but this is fighting game so i'll be fine as long as i mash buttons, right? :P

The premise of the story is there's peaceful medicine peddler Mibu Kyoshiro who share the same body with Demon Eyes Kyo. Obviously both Kyo have the polar opposite personality but both of them are skilled samurai. For my convenience i like to call Mibu Kyoshiro" The good Kyo" and i call the Demon Eyes Kyo "The evil Kyo". The good Kyo has similar personality with Himura Kenshin from Ruroni Kenshin. Pacifier until he meets situation where violent is inevitable and as you would expect from this kind of manga, the occurrence of it is as often as how many people drink liquor in tavern. Otherwise the story won't be so good to read. The evil Kyo is cheerful fellow. He like to cut anyone in half with evil smirk in his face and eyes bright red as traffic light that tells you to stop no matter how much in the hurry you're. It's said that he's responsible for killing of 1,000 samurai at Battle of Sekigahara and he even murder the infamous Oda Nobunaga (while in written history, he's killed by Mitsuhide Akechi in rebellion)! He eventually defeated by The good Kyo and his mind/soul fused to his body.

I'm not going to lie. I like the craziness of the story so far.          

 

For the test run, i played as the evil Kyo. So this time i pick the good ones. After selecting the character, the game gives me these 2 options. I think the left one is "official partnership" while the right one is "Advanced Setting". The official partnership means you will change your assist to defeated opponent while the "Advanced Setting" gives you more option that written in Japanese so i leave it to official partnership.

 

Before match there's always dialogue between your character and their next opponent. I ensure you that i can't read Japanese at all and i only know so little about the manga. But i have feeling this Kunoichi have bone to pick with Evil Kyo but she mistake the good Kyo as the evil ones. Her name is Mahiro, by the way.

 

The basic is here: move joystick left/right to move left/right. Move joystick down to duck. Move joystick up direction to jump. Move joystick backward to block enemy's attack. Pressing circle and cross will execute weak attack and medium attack respectively. Look at how far the range of that normal move. Yes. It's just normal move and it already has good range and power. You achieve victory in a round by either depleting your opponent's health bar or having bigger health bar when timer reaches zero. But the problem is the timer is in Japanese so i can't tell how many seconds that i have to defeat my opponent. But luckily, every match occurs very fast so you can ignore the timer at all.

 

If you press circle button near you opponent, you will initiate auto combo and you can string it: 1) With more circle button press for normal string. 2) With cross button press for string of low attacks. 3) With triangle button press for lunging attack that can deal heavier damage.

Personally i like to combine it with low attack because it seems enemies can't block low when getting hit by combo.

 

My next opponent is a lad named Benitora. I remember his name from character introduction on manga back then. Pressing triangle button will make the good Kyo tries to catch his opponent's blade with his fingers. It may sounds awesome but through my entire playthrough i can never make this move to work at all. Either because the ai is too smart or too stupid to fall for this parry move. It will be more efficient and faster if i just hack them left and right like what i did before.

 

Naturally for this kind of game with super bar, there's super move. It's activated by pressing simultaneously two button of any face button. Simple and easy. Unfortunately, Sasuke Sarutobi here can dodge it easily. As expected from a ninja. Don't let that kendama toys that he always carries around fools you. He's still legit ninja.     

 

Next opponent is Sasuke's master: the famous Yukimura Sanada. But Sasuke is willing to go against his master but only for this match. There's assist like in Marvel Vs Capcom 2 or some King of Fighters. The assist bar will be gradually filled. Once it's fully filled, your assist is ready to help you. If your control setting is basic/simplified, your assist will automatically engage once the bar is filled. If your control setting is advanced, you tell your assist to engage in combat by one of shoulder buttons. Assist can't be interrupted by enemy's attack.    

 

Eventually my super move manage to hit my opponent. If it finishes my opponent, Kyo will deliver some kind of one liner. I think he said "Can you hear it? The voice of the wind"

 

My next opponent is Akira who wield long sword in one hand and shorter one on the other hand. He's pretty similar to Leon from Asura Buster. This Akira has interesting backstory. Akira was a peasant kid from village where evil Kyo destroyed. He's the only survivor on that fateful moment. He refuses to cry over this devastating event instead he intended to challenge evil Kyo to fight. Impressed with his bravery, Kyo decides to adopt Akira instead of killing him.   

 

My next opponent is Shiina Yuya the main female protagonist. She's bounty hunter who seeks revenge over her dead stepbrother. Surprisingly to me, he's killed by the good Kyo and not by the evil ones! Anyway, Shiina has gun and she's clearly zoner character but the ai controlling her is not bright so she's defeated easily. Luckily, the good Kyo can cast projectile of his own by simply pressing square button. That's right. There's no need to input special command even as simple as hadou ken motion. There's advanced control setting but that only add just very little input complexity like backward + attack button or sort like that.

 

So my next assist is Shiina Yuya. That well-built muscles can't save you from gun, Bontenmaru. You can imagine what kind of character this muscular bastard is. We will talk about him more later.

 

Bontenmaru's assist is Akira. That's kind of awkward. He knows it so he looks smug back there.

 

The challenge not only comes from outside of The good Kyo. The evil Kyo wants a piece of him inside of his body. Demoman_battlecry02.wav  

 

I like to say that the Yin Yang symbol on their cloth is certainly indication that they have double personality with opposite difference.

This is not mirror match as you probably guess. They have different stance, see? Even though their eyes glows red.

The good Kyo has projectile move and counter move. While evil Kyo is all about hack and slash. He can be perfect protagonist for Hack n Slash game.  The good Kyo has super in form of fast dash while the evil one's super move is projectile that move along the ground. For some reason enemies seldom block the super projectile move. Is it unblockable? I doubt it.

 

Strangely there's assist in fighting match on inside of our body/soul. Okuni there is just glide gracefully. Easy to dodge. But when you get hit by her she will cling unto you and makes you unable to do anything including attack and block, which is not good. Her attack is unblockable, by the way.

 

After fighting within myself, it's time for another battle in reality. I don't what's the deal with this smug guy. He's unarmed and like to teleport around. Turns out he's Ieyasu Tokugawa himself! It's honor to have a match with you, sir. o7

 

Next opponent has more imposing look. I mean look at him! He blocks my super move with forcefield around his hand. Shockingly, he's the infamous Oda Nobunaga himself! No wonder he looks arrogant and evil. But strangely he bears no moustache like the generic image of The Demon King.

 

Oh no! He's about to execute his super move. What kind of demonic power the infamous Oda Nobunaga will unleash upon me? Never mind. I interrupt his super with my projectile just in time. :p  

 

Suddenly a frozen body on Akira's stage begin to awake. I wish i can burn it back then. Who's he?     

 

His name is Mukuro. Not much of clue there. After more deeper [sic] research, he's the original body of The evil Kyo! So it's good vs. evil redux, i guess?

That charging move of his has "armor" property. By that i mean his move there can't be interrupted by any mean but he still takes damage if you hurt him while doing so.   

 

I get hit by is super move. It's just barrage of sword slash but it's really hurt me. D:

 

So far i can win the fight with no problem but against Mukuro there i lost a whole match. At least we get to see the continue screen. I think that's Muramasa the blacksmith and master swordsman who teach swordsmanship to the evil Kyo. Also i think i have infinite continue (unless when the candle melts completely that is) so i choose to continue.

 

This time i have to be more aggressive. When he does the "armored" charge, i hit him with my super move. Thus i give him devastating damage without taking damage to myself.  Soldier_DominationSoldier05.wav

 

After defeating Mukuro, the good Kyo throws his sword and never use it again. Watch where you throw that thing dude! Someone can get hurt on its way down. I think the evil Kyo has better ending where he tramples the good Kyo after defeating him (as the final battle) and presumably takes over good Kyo's body for himself).   

 

But there's bit more. Mukuro is awake, again? Maybe that means the evil Kyo is finally returns to his original body. How nice! :)

 

As promised here Bontenmaru. He's actually Masamune Date! I should know from his eyepatch. You can alreasy guess that Bontenmaru's strength is his grappling move. Pressing triangle alone is how you execute the normal grapple move. His super move is also grapple. I think i like him because grapple is very rare here.

Here's the main problem with the game, there's so little way to punish turtling opponent or shpuld i say enemy that keep on blocking. There's no guard bar that when depleted will make the character have a guard crush status where they are stunned temporarily and vulnerable to any attack. There's some unblockable move like Okuni's assist and Bontenmaru's grapple. Do you know why zoner character -for example- Ryu from Street Fighters 2 has ability to throwe even though he's not close range fighter? That's because he needs it to punish his opponent who's get too close to him and put them back to his safe distance and not as main method of damage like Zangief. So there's no reason to not give every character in roster ability to throw/grapple at least to punish opponent that always blocking and seldom to attack actively. 

 

Bandai's Samurai Deeper Kyo (2002) is pretty interesting fighting game. I think this game is meant for the fans of the manga/anime rather than for pro competitive game because of that turtling aspect that i mentioned before. Unless the game implements no blocking mechanic like my dearest Fighting Masters :p, it will be more balanced but not in desirable (by anyone but me) way. The roster is pretty balanced. But some of them available as assist only. The assist system is pretty solid. They can only be called when assist gauge is full and when they're out, their action can't be interrupted. The simplicity of control is rather unique. You don't need to remember special move input at all. You just have to remember that circle is for weak attack and short attack that initiate combo. Cross is for medium attack. Square and triangle is for speciallty of your character so you have to do some kind of experiment to know what they're for. Also remember that pressing both button is the way to execute your one-and-only super move. Luckily, the enemy's AI is easy to defeat. They like to forget to block most of the time, except Ieayasu Tokugawa and Oda Nobunaga. The music is pretty good. The sounds effect is okay. The art presentation and (probably) the story is consistent with Anime/Manga.

Samurai Deeper Kyo (2002) is swordfighting game based on Anime/Manga that's less famous than Rurouni Kenshin in western region, sadly. Thus this game will never get official translation. Moreover it came out when Sony Playstation 2 is already out so it's one of game that released only to prolong Sony Playstation 1's life service a little longer. But you can consider this game as hidden game with average quality with bit uniqueness.  Give it a try. Also watch/read the anime/manga while at it.

Special thanks to: jygting for providing me with the one and only FAQ about this game in gamefaqs.gamespot.com

Mega Man VII (SNES) - Part 2

Previously on part one: Mega Man sent Dr. Wily to the prison but he eventually escape thanks to 4 Robot Masters that he kept hidden just in case he got caught. Mega Man manages to defeat them but the crisis isn't over yet! Dr. Wily takes inactive Guts Man from the robot museum and later other 4 Robot Masters appear!

So which one of you like to get entangled with me first? Wait a second! Is that Shade Man on the corner right bottom? I heard the rumor about  important secret on his level. Let me see, first. Okay! Pressing and holding "B" and "Y" button while selecting his mugshot will unlock it.

 

By doing so, i can hear the Makaimura theme from Ghosts 'n Goblins series! Also the map screen music played instead of usual Robot Master introduction jingle. I feel like at home already. Home that's filled with ghosts, yōkai goblins, ghouls, and demons. Also of course, occasionally Firebrand/Red Arremer throws stone at me like mean big brother. This secret is pretty much relevant. I mean look at that zombie robot that raise from invincible coffin. It's pretty goddamn similar to zombie in Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts! Meanwhile that wrecked headless robot in background reminds me of Shielder in Ghouls 'n Ghosts. Maybe i have just found my most favorite Mega Man game! :D

 

The sub-boss is pumpkin robot. I have to wait until he opens his outer shell to reveal smaller pumpkin that isn't impervious to my bullets. After defeated, he breaks the floor on left part to reveal a way for me to make progress.

 

There's a dark room filled with spike pit. You light the room temporarily by shooting Thunder Bolt that you get from defeated Cloud Man. After passing that room, i get into the room with stained glasses and i find Bass. Mega Man comfort Bass over his defeat , befriend him, and tells him that he can take repair at Dr. Light. Personally, i don't want to be friend with loser that says weak comments like that as if they're done with Ghosts 'n Goblins game. If you feel offended with my statement because you hate playing the infamous Ghosts 'n Goblins, i don't mean to offend you. I'm sorry.

 

Given the Makaimura Theme, i'm disappointed that when i encounter Shade Man no Ghosts n Goblins music played again. But i recall there's no good boss battle music in Ghosts n Goblins. Well, except the one in Ghosts n Goblins Resurrection. It's very fantastic!

I just realized that i can dodge projectiles by sliding (activated by holding 'down' button and pressing 'jump' button). Crouching is better dodge method but beggar can't be picky as they said. You have to watch out when he's flying because he can swoop down and try to grab you and later will drain your energy and add his as you expected from vampire robot.   

 

Again, i'm faced with 33.333% chance between 3 Robot Masters that weak to my newly acquired weapon. But i learn from previous Robot Masters that the order to tackle is clockwise so i'm into Turbo Man's stage. My enthusiasm lower since Shade Man's stage with Makaimura music. But this stage is not bad. Pretty good, even. It has racing theme: garage, tires but this tractor seems out of theme! Spy_negativevocalization03.wav

 

This tail of truck seems suspicious so i told Rush to do some research and i only get big bolt that seems does nothing when picked. Thanks, i guess?  

 

Apparently, the truck is sub boss! It has license plate written "Sisi". Without doubt this truck robot is based on Japanese Lion Dance shishi-mai (獅子舞). It looks adorable but sadly it's enemy so i have to take it out. Its weak point is its eyes and particularly susceptible to Thunder Bolt. That makes sense. You don't want electricity sparks your eyeball, do you?

 

Judging by his look, he doesn't like Noise Crush that i got from Shade Man. Why he 's weak to the sound wave weapon? I'm guessing because he's jealous to speed of sound. No matter how hard he tries to push his engine limit. He never beat the sound's velocity (which is 1,235 km/h or 767 mph) ever. Thus giving him sound wave will break his heart and pride massively. The boss fight goes like this: He tries to summons spinning wheels on fire, i interrupt him with Noise Crush, he turns into Formula-1 car and try to run me over but i jump over him easily, He tries to summons spinning wheels on fire and so on. My reward for defeating him is a weapon called Scorch Wheel (it's named so because Hot Wheels^TM is already trademarked).   

 

On to Spring Man's stage where is filled with spring and harmful jack-in-a-box. I was wrong about the clockwise order because Spring Man isn't weak to Scorch Wheel! Besides throwing springs and his fist at me, Spring Man has capability to grab me and later ram my head into ceiling. It's not as obnoxious as Shade Man's vampiric bite and also fun to watch.

 

Next i go to Slash Man's stage which apparently Dinosaurs themed. There's enemy Stegosaurus and this friendly Parasaurolophus that allow me to travel further along this land of spikes harmlessly. Engineer_thanks01.wav

 

Naturally, there's robot Tyrannosaurs. I have feeling that this stage is inspired by Jurassic Park. This stage is probably the 2nd most favorite stage in this game besides Shade Man's stage but must with Makaimura music. Without it, Shade Man's stage is immediately invalidated from my list.

 

As you expect from Robot Master named Slash Man, he love to slash me to pieces with his long claw. He's probably based on Wolverine of X-Men what's with his feral movement. This is funny because Capcom also release X-Men game on SNES in 1994 which is a year before this game is released. Maybe somehow there's live action adaptation of Mega Man, Hugh Jackman will be the cast for Slash Man.

Slash Man is weak to Scorch Wheel which is good. The bad news is i can't shoot the fiery wheel on mid air because of the long starting time while Slash Man has wild movement like monkey on steroid. Apparently, he's also weak to Freeze Man's weapon: Freeze Cracker which is much easier to aim than Scorch Wheel. That makes sense because Slash Man lives in tropic jungle so any weapon with extreme temperature is bane to him. He doesn't shoot any projectile but he can throw egg that can make Megaman covered in yellow sticky  goo which makes him unable to do anything while slowing him down badly. It takes quite forever to worn off or it will come off if you get hit by Slash Man. There's lucky case, where the goo stick to floor and once stepped only make Megaman's jump shorter.

 

Surprise! Surprise! Bass runs amok after get repair from Dr. Light and he also steals the enhancement that's meant for Mega Man and Rush. Later Dr. Wily mocks us via computer screen and says that it was his plan all along to make Bass infiltrate Dr. Light's lab and he will use the enhancement for himself and Treble. Soldier_negativevocalization01.wav

 

I didn't know if i press "select" button when in stage select menu, i will get to this Auto's (who's claimed to be Dr. Light #1 student) workshop where i can spend those bolts that i though useless to make various items but not all. This Beat's flute supposed to summon flute to save me when i fall into a fall pit but i need to rescue Beat first.  

 

Before i go to Wily's fortress, i have to check previous level to find secrets. As Protoman said, some weapon will works on part of level to reveal secret. On the Junk Man's stage, firing Thunder Bolt on this generator will activate those ascending/descending block. Also at the end of this section, there's Rush Jet revealed!  

 

At the same stage, i can freeze these boiling lava i mean molten junk by using Freeze Cracker. So i can step on them safely and break them to open a room where "S" plate is being held.  

 

On to Cloud Man's stage, there's two Teru Teru Bōzu robots. I shoot the first one down to make the weather rainy. On further part, i shoot the second one with Freeze Cracker and the weather become snowy. The snows reveals platforms that are invisible when the weather is either sunny or rainy. Some of those platforms lead to "U" plate.

 

In Freeze Man's stage in a section just before the boss fight door, i find Exit Unit by using Rush Search. It will allow you to exit the stage that you have cleared once instantly. This Rush Search is very finicky. It requires exact spot. Before Rush digs Exit Unit out, he digs out apple core in the spot very near to Exit Unit's spot. If only the spot is marked with something, that would be very helpful for the sake of searching.

 

I know from Protoman that tree can be burned with fire weapon but as i said before the Scorching Wheel is hard to aim. Turns out i can burn the tree while casting the fire weapon in the middle of jumping. The fire projectiles don't have to travel to the leafy part of the tree! This newly revealed ladder leads me to Beat that currently held in a bird cage. I like the charred expression of that snake. Looks goofy.

 

On the other hand, this Rush Search's spot is well marked with the picture of Dr. Wily himself. This item is E-Balance that will increase other weapon energy's if you picked W-capsule while you wield weapon that currently full, or at least that's what i understand. To get to this area is pretty finicky. Turns out i can defeat the pumpkin robot by shooting its eyes while it doesn't reveal the small pumpkin. I can't tell it's taking damage by shooting its eyes because lack of vulnerability effect! It can't be helped. If you defeat it that way, the pumpkin robot will destroys the right wall instead and leads to this room with Dr. Wily's picture.

 

In the Spring Man's stage, i can use this Jack-in-a-box to push this wall and reveal a secret room. There's Hyper Bolt inside of it. As for what Hyper Bolt does? It doesn't add bolt by big number, no. By the way, here's Super Adapt. Looking good, huh?

 

It belongs to Auto himself. Once he receives it, he immediately screw it into his head. It's always amusing to see a robot can repair themselves. By doing that, Auto has upgraded himself. Thus he can create more variety of item at halved bolt costs. Scout_thanks01.wav

 

But i don't go to Dr. Wily's fortress just yet. In Nitro Man's stage, i find Hyper Rush Punch which upgrades the Super Adapt's charged attack to reach longer and homing to enemies. This place only reachable with jet boost of Super Adapt armor.

 

Can't you see i have the Super Adapt armor right here? It will be much nicer if the description of the plates is written in option menu and not via Protoman in secret room. It's located on secret passageway on the right wall in the same room where i found the Hyper Rush Punch upgrade. I have to see video on youtube for this. I will be less embarrassing if i went straight here after picking the Hyper Rush Punch and not exited first like what i did. >:(  

 

On to Shade Man's stage through the first way, i find this secret room. But everytime i visit this, it's empty. Turns out i have to meet Protoman twice before and then optional boss fight against Protoman himself triggered! Maybe he's weak to Robot Master's weapons that i got but i reckon charged Mega Buster does work well if you timing it right. Triumph over Protoman rewards me with his very own shield! Scout_mvm_loot_rare03.wav

 

Finally, i'm ready to go to Dr. Wily's Fortress which is unsurprisingly filled with nasty platforming sections. Or to hell with them and use Rush Jets to progress! This guy already make a joke about this, by the way.

 

At the end of that platforming section, i encounter Bass and he running around like Freeze Man but he's not weak to Junk Shield. However he seems weak to charged attack of Adapt armor where Mega Man shoot his own arm to punch Bass really hard preferably on his face. This fight doesn't cost an arm and a leg, only an arm though. You know what i'm saying, right? ;P

 

Shockingly, Bass is just sub-boss. The real boss is this resurrected and modified Gutsman! He can stomp like mad to cause debris to fall and later use the biggest debris as impromptu projectile against me. He also lower the ceiling by doing his stomping tantrum. Rush Coil doesn't work well to evade the big rock because it goes too fast and the ceiling is lowered. Here the Super Adapt armor shines once again. It will allow you to dash diagonally after your regular jump. Not as flexible as Vectoman's jet boost or even Arthur's double jump in Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts, but the diagonal jet thruster is still useful nonetheless. I can't find Gutsman particular weakness here but regular Mega Buster doing work fairly well. Don't try to use the Rush Punch here because Gutsman's weak point is very small which is his head thus the punch hits his helmet instead because's it's too big.

 

On next part of Dr. Wily's fortress, Bass want a rematch. This time he use the armor that emerged from Treble much like Rush emerges with Mega Man here. Bass has better flying move than Mega Man. He can fly across the screen and whatnot but he's still weak to Hyper Rush Punch. Engineer_specialcompleted11.wav

 

The boss fight is robot turtle that can spawn his kids from his shell which also a mini garage. They're small so i recommend using Junk Shield to trample them. The boss can also blows fire which is nasty and annoying because when you get hit by it even just a bit, Mega Man will be burning, stay on the spot for eternity while getting continuous damage. Heavy_autoonfire04.wav

 

Oh look another section with memory block platform and filled with spikes. Using Rush Jet you can not only ignore this difficult platform section but also reach this part with lots of pick up.

 

The boss level is this demonic looking flying robot. It reminds me of Hagane somehow. This boss fight is auto scroller section by the way, so you are forced to move right. You can slide to move faster. The boss can shoot laser from its forehead and missiles. It's only vulnerable by shooting on its eyes.

 

Next section of Dr. Wily's fortress is the mandatory boss rush but with elevator. So i encounter Slash Man again but this time i give him cold treatment by using Freeze Cracker and it works wonderfully. I learn that Burst Man also weak to Freeze Cracker. Also i learn that Shade Man is weak to Spring Man's weapon instead of mechanical garlic or artificial sun. Why? Let me think. Spring is coiled metal object. You know what else coiled metal object? Chain whip! Vampire Slayer of Castlevania can take form of chain whip. So i can assume that Shade Man weak to The Wild Coil is homage to Castlevania. That's my best guess.   

 

After that boss rush section, Mega Man falls into this section which is bit suspicious to me so i call Rush to search this part and he find dentures. Don't look at me like that, Mega Man! My intuition doesn't always work well. That's all.

 

At long last, it's the final battle against Dr. Willy! He rides on giant skull robot that like to hop around and sometime spawns smaller skull robot. The feet don't harm you but you have to be careful to that spiked chin. The small skull robots are more durable than they look so it's best to just jump over them and focus on hitting Dr. Wily that appears on one of window of the skull robot. If only he installed safety bar on the window, he will be invincible.

 

Naturally, there's 2nd phase. This time Dr. Wily teleport to random spot, he unleashes 4 orbs, then sometime he shoot lightning beam below him that turns into 4 electric orb that move along the ground. I thought Mega Man VII is great until i reach this point. You probably know this already that the 4 orbs are very hard to dodge because they move relatively to your current position. They move in 2 instances and very fast. They also randomly generated. The electrical type will punish you the least if you get hit by it due to its low damage. The fire type will make you burning and i already told you how annoying the burning effect in this game. The ice type will make you frozen. It wasn't so bad until you get hit by the lightning follow-up attack of him and you will get critical damage.

I find some way to avoid his obnoxious orb attack. If he's located on the top, you have to slide once and then jump. If he's located on the bottom, you have to jump twice. All this procedure require very precise timing. Dr. Wily can only be damaged with charged attack. So if he's positioned in the top you can't hit him with charged Mega Buster but you can dodge his attack fairly easier. In that state you need the rush punch but remember that while in Adapt armor you can't slide. So the idea is, you wear the armor while Dr. Wily is hidden somewhere briefly. Once the rush punch hit Dr. Wily, you change back to regular Mega Man immediately. It's pretty tedious process but it has to be done.

 

Mega Man knew that imprison Dr. Wily doesn't work so he decides to kill Dr. Wily. He reminds Mega Man that robot can't harm human and he replies with "I'm more than robot...". Maybe he watched Terminator movie so he gains insight that robot can kill human.  

 

But then the fortress begin to crumble and Dr. Wily get hit by some debris. But Treble come to teleport him to safety. Once again Dr. Wily is safe to devise new evil plan in future. Then Bass come in and says that "He who hesitates is lost and we shall return".  Well, Bass. Mega Man isn't hesitant, he just remember the contract with Capcom to extend the series. So you should be grateful to him, Bass.   

 

Then Dr. Wily's fortress bursts in flame and Mega Man walks away from it. This credit scene pretty much reminds me of ESWAT's ending. Now i know why the final phase of Dr. Wily is so goddamn hard. Because the producer is none other than Professor F! If you don't who Professor F is, Professor F is the producer of Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts and director of Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection. You can tell that Professor F  is pretty infamous within Capcom.  

 

The Mega Man reunites with his family/friend. Rush is yawning while in photo shot. He's not good at being photographed.

First thing that i want to complaint is: how undermined the jet thruster is. I know from someone's stream that in Megaman VI, the jet thruster allow Mega Man to fly anywhere freely even though limited by jet gauge. The jet thruster here is significantly more restricted thus lessen the usefulness. It will be next to mandatory to make it better to avoid that Wily's obnoxious attack. Or the very least make the projectiles fly shorter and slower. Asides of that, i very fancy Mega Man VII and i'm glad to play it. I like a couple level: Slash Man's level that's pretty much homage of Jurassic Park and Shade Man's which has Makaimura theme. The weaponry is range from interesting to lame. Slash Claw could have some longer range. Scorching Wheel need less aiming duration. Noise Crush has interesting mechanism which become stronger if you reflect it to wall and you receive it own way back. Using certain weapon to reveal secret, is brilliant idea. The platforming aspect is tricky. In Nitro Man's stage, i hate that hanged tires that constantly interrupt my jumping. The workshop is neat idea and can mitigate the need to hoard 1up or what have you by replaying the stage. I think this game is the first to introduce you with boss that can grapple you: Shade Man's life drain, Spring Man's jumping slam, and Gutsman's vertical throw. The graphic is obviously better than the prequel on NES and it has stronger color tone too. The music is pretty nice and -it goes without saying that- i like Makaimura theme the most.

I bet anyone who read this already plays Mega Man VII (1995) so you know that the gameplay is pretty good even though there's bad difficult problem on final boss. It's made from proven and tested formula of previous Mega Man with enhanced graphic befitting SNES's capability. The best you can do to play this game is play until penultimate stage. It goes without saying that i really glad to play this game at the start of new year. :)