/vr/ - Retro Games

Y'all know that Mega Man VI is the best one.
Also can we just talk about how great the title screens for these games are? V has Proto Man's scarf and II has iconic skyscraper shot but VI's gotta be the coolest: it has the fucking planet front and center, It's like the game is telling you that this time "shit's gonna get real".
I know these are kid's games but fuck me if didn't love them when I first played them

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The first one is less depressing to me, more "gulp, this is it, Mega Man's last stand" because the Wily bosses are getting pretty hard at that point.

But that VI one... damn, that always depressed me, even back when I first played it as a teenager. A lot of MM5 and MM6 music depressed me even then, because it was hard to ignore that these games would be some of the last games released on the NES. And as Capcom squeezed all they could out of the 2A03 sound chip late in the NES' life span, instead of sounding energetic and epic the songs became dire and bleak. Like even the NES/Famicom itself knew that its days were numbered and more and more people were selling it or putting into storage to make room for newer and flasher consoles. Time marches on.