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wily springs the trolley problem onto megaman with Actual Robots With Feelings on the tracks and which ever choice he picks unlocks a path in a fork, one of which nets him a collectible During the playthrough, rao picks the option with the single robot and enters the next screen, then notices the W...

Real wild level today, gotta admit I love the physics twisting shenanigans that just happen because Wily decided "they can". Like, what's the purpose of having weird spacebending tears in your weaponised marine base? Realistically, confusion, and little else. But justification for nonsense...

Fun note here, during the twitter takeover in 2021, Eggman stated that the cakes and such at Sweet Mountain are ALL real cakes, baked onsite by the eggpawns. They just don't go moldy or rot because they're 99.9% preservatives.

....... Wait, so he didnt even come up with the name Baldy McNosehair himself??
How did this insult become used across multiple games?

Act 4 really was just "You will progress, you will not deviate from your path, go now and succeed" with occaisional polyhedrons of "Actually, how about you bathe in the light of the star of nemesis and perish".

The splash woman cameo is pretty cool :o

Todays stage was neat, I like how both Rock and Roll got their own segments. Swapping between them for the boss is a cool mechanic too.

BobisOnlyBob wrote: ↑1 week ago MAGNET DUDE

Alright Magnet Dude! Gimme five!

These are neat little rewards for getting the letters, both of them complement the character's primary strength. Rock's charge shot and Roll's extra jump get a boost. Cool design choice there! Notable change from format here, we have Beetle Lady, not Beetle Woman. We can all forgive that for the pun...

Huh. So there wasnt any symmetry in how the allies were distributed. With Drake Man, Reactor Man and Ghost Woman's stages having them, I figured that the other stage on the top of the grid would be where they put Honey Woman. Guess not. Todays was fun! I do love the coconut gordo's, i just think the...

Drake Maaaan... Not much Man in this one but I'm always happy to see a rad mecha dragon boss. Man, this music though. Absolutely got that chaotic stress of being in an actively erupting volcano. That letter run demands the best out of you. I'm seeing more evidence to believe what I put in the spoile...

This is a terrifying stage. Quick lasers are one thing, but now they're moving. The disco balls were a neat addition to the mechanic though. Also, the supercharging battery telly is pretty neat, and there's a good amount of stuff that can seemingly supercharge them. Even the basic turrets of the sta...

There really ARE bats in that belfry! Wow, today's stage was kinda brutal :D Fitting to have a lotta opportunities for death where ghosts are involved. Nothing as nasty as a "react or you die" vertical spike shaft, though that 1UP on a hidden spike was pretty mean, haha Ghost woman seems l...

So we're going clockwise then? Neat! Guess next up is the spooky goth bot. Honestly a stressful lookin stage. Instakill smashers, math platform bombs, parachuting spikeblocks, helicopter platforms (which thankfully seem to be on preset paths rather than moving around randomly), the enemies were kind...

Thanque Koba :o

That was a fascinating ending, but ... was it really what the slugcat wanted? The family did seem to be migrating in the opening cutscene, and it did reach another slugcat tree in the void, but it also looked like it was missing its family in the early dreams. I don't think there's a way that the f...

Happy Westmas! So, Megaman Rock n Roll, huh? This one's lookin' powerful right out the gate. Seems like no robot is safe! I do like the nod to Honey Woman here, that's neat. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/2/2d/HoneyWoman.jpg For those unaware, Hornet Man's earlier designs were orig...

Congratulations :D I'm gonna be real, when I originally saw this game being selected, I panicked HARD, I was genuinely worried that this would be a case of the game being too vague and eventually be dropped on the basis of being basically unnavigateable and unbearably punishing. Seen it happen befor...

I dont remember gold lizards. This might complicate things.

Grounder wrote: ↑2 weeks ago looking at the replies, this is (at least in part) a mod repackaging

to be fair, so was "more slugcats"

He did the moose ride!! And the moose only fucked up a Little bit! Incredible. :D Question for Crow, or anyone who's played updated versions of RW... I saw this after he descended into the ravine on the final moose, and I can't help but wonder, did they add a path around it? Or is this another case ...

Here we go. The farm arrays. :) I've been simultaneously excited but also dreading reaching this particular area, like, I am a bubbling stew of feelings regarding this area, but my primary ingredient is pity. They tried to do something interesting here and I wish it worked better. I do like how rao ...

Oh. That's interesting. Is that 9-dots door even reachable with Survivor? I'm unfamiliar with another zone this direction, so is this, like, a restricted part of Pebbles? Today we met an entity of some kind, and it seems, at least, friendly? ... And then we meet the lizard parade on the wall, who to...

Okay, y'all are making it clear that answers aren't readily forthcoming via normal gameplay... but I still want to discover what the game does and does not show on its own terms. I feel like a natural playthrough of most games only shows you some of what even exists, and it's a different 'some' for...

that we knew any lore in this game before 2023 is a minor miracle GOSH, you can say that again. Like, I would've loved to see this tapestry of a world that they'd painstakingly woven in the way they wanted it viewed, but I realistically do not have the time to spend, nor the patience to persist. Co...