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churine wrote: ↑5 years ago They could just have used the normal general palette (megaman's face, life, graphic effects bullets explosions etc) for the boss lifebars, though. It's more that they're just using the highlight palette, and for some reason used that only as a copy of the general palette...?

churine wrote: ↑5 years ago

Concrete Shot shuts Galaxy man's wormholes

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raekuul wrote: ↑5 years ago Does this include the Doc Bot stages?

I never found them too bad? Like yeah theyre harder than the rest of the game but on the whole they feel like natural evolutions of the ideas brought forth in the original levels, and on the whole they have p good design unless im forgetting something drastic.

Doc Needle, mandatory Rush Jet with a weapon energy pickup that doesn't respawn.

Despite the fact that Rush stays vertically aligned with Mega Man no matter what, Rush Jet only drains energy while Mega Man is actually standing on top of it. Spend the entire trip constantly jumping up and down - which does not make dodging the Parasyus any more difficult, before anyone asks - and the entire flight will use less than a quarter of its energy.

Kilgamayan wrote: ↑5 years ago Rush Jet only drains energy while Mega Man is actually standing on top of it. Spend the entire trip constantly jumping up and down

Paragraph wrote: ↑5 years ago Top Spin is my favourite weapon in all of Mega Man, but you really have to know how it works and why it "randomly" consumes so much energy. The trick is to never press the button for too long when hitting something that isn't killed in one hit. Because due to a bug, if you hold down the button while you're "in" an enemy that isn't killed instantly, the weapon's energy continues to drain. So if you're just toying around trying to see what it works against, just push it once at the beginning of your jump.
This sounds like a serious drawback, but it's actually only against one enemy: Shadow Man himself (and the Doc Robot that's weak to it I guess, but eeeeh). Everything else either dies in one hit, or is immune to Top Spin, so you can learn not to use it against them.

What I'm saying is this: if you know which enemies are weak to it and in which stages they appear, you can dance through entire levels just one-shotting everything in your path with a twirl and a flourish and it's glorious. Really annoying enemies like the hopping dudes in Shadow Man, the parachuters in the same, the pole vault guys, they're all felled in an instant and you're completely immune to them while you're spinning, as contact kills them, not you. But if you're just playing around to see if this weapon might work against...oh no, it doesn't and now the energy is gone...then you will hate it, yeah.

Ashan wrote: ↑5 years ago Oh yeah, so I tried this out last night when I was finishing up my MM3 run. I got to the section with the parachuting guys, equipped top spin, jumped up towards one, let forth a spin, and...
Mega Man bounced off the guy like he's made of rubber, straight into a pit without even dealing any damage. Never touched the thing again until Shadow Man refight/Gamma

Paragraph wrote: ↑5 years ago No you have to bounce back ONTO the platform! Basically, you hit them as they're between the platforms, then you land safely back from where you jumped.

I'mma back up my words this time!

Paragraph wrote: ↑5 years ago

Ashan wrote: ↑5 years ago Oh yeah, so I tried this out last night when I was finishing up my MM3 run. I got to the section with the parachuting guys, equipped top spin, jumped up towards one, let forth a spin, and...
Mega Man bounced off the guy like he's made of rubber, straight into a pit without even dealing any damage. Never touched the thing again until Shadow Man refight/Gamma

No you have to bounce back ONTO the platform! Basically, you hit them as they're between the platforms, then you land safely back from where you jumped.

I'mma back up my words this time!

Ashan wrote: ↑5 years ago That seems way less convenient and more risky than just using the magnet or shadow blade or even the buster!

Paragraph wrote: ↑5 years ago

Ashan wrote: ↑5 years ago That seems way less convenient and more risky than just using the magnet or shadow blade or even the buster!

It's reeeeal fun, though. Also, how would you use Shadow Blade there? And I did the level third, not gonna use Search Snake...speaking of, if you wanna check out the Snake Man vid, I Top Spin real good in it, too.