Hey all. Thread title seems pretty self-explanatory, so I'll just tell you about my inspiration for making it. With the release of the two Mega Man Collections on Switch in May, I completed a personal goal and beat every classic Mega Man game, 1 thru 10. I beat Mega Man 4 with its crazy collision damage; I persevered through the horror that was Wily Capsule 7; I even found a copy of Mega Man & Bass and beat that too. By the end of this journey, I felt like I had 'gotten gud' at Mega Man; just last week I breezed through "Mega Man in the Mushroom Kingdom" (a texture hack of MM1 that also lowers the difficulty) and was feeling like a baller.
That's when I found the game that knocked me on my ass again. A total-conversion hack called Rockman CX.
I was drawn in by the awesome and totally-not-licensed boss characters, and the fact that it works on the NES Classic. But, as you might expect from a ROMhack, the game is friggin' hard. The stages fluctuate wildly in difficult from easy peasy to pixel-perfect hard. But the biggest source of difficulty is the bosses (well, besides Whispy, lol). They have tons of moves, and many of them have multiple one-hit kills. Mega Man can fully heal himself. Air Man is invisible. But the worst boss of them all is Cheat Man, who quite literally cheats. No, really. Just watch this shit:
That's not even all of his moves. He can also stunlock you, and swap his health bar with yours (so you really don't wanna use any E-Tanks during this fight). And would you believe, the bosses become harder during the re-fight!
Most Mega Man games I can beat in one sitting (granted, that sitting may last a few hours). But this hack took me three or four days of playing with all the free time I had to get to the end. It's an awesome fangame, with tons of cool new music remixes and bosses from start to finish. But I cannot in good conscience condone you trying it on real hardware, because I really don't think it's possible to beat without copious save-stating. Beating it feels like an accomplishment, and thinking on it briefly it may just be the hardest game I've ever completed.
Now of course, I wanna hear from you Era. What's your hardest beaten game, your badge of honor you wear with pride? Anything that is a 'video game' counts in this thread. Beating X game on Y difficulty, hacks, fangames, flash games, etc. How long did it take? What was the hardest part? How did you feel when you finally did it? Tell me all about it.
That's when I found the game that knocked me on my ass again. A total-conversion hack called Rockman CX.
I was drawn in by the awesome and totally-not-licensed boss characters, and the fact that it works on the NES Classic. But, as you might expect from a ROMhack, the game is friggin' hard. The stages fluctuate wildly in difficult from easy peasy to pixel-perfect hard. But the biggest source of difficulty is the bosses (well, besides Whispy, lol). They have tons of moves, and many of them have multiple one-hit kills. Mega Man can fully heal himself. Air Man is invisible. But the worst boss of them all is Cheat Man, who quite literally cheats. No, really. Just watch this shit:
That's not even all of his moves. He can also stunlock you, and swap his health bar with yours (so you really don't wanna use any E-Tanks during this fight). And would you believe, the bosses become harder during the re-fight!
Most Mega Man games I can beat in one sitting (granted, that sitting may last a few hours). But this hack took me three or four days of playing with all the free time I had to get to the end. It's an awesome fangame, with tons of cool new music remixes and bosses from start to finish. But I cannot in good conscience condone you trying it on real hardware, because I really don't think it's possible to beat without copious save-stating. Beating it feels like an accomplishment, and thinking on it briefly it may just be the hardest game I've ever completed.
Now of course, I wanna hear from you Era. What's your hardest beaten game, your badge of honor you wear with pride? Anything that is a 'video game' counts in this thread. Beating X game on Y difficulty, hacks, fangames, flash games, etc. How long did it take? What was the hardest part? How did you feel when you finally did it? Tell me all about it.
I'mma need some receipts if you claim you've beaten Christopher Robin at baseball tho.
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