Fanart Friday: Mega Man

MEGA MAN LEGENDS!

This game had a lot of influence on me as a kid.  Most people know it as Mega Man Legends, Mega Man 64 if you were a Nintendo fanboy like me, and it was a beautiful game.

"HUH-DERRR"

Well, the art and design was beautiful anyway.  The character design is what really captured my imagination as a kid.  Like I am with almost any form of entertainment, I don't pick it up unless I really like the art.  Even if the game, movie, or whatever is total crap.

Just for a minute I want to talk about something that has had a little controversy a while back.

 

There it is.  I think people got a little too upset about this being scrapped.  Don't get me wrong the idea of a new Legends game would have been cool, but the set up for the story is what had me worried.

I'mma let you finish, but first I'm gonna spoil some things.  The end of Mega Man Legends 2 is very odd, because Mega Man,"Trigger," is stranded on another planet, or the moon it's been a while since I've played, while Roll and Tron work together to build an extra-terrestrial craft to bring him back.  Kind of a bitter-sweet ending where two girls fighting over the same Mega Man, the generic anime cliche I used to love as an adolescent, have to work together to find him.  It was a funny little ending that gave wiggle room for a sequel.

"Shut-Up Data! Everyone liked you better when you couldn't talk!"

Back to Mega Man Legends 3 I don't think it would have been that interesting of a game for me.  Tron and Roll are busy being a two-woman space program and our title character is lost in space; who's going to be our protagonists?

These two.

That's my main concern, my favorite characters don't seem to have a active "roll" (*snicker) in the game.  Tron and Roll will most likely just be in the game to tell you where to go next to find the next maguffin for their rocket. These two will run all over God's green earth "digging" for parts to help the girls build the White Base so they can go save our main character.  They're cool designs and everything but I feel like my favorite characters are just going to be put on the side lines.

"Oh Paul, you cantankerous conservative, don't you want to meet and fall in love with new interesting characters?"  No, this generation is so keen to be wallowing in their own nostalgia. Why should I be any different?  Plus it would be on the 3DS and that just sounds awful.

Also, when working on this week's entry I noticed something interesting.

'til next time.