Blue Bomber fans rejoice! Nintendo Switch Online’s June classics are now available and are a true repóker of essentials: The Game Boy application has just added the five numbered Mega Man installments tailor-made for Nintendo’s revolutionary handheld. The same games that we saw on NES and have been reissued ad nauseam with fewer colors? Not quite.
First things first, between 1991 and 1994 Capcom launched the series Mega Man World on Game Boy that, put bluntly and quickly, take the best and most representative of the desktop releases and adapt it to a much more modest but really effective screen. In this way, the Mega Man Game Boy intermixes content already seen in the first two Mega Man from Capcom for NES and something similar happens with its sequels. Of course, on a visual and playable level they are all very attractive.
Taking into account that the series Mega Man World on Game Boy it worked in parallel with the deliveries that came to NES and SNES, as games these five Mega Man They are considered something like younger brothers of the main and numbered saga of Capcom’s Blue Bomber. All in all, those from Osaka took the opportunity to introduce their own musical themes, different phase designs adapted to monochrome and smaller screens and various mechanics or novelties designed specifically for laptop players.
Very special mention to a Mega Man V from Game Boy that, unlike the previous four, offers a totally new story and enemies never seen before in the saga, which implies an additional attraction: we can get new types of weapons by defeating the final bosses; in addition to a new type of Mega Buster created for the occasion. And not only that, since when it came out in 1994 Capcom took the opportunity to take advantage of the Super Game Boy by introducing color elements in case we used the cartridge in the Brain of the Beast.
Like all Game Boy games coming to Nintendo Switch Online, these classics from Mega Man They have the advantages that allow us to apply different visual styles or the possibility of saving the game on the fly. It is worth remembering that demanding difficulty is part of the identity and essence of the character’s first games. That said, advantages like this will open the doors of heaven to more than one newcomer and enable those who were stuck thirty years ago to reach the end.
Five exceptional classics for all subscribers of the Switch Online online service and a gift that suits Nintendo’s two-in-one consoles wonderfully for a video game icon that transcends generations. Especially considering that these titles practically disappeared from current systems after the closure of the Nintendo 3DS eShop more than a year ago. In any case, a special sub-saga filled with familiar elements that did not deserve to disappear given its timeless excellence. The one that shines so special in the best Game Boy cartridges.
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