Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series on Capcom's MegaMan series, looking at the latter half of the game, exploring its difficulty and how it presents a final exam, among other topics. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary.
Sections played:
Finished the Game! (Hmm...)
Issues covered: multiple forms of mastery, leaning on rewind, playing "au naturale," analogues in the podcast hosts, being confused about item 1, how the powers match up against various bosses, Brett's tornado, choosing the right weapon for the job, wondering whether you learn from earlier enemies for the final exam, plotting out your path, the final areas of the castle and challenge, divergent paths in game design, multiple ways of using the same ingredients, being frustrated by the type of game, having the gratifying sense of overcoming a boss, gaining knowledge, being surprised by a mid-game cutscene and map, puzzle rooms and weird rooms, the final exam, the bomb maze room, having to fight all the mans again, an amazing ending cutscene, wanting to know about the lore, identifying how to make games fit better to players, matchmaking very quickly, mixing different things together, the consequences of not reading mechanics and how that impacts a game, not knowing who Sen is, the Painted World, shipping your vertical slice, the terror of the Tower of Latria, showing the flaws of the mechanics.
Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Metroidvanias, Wonderful 101, Platinum Games, Clover Games, Okami, Hideki Kamiya, Viewtiful Joe, GameCube, Wizardry, Ultima IV, Conan the Barbarian, Sabotage, Lode Runner, Robotron, Joust, Mario (series), Metroid, Nintendo, Contra, Assassin's Creed, Raymond, Celeste, Todd Howard, Halo (series), Josh Mankey, Dark Souls, Stardew Valley, Warren Linam-Church, Ico, Sasha, Shadow of the Colossus, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Fumito Ueda, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia, Dog Game Club.
Next time:
3 Mens of MegaMan X!
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DGC Ep 204: Chrono Trigger (part two)
DGC Ep 203: Chrono Trigger (part one)
DGC Ep 202: Bonus Interview with Jeff Morris
DGC Ep 201: Bonus Interview with Soren Johnson
DGC Ep 200: Beyond Earth Bonus and 200th Episode!
DGC Ep 199: Civilization III (part four)
DGC Ep 198: Civilization III (part three)
DGC Ep 197: Civilization III (part two)
DGC Ep 196: Civilization III (part one)
DGC Ep 195: Bonus Interview with Kirk Hamilton
DGC Ep 194: World of Warcraft (part three)
DGC Ep 193: Shenmue (part three)
DGC Ep 192: Another Year Behind Us
DGC Ep 191: Shenmue (part two)
DGC Ep 190: Shenmue (part one)
DGC Ep 189: World of Warcraft (part two)
DGC Ep 188: Eternal Darkness Bonus Interview with Brad Furminger
DGC Ep 187: World of Warcraft (part one)
DGC Ep 186: DOOM Bonus Interview with John Romero
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