Debunking the Difficulty - Mega Man (NES)

sup what's up hello everybody and welcome back to debunking the difficulty today we're taking on a legendary title now this is a more popular one this is the original mega man game for the nes now this game is often referred to as one of the hardest mega man games i don't know if it's the hardest especially since later titles uh introduced hard modes and stuff um but this is up there it's one of those games that a lot of people are like uh mega man one and that's for good reason there's a lot of stuff about this game that is pretty rude and makes it difficult however we are here to break this game down figure out how we can make it a little bit easier and once again this isn't about making the game trivial but it is about discovering that maybe this game isn't so bad so i think everybody knows one of the most important things about mega man games is you gotta know a good order for the bosses because various bosses are weak to other bosses so if you go in the right order you can make things a lot easier on yourself i'm actually going to start with guts man which isn't that weird you know i never used to start with guts man i think i used to start with either bomb man or cut men back in the day but for now we're gonna we're gonna give gutzman a shot first now this is actually one of the harder stages i feel like so it's good that we're gonna knock it out first and these guys in the beginning are pretty annoying but you can get through them just by shooting and doing whatever now you're probably gonna have to practice this part i'm not gonna lie so let me show you what's going on here you're on these moving platforms and this is a hell of a way to start if you're not comfortable with the platforming and stuff you're probably gonna die here a few times one thing i want to tell you about this part is see how on the left side how the that little piece on the left as soon as it touches the gap that's when it drops so so that's what you want to be looking at to time your jumps it's pretty easy and you can just jump on this one forever just to practice until you're comfortable the bottom one is actually kind of tough so once you're ready to go you feel comfortable we're gonna jump down to the next one so here we go we're gonna jump down boom boom once again looking at the left for timing our jumps and there we go one of the nice things about mega man 1 actually mega man games in general is they typically have pretty generous health bars and i feel like mega man 1 is no exception for the most part um you get your health back a lot so to see i'm back at full health um you'll find that like it's nice as opposed to games like you know castlevania that can kill you in just a few hits a lot of different games that can kill you really fast mega man at least is pretty generous when it comes to how many hits you can take so with these guys you're probably gonna get hit by those guys but they don't really deal that much damage so just plow through those guys um right here we're just gonna jump down this side you can hold it right here and maybe you'll get a health i find that it's kind of jank sometimes he doesn't get in there like right there i held left and he didn't go in so we're gonna drop down here and believe it or not the level's like already over pretty much which is kind of nuts um you just go underneath that guy those guys are super annoying and there's a ton of them in this game um we'll have better ways to deal with them later but for now you just want to go underneath them one of the things you need to know about them is their jumping is random walking up to the boss you just run and shoot there's really nothing nothing difficult about this also something about mega man 1 that sucks is it has slippery garbage physics look at this when i run and stop he slides is he is he on ice like i don't understand this why is he what what is what the hell all right so we're on guts man and he's actually pretty damn easy if you have full health there's really no reason you should lose the guts man um the trick to guts man is that you want to jump as soon as he's about to land the timing is not very forgiving let me just tell you like you have to jump right before he lands otherwise you'll still get caught in his explosion dodging his move is actually pretty easy too so you just stay up here you get good at the jumps dodges move he takes a lot of damage from the p buster cannon whatever it's called your basic attack but this guy's really not that hard you can you can practice if you want just keep jumping don't even kill him um a nice thing about mega man just like contra actually is that there's no timer so there's no rush at all on killing these bosses or really doing anything boom one boss down all right so i'm gonna go ahead and go to cut man from guts to cut and we're gonna we're gonna show this dude what's up now honestly this stage is i think if if i recall it's one of the easier stages uh something else i want to point out is one of the things that really sucks about this game is that there's a score in this game i don't know why there's a score like nobody cares about score and like i wouldn't care either but the problem is that enemies drop score so what does that mean that means there's less of a chance they're gonna drop a health drop or a weapon refill or whatever they're just gonna drop freaking score which is completely useless so for this stage really there's man this stage is pretty easy i'll let you know if there's anything that really needs to be talked about you can take hits from these guys and it doesn't deal very much damage really you just kind of take your time shoot that dude play it safe you should be able to get through this no problem at all watch out for the pac-mans keep on going little freaking dudes jumping everywhere get these freaking idiots out of here dropping all sorts of health though so that's pretty cool uh you run into these guys which are these guys are so easy to deal with too they're so slow and easy to dodge and if you're patient you just wait for openings and you blast through should be pretty simple bam bam watch out here he comes watch out here we go oh yeah oh here we go yeah i think there might be a hard part in the stage why do i feel like there's a hard part maybe towards the end i can't remember there's gotta be something coming up i don't see anything yet though um oh these guys are so annoying i hate these guys i don't think they're as bad in this level as they are in other levels though but those guys are the worst we'll be seeing them later too ow see they're they're so hard to dodge bro all right so we're at the bottom we gotta deal with this guy um i'm gonna do this and just go underneath them easy peasy in the hallway leading up to the boss you just run through and like you know get shot in the face pretty cool got some help so that's nice too we're going into the boss here and i think this is like one of the easiest bosses straight up this boss is easy i think with the p-buster too but we have the guts move so i'm just gonna come down here and bam bam two hits see you later idiot all right two down next up we're gonna go to electric man which i remember this guy being really hard when i was younger but he ain't so bad so actually for this course you're gonna use your newly acquired cut move to kill these guys because usually they're really annoying but with the cut you just kill them and then there's nothing to worry about except your own terrible platforming skills i could have sworn you could grab power ups with the cut but you can't i thought you could i must be thinking of a different game oh see if you're too slow that's what happens get bodied it'd be really fast really fast and you just keep going up but once again these guys don't really deal that much damage so you'll find that a lot of times in this game the enemies don't deal that much damage there are some exceptions of course but usually you can like heal up and you'll be fine so this part's annoying but all you have to do is jump up there jump up here boom you're done we'll have much harder invisible blocks sections in the future except we're going to cheese them so not really do not go for that health that is a trap jumping into a two-space gap is a death sentence do not do it it is not worth it for this section just go up the right side you can actually so one thing i do want to point out is you can farm here if you need health or weapon upgrade you can stay there and keep shooting those dudes um coming through this section you just want to be patient this is actually these this reminds me of the uh water level in uh teenage mutant ninja turtles it's all very simple just go slow all right this is an important moment everybody this is the best item in the game right here all right and you need your guts to get it so that's why we gotta do guts man first if you watch speed runs there's actually a glitch where you can get that without guts man i don't know how to do it and i don't think it's very accessible so we're not going to worry about that anyways you need to master this move this is called i think the magnet beam i had to look it up but it lets you build platforms you can walk on this is the most vital item in the game learn how to use it i'll show you more tips and tricks along the way but trust me this is so important finishing up the level is pretty easy i go up the right side just there's really nothing to worry about here it's pretty simple it's really pretty simple for this part here you actually want to use your newfound ability just to jump up here like get that freaking guy off me um and then i think is there a big guy here no there's not i don't even know how much is left to be honest some tricky platforming here but i'm sure you can get through it i believe in you all right so i think we're coming up on the end here and for the there's a big guy guarding but i think you just hold right if i recall nope okay it's random so those guys are random sometimes they jump big sometimes they don't so you're gonna you're gonna approach them hoping they do a big jump and that you walk under them but if they don't sucks to be you now coming up to electric man it definitely helps to have some additional hp because there's a very good chance he's going to hit you and my current health i think he may one shot me but if you die to him it's okay because hopefully it's like your first death and you can just respawn with full health and you should be able to beat him easily at full health all right so for electric man i'm gonna show y'all what to do what you wanna do is shoot right away hit him jump up here dodge shoot dodge this is really bad he got me that's okay usually the cuts don't miss that much but you know doesn't always go your way all right so now we're full health um i anticipate it'll be much better this time so you're gonna hit him dodge hit him got hit that's okay got hit twice he actually kills you in three hits so i didn't do a very good job on him it's actually not that hard if you're patient to just shoot a cut jump over his move shoot a cut jump over his move but at full health you should be able to even tank his hits and still kill him all right next up we're moving on to the iceman the eskimo brother all right so in this one use your electric beam to kill everything it melts everything electric beam is a really good move that you'll want to use a lot just for like regular enemies like these guys are a nightmare with the pee buster but the electric beam they just melt instantly these guys you can kill them instantly like all these guys you're just gonna kill easy peasy bam lemon squeezy see it's nice when they drop uh weapon restoration but you see how often these guys drop score absolutely disgusting why would they put a score in this game all right so coming down here is where your your magnet beam training is going to come into play here all right this is what you were training for all right so you just do you just throw down the magnet beam throw down the magnet beam throw down the magnet beam you just skip that whole section this is one of the most annoying sections in the game but if you use the magnet beam it's easy it's super easy all right so this is one of the hardest sections in the game here i'm not kidding so this is like a big open area it this this section is complete garbage if you're going to do it the normal way so what you want to do is use the magnet beam but you hold b for a very long time because it makes the beam super long see that you just skip the whole section wow so watch out for these guys because they will hit you and knock you to your death but if you use the magnet beam [Music] super easy get that one up or not told you it was jank now i'm sure there are a lot of people out there that know this game better than i do this is another game like contra where i um you know i don't know this game that well before doing this video i did a little bit of research it brushed up on some stuff you know made sure i knew basically what was going on but that's kind of my point is that it's not that hard to learn how to conquer this game all right now we're going to use the pause glitch for the first time so in this game you pause with select there's a very useful exploit in this game that i think most of you probably know about we're gonna use a lot and it's just beautiful so shoot an electric beam at this guy pause unpause pause unpause on pause i only got one hit let's suck shoot again so what happens right there is you hit him repeatedly by pausing and unpausing it's absolutely beautiful and i don't know how the devs didn't or the testers like nobody realized you could do that it seems kind of weird that nobody caught that next up we're going to the fire man all right so in this map um i'm just gonna kill stuff with electric again it's super useful for murdering all these guys now i just kind of go through here real fast you can actually freeze those fire towers if you want um i don't think i'll do that at all you can if you'd like if it helps you for me i don't really need to do that um we'll kind of see as i go through here because i don't really remember how i do everything but we'll find out like there's fire right here which you could freeze for me i'm just gonna do the the magnet beam and go up here um use my magnet beam to get over all this stuff i told you guys the magnet beam was super op this part okay i got bodied so that's not good get a little health back um i've got some fire here gonna go run through here and go down here everything's pretty chill drop down here okay this part's getting a little bit crazier once again you could freeze those if you want i'm personally not going to just gonna keep on going through here watch out for the fire up top um it is dangerous if you get hit you can get knocked off i was actually very strategic about how i got hit right there actually used it to my advantage and one thing i haven't mentioned with this game is with the invincibility frames you can do some cool stuff like get hit on purpose and then you can run through certain sections can be very advantageous to master the art of the invincibility frame abuse electric is your best friend it kills everything it's awesome it's freaking awesome okay watch out for the fire is there anything left just this stuff okay i think we're at the boss we're coming up on the boss here once again just electric your way through this hallway and we'll be fighting the boss in no time this boss is a little harder than iceman if i remember correctly recommend a full health bar mine's not full we'll see how it goes this game does not have e-tanks like future mega mans which is a reason that a lot of people think it's a lot harder so you're gonna shoot your ice you're gonna pause buffer so you don't hit him quite as much as you did iceman with the electric abuse um you can hit him maybe like three times per pause buffer thing but he's still pretty easy you know he's still pretty easy shouldn't be a problem some people may be like oh you're a cheater beat the game without cheating but like dude a lot of these old school games have so many exploits and tricks that you can do and i say use them all to your advantage these games were built to be cheap and difficult so it's only fair that we be cheap in return all right we're moving on to the last robot master the bomb man this part here just hug the wall and then go you won't take any damage it kind of seems like it's hard if you're doing it for the first time you don't know this trick but completely free i think the rest of the level is like super straightforward like same enemies you've seen up to this point very reminiscent of cut man stage actually very reminiscent same like same freaking backgrounds and everything too when does he shoot i don't really know what triggers him to shoot we have to wait for him to let his guard down feel there might be better items to use on him than electric but i find that electric is pretty good generally electric is really op like for this whole part i'm killing these dudes with electric got these crazy bombs those things on the ground you can murder them with electric just dodge the bullet bills oh okay that like honestly i didn't get hit there but it's so easy to get hit into the spikes and die i mean oh did i ever mention this game has unlimited continues that's one of the things that makes it nice compared to other uh retro game like hard retro games tmnt and stuff like that battletoads that's a huge differentiator for sure this game it doesn't matter how many times you die you can try again so there's really no excuse that you can't learn everything and beat this game so for the descent and the bomb man you just hold right and nothing will hit you once again i don't know if that was an oversight or what but works for me man so bomb man you can pause buffer kill this guy but i'm not gonna bother because i think bomb man's easy and it's a fun fight too um honestly a lot of the fights can be fun if you know how to do them and if you know how to do them like do them the normal way that's cool you don't have to pause buffer if you don't want to honestly i would love to do like a buster only run of this game at some point maybe i'll try that in the future but for bomb man he's super easy did not even touch me pretty fun boss just like that we're already moving into wiley's fortress so we're gonna hop in here and stuff is about to get pretty crazy all right you'll have to be a lot more careful in these stages so for these big guys you want to freeze them with ice and then go underneath them ideally when they're on a big jump but sometimes they're stubborn and they don't do big jumps you can still get under them on a small jump you just need to make sure you freeze them at the top height of the small jump so they were very stubborn see that time i got hit they deal a ton of damage so try not to get hit right there it's really up to you how you handle these sections these jumps are kind of tight you can freeze these if you want to personally i'm not going to bother but if you if you prefer to freeze those and then use them to walk over you can do that too through all these sections you can use your uh magnet beam if you want just to make it a little bit safer once again totally up to you not mandatory at all once you get up here i think you want to bust out the electric probably uh or not i don't remember we're just kind of we're just kind of flying by the seat of our pants here at this point but almost i'ma show you guys everything you need to know see for this part this part can be a little scary but there's a trick here too remember there's always a trick there's always something you can do so spawn the bullet up top like that then go whoa he despawned i spawned him too high so still worked still worked all right here's another really annoying section but you already practiced this it's exactly the same as the other one just use the long beams to get across it don't even bother with standing on those things i don't know what the devs were thinking like they thought someone was gonna do that not a chance now this section can be annoying if you run out of magnet beam i actually think you can't get through there if you run out of magnet beam so be smart don't [ __ ] around dude did you guys see that my game just froze it's all good i'm back it's fine i don't know why that happens for some reason the my mega man games will randomly crash anyways i was saying you got to be smart conserving your magnet power because if you run out here you're going to be in big trouble so we are here at the famous yellow devil the famous yellow devil fight you know hardest fight in the world you know oh god okay so he comes flying in you need to try and dodge his moves you'll probably hit a couple times should be fine as long as you have some help so you're gonna shoot wow i screwed that up you can kill him in one cycle if you don't suck like me ow i'm gonna die no i'm gonna die don't die yeah we got him we got him so when you're doing the pause buffer glitch you'll once you start to practice it you'll you'll learn there's a feel for it doing it really really really really fast can it's a little sketch there's actually like kind of a rhythm where it's like that works a little bit better um you just have to play around with it and see what works best for you all right coming into wiley 2 this one i think my only advice for this one is just to play it safe i'm using the wrong freaking weapon i recommend the electric for sure the electric is one of the best for this one you want to go slow and deal with these dudes don't go yolo jumping without looking first because these guys can knock you off the arena pretty easily i hate these freaking guys so you're gonna have to re-fight some of the robot masters the first one is cut man and normally use guts against cuts man but um there's no gut blocks in here so i'm just gonna use the p buster whatever he's actually kind of fun to fight kind of getting my butt kicked a little bit here yeah he's kind of fun to fight without the guts dude he hit me after he died bro i'm lost on my hp man uh anyways we keep going here just use the electric should make this this part's not too hard really you can kill these guys super easy with the electric move so next up is electric man which is super dangerous just hit him he dies in three hits you're gonna probably have to tank at least one shot which should be fine as long as you had a little bit of hp going into it i hate this freaking part it's so hard to dodge all that crap but it doesn't deal that much damage i'm about to be dead here i might have to take a d here coming up soon oh you can grab a one up here which you may desperately need um i highly recommend grabbing it coming down here it's pretty simple just because of your electric shot you can kill dudes who are underneath you and kill all these guys it's really really kind of trivializes the section there's something right there you can kill those guys which is nice if you get lucky they drop a lot a lot of health but i have not gotten super lucky yet keep getting score and [ __ ] all this freaking score all right so this boss here sucks i'm at low hp i'm probably gonna die so it's a good thing i got the one up we're gonna try and pause buffer kill this guy with the fire i would prefer to have a little more hp but we'll see how it goes this guy kind of mimics your attacks and i think there are ways to to fight him and it's cool and fun but i don't know those ways so we're just gonna try to fire pause buffer this guy i got me it one hp left dude that was so epic all right so whatever i'm at full hp here that's definitely why i want to get that one up he should be no problem if you're going in at full health the only thing you need to worry about is that if you run out of fire that could be a problem but i didn't even use half my fire on that last fight you can try fighting him the normal way i don't really know how he works like sometimes he walks towards you sometimes he doesn't it's kind of freaking weird i'm being honest i just got three four i just got like four hits off on him with the pause buffer that's probably the hardest boss in the game i would say highly recommend that pause buff strat works like a charm moving on to wiley three um bust out the electric so they're not really restoring your stuff in between levels which kind of sucks you know it'd be nice to get your weapon power back so we don't run out there's gonna be a farm spot coming up i think i don't know if i'll use it i don't know if i actually need it but through all this stuff it's not too bad you can really just run through and get hit in the face shouldn't be a problem through this section is like an auto scroll section where it moves you on its own so for the first part you can just run and keep shooting you're hoping for good drops here like get your health back and stuff if you see a weapon drop you can also switch if you need to to collect some of your weapon [ __ ] once the bombs start coming you want to slow down so stop pushing right no d-pad here no d at all deprivation strats right here for some reason there's no more bullets coming i don't know why i think we broke it there's supposed to be bullets so you just keep jumping and shooting in the middle now for some reason the bullet stopped spawning i think it glitched out all right for this boss you're gonna use guts bam poop on his face poop on his face poop on his face poop on his face now once you're done pooping on his face you're gonna need to use the pea buster i just stand in the left corner here okay this is what i do and you just spam like crazy he's gonna hit you a couple times but it's no big deal super easy all right and just like that we're moving on to wiley 4 the final freaking stage yo wow i almost fell and died right there so we'll see kind of what happens here i'm trying to remember how this works keep on plowing through use your electric beam to get through here it's pretty simple really nothing that you haven't seen before um you might get hit a couple times but thanks to the generosity of your health bar and mega man it's not really a problem okay now this section coming up here there's a moving platform uh i really don't care about that so we're just going to use our magnet thing um yeah i'm just going to use this here so this part is crucial right here very very important so you want to drop down on this thing oh my god so you want to drop down on this thing see this weird like ninja star looking thing you want that that gives you all your stuff back you can get the one up too if you want all your stuff is restored all your weapon power all your hp you are golden you are definitely gonna want that and it's pretty easy to get all right so we're gonna have to finish up the refights here i don't really think i need to tell you anything about these because i already showed you how to beat these bosses you're gonna do the exact same thing that you did before for these bosses um you will want to be careful not to take too much damage obviously because if you get hit a lot um you might end up dying so try to be smart try to be cool i'm fighting this guy with my pee buster because i'm crazy i don't know why i should use my fire but it's all good just pause buffer murdered iceman or fireman that was beautiful we got iceman here we're gonna electrify this dude bam bam bam super dead that's cool and then the final one is guts man this guy you already you've already mastered how to beat guts man so i don't have to teach you how to do this you know what i'm saying look at this easy as cake okay when he gets in your face i don't know what you're supposed to do about that holy crap dude my god what the hell that was that was insane i think that's it i think i'm at the final boss i'm pretty sure am i the final boss i think so um i don't need to refill anything i'm pretty good here yeah we're at the final boss so final boss um i might die but it's okay we got extra one up from below so i'm gonna shoot this instant kill pause buffer kill on that thing switching to electric because honestly i don't know the best move for wiley's second form the electric seems like it kind of works pretty well ow he shoots these weird balls of light you should try to dodge them obviously if you can i'm getting bodied here so we might we might die we'll see and just like that you just beat mega man congratulations all right so overall like this game is very short it is forgiving with the unlimited continues um the fact that you can take a lot of damage using boss weaknesses like knowing what to use and when uh abusing the magnet beam to skip all those ridiculous platforming sketch sections and of course using the pause buffer strat to completely obliterate some of these bosses even if you don't use the pause buffer glitch um you can use everything else and just learn how to beat those bosses that i used it on honestly the robot masters aren't really that hard you just use their weaknesses the pause buffering just makes it like so much easier you can beat those guys without pause buffering the yellow devil is one of the probably harder bosses along with the clone mega man um but you can learn to beat those bosses too if you really want to if like for some reason you just don't want to use the pause buffer glitch you can definitely learn those fights i don't think wiley is that bad either so even without the pause buffer glitch um you should be able to beat this game without you know losing your mind i've been really having a fun time with this series i love going through these old games and just breaking them down how to dominate them how to beat them how to make them easier a lot of these games are very crazy hard and even with my my suggestions and strategies they can still be hard but they're just a lot more approachable like i said debunking the difficulty isn't about giving you a free win it's about giving you the tools you need to win hope you all enjoyed the video thumbs up subscribe share it with a friend and fourth leave a comment below letting me know what game you would like to see next in this series i'm out peace

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Length: 32min 49sec (1969 seconds)

Published: Wed May 25 2022