Mega Man 7 | The Completionist

yes you hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of hump the completionist and today we're gonna take another title from the Mega Man Anniversary Collection pack and to me this one's special Mega Man 7 is one of the least loved Megaman games in the eyes the community or lack thereof community but it also happens to be one of my favorite Megaman games from the original era and today to help us out is my super view brother Alex let's do that be a bro thing done boy there you go doc wish you like dog what's up boy dog boy so boss from Mega Man 9 mega man 11 7 dog man dog man the Shawn man dog boy dog boy it sneaks to the knees Mega Man 7 was something of a surprise when it was released we were in the middle of the transition era from the Nintendo Entertainment System to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and with new tech we've got new ideas the critically acclaimed highly popular Mega Man X franchise had only just hit the scene so when Capcom announced that they were continuing with the original Megaman line on the SNES many wondered how it would turn out releasing after a mere three months of development time Mega Man 7 remained faithful to the franchise's roots while also drawing inspiration from the innovations made by the Mega Man X series look at this collision of classic and new live up to its predecessors let's find out Oh Mega Man 7 takes place in the year 20xx which as we all know is some time before the machines begin harvesting humans like vegetables and sometime after Judgment Day what we know for sure is that Megaman seven story picks up right where Megaman six left off with our eponymous hero dragging dr. Wily's sorry but to jail but in true mad scientist fashion dr. wily has a contingency plan turns out that he's got four secret robot masters stashed somewhere when she constructed for the sole purpose of busting him out of prison just in case his dastardly plots didn't pan out way to think ahead buddy it's been six months since they've been contacted by their creators her the four robot masters automatically activate begin searching for dr. wily alongside an entire army of evil robots the Masters decimate the city where dr. Wily's being held captive and eventually bust him out as our hero gives chase through the city he's confronted by a mysterious new robot and his Robo wolf companion after having a mega man open up a can of eat tank will pass the mysterious robot reveals that his name is bass his wolf is called treble and they're both in town to aid in dr. Wily's recapturing but before megaman can even look to suit up on angie's list the enigmatic pair teleports away if a confused but still resolute Megaman resumed his drink to defeat the robot masters find dr. wily and take him down again for the seventh goddamn time what we see here with Mega Man 7 is a more serious story that is heavily aided by its graphics and presentation never before have we have the graphics to match the original artistic vision of the Mega Man franchise so well yes wily is evil yes we need to stop him and yes there are eight robot masters we have to stop but overall the way everything is presented makes the game feel more authentic like you're playing a Saturday morning cartoon you roll control go but for many gamers these improvements only live up to what the game could be because Megaman X was released months before this the standard of the new Megaman X Games made fans kind of cringe when we saw the same old dr. wily shenanigans but for me doesn't only matter the story of seven is exactly what it needs to be when looking back what the franchise already is and hey at least we get bass and treble to show us that we may have a new protoman desk ally and look just to be clear it's bass and treble not fast and treble it's a music pun if he was named bass I'm sure it would be a different game and like who would make that game why would you need that game no I wouldn't you would make that game seven may just feel like a classic Megaman title but the jump to a 16-bit console makes the game look and sound far better than its nest brethren it is however clear that Mega Man 7 did borrow a lot from megaman x's innovation of the franchise the graphical style sound effects and music all seem like they came from an x title it's a cool meeting of classic and new overall they look pretty great but let's get some cool behind-the-scenes trivia lay down Mega Man X was released about a year before Mega Man 7 with Mega Man 7 the production cycle is literally three months yeah this it was made in three months and it definitely doesn't seem that way Keiji Inafune a known as the father of Mega Man usually handles the sprite designs for the games but this time he had in mouth to Hayato Kaji the level designs are pretty in line with how Megaman levels are traditionally designed but there's a lot more mystery involved because of the ways you can change the environment around you similar to Mega Man X when you've defeated bosses you can use their powers to manipulate the environment to find alternate paths secret power-ups and more for instance if you want to get under this lava based area use the freeze cracker to make it happen this while not revolutionary for what Mega Man as a whole was becoming was a vast improvement in level design for the original franchise when I think of Mega Man 7 is awesome and fun designs I think of cloud man stage there's immiscible platforms everywhere that just hang out around you but if you tag the weather machine with the freeze cracker it snows revealing all the platforms everywhere in the level these key details will make the game that much more special common gripe that I hear about Mega Man 7 is how big Mega Man is on the screen I mean look at this guy if you look at a comparison between X and 7 see that seven feels more zoomed in because the sprites are larger and take up more of the screen 4x lines up in size 50 well one through six seven just makes Mega Man feel huge it's like Mega Man bought a subscription to buff boys quarterly I personally never had a problem with it it looks tight neither have I team bump boys over here mmm-hmm good luck we said this is a commonly cited issue with the game and I can see why when your mechanics are based around movement and precise attacks it can be annoying to be unable to see very far in either direction and plan your movement the overall aesthetic of everything looks really brand-new for the original Mega Man franchise and it's by everyone's qualms within I love it it's really pretty this probably goes without saying but Mega Man 7 plays like a Mega Man game I reviewed the first six games in the main series and I've even reviewed several games from the Mega Man X series so trust me when I say that this game is a freaking Mega Man game it plays like a Mega Man game it feels like a Mega Man game it's a Mega Man game Mega Man now that's not to say that's a bad thing if you know us and what your art does here on the channel you know that we both love this series the jumping the shooting everything just feels as good as it always has but some of you may have never played a mega man game before so we should actually go over how this game plays this is the gameplay section we do that here gameplay section gameplay why Mega Man 7 is a platformer that requires the player to reach the end of several stages by jumping in Mega Buster in your way through various enemies and obstacles although only some levels have mini bosses halfway through every stage end with the battle against a different Robot Master in a confined area each of the robot masters has a unique ability which Mega Man will gain permanent access to upon defeating them for example the feeding freeze man will get you the freeze cracker which can freeze enemies solid or explode into six directions if it hits a wall testing out each Master ability is the key to learning their different strengths and weaknesses basically if case you haven't been paying attention for the last two videos or in you know the last five or six videos in this channel about Megaman Megaman the bad guys give you weapons and they do awesome things damn speaking of weaknesses every Robot Master has a vulnerability to a different robot master ability for example the scorch wheel will give you a huge edge over slash man burst man and freeze man this has been a longtime staple the Mega Man franchise but despite how much it's been used the design never diminishes this coupled with the fact that you can play through the game's levels in any order you choose gives the game a sense of freedom and provides lots of unique gameplay experiences it's pretty damn cool and I've always really liked that about the series loved this series our faithful sidekick Rush is back with his traditional forms of rush spring and rush jet but we also have rush search rush search will let you try and find different secrets throughout the game think about these rush secret search areas is that there really isn't a dependable way to find them however if you are close rush will Park and sometimes they'll just stick to find something for you as a brand new currency mechanic in the game in the bolts you can collect these bolts everywhere that act as your currency for purchasing items extra lives e tanks s tanks even certain power-ups that you're too lazy to find in the game you can just buy them by simply saving up and spending your hard-earned bolt money by visiting Auto who's essentially making man's mechanic or maybe technically his physician I don't know exactly how that works we were able to keep up with the modern changes of this game this game is it hard for seasoned Megaman players but new players may have difficulty understanding how the platform works we spoke briefly about environment manipulation and how important it is to finding secrets well not to give them all away but one of the many secrets in Mega Man 7 is beat the bird yes he's back but we need to free him by burning down the trees of the robotic Jurassic park's for a stage of slash man again I just want to show off the awesomeness of the exploration aspect of this 2d platformer it's a lot more in-depth than the originals and it's got that same essence of Mega Man X Progress BRR BRR BRR BRR BRR BRR BRR progress with regard to boss fights Mega Man 7 follows two Mega Man X pattern a spark mandrill syndrome boss fights are easily defeated belongs you have the weapons but even more so the stunt animations make it pretty easy for you to win damn just damn you after defeating all the robot masters including the secret yet obvious full robot masters that are on top of the four you start with which equal eight like every other Megaman game Megaman makes his way back to dr. lights lab only to find that's been completely decimated by bass and treble turns out they're working for dr. wily the whole time and that base is one goal was to defeat Megaman in battle proving that he is the most powerful robot ever created Megaman of course proves him wrong by hunting him down and defeating them in one last fight before moving on to dr. wily himself the final battle against wily is rather long and grueling with the wily capsule in particular proving very tough to beat his attacks come at you fast and are pretty hard to dodge unless you've really got his rhythm down after finally bringing wily down he cowers on the ground and begs for mercy were then treated something we've never seen before in a main line of a Megaman game the scene in which our hero decide that wily has had a second chance is enough over the years and that he needs to be destroyed holy crap Megaman may look cute in this game but he's through messing around he's about to cross the line that even Batman wouldn't cross Megaman raises his Buster to kill dr. wily but why he explains that because he's a robot Megaman is unable to do harm to a human the blue bomber counters by saying that he is more than a robot wow it took Megaman going through an Alex Murphy character arc to be able to deliver the coup de Gras to his arc nemesis arch it could be it could be either right can we get a verb jack is it a verb it's not affirm what are we looking for add adjective check it might it might be a pronoun I need to go back to college but before he can fry the old man bass and treble swoop in and rescue dr. wily then as wily secret base explodes into an inferno in the background Mega Man walks away ready to murder anyone else who dares cross him look at him it's the face of someone who's had enough he may look like a boy but he's a mega man 7 there may not be any completion bonuses for beating Mega Man 7 but there are some cool unlockable upgrades for Megaman that can turn into an even more badass character if you manage to find all of the rush plates in the levels for the first 4 robot masters you'll unlock the super rush adapter a mode where Mega Man fuses with his trusty pooch rush with the super adapter Mega Man has access to a flying fist attack in a super useful double jump to go alongside this you can also find this super punch adapter that will make the flying fist attack more powerful and more accurately home on to enemies the discovery of the hyper screw while it doesn't really add anything to your completion of the game gives Otto his power as a mechanic back find the hyper screw and spring man stage will allow otto to reduce his prices dramatically making the endgame much easier the upgrades don't stop there proto man is in Mega Man 7 and will lend Megaman his proto shield to use in battle if you find all the proto man's secret areas and then defeat him in battle the shield is yours now it's technically not a weapon so you can use it alongside your Mega Buster meaning that you can both block incoming shots and bring the pain to your enemies at the same time thanks bro now back in the day we didn't really understand how to use cheat codes that well write some gains on them built in most of them didn't Easter eggs if you will in Mega Man 7 skates there's a pass code selection screen which you can type in different pass codes now I'm not exactly sure how you got in the original version but however in the Mega Man Anniversary Collection pack you can actually be shown the code and by typing this code in right here while holding in certain buttons you can now play Mega Man 7 versus mode which is kind of exciting but also kind of boring and lackluster Street Fighter cross Megaman that's already a thing that's already a thing I think they should be pretty clear that at this point it's megaman i do Megaman pretty well not very tough for me sure I may die every now and then get stuck in one part or another but the swivel for this game is honestly not very much a struggle because oh I don't know I've been playing the entire Mega Man franchise my whole life if you want to see exactly what we're talking about you can head over to our let's play channel super Butros once Girard and I play the entire game it's great we the lemonade and some taquitos just settle in kids bring your parents parents bring your kids we're your dad's now why Mega Man 7 is my favorite Megaman game from the original era it's a lot of fun I love the big sprite I love protoman I love bass and treble I love Otto I just about I love it's really I don't know maybe cuz I'm as little kids and I got it it's different it's different it looks different it doesn't feel like ol Megaman yeah it's not bad it's not wrong it's just a new way to Ricky that's the big thing at different hello I will say it gets very different in megaman 8 and that'll be in the next ten episodes what do you give a are rating cuz I didn't write this part I want to give my this game my completion is rating of um drink beer while you play it we give this game our completionist rating of complete it compliment check it out that was this week's episode of the completionist if you loved it click the subscribe button if you didn't get your enemies to do it click the left if you want to see last week's episode and click the right if you want to try watching megaman 7 on super beard bros i love you guys thanks for watching goodbye what else do I need to say back me back to us that's all come here for today guys so please as always leslie what about today's episode somewhere on the internet Alex thank you for being here heck yeah bro yeah fear bro power you guys don't know we have a mother effing let's watch an ad show super beer bros we have a lot of fun kaizo meat boy we just started Grim Fandango and saw again saw the worst game worst game ever but we're having such a good time come join us in the adventure known as beer bros and for all the other stuff of twitching and instagramming and all that stuff we're going to come back for the saw episode we are gonna do a shot so the completionist so if you're not it's gonna be all for mess of a time not be excuse me mark show some bloopers of the shenanigans that we tried to do there you go man what do you this niche why do you say such weird words you can't ask me this new to the huge I didn't see you you say that's what I heard couch everybody Oh snitch to the good I don't even remember to appropriate we're probably offending someone out there nothing doesn't Mega Man 7 open it up what if Alex was just like my Tyler Durden ah that's a good it's you're not real but oh you're in my head I just spoil the plot of the idea else want to add Alex I give this game our completionist rating of or in Alex's case du du-uh have a festival while playing it or in Alex's case play it with two friends or in Alex's case switch off with a pal get it on the eShop save state your way through it or in this case go to the library why would you go to the library to play Mega Man 7 yeah you could be some quiet and you can learn some stuff like about right everyone it's a good library all right we're done

Channel: The Completionist

Views: 547,313

Rating: 4.913269 out of 5

Keywords: Completionist, Mega Man 7 (Video Game), Mega Man (Video Game Series), Mega Man Anniversary Collection (Video Game Compilation), Mega Man (Video Game Character), brentalfloss mega man 7, that one video gamer megaman, mage man 7, ١٣٤()٧

Id: Tx2T3zDHBM4

Length: 19min 23sec (1163 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 03 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/infernalspawnODOOM]

"We're your new dads now."

^"What?!?"

[u/Notonreddit117]

Jirard, after 8 any thoughts of doing 9 and 10?

[u/TheAndySan]

What's the name of the Mega Man 7 Intro Stage remix you guys used? Sounds trappy!

[u/hubbawubba]

I would honestly say that MM7 didn't borrow much in terms of music from MMX, as most all Capcom SNES games had pretty similar (and great!) music. Check out tracks from Breath of Fire 1 and 2, Demon's Crest (this could be a great game for the show, by the way), or even the non-movie Disney games.