I love how Mega Man as a whole peaked aesthetically in the 32-bit era. 8, X4 and both Legends games are probably the best looking games in the series' history.

JUMP JUMP JUMP SLIDE SLIDE SLIDE!

Megaman 8 is so UNDERRATED it's not fair. It's so beautiful, difficulty is fair, anime cutscenes are amazing (besides the eng dub) and the music is a fresh take too.

Mega Man 8 is underrated!

This was my first megaman game, and i had fond memories of it growing up. The sprite art for this entry was remarkable too! Great april fools video!

it's the best soundtrack in the series, perfect robot boy music, beautiful and cute. same goes for the art and the overall voice acting during gameplay

Hey, there are 12 year olds(definitely still kids) who can draw incredibly well.
Frost Man's music is still soooooooooooo good to this day.  We might've not gotten Electrical Communication as our opening song, but the one we got is also SO good.






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2:50 the animation is great, disregarding the bad voice acting lol

Correction: It's the best Mega Man game of the classic series.

I always felt Mega Man 9 was that it was effectively "patient zero" when it comes to what would ultimately snowball into the nostalgia pandering trend of the 2010's: It was the first game with regressions done for the sake of regressions which only got followed up by pretty much every other scrimblo trying to jump on the same bandwagon. Games like Sonic 4: Episode 1, Super Mario 3D Land and Pac-Man Championship Edition DX all tried to grab onto as much nostalgia as possible and it became the norm going into the next decade. Super Mario 3D Land is especially worth bringing up, because outside of the core regressions it made to the 3D Mario formula (Nerfing Mario's moveset, the reliance on SMB3 imagery and locales to the point it's more or less a 3D re-imagining of Mario 3, the far more linear level design with time limits forced on the player at all times) were symbolic of not just the dark age Mario would enter with the Wii U era, but basically how nostalgiabait became the norm for nearly the entire decade for the gaming industry as a whole. And I have a feeling things like 3D Land, let alone Sonic 4: Episode 1 wouldn't exist if it weren't for Mega Man 9's influence.

Mega Man 8 on the other hand, was the closest the mainline Classic series got to rivaling Mario or Sonic in terms of production value and accessibility, it's basically the easiest game to recommend for newcomers unlike the first two NES games a lot of the fanbase gassed up back in the day.

I actually like the saturn version of tengu man's theme more than its playstation counter part it has such a nice and chill vibe to it. While the playstation one, in my opinion, tends to make the stage way more obnoxiously iratating than what it needs to be

As an artist and game nerd, I love Capcom’s PS1 sprite work. Megaman 8 is still a beautiful game to look at!

This is your April Fool's move, but joke's on you, I'm totally down for you making videos about non fighting games you enjoy or have something to say about going forward in the future as well. Mwahahaha

Mega Man 8, why must they fight you? You are not an enemy like DR. WAHWEE!

The internet has gaslit me for decades about the Saturn Tengu Man being superior. Thank you for setting the record straight.

Astro Crush is not the first screen nuke - there was Rain Flush in MM4, Gravity Hold in MM5 and Centaur Flash in MM6.

So glad I found this channel.

I really love megaman in general,ive never finished 8 but still have a great memory with it,i love the artstyle and im sad that there aren't any games or fangames with that artstyle,execpt megaman & bass WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP FORGETTING IT I LIKE IT SO MUCH!

That Saturn version track you played sounds like a Street Fighter theme.

0:14 the art style was reused in rockman & forte (or mega man and bass) :3