Memory Trigger - Mega Man Legends (Part 2)

Love your Mega Man retrospectives and your look at Legends did not disappoint. A life long Mega Man fan, legends easily won me over and became my top tier iteration of the blue bomber when I first got the disc in ‘98. Still holds up to this day for me. It’s fun as hell to see people still discovering it today and able to see past some of its early 3D flaws and see the heart of it. Great video, man. Looking g forward to you doing Legends 2! You got a sub out of this one.

I could stare at Data doing his little dance for hours nonstop, and never be tired of it

MegaMan Legends 2 review when?

lemme tell you something, playing this game using emulator or thru psn feels different compared to playing it on the original ps1. it felt surreal. playing this kind of game during the ps1 era which is not usual for that time felt like a wonder.

One of the best sub weapon is the machine gun, it by default is free aiming and have extreme range, ofc there is places where we need explosives...
there is a big grenade that breaks walls.
i see you keep you shield damage most of time, it makes playing more difficult, as the shield not only prevent weak damage, it also reduce damage and stagger.
Dodge roll isnt useless, but it is tricky to use, if you have shield and take damage, you see that mega man staggers back, in that moment you can dodge roll to evade combos/attacks.
For a game that had a demo in the disc that comes in on the psx box, it is pretty good.
And you are another reviewer that not got trolled by capcom, where you unlock the easiest mode when you finish the hardest mode.

Oh the memories! I'm dying because my friend and I created so many geeked out moments with this game. The bosses, the sound effects. But the bosses were merciless. This game was so LOUD!!!!

I know this video is 2 years old but the lock on is best for quickly reorienting yourself towards an enemy rather than as an actual lock on. Changing that kinda neutered your control of the game.

Tron is my favorite simp

I do think a lot of the story execution could have been better but this was from an era where game stories were seldom all that ambitious. Especially when you go outside of the RPG genre. I think the twist of the Save function being tied to an actual character in universe that literally functions as a backup memory for the playable character was clever. Especially since I don't recall any games before that had a similar idea, and to this day is not that common outside of the Indie scene.

Megaman legends was one my favorite games as a kid the controls are kinda sucky for sure but the game is fun i didnt know they had a legends 2

These are such high quality restrospectives/reviews. Thanks

I like that Megaman sounds Canadian in this game.

huh, it is a really short game
I played it years ago and made it to the turret section before dropping it since it sucked and the controls (in general) were horrendous
Misadventures was better but really repetitive

Nah that blue dungeon boss is bullshit.

Ehhh...I'd say the Jet Skates are more of a passive dash like in AC6.
And hey, there's nothing wrong with messing around with the Bonnes. They're like Team Rocket, only without James being weird, or working for an actual mob boss with whom that world's version of me has both beef and baggage.
Oh, I will kill Giovanni one day. Just waiting for him to meddle again so there's an appropriate excuse...

I'm guessing the controls would frustrate me too much if I tried to play this game now, but I loved it as a kid. I remember I went out of my way to collect and fully upgrade every weapon, but by that point I think I had already finished everything else in the game so I just kind of shot each one in the field a few times and then never touched my save file again. 😅

Need legends collection. I wanna pew pew again!

is wileys boats a dr wiley reference?

I had just realized while watching this (and it might have been mentioned before by you, but I tend to watch your videos while doing work, so I likely missed it lol), but the voice actress of Tron and Data are the same. Not useful information, but I just thought it was interesting.

10/10 start lol

If you beat hard mode you unlock easy mode which gives you the onmi buster which maxes it all your stats from the beginning of the game

I will say that having the lore be introduced gradually throughout the game would've been most appreciated. As a kid, I was always under the impression that the Bonnes were the one-and-only main villains since essentially all of this game's boss fights are against them. Then once you reach the Main Gate, you're treated to a bunch of terminology that's never explained to you, and when you finally meet Juno, all of this complex exposition gets dumped on you all at once and needless to say, it's very jarring. I remember being left completely dumbfounded by the time I reached the end, and the reason why it probably took me so long to beat Juno was because the whole time I was desperately trying to put all the pieces together in my head

It's not that he can't read. What he was reading wasn't English

Tue Bonnes are the team rocket of MML

Loved this video in Legends. I loved this game as a kid. Never got around to finished because I got stuck on what to do and also because as a kid going into the dungeons SCARED ME!

As a kid, the reveal of Juno and the SUDDEN left turn into the reveal of this completely unknown organization of Mega Mans (mega men?) was one of the most amazing things I'd ever experienced. Most of my games were hand me downs, racing games and Mario games and the like, so I'd never experienced a plot twist in a game before. Still one of my favorite memories. If only we got the rest of the story...

Considering it's the same company that gave us MegaMan x4 voice acting it's fantastic in this game lol

I like to think of the voice actors struggle to read his lines as if megaman is translating an ancient language that he sort of knows but not too well.

The dodge roll actually gives you I frames, rolling is how I beat the 2nd boss kinda (3rd if your a nerd)

So when's Mega Man Legends 2?

The hospital sidequest was my favorite one.

Gotta say, it's super weird to see a person say special weapons are useless then complain about things special weapons solve. Boss takes too long to kill because you're only using your buster? Could be using a special weapon that'd kill it faster. Zenny drops hard to collect because they're spread out? There's a Vaccuum equip for just that.

I get circle-strafing with the buster can work, but being bored by combat while brute forcing it in horribly suboptimal way is a weird thing to complain about. Heck, this video even says rolling is useless even though properly used it lets you dodge tons of attacks without needing to strafe at all. I just don't get it. A lot of the complaints in this video sound like they're tinged with the mentality of, "I'm bad at this therefore it is bad."

So, this doesn't change a majority of the issues of Legends 1, but I noticed throughout the footage you never used the quick turn, and you also never mentioned it in the review. Again, it doesn't solve issues, like most of the boss fights being mid, but it definitely makes exploring less cumbersome.

I never knew that people of this world being able to swap around limbs and such was a lore thing intended by the devs. As a kid, I had originally assumed that most people were using robotic prosthetics to replace lost limbs, given how dangerous the world could be.

It's funny to think now that, instead of wearing armor, Mega Man could actually be just having Roll plug his head unit into his digger battle body off screen.

Interesting to see it wasn't just my copy of Legends to have those audio pops in it. I thought it was due to having bought a used copy and just wear from the previous owners, but the sound pops are happening in the same spots. Must be a problem either with the encoding to the discs or with the master of the voice audio tracks.

Wow, the plot-monkey straight up executes the final boss in a deus ex machina.

One of the cool things you can get in this game and legends 2 is the Z-saber.

I feel like alot of these complaints boil down to serious Skill Issue. I beat this game when I was in like 4th grade and pretty much clueless as to what was happening.

Those E slaps get me every time I rewatch this

So this game was Mega Man 2077 all along

it gives me a chuckle that Data kills Juno in his sleep

The Shining Laser isn't even the best weapon, it's just the most damaging one.

The best is the Active Buster at full upgrades because if the homing missiles it shoots

the fact most sub weapons were terrible was why I tended to either have the Vacuum Arm (upgraded to infinite energy of course) or the Shield Arm on at all times before getting the Shining Laser.

The only issue is it takes you until LAKE JYUN SUBGATE to get the Vacuum Arm.

Still waiting for legend2 review