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>Is this game hard or do I just suck? Can't get through a stage. Any tips? Who should I start with first? Bare in mind I'm kinda new to Mega Man. Beat Mega Man 2, but not really anything else.

Yes

Yes, the stages are hard. The Wily Stages after are not that hard. It does have a store where you can buy upgrades so if you keep grinding on levels, you can purchase those items and make it easier to complete which I think most people do.

Also, keep in mind, that the game uses of weapon weakness can sometimes make defeating the enemies harder than just using charged pellets. Bounce Man splits apart when you hit it with the weapon weakness and you have to hit it's main body again with the weapon weakness while its other ball parts flying off. When fighting the boss whose main weakness is acid, you have to hit them with the acid shots and dodge jump them because they don't get damaged from the acid shield.

you're just bad. use the gear system a lot.

Just don't suck lmao. Also you're probably meant to start with Block Man considering he's in the intro and the cursor starts on him by default.

Rush is pretty useful.

Don't sperg out and let yourself get knocked into pits when you get swarmed.

Speed gear is either a dodging crutch or a way to demolish minibosses with rapid fire.

Power gear makes special weapons nukes.

The weapons are pretty useful regardless and normal enemies have their own weaknesses.

Refill your lives at the shop whenever you beat a level and don't use an E-tank unless you're on your last life or have the boss' pattern down.

Or just play Casual Mode like ProtoMagicalGirl :^)

>>16357631

Mega Man 2's western version is the "easy" mode of the original game, so if that's the only one you finished you're "bad" at classic MM games.

It's not really a big deal as long as you're willing to realize MM games require the player to use the weapons they find and some basic memorization to make things easier. Unless you're just total shit at video games you should notice things get easier for you the more you play/learn. In the case of MM 11 they added the gear system and the item shop so shitty players can cheese their way through if they're struggling.

Good luck OP, hopefully you manage to git gud and enjoy a game like this instead of a modern AAA checkpoint chaser.

>>16357699

How does J-MM2 differ from the US version?

>>16357720

MM2 normal mode halves enemy health. Difficult is identical to JP difficulty.

>>16357631

have you considered sucking less?

>>16357631

It’s hard, but simple. You really can’t do much as mega man, so all you really have to do is learn patterns, and weaknesses. Pro tip: the enemies in a stage share the boss’s weakness. If you experiment with your weapons on them, you can find out the weakness in advance.

>>16357699

>in MM 11 they added the item shop

Mega Man has had an item shop since 7, dude.

>>16359189

I'm always too scared to use anything but the buster against anything except a boss, because I'm afraid of wasting the ammo that will be good against the boss. But then I get to the boss and a lot of times can't even figure out which weapon is the weakness before I get killed.

Note, I've beaten every MM Classic game and most of the X series. Eventually you can brute force your way through. But the weaknesses almost never helped me because a lot of the time they're so obtuse.