Mega Man 5 is mostly solid to me. Though some have complained the charge shot is overpowered, which means you don't really have to use your other weapons, even though most aren't worth using anyways. The game could be more difficult, but it's good for someone who is starting to get into Mega Man. I really like the detailed graphics too.

@paperoverflow

Жыл бұрын

It was my first Mega Man, so it is quite a great entry in this world. Probably a good advice for anyone who is looking for a challenge to start here.

Man I love how polished the art style and graphics are in 5. Vibes so much better than 3 with graphical bugs and insane slowdown.

Also its the most expensive of the nes megamans sitting at around $100. Good thing there's so many ways to access these games

@freespace2dotcom

7 жыл бұрын

Wow, I hadn't realized it'd gotten so crazy high. I paid $32 for it 8 years ago. glad I got my games when I did.

@SergioGonzalez-nd6mg

4 жыл бұрын

I paid 5€ for the famicom version

@hil449

3 жыл бұрын

Good thing we have legacy collection now

Despite the pretty lame boss weapons this is probably my favorite of the NES Mega Man games. I like the level designs, the graphics are great, the soundtrack is awesome even though it's more subdued than the previous games, and I feel like it offers just the right amount of challenge that makes it fun without making you want to pull your hair out.

@thejedisonic67

7 жыл бұрын

The soundtrack works better in some areas tbh. The only lively, upbeat themes I can think of is Napalm Man and Dark Man Stages as well as Charge Man (to a certain extent)

@MadPanicGaming

7 жыл бұрын

I actually really like the more subdues tracks in the game, Wave Man's stage theme is one of my favorites in the series.

@MusicVersa

3 жыл бұрын

It's my favourite as well. I think when you take the nostalgia goggles for Mega Man 2 off, 5 is the best.

@amso7169

2 жыл бұрын

@@MusicVersa that would be true if 4, 7, &bass, and 11 didn’t exist

@MusicVersa

2 жыл бұрын

@@amso7169 4 is generally regarded as the weakest next to the first one, and 7, bass, and 11 are not NES games.

Hey SNES Drunk, I just discovered your channel recently, and it is amazing. I've already made my way through about half your videos. SNES is my favorite console, and I'm happy to see it getting the love it deserves. Keep up the good work!

@SNESdrunk

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching, lots more to come

I like that you give context to the judgment on Mega Man 5. Too many people dismiss the games after MM3, like "that's where they got bad." No, they never got *bad*, all the NES Mega Man games are excellent action-platforming games. They just lack some of the initial passion that MM2 and MM3 had.

Awesome video! Mega Man 4-6 rarely get talked about so this is a treat. You're right about the difficulty, Inafune actually explicitly made it easier for accessibility reasons so it's the easiest of the NES games.

It's true that some of the weapons in this game kinda suck. However, Mega Man 5 is also home to some of the series' best level designs. I routinely play this game just to experience the Napalm Man, Gravity Man, and Crystal Man stages again and again.

Don't forget the music! Mega Man 5 has some really great tracks. That intro theme.

Best NES Megaman soundtrack by far.

I always give a nod to 4 over 5. But I really like some of the level design. Some stages are forgettable for me, but I would say it has three or four of the best levels in the series, including Gravity Man and Wave Man.

I will NEVER understand why so many people hate on Charge Kick. It gives you complete invulnerability to damage during the slide. It's super abusable in many situations. Most notably the boss in the Protofortress who can freeze you in place. If you Charge Kick into his freeze rings, he'll damage himself trying to jump on you. lol

Megaman 5 was the second game of the series I played (the first one being my first) but the first I actually played it a bit longer than 10 mins. And I have really fond memories of it, the graphics, sound and musics and level design were at that level of quality that it felt they were almost Snes games. I even remember feeling the main character sprite feeling a little outdated in comparisson of the whole graphic enviroment. ironically. And how Protoman was central to the story made him my favourite character of the franquise thanks to this game too.

The Power Stone (Stone Man's weapon) is one of the most aggravating weapons in the series. It is not as bad as Top Spin but it's surely in the bottom 5 weapons overall. It is slow, inaccurate, and if you misfire you have to wait until the small rocks disappear from the screen before firing again, which leaves you defenseless unless you switch weapons.

After beating Mega Man 5 again... I agree the weapons mentioned suck ass, but there also some great weapons I never understand why people ignore. Stuff like gyro attack, which is great for dealing with enemies at different altitudes. Or the star crash being another great shield weapon. As for the difficulty it's why I consider it the best starting point to get into the series. While I still like 4 more I can definitely see why you like 5 more, both are high up there. Here's how I'd rank them, now keep in mind I like all of them except for 1. 6>4>5>3>2>1

I sometimes find it pretty fun to ask myself which stages that previous Mega Man bosses would appear on in these later Mega Man games if they appeared on "Doc stages", like in Mega Man 3. For example, I would probably put Air Man on Gyro Man's stage, and Bubble Man definitely belongs on Wave Man's stage, and Flash Man seems ideal for Crystal Man's stage.

I loved MM5 the most as a kid. Honestly couldn't have told you why. I liked the stuff with Rush and mayb ecause the backgrounds were prettier... maybe cause the boss weapons weren't good so I didn't have worry about wasting them.

My experience playing Mega Man V: - Enter Star Man's Stage - Kill meteors, 1/3 of them drop 1ups - Next section, turrets shoot 1ups at me instead of bullets - Hardhats are replaced by Eddy clones who all give me 1ups - Get to Star Man, 1ups rotate around him like a shield - Kill Star Man, explodes into 1ups and E-Tanks. - Suddenly ported to Dr. Wily. He's getting his ass kicked by a bird. Surrenders and gives me more 1ups.

The boss weapons definitely were the weak point of MM5, but the music, in my opinion, is some of the best in the series, and I felt the levels and bosses were pretty well-balanced overall. That, plus the various secret items you can find actually made this my favorite of the original Mega Man series. Maybe I appreciated it more *because* it was a little less difficult, or maybe I just liked the mini-story of Proto-man's evolving relationship with MM, but when I hear MM2 held up as the best of early Mega Man, I just don't see it. I remember one section in MM2 where I couldn't progress without expending a boss weapon, then dying and coming back, then using the same boss weapon again, and that broke suspension of disbelief for me. Technically, the original Mega Man is a robot, so losing lives is a meta concept for him anyway, but I just don't think you should ever be *required* to lose lives in games like this if you can avoid it, unless, of course, there's some in-story reason for it. Anyway, I'm probably one of only a few people who would care about that kind of thing in a game like Mega Man 2.

I always love gravity man stage!

will you be reviewing megaman 9 and 10 down the road?

@SNESdrunk

7 жыл бұрын

Down the road, yeah. Gonna take a break after 6 though

@infinitecanadian

3 жыл бұрын

@@SNESdrunk A long break.

I stopped with MegaMan after 3, mostly because starting with 4 the charge shot was so OP it made the robot master weapons effectively useless, and using and managing those weapons was a big part of the fun of the other games (especially 2, which is really the only one I revisit anymore).

best video game channel on you tube keep it up

Call me crazy but I really do like the Gyro Attack, the Napalm bomb, and the crystal eye. For me I do like the idea of the weapons such as the power stone, and charge slide it's just that they could of had a much bigger hit box

I agree about Stone Man's weapon being garbage, but this is one of my favorite Mega Man games on the NES. The nerfed difficulty does make it fun to play instead of frustrating; some of the earlier Mega Man games feel like self-hatred instead of entertainment.

I felt this game handled robot masters better than the fourth. One of the reasons this series declined so quickly is because Capcom demanded a new game every year after the unexpected success of Mega Man 2. Naturally when your team is learning new hardware and putting the brunt of their effort into the X series for SNES, you'll see some problems. Then there was the demand for making Mega Man portable, so they had to make Gameboy games as well. The first two Mega Man games for Gameboy were outsourced to other development teams, and it really shows. (Although the second Mega Man for Gameboy was still a great game.)

I differ greatly. The Charge Kick is useful as heck when you learn how to use it. It goes through a lot of enemies and normal enemy shots (without getting damaged), making some parts of the game more manageable. Stone Man weapon is horrible though.

@kekeke8988

4 жыл бұрын

Works great for me. Easily hit enemies overhead.

@TheTrueBro

4 жыл бұрын

Kekeke89 it's VERY situational. I sometimes use it to destroy hard to reach enemies but those are exceptions. It's still a horrible weapon with low damage and awkward movement most of the time. No wonder why it got severely buffed in Megaman IV for Gameboy.

@kekeke8988

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheTrueBro I just never felt it was "horrible" as it is at least situationally useful, as you admitted. To me, the metal blade is horrible, because it's broken OP.

@TheTrueBro

4 жыл бұрын

Kekeke89 Metal Blade is the totally opposite lol. It's one of the most useful weapons in the series. Try playing MM2 on Wily Wars (Sega Genesis). Metal Blade got nerfed there, still useful but now it takes a lot more energy weapon and it does slightly less damage.

Gotta love Mega Man 5.. And 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 offocurse!

Your channel is awesome! You make the best retro gaming videos ever. Keep 'em coming!

@SNESdrunk

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching

You talked about most of the important points in less than 4 minutes, good job! Anyway, I'm replaying Mega Man Classic series now, and your review made me more confident about how much I will enjoy Mega Man 5 this time.

“The charge kick might be the worst weapon in the entire franchise” Top Spin: Am I a joke to you?

@Poooll

3 жыл бұрын

Spark Shot from mm3 is by far the worst of the NES games. It does no damage, can only freeze 2 enemies at a time, you can’t switch weapons while enemies are frozen, it often lags the game, and has a useless and sometimes dangerous transfer mechanic when another enemy touches a frozen one. It may be decent against some bosses, but works as a slow firing buster and if you want to go down that route top spin can one shot the final form of the final boss. I agree that top spin and charge kick are bad (top spin worse imo) but they at least can kill enemies. Charge kick also has a lot of invulnerability frames that can be useful. Here’s some guys that tried to play the game with only spark shot and theyve done similar things with the other weapons. kzread.info/dash/bejne/q42LtdKsprLbhdI.html

Why do people think that the charge shot is overpowered in Megaman 4? Look at Megman 5!

Can you make compilation of SNESDrunk intros?

Great channel! very entertaining! I was wondering if you have ever considered doing an episode on NEO GEO ports and all of the various iterations on all of the different consoles, as well as comparing and contrasting them against one another?

Can you do a list on the hardest Sega Genesis games

It is so annoying how you have to start charging over again if you are hit while charging for a shot. It is also annoying that the charged shot has recoil.

Megaman 5 to me was incredibly easy for me when I was kid. I still thought it was fun though. It had great music and fun levels.I still play them sometimes..😄😎

“Or Megaman V? Did they get it confused with the Game Boy game or something?” They’re both called Megaman V...

Yeah, not gonna disagree on the weapon arguement this time. In the 8-weapon fantasy draft of Mega Man's 11 game history, anything from 5 would be considered, at BEST, a rouge pick.

I just got Megaman 8 for Sega Satyurn! Happy I never tried megaman 8 before on PS1 as I heard the Saturn has a better version.

So many years playing this game and only about 6 months ago did I learn that you can use Beat to easily fight dr. Wiley. Not sure why i never tried that.

Mega Man 5 is one of my favorites. I really hate when people compare everything to Mega Man 2 when it's far from the best.

MM5’s soundtrack isn’t quite as remarkable as 2 & 3 but it has some really cool things going on.. I like the Dark Man fights!

Also, you should review the PSP one, Maverick Hunter X.

Such a great review! Love your content bro!

thanks for keeping my work day entertaining

Hey now, Karnov was a good game! I beat it!

Which game could you get protomans shield

best classic mega man title

Ugh, Stone Man stage…I zone out with any of the rock/mine/Bob the Builder Mega Man levels.

HEY! I like Karnov... haha. Greta review. This was the last nes MM I needed, still haven't played it much, since getting it. I need to change that. Great review... Like that is anything new. Always quality.

@SNESdrunk

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks as always Joel

I like your videos but your criticism of the boss weapons shows that you simply do not know how to use most of them. Geminilaser probably has the best videos out there showcasing how much fun they can be when you better understand them. Charge kick for example can be very powerful, you are essentially invincible and will go through just about any enemy.

Are you still doing Mega Man 6? Wario Land II and Seiken Densetsu 3 are great, and I recommend you do what you feel is necessary, but just let us know if the review has been cancelled or something.

@SNESdrunk

7 жыл бұрын

That posts on Thursday. SNES stuff on Tuesdays, GB/NES/Genesis (in some order) on Thursdays.

@colefitzpatrick8431

7 жыл бұрын

Ah, Thank you. You're one of my favorite KZreadrs, so keep up the good work! Love MM6.

@SNESdrunk

7 жыл бұрын

Cheers

@colefitzpatrick8431

7 жыл бұрын

I second that. Cheers

Dude.. I still kick myself for getting rid of this when I was younger, and now one of the hardest and more expensive MegaMan games. Anyways, still a great game to play though, Back in March I did a Mega Man NES run, great memories playing this again. Keep up the good work dude!

I like this game. For me, it's MM4, MM3, MM5, MM2, MM6 & MM (oh, the sacrilege!).

Just watched Arcus playMM one. This is better, gotta have the slide. Going back to 3

i don't get why people say that Mega Man is good because of the challenge when is one of the easiest series on the NES, hell i actually play them because they are easier than other NES and are unique.

And it’s got maybe the best soundtrack of the series.

Perfect experience in my opinion

Far too easy, especially the bosses. The rock, paper, scissors mechanic is useless here, your Mega Buster is all you need.

@kekeke8988

4 жыл бұрын

Most of the time exploiting the boss weakness is just a cheat to easily beat the boss without really learning the fight which IMO is completely lame unless you're trying to do a speed run or something. I always feel bad when programmers put all this shit into the fight and I just skip it easily because of some overpowered weapon.

@Ruudos

3 жыл бұрын

@Starscream91 Vvalid point but in case of Mega Man 5 you don't have to be an expert player (far from it) to beat the bosses with just your regular weapon.

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@SNESdrunk

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching, lots more to come

@sebastienboucher4387

7 жыл бұрын

can t wait see ya m8

For some reason I actually really liked this game,I thought it was a fun time,even though the robot master weapons aren't the greatest

Crazy how they kept releasing on the nes

I just picked this game up the other day

I'm going to have to disagree. I think Mega Man 4 was a much better game. It had better robot masters, better power-ups, better levels, and a much better soundtrack. They also nerfed the mega buster in 5. Budget wise, it felt like a step down from the previous title. Not to say 5 didn't have its own merits. Some of the gimmick stages were fantastic: Gravity Man had an awesome stage; so did Wave Man. But the latter half of the game felt cobbled together, with uninspired bosses. Dark Man 1-4 are some of the laziest bosses in the series.

@kekeke8988

4 жыл бұрын

As opposed to Mega Man 3 which just rehashed bosses AND stages instead of even inventing a Darkman and is somehow the second greatest.

The Nes Mega Man games are all great games

I had been wanting to play some Mega Man recently, having missed out on that series the first time around. So I ended up with MM5. I played for about a minute and said "Nope". It has really crappy controls compared to what I am used to. I really don't know why people think these games are desirable. Perhaps because they never played anything else? But yeah, I can rattle off a dozen platformers on the NES that are a joy to play but MM5 is a real stinker. So I just played Metal Storm instead.

you are my right before I go to work show. you all do a great job, keep it up!

Awesome video

Love the level designs esp gravity man's but always felt the boss fights were to easy in megaman 5 , even more so in mm6...mm6 bosses were a joke

In Soviet Mega Man, Beat carries you!

This where Megaman totally jumped the shark, I instantly did not like this game. I thought it seemed like a rehash of 2 and 3 but done slightly different. I would say MM2 was the best followed by 1 and 3. 4 was so-so. 5 and 6 pass.

MegaMan 5 has the best chiptune, which is Charge Man's level.

I don't care for your casual backhanded slap at Karnov

"... just drops small bombs, like you'd drop change into a homeless guys' coffee cup" DEAD XD

@RetroActivityGaming

2 ай бұрын

Why? It's a mildly amusing line, at best.

A Mega Man 5 review AND Ice Pirates is on TCM right now? Too bad Chris Cornell had to call it quits and ruin my morning.

@SNESdrunk

7 жыл бұрын

Make it a full Robert Urich day and binge some Spenser For Hire

@Tom_Van_Zandt

7 жыл бұрын

Good call. Since I hadn't seen the film since the late 80s/early 90s, I wasn't aware Ron Perlman was in it. Or Anjelica Huston, for that matter.

Great work brotha 👍

This should have more comments... By the way keep up with the good videos!

@moviemetalhead

7 жыл бұрын

HobbytheJong - Swivels Well he does like to delete comments.

@SNESdrunk

7 жыл бұрын

UNSUBSCRIBE

@moviemetalhead

7 жыл бұрын

SNES drunk Dude I was joking, just as you have joked in the comments on one of your vids 'Do I gotta start deleting comments.' I enjoy your vids. Wasn't trying to offend you.

@SNESdrunk

7 жыл бұрын

...yeah, I was adding onto the joke in my own dumb way. Maybe the caps were bit harsh

@moviemetalhead

7 жыл бұрын

SNES drunk It's all good man. \,,/ Your channel rocks and you got to 20,000 subs pretty damn fast, which is bad ass.

All great games. 3 and 2 are amazing

Wasn't this the Mega Man where there was a fan designed boss? A contest from Nintendo Power

@SNESdrunk

7 жыл бұрын

I know for MM6, all eight were chosen by fans. Not sure if there were any in MM5

@moviesfordudes

7 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to you review that one then

@TheYambino

7 жыл бұрын

All main 8 bosses from megaman 2 and on were designed by fans, but I believe 6 was the first with international fan designers

looks like a game worth playing cheers

Shouldn't the opening be "nnnnnnnnnnnn...es drunk" instead?

and yet mega man 5 is worth more that mega man 4

Part 3 is the best game

GB drunk Prince of Persia 1991 review when?

Wow, as a lifelong Mega man superfan you really hit it on the head with everything here. Great game, and one of the better Mega Man games overall with great aesthetics, fun level gimmicks and some cool new features like Beat and the objectively-best charged shot in the series... but with some missteps like, most likely THE worst subweapon selection. My gosh, at least 3 of them serve the exact same Bubble Lead-like anti-ground purpose (Water Wave, Charge Kick, Napalm Bomb), and Power Stone is IMO the single worst weapon in the whole series... but at least Gravity Hold is fun.

@zander3100

7 жыл бұрын

one of the better games. just no.

Definitely it’s a great mega man game

ONLY MEGA MAN GAME I REALLY DON'T LIKE- IT HAS AWESOME 8BIT MUSIC THOUGH

After MM3 the music got lame

This game is better than megaman 4 in every way except 1: megaman 4 music is soooo much better than this game

This one has to be my least favorite in the 10 numbered entries - aside from 8. It just feels so.... empty, and bland, with the exception of Gravity Man's stage.

@SNESdrunk

7 жыл бұрын

It's always interesting to see the wide variety of opinions on this series. I thought 4 was much emptier and bland and 5 was a bit livelier.

@thejedisonic67

7 жыл бұрын

The First game will always have the biggest empty feeling for me, but 2 isn't far off tbh. Livelihood isn't in its name (especially in some of the Wily stages)

Game is impossible

This is one has the worst weapons, robot masters, and music in the entire series on the NES. Not a terrible game in general but a sub par mega man game to say the least. Great review.

@koopakape

7 жыл бұрын

Music, really? IMO Charge Man, Napalm Man, the Dark Man and Wily stages and final boss have some of the best themes in the series, and the rest are at least decent. But I guess it does have a different flavor than a lot of the games, every one of them had different composers after all.

@thejedisonic67

7 жыл бұрын

Gravity Man's theme is pretty good as well. The only lacking theme I can think of is Star Man's theme, but he's just a lacking robot master to begin with.

@Waffletigercat

5 жыл бұрын

No way! This has some of the best music of the series.

@kekeke8988

4 жыл бұрын

Gyro man theme is great. The hell are you talking about?

I might be out of line here but MMV soundtrack was the weakest in the series. That was my biggest issue with this game. Which is too bad since the level design was fantastic.

Mega Man music started to suck after part three.

How can you review a megaman game and not mention the music? Imo, mm4 had better music than 5 and maybe the best in the series. I think mm5 may have had the worst sound track in the series. Also, mm5 had easy boss stages and fights, but the castle stages were just as tough as any of the others in the series, imo