Mega Man: Network Transmission

[JM]

Originally posted by Captain Vegetable
I thought you could only open the Z menu when your meter was full...not to mention the fact that when you do open the menu, all your active chips get refiled into your folder, and the new chips selected are random.

Whoops, My mistake! It is the, um, Y button? The face button over the Green button, not the one you use chips with. That will bring up a screen specifically for cycling through your chips.

As for the Stadium, you have to beat the bosses super fast to get better a better rank. I haven't tried it out with other bosses , but I have two Fireman chips & two Fire Arm chips from beating Fireman quickly.

JM

[Captain Vegetable]

Originally posted by JM
Whoops, My mistake! It is the, um, Y button? The face button over the Green button, not the one you use chips with. That will bring up a screen specifically for cycling through your chips.

It'd probably be the face button to the right of the A button, as the other one fires the selected chip. But this is news to me! I'm excited to go try it out! Thanks.

As for the Stadium, you have to beat the bosses super fast to get better a better rank. I haven't tried it out with other bosses , but I have two Fireman chips & two Fire Arm chips from beating Fireman quickly.

JM

Ah! Gotcha.

[JM]

Kind of off topic, but how far in the game are you? I'm still not too far in, I want to take it slow & enjoy it.

JM

[Captain Vegetable]

Not far at all. I haven't been able to sit down and just play it. There's always something; work, school, wife, etc. I've beaten Needle Man, Guts Man, and Fire Man. I can get to Bright Man, but I'll be damned if I can figure out his pattern. I enjoy Ice Man's level, but cannot seem to pass the "disappearing blocks" with any kind of consistency, and Quick Man's level makes me cry.

[JM]

I'm about where you are, but I have taken out Bright man. You have to hit him when he is attacking. The thing that works the best is the level 1 or 2 seed bombs that you got from the garden level. Just throw them in front of him & he will walk over them. They do tons of damage & are pretty easy to get a lot of on the garden level. 4 or so of the level 1 bombs will damn near kill him.

Quick man's stage is making me cry too. I have a feeling that I am getting close to the end of the lazer gauntlet, but I need to memorize it a bit more.

JM

[Captain Vegetable]

Originally posted by JM
I'm about where you are, but I have taken out Bright man. You have to hit him when he is attacking. The thing that works the best is the level 1 or 2 seed bombs that you got from the garden level. Just throw them in front of him & he will walk over them. They do tons of damage & are pretty easy to get a lot of on the garden level. 4 or so of the level 1 bombs will damn near kill him.

Ah! I'll try that. Does he have an element type to exploit, or is he type-less?

Quick man's stage is making me cry too. I have a feeling that I am getting close to the end of the lazer gauntlet, but I need to memorize it a bit more.

JM

I don't find the laser gauntlet all that difficult. I'm just thrown by the awkward ledge and enemy possitions. In certain instances, it's almost like you have to get hit in order to progress.

[JM]

Yeah, Wood will take him out. The seed bombs actually do way more damage than needleman's personal attack.

JM

[magnifiedplaid]

Originally posted by Captain Vegetable
I don't find the laser gauntlet all that difficult. I'm just thrown by the awkward ledge and enemy possitions. In certain instances, it's almost like you have to get hit in order to progress.

Yeah. I kind of noticed this about the laser gauntlet as well. I found that the stone body chip (or whatever its called) works pretty well if you accidentally get caught on a ledge for too long. The lasers wont hurt you and you will be invincible for a short time when it wears off...this allows for a good couple steps. This is also especially helpful when trying to get one of the power ups in that part of the level. Overall though, it really wasn't that difficult once I started thinking about the lay out of Quickman's stage on Mega Man 2. Its been years since I played part 2...and I doubt it is exactly the same layout but it sure seems like it to me.

Also, thats a nice review you wrote Captain Vegetable. I would probably give this game a 9/10 as well. Its one of my favorite Gamecube games of the year so far. My only problem with the game is that it quickly goes from being insanely difficult at the beginning to being insanely easy the rest of the way through. I kind of wish the game would have had a consistently hard difficulty. The fact that it lightened up kind of disappointed me. I still believe its the best Mega Man game I have played in years though.

[JM]

I totally forgot about the stone body chip! I stuck it in my reserve folder a long time ago, I need to pull it out.

JM

[Captain Vegetable]

Thanks for the comments, magnifiedplaid.