
Cut Man has the ability to wall jump, Ice Man doesn’t skid on slippery ice floors, Oil Man doesn’t slip on oil, and so on. Along with the Mega Buster exchanged for their default weapons, each of the Robot Masters brings its own perks into the mix. Provided the boss was defeated using only the standard Mega Buster, they become selectable on the main menu, bringing their own strengths and weaknesses, some more unbalanced than others. The best aspect of Powered Up is the ability to play through the entire game as any of the Robot Masters. Humorous dialogue within the game suggests that at one point Mega Man could have attacked Wily as he was fixing his broken machine instead of waiting during the cutscene like a good robo-boy.

Wily’s Machine at the end is almost completely changed, resembling a skull-shaped tank with all the powers (and weaknesses) of the stolen Robot Masters, only sort of becoming the floating ship monstrosity after the tank is demolished and rebuilt.

The Copy Robot boss is moved to the third level, following boss rematches within a teleportation room, much like in the rest of the series. Each level is selectable from the stage selection menu, meaning you can take breaks and return to a Robot Master stage at your leisure. Wily’s Fortress has been thoroughly renovated. There are also plenty of Construction Part packs to pick up in each stage to expand options in the Stage Construction mode. There are also plenty of new blocks that can only be destroyed or moved by a specific weapon, including Timed Blocks Mega Man needs to slow down with Time Slow. Each boss also has an added large special attack, with frustratingly long invincibility time. The addition of the two new Robot Masters also comes with a shift to the weakness chart to accomodate. Cut Man’s urban stage is shifted the most to a woodsy logging theme, Elec Man’s stage looks more like a futuristic circuit board, and Bomb Man’s stage is a lot darker. The remixed music sounds more whimsical and many of the level are redesigned aesthetically. Many memorable enemies and hazards from later titles are added into the game along with many new threats, like cacti Mets in Oil Man’s stage and exploding fire tanks. For one, Mega Man and many other playable character can’t shoot through walls. In fact, Powered Up acts more as an reimagining of the first game than a mere graphical upgrade. Much of the remake is rebuilt from the ground up, creating new design ideas and reforming the layout of stages to only vaguely resemble the original game. Every release outside Japan recolors him blue with yellow lips to circumvent his racially insensitive appearance. He glides on his Oil Slider like a surfboard and lobs flammable globs of his namesake around to slip Mega Man up. Oh dear! Tar baby allusions aside, it didn’t help that Capcom made him talk with some urban hip speak to go with his slick personality. According to him, Ice Man is the only one who fights right on time, not early nor late. Wily to swipe and perfect into Flash Man. It’s suggested he serves as a prototype for Dr. He was built for possible time travel experiments, but his only power is Time Slow and tossing lasers shaped like clock hands. The two major additions in Powered Up were a short prologue stage to set up the story of Wily’s deceit and Mega Man’s transformation as well as an expansion of the level selection to eight Robot Master stages, as was originally planned back in 1987.Ī very strictly punctual bot that doesn’t mess around with his schedule.
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These remakes brought about many new modes to each game, along with spoken dialogue and multiple tweaks to the games’ systems. Powered Up was released alongside a remake of Mega Man X named Maverick Hunter X. Each remade game would have used 3D polygon models in a 2D plane with many changes and additions to flesh out the originals.
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As the series neared its 20th anniversary, Keiji Inafune laid plans for a series of portable remakes of both the classic and X series for the PSP.
