Megaman oh how you’ve changed! Form platform superhero to RPG anime star but thankfully it is for the better. Megaman the series has been around for twenty years now and almost as well known as Mario, the older games where full of action and repetitive game play. Each level had a end game boss with the word ‘man’ somewhere in their names and the ultimate bad guy was always the evil doctor Willy.

Those days are now over for Megaman, he has now entered the Action/RPG genre. His first depute was in Megaman legends a fun but flawed game. The story was nice but the game was too short and the dungeons too linear and simple. The camera was the worse part of the first game, it never did what you wanted it to. Has it learned it lessons in the sequel? Yes and no.

MML2 carries on where MML left off, Barrel Casket and his friend Von Burton decide to continue the search for the mother load, a treasure of immeasurable wealth. They build a huge ship called the Sulfur Bottom, and try to use this ship to get through a huge protective storm on an island thought to hold such treasures. Consequently they get into some ‘trouble’ and it’s Megaman to the rescue! The story’s graphics are all in-game and they impressive, you almost feel like you are watching a anime cartoon, a really impressive feat for Capcom. The attention of detail is surprising for a Play Station Game, a impressive improvement compared to the first game where all the sprites and graphics looked blocky.

Level design is much better compared to the first game. Each dungeon is unique and full of surprises, you never get board, Theresa jungle like dungeon and a dungeon filled with water even a underground tomb! My only complaint with the dungeons is that they are still a tad blocky compared to the overworld.

Controlling Megaman is similar to controlling Link in Zelda: Oricana of Time. You auto-lock your enemies with the R2 key and then fire at the enemies. It works well, but sometimes it is hard to pick the right enemy and you’ll find yourself crushing the auto-lock. The camera, though better, still needs some work, its just ironic that they wouldn’t improve in this area, they improved everything else, the controls, the graphics, why not the camera? It’s god-awful! Thankfully good gameplay and story save this game from a gaming purgatory. The game will last around 18 to 22 hours, give or take, to find all the secrets it might take you 30 hours. That’s short for a RPG but long for a action game so it levels out very nicely.

If you liked the first game or action/RPGs in general you will like this game, just beware of those camera angles, they’re deadly!

-Chip Scheppel

Ratings:

Graphics 8 - For a playstation they are very good! On ePSXe they are even better!

Sound 10 - Great sound, Great voice acting, what more could you ask for?

Game-Play 8 - The camera is awfull, Auto-Aim is not always accurate

Music 6 - well its better than poke'mon (ick!)

Overall (not an average) 8.5 out of 10

Your mother was a andriod....

and your father was a can opener!

Megaman blows up the joint!

improving your weapons is a nice feature.

This is what megaman looks like on the ePSXe Emulator!