Apr '23 Monthly Game Club - Mega Man Legends

messemet

Has loooooong been on my backlog, always seemed like such a charming game and who could pass up on servbots? Also interested in comparing it against other early 3D console games, does this feel like the amount of progress expected a year and change after Mario 64?

Think I’ll be going with the PS1 version via Duckstation with the resolution cranked up. Another great pick for the Club!

wickedcestus

I’m already playing this game! Been at it for over a month, I think, and yet my in-game timer only says a few hours. Suppose it doesn’t count the time I played a long mission, fought a boss, watched like three cut-scenes and then immediately got hit by a car and lost all my progress, lol. Watch out for those cars! They don’t slow down!

connrrr

sabertoothalex man RIP MML3DS

☟ Click to die all over again

mindleftbody

Great pick, just sat down and started it. Been wanting to get back to this one and play it through. My brother and I had it when we were kids and spent a ton of time just hanging out in the town and market, jumping on the police car and kicking the can around etc. Very good springtime vibe!

yeso

good pick

thebryanjzx90

My friend rented this game once when it came out, I remember watching him play in a mostly featureless cave and not being very impressed. This should be a good opportunity to revisit.

chart

I’ve been meaning to play this game for like over a decade after a friend of mine had the N64 version as a kid. I bought the Japanese PS1 version of this game at a Book off a few months ago but I had some issue with it where it wouldn’t ever load when entering the junk shop lol. I’ll probably just end up playing the Vita/PSP port even if it isn’t that good of a port from what I hear.

YerryMina

This was on the N64 emulator my brother set up for me when I was a child which means it’s among the first handful of games I ever played. Good fun and a cool environment but I don’t think I ever managed to get that far into it. Probably was a bit tricky to navigate with keyboard controls…

Mnemogenic

Perfect game.

treefroggy

I have my hands full of games right now between PC and switch, but MML might be the perfect thing to get me to fire up my CRT for the first time in a couple months (took a break due to having less solar power)

I have played through this game so many times since I first had it when I was seven, but never actually beat it.

As a seven year old I had MML2 on Playstation, where I mainly kicked snowmen and their buckets around, exploring just the town because dungeons were scary. Then I would rent Megaman 64.
Reminder that there is an N64 version of this game that is technically inferior in some ways (voice), but also really cool and superior in other ways (g👀d graphics????)

This thang’s just short enough to plow through in a month, I think.

I always get stuck on that part where you have to defend the city. Anyone here know the trick to that?

steen

Started playing this in english and the dub immediately made me decide to try playing in japanese except I don’t know enough japanese to play this untranslated. Dammit!

Maybe this’ll be a good excuse to figure out a decent setup to play videogames in japanese and save words I don’t know to study and generally if I can learn some japanese by playing videogames. After all:

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steen From What I’ve played of the Japanese version it isn’t too bad, but anything without furigana makes looking up Kanji a pain and I haven’t been able to find a text dump of the game anywhere, and there’s some interesting differences between the English and Japanese versions such as being able to listen to a full J-Pop song in the record shop. Also having actually good voice actors like Mayumi Tanaka helps a lot, but I still really like the campy English voices.

diogo

steen I’m surprised there isn’t an undub version of some sort?

connrrr

Even though I really enjoy the silly of-the-era English voices, I am shocked no one’s made undubs out of this series!!

steen

connrrr I was sure there’d be one and I was very disappointed when I found out there wasn’t! I found this recent decompilation project though. https://github.com/ChrisNonyminus/mml1

steen

chart anything without furigana makes looking up Kanji a pain

Yup, but while digging through RetroArch’s settings I found this suspiciously named function called AI service which seems to use OCR to read text from a screenshot and then overlays it on top of the screen like so:

Character recognition seems to work surprisingly well despite the pixelated kanji so I was thinking of modifying the server to display the japanese text on a webpage so I can copy and paste it instead of overlaying it as a blurry image.

Tradegood

I started playing it, and I’m liking the vibes (aside from there being cops everywhere)

In particular I love this legend:

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Tradegood I think the depiction of cops is pretty good in this game actually.

sabertoothalex

The little hub at the beginning is max hang out

Tradegood

That guy is 100% a voyeur. Why so defensive?

sabertoothalex The little hub at the beginning is max hang out

Yessss…. am I the only one who tried for maybe 5 minutes to kick a soda can into one of the garbage cans? (it did not work)

mindleftbody

Tradegood am I the only one who tried for maybe 5 minutes to kick a soda can into one of the garbage cans?

I tried for way more than 5 minutes when I was a kid. Try kicking it into the bakery!

wickedcestus

I love the English voices. I think they perfectly fit the atmosphere. The game’s a cartoon, after all.

milo

diogo

Original PS1 imho… Any way you can lol.

wickedcestus

It certainly is a cartoon! One of my favorite things about it is how much it plays out like an of-the-era 90s anime. The characters are pretty animated and the voice acting is great, I think.

As a kid I loved this game because of how cartoony it was. As an adult I love it because it’s dungeon crawling Megaman and I just think that’s such a neat concept. You can easily take the Megaman out of it and it’s still a really cool scifi dungeon crawler.

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