Mark Medeiros, GameObserver's surliest (and possibly drunkest) editor, continues his stroll down memory lane by reminiscing on what made the old Mega Man so successful despite being flawed in just about every game aspect.

This time he finished his retrospect by going over Mega Mans 5 through 9.

Mega Man 6 shakes up the old Mega formula with another anime cliché: the robots that sexually combine into bigger robots. Mega Man and Rush can heterosexually fuse to form either the rocket-toting Jet Mega Man or the pugilistic Power Mega Man, both of which have slightly different abilities and thus allow for some branching paths within the game world. If Capcom’s been beating a dead horse up to now with their NES Mega Mans, then Mega Man 6 is at least a modest attempt to bring some new life to the horse’s corpse. Even if that presence of new life is just the maggots.

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