This Is Why I Adore Mega Man 8 

"Kid, you're almost not worth the effort." *proceeds to get absolutely styled on*

It's a shame that MM8 gets a bad rap nowadays. 11-year-old me was floored with the crazy potential the Mega Ball opened up upon realizing the ways it can be utilized for traversal and this is exactly the high-level play it can lend itself into under the right hands.

Dr. Wily: "I've done it! Megaman will never get past this stage now! MUWAHAHAHAHA~!" Dr. Light: "Hey Rock, check out this soccer ball."

Always wondered why people hated 8 so much, but then again, people hated 7 because of a Brentalfloss song 😂

Most underrated Mega Man game ever. It has so much style. People have no taste (I’m talking about the haters of the game lol).

MM8 was the first Mega Man game I've ever played, and its crazy how well the game holds up. Aside from certain JUMP JUMP SLIDE SLIDE moments, I find it to be the most repayable of the classic series. And good God, the spritework in this game is just divine.

Funny enough, I'd been trying something like this on the Famicom demake. Thanks for using the Saturn version, by the way. Tengu Man's alt theme is just too good to pass up. Also, that outtake can only be described as: "MY MEGA BAAAAAAAAAAAAALL"

Learning thst you could jump on the rock ball mid air really opens up the game and makes the game feel so much better to play. Also i was today years old when i learned that you can FREEZE tornado hold! 😂

I've beaten this game no less than ten times, and its art, music, and voice acting still make me feel happy

8 has remained my fav from the classic series since childhood. No idea why it gets the hate it does

Most underrated Mega Man game of all time. I love everything about it, including the voice acting 😊

Dude 8 is such a master piece!. The graphics, The environments, the rush vehicles, and the bosses make for a truly Bombertastic experience!.

Hell yeah Sega Saturn, the benchmark of engineering excellence! I'm glad that you're a fan of it! I'm thinking in a year I can get Mega man 8, but I recently got Mega man X4 complete in box for my saturn so I'm going to wait before dropping a lot of money on a saturn game. Btw Panzer dragoon 2: Zwei is an amazing game I highly recommend!

With the superior Saturn version of Tenguman's theme.

Mega Man 8 is litterally a gift from god

This takes me back. I remember feeling like such a badass for being able to pull off the bomb jump somewhat consistently.

Subtle detail MM8's mid-charge shot is viable wiping even enemy formations as crows. Some enemies and groups you can solve like this, keeping the action going. atop Mega Ball hilarity. sick punt to Tengu

Seeing this pop up in my sub box put the dorkiest smile on my face, and the gameplay didn't disappoint!

Megaman 8 has a lot of things to offer, from the normal Megaman gameplay a casual player can enjoy, to advanced tricks such as the Mega Ball jump, it legit has the most enticing graphics and gameplay unlike the rest of the classic saga

Dang that was smooth. Would love more Mega Man 8 content as it's my favorite of the classic series. Heck, I just want more MM8 or classic content. Well done

I'm adoring the love MM8 and MM&B have been getting on the channel lately, they're my favorite in the classic series and it feels like no one gives them their flowers. I already thought the MM8 boss weapons had great utility in a casual run, but the way you use all of them here is sooo sick

I played Mega Man 8 for the first time a couple weeks ago and I really enjoyed it from start to finish. The only part that gave me a hard time was the Wily Stage 1 "JUMP JUMP SLIDE SLIDE" section. It took me two whole gameplay session nights to finally overcome it, and when I did it was the best feeling in the world.

I feel the majority of people don't understand just how stupendous Megaman is/can be. That arsenal of weapons he can call and swap and essentially combine at any time with a precision computer brain and profile of a sentient mobile tank is just crazy. I wish folks in animations and junk like Death Battles would get him "right".

God this game is such a treat to look at.

Aww man! I love MM8!! I used to have so much fun talking about the stages with people.

4:41 I've never seen such disrespect to a robot master in my LIFE ☠☠☠

Mega man 8 was the first mega man game I played. Rented it from block buster. Loved it a lot.

I had no idea you could do that with the Mega Ball. What the actual hell. That was awesome!

Megaman 8 is one of the best classic MM games out there. It really stands out because of how gimmicky it is but they're done so well. It just proves that a game being gimmicky doesn't always equal bad. It tried a lot of new things and they worked very well. People are hating it because it's not a yet another useless traditional run n' gunner with a one time plot and 8bit. The art, the music, the gameplay, everything about this game is amazing (aside from the cutscenes' voice acting). It's also a welcoming game for newcomers who just got into the series! It's always gonna be my favorite!

"Kid,you're not even worth the effort" *gets hit by the mega ball unintentionally*

Me: Man, MM8 is a fun game, but a pretty slow one too. Magnus Zero: Slow? Say again?

For everything great about MM11, it didn’t have the devoted special weapon button that MM8 had which made the switch between the buster and weapons much smoother. I never had the coordination to get used to the mini grid weapon selector, so my flow was constantly getting ruined in MM11 switching between the buster and weapons.

This alone makes me love MM8 even more than I already do

Wow! I played this game and this stage as a kid and I did know such quick maneuver is possible! Awesome gameplay Master Magnus! Good job!

Wait, there were haters for this game? This was the game that turned me on to the Megaman series! I played the PS1 version(that had different music for Tengu Man's stage) and I cherish that shit! Also those Rush Jet and Jet board sections were hype af! And Magnus, you taught me a thing about using Megaball now...🤯

MM8 might be the most nostalgic game for me even though I generally prefer Zero & BN. perfect day for this video!

Only ever got to play this on the anniversary collection on the PS2. Didn't really like it at the time, but seeing this makes me think I should revisit it, preferably on a Saturn.

I honestly love this game a lot, also that is impressive skill going through Tengu Man's stage No Damage

The sega saturn ost for this stage goes so much harder than the ps1 version. Though I love the ps1 version too.

Mednafen has been my go to Saturn emulator, though when getting real hardware, I wish folks luck on that front. And Megaman 8 is not easy to come by, at least not easy to come by for a low price. All my years of playing 8 and only now I realize the ice wave can destroy the tornado hold.

I'm not sure 8 and I can ever fully be friends. Every time I try, it pushes me away. Still, the very first day I saw a speedrunner do these exact crazy Mega Ball tricks ...yeah, I finally understood. Still the best presentation in the classic series for my money, too. I really wish they'd kept this art and animation going forward past 2 games. (Also, yep, Saturn version GOAT 😁I used to have a physical copy and to this day I regret selling it even if I needed the money to live at the time 😭)

That was amazing, man! MM8 weapon master run in the future?

Them Mega ball jumps are perfection

This just proves my theory that a weapons master playthrough of this game would be a joy to watch

love the tenguman nutkick. i remember flexing on him once where i got him down to a sliver of health, then mega ball climbed into outerspace and dropped the ice weapon from high up onto him. pure luck, but so satisfying.

you're really good, i barely grasping the ball jump

Megaman 7 and Megaman 8 were my 4th and 5th Megaman classic game i played. 7 and 8 were my favorite (especially 7. Megaman 7 is best classic Megaman, fight me)

I need to play MM8 again ngl

Looks so clean

This is one of the first games I played. It's awesome to see what's possible with it!

It's as if MM8 was designed with Weapon Master runs designed!

Why I love megaman 8: sounds nice

finally givin the best classic mega man the spotlight

4:44 lmao

4:43 Ugh, that's gotta hurt!

thank you!!! i love mega man 8 too, it’s so overhated

aside from the lack of e tanks and the "jump jump slide slide" i thought it was pretty good. beat the game on legacy collection and my hacked playstation classic and finished all 8 stages on the ps2 and xbox versions of anniversary collection

I really need to get this game , I only played when I was young on the ps1 and I only have vague memory about it

I'll see you in my dreams.wav Love the ham va.

It's the best; my favorite of the classic series by far. The bolt system adds a lot, in particular... far more interesting than just farming for them, imo. Not to mention you're buying permanent upgrades as opposed to consumables. Really though, my favorite thing to do is to fire mega buster shots and water balloons in rapid succession using the two fire buttons... it's some of the most insane damage output I've ever seen in a MegaMan game, barring Top-Spinning Gamma or Metal-Blading Metal Man, lol

My first Megaman game with the graphics they should’ve stuck with for 9 and 10. People shit on this game for the voices is what I always hear. It’s just silly not ear piercingly annoying. Funny that this game is what’s the cause of the Sigma Virus in the X games. Makes me respect it even more

I don't care what a lot of people say, i love Mega Man 8, game is fun and that's what all matters

Hey magnus, have you played Gravity Circuit? It plays sort of like ZX but better

You probably enjoy MM8 for the same reason I find Rockman & Forte fun, mid-air Ice pillar jumps and cancelling similar to the mega ball mechanic, both games feel linked mechanically in that they have weapon "tech" with more dynamic movement options that have to be combined to get the most out of the level design. I like my action platformers with high skill ceilings (Mega man Zero 3) so 7, 8 and Bass all stand above the other entries to me. So yeah I get it, I feel like this era of Mega Man is still misunderstood to some degree and therefore under-appreciated.

Even without the high level techniques, I love Mega Man 8. I always thought it was a great game.

Yeeeeaaahhhhhh Show them dat Mega Man 8 boooiiii. Love this game.

This is how Lore Rock fights

You must recover all the style immediately W-Magnus Zero!

Eu amo também esse jogo, principalmente suas armas especiais 🤩

What? I don't remember tengu man stage music like this at all ? Did you use another bg music ?

This is my favorite Mega Man game. I dont understand the hate. Every complaint is "too gimmicky" and "jump jump slide slide too hard". This game is amazing.

I feel like even the devil themselves don't know that the game could be played like this

IS THIS WHAT I THINK IT IS!?? :D MOAR WEAPON MASTER!!!

first time I notice that some sound effects are lower sample rate than the PS1

Megaman will never get past my traps, air fortress, and endless pits, hahahahahah! - Tengu Man Weeeeee this is so fun, right guys! - Megaman talking to Rush, Auto, Beat, Eddie while fighting enemies in air.

I hated Mega Man 8 as a kid cause I could never beat the jetboard section at the start of Wily's fortress. Then I grew up and got gud and now it might be my most replayed classic game? Along with 3 and 7. I still think it has too many autoscrollers, though.

GOAT

Points for playing the better Saturn version

Megaman 8 is still one of my favorite mega man games around if not THE most favorite of mine even after experiencing all the other games in the mega man franchise (except battle network or star force since those are more like RPGs and i dont play those kind of games). MM8 was a game i grew up with from having to watch my uncle play the ps1 version when i was like 5, i enjoyed the game alot myself despite not having any kind of game sense since i was only that young but he let me keep that copy since i loved that game (i still have it 23 years later), but its also i game i take seriously since people both irl and online always say its the worst mega man since thee art style isnt "mega man" or how bad the voice acting is but i actually enjoy the voice acting for what it was since all of us do have guilty pleasures. im not a speedrunner, just some casual player but i do like watching people like you who play mega man 8 like you demonstrated in this video because i gives me some ideas how to play through some stages better (i consider myself pretty good at 8) but i like to always find ways to be a much better player and maybe decide to be a speedrunner one day if i wanted to venture that route

It made me sad when MM9 went back to 8-bit style, and emulated MM2 so hard Mega Man forgot how to slide.

8’s not my favorite game, but I still find it very fun to playthrough for all it’s faults. Kinda bummed it doesn’t get more credits for the good stuff it did.

best classic game

4:43 you kicked him in the nuts, the ball didnt actually do anything

Dang, if this isn't close to speedrun strats idk what is.

Always loved 8. HATED 7!...Until this year, and I learned about all the upgrades & secrets! IT'S SO GOOD Y'ALL! I also retried MM11, and found new appreciation there too. I like not hating anymore. 💙

I can't tell if magnus zero is just a mega man gos at this point or a tas machine

MM8 is STILL the best classic megaman game to this day, I don't care what anyone else says. The 8-bit style is fine but it's antiquated and old, the looks of this game is so bouncy and vibrant and has so much personality. I'm still upset they went back to the highly pixelated look for the next games, and Megaman 11 looks alright I guess, but it's too stiff looking and doesn't have the same charm. God this game is sick.

WEAK mm8 fans: i love the artstyle and music!!! STRONG mm8 fans:

you should rename your video to the Chadman 8

I cant wait PG to show up in this comment section

What about wily wara

I know it's an unpopular opinion, but MM8 looks nicer than 11. To me, it's like comparing Pokémon's Gen V battle spries with the Switch games.

5:01 dafuq

8 is far my favorite but I will never get why people called this bad game it’s solid overall

Minecraft

You kicked the mega ball at the end there just for disrespect, didn't you?

The Ball is just a throwback to Megaman Soccer.

I have always loved Megaman 8. Any time I have ever heard criticism of it, it's so shallow. "The voice acting is bad!" I was never bothered by the voice acting, so I have no clue why people say this. Also, that is such a small portion of the overall game. "It looks awful." Are we...even looking at the same game...? "The ball powerup is stupid!" Subjective. And objectively wrong. Besides, 8 has some of my favorite music from the classic series. The ice stage theme is wonderfully chill and relaxing. EDIT: Caught this after posting it. Yeeeeeesssss Dr Light's lines are infamously bad. But when I refer to the voice acting, I refer to ALL of it, not just the very few bad examples. Battle lines sound fine, for example.

Megaman 8 was, hands down, one of the absolute best of the classic series. This idea that it's "so bad" has the exact same arguments parroted over and over, to the point that the arguments aren't even real anymore - they're just people that have hyped up the hate so much that it simply has to be real, otherwise why would they say it? "The weapons aren't that good." Really? But The weapons in other MM titles were great? I mean, being pragmatic: tell me a single weapon casual players - NOT hardcore theory-crafters - would use in Megaman 2 aside from Metal Blade. What about 3 - anyone use... well, ANY weapon in that game? Anyone notice you could move the Hard Knuckle up and down? One self-proclaimed "videogame boy" didn't know that, and he's supposedly a huge MM fan. "The graphics are too cutesy/cartoonish." Umm... I'm sure this HAS to be, like, a Western thing. That same kind of perspective that says "DBZ is so much better than the original DB", and then everyone else just kind of goes "it's different... but not better by any stretch." MM8, as well as the rest of the classic series, isn't supposed to be serious, nor is it supposed to be stiff and sterile. The fact that they injected so much joy and imagination into MM8 is a testament to how much they loved the thing, and for some reason, Western audiences were like, "But why isn't it more serious?" I don't know, why do you ask DUST MAN. Or how about QUICK MAN. Or all the other Super Sentai/Superhero-inspired goofball villains, some of which are made out of LIGHT BULBS. "There were too many gimmick stages." Okay... I mean, I can almost care, but I feel like variety is fine? It's something to break up the normal pace of things - like how lots of well-crafted, well-beloved games do things. Anyone a fan of Half-Life 2? Remember the long driving sequences? That was for pacing. Remember the part with taming the Ant-Lions? Pacing. They were gimmicks, but they didn't really hurt it. For some reason, classic MM fans were like, "What?? Megaman FLIES on RUSH? Inconceivable, I will quote this exact transgression when referencing why I don't like MM8 until the sun burns out." Like, you fly on Rush... twice? I believe it's TWICE... you also do the "Jump Jump Slide Slide" thing twice, but I mean, if people don't exaggerate, then how will we ever know how bad Megaman 8 was? If it only happened twice, each time, then what leg would they possibly had to stand on, when the remaining... 95% of the game was spent playing as Megaman runnin' jumpin' and shootin'. "Don't forget Clown Man's level!" You mean... you mean the level where you play as Megaman? With environmental hazards? Like, dating back to literally the FIRST game?? May as well throw Astro Man and Sword Man's levels in there too. OoOoOo, don't make us do stuff with the weapon powers! That's haaaard! What if we need those powers to fight the bosses where we're given a full weapon energy refill entering the boss rooms!.... . . . . . "The voice acting sucked." Please point out 10 games from the years 1996 to 2000 with good voice acting. I'll wait. You can use google, even. Because that's the point I'm trying to make - nothing, absolutely NOTHING had good voice acting in the late 90s, early 00s, and getting good voice acting was a rare gem, a candy with which you savored. You played Metal Gear Solid for the first time, and it just blew your mind so much that Otacon's voice actor being the worst thing didn't even bother you. Now, every game is expected to have good voice over work... and they usually do. Back then, when you heard Berry say "Jill sandwich", you were like, "Yup, that's videogame voice acting." No amount of pointing this out will make it any less VALID - it's a valid criticism - but it's also a hypocritical, pointless one. It would be like saying "it wasn't colorful enough" when discussing an NES game... like, yeah. They had 56 colors to choose from total, not all of which could be displayed at once... "Abilities and upgrades were missing from previous games." I mean, okay. I was also disappointed Megaman didn't have Super Adapter mode... but that doesn't tank the whole game. Megaman 8 is just a game with a lot of hate because people over the years have made so much fun of the parts they didn't like and exaggerated their severity to the point of it having to be true - or else they'd have to critically examine their perception and reaction to the game and how they feel about it... which is basically something people never, ever do. People usually double-down and act like it's not even that big a deal and you trying to challenge their very vocal opinion with just as vocal an opinion is dumb and shows just how much you care while they don't. Introspection and self-reflection are basically super powers, and the very idea any of these people could stop and say "I've been saying this for years, but it probably isn't even that bad, even if I wasn't the biggest fan" is inconceivable.

Mega Man 8 can jump jump slide dez nuts