Worst Levels Ever # 4 

Wanna something even worse? Heat man stage without the proper item. And yes, i'm talking about that annoying and long disappearing block segment.

Wait. Quickman "And he is a prick" Prickman Confirmed new boss in: Whoisthismegaman 2

2 is alright, but I still think Mega Man 3 is the best of the NES games. It introduced two of the series' biggest mainstays: sliding and Rush. And being able to slide would've made something like Quick Man's stage MUCH more tolerable.

Really, the reason I love Megaman 2 is because the absurdly broken Metal Blade is so cathartic to use. It's the same feeling as playing a Dynasty Warriors game and utterly destroying everything.

Extra Credits fan here with a relevant video: in their video about the difference between difficult and what they call “punishing” games (referencing complaints about games being easier these days, because the guys who made old games worked in quarter-munching arcade games), one guy in the comments basically said that for a difficult game to be enjoyable, when you screw up it has to be because of you and something you can improve on, not because of the game screwing you over. And this is a perfect example of the game screwing you over by throwing at you instant-death obstacles you can’t possibly know how to react to beforehand.

I agree with MM 2 being overrated. AMong other things, I can't stand Megaman's slippery movement, which they finally fixed on the third one. That said, I kinda understand why people like it so much, going from MM 1 to MM 2, it's a whole lot better, they polished everything.... although it can still be cheap at times. Like the final boss only being weak to ONE sub weapon, and having no way to recharge it if you die and used it too much -_-

0:25 Not to offend anyone, but I agree with that statement. Stages like Quick Man (without using Time Stopper) and Heat Man (those stupid Yoku blocks) ruins the game for me. Battling Wood Man was a pain too, he was overpowered, and the raining leaves are impossible to dodge with the shield accompanying them. Plus he gives you less room as the battle progresses. MM7 is definitely my favorite of the Classic series. The bosses were neater, and the damage levels were balanced.

Honestly, I wouldn't call it my least favorites in the series, but it's up there. Poor design choices, some horrible level design at times, and very unbalanced weaponry. Ironically though, Quick Man's stage and fight aren't any of those things to me. It's actually my favorite stage in the game, and he's by far my favorite of the Robot Masters in the game (before anyone says anything, I don't like Metal Man). I liked the adrenaline rush in the stage. Just too bad that even without the Flash Stopper, it's so freaking easy when you memorize the stage. Also, you do realize that you can manipulate the AI of the Sniper Joes in the end right? If you jump before they land, they're more likely to almost never shoot you. Quick Man himself though is in my opinion the hardest of the 8 Robot Masters, but in a fun way. I wouldn't exactly call his action a "pattern" so to speak. I like reaction fights as long as there aren't too many of them. So I like the stage on a normal run. In a No Damage, Buster Only Run? *shudders* It's a complete nightmare. I didn't record myself since it was for fun and experience, but I remember it took over 900 attempts.

And the worst part is that the quick boomerang is even weaker then your default weapon.

"Mega Man 2 is overrated." I cannot agree more.

I really liked 2 (mostly for the music) and I agree it's not as good as some later entries but my favorite is probably 7 (proto shield up) I think what hurt 7's reputation was comparing it to the X series since 7 and X2 were released around the same time.

My only real complaint about Mega Man 2 is how unbalanced the weapons are. That crash bombs take way too much energy to use. They're the fastest and most effective weapon to use against Quick Man and the ONLY weapon that works on the dreaded Wily Stage 4 boss, the BooBeam Trap, in both cases you have only just enough energy to take down either boss and you absolutely must not miss (it's possible to hit Quick Man twice per shot by hitting a wall, but it takes timing, luck, and you'll probably get hit in the process, BooBeam however, you must be precise and even go for taking out multiple sections in one shot even). If they would have only cost 2 instead of 4, this game could have been much more balanced. Oh yes, and if beating the game quickly is on your agenda, you'll soon realize that Metal Blades are overrated (they stop your momentum when you use them), soon you'll be finding out how good Quick Boomerang, Leaf Shield, and Air Shooter really are (and in a lot of cases, Crash Bombs are useful too). In fact, I pick up all of those weapons before even going to Metal Man's stage in my playthrough.

I totally agree with you. The first time I played this level, I was like, "seriously game?" Not sure how this doesn't bother more people.

I'm sure that a lotta people agree that Quick Man's stage is the worst.

I remember 10 years ago i always cried and asked my dad for help with the last part of quickman's stage. THOSE LASERS MAN. *THEY RUIN CHILDHOODS*

Yup, Mega Man 2 is my favorite alongside Mega Man 3. I always hated quick man's stage sure, but the music in the stage is really epic, fitting for a frustrating level. I am always able to get past it without time stopper.

Out of all the levels Megaman X5 felt the need to call back to, it had to be this one

You can't. That was introduced in Mega Man 3.

this is my least favorite classic megaman game for 4 reason : 1.the level design 2.wily castle the stage not the music 3. the unbalanced weapon 4.THE BOOBEAM TRAP

What I personally do is use the Time Stopper to get past the Force Beams, and then use Crash Man's Crash Bombs to fight Quick Man. Because they're his secondary weakness (And he's liable to running right into the blasts, which can hit him multiple times with one detonation.), both are very useful for getting through the level with minimal fuss.

I happen to love this level, but when I first played the game in 2003, I was pulling my hair out! X_X Your points are totally valid! And although I enjoy QM's level & fighting him, it does seem to be badly designed. Subscribed.

To answer that question at 5:24, before you enter the doorway to Quick Man, and if you already used the flash stopper to pass the laser part of the level, try and kill off the respawning Sniper Joe Walkers until you gain more ammo for the flash stopper so you can still use it against Quick Man.

If you did "dishonorable mentions" in this video, then Heat Man's stage (MM2), Guts Man's stage (MM1), and Ice Man's stage (MM1) would've been obvious choices.

0:30 I agree. I think it's the worst, since although it has a password unlike in its predecessor, it's much more difficult, not helped by the fact that Mega Man, despite new abilities from robots still has no new moves, making the game a bit slow

the moment I saw 0:24 I instantly gave the video a like

And you people still saying MM2 is DA BEST GAME??

This level was the bane of my childhood. Oh and don't forget to mention that if you get past the lasers using your Flash but then die before reaching Quickman well sucks to be you cause your Flash is already used up now.

I Have To Agree, While I Do Like Mega Man 2 And I Do Like Quick Man, I Agree That His Stage Is Pretty Annoying, And I HATE The Killer Lasers, They Are So Annoying!

6:17 However, When he blocks it... He stops moving. That means you can throw a crash bomb at him. Just hope he jumps into it. Basically... >Throw Metal Blade >Throw Crash Bomb >Hope for the best. Rinse and repeat.

Finally someone agrees that Quick man's stage sucks.

I completely agree, the same as MMX5 Sigma's Stage 1; the players should be tested by their reflexes, not by trial and error.

The stage really isn't so bad in my book, but the boss fight on the other hand...I don't think there even is a pattern to Quick Man, and he is definitely one of the hardest robot masters in the series, if not the hardest.

Personally, I try to never use Time Stopper at all during the stage (I'm masochistic like that), but if I were to, I'd use it on Quick Man, since I can memorise the lasers. Plus, anything to say on the music in the stage?

Quick Man is a piece of cake. His level though... thats the only time I'll ever use the Flash Stopper.

I know in the NES era games were either WAY too hard, or they just had a pattern you needed to learn... One thing is sure....I start having fun while playing only when a challenge approaches, my brain feels like...liberating

I've tried every Megaman game (except for 8, 9 and 10) and 5 was my favorite. It's the only one that I could beat (with savestates because I suck at videogames) and I think it's good because it has a good cast of robot masters and nice graphics.

my most hated stage was heat-man.... quick-man second.

Yeah, I got to play Megaman 2 recently since I've been hearing so many positives comments about it and I was greatly frustrated by this level and started to wonder if I had truly what it takes to appreciate a Megaman game even though I still have a lot of experience in 2D Platformers. Glad to know it's not just me who had problems. I also heard about a terribly awful boss coming up at Wily's Castle... Of the "Unavoidable Damage Maze immune to everything but the Crash Bomber" kind.

6:42 Quick Man might be even more of a Prick to Mega Man once you realise the Quick Boomerang weapon you obtain for defeating him makes Mega-Man Pink *Doh!*

Ah, quickmam. The original "gut gud" if they had the sliding mechanic in 2 I'd be perfectly fine. But nope, instead you need to have sharp reflexes and 20 lives (or cheat with save states but you know) just to get to quick man

Did you knew that the laser beams got nerfed in Abobo's adventure ? In that game, those damned laser beams reappear in the mechabobo stage, but as raygun and Star Wars laser sabers, plus, they take more time to send their lasers, so it's quite easier to avoid them !

He may have the worst stage but Quick Man has the best music *hands down*

Even in the Legacy Collection this was nearly impossible.

Could you maybe do some kind of video on Einhander? It's a on rails shooter made by Square. They were tired of ruling the RPG genre, so they tried a shooter game and it worked really well for a first attempt. Some sort of a video on it would be nice.

I prefer Mega Man 6 to be honest. 2 just feels like an update.

I'll overlook pretty much all flaws of classic Mega Man games just because the music is so good.

If we are talking about levels that are require trial and error to beat them, then is any of the evil levels from Battletoads going to be in this series? Because I can name about five off the bat that do that to a degree that you will have to play the game over and over again just to start to memorize the level.

Yeah, i hear you man. Quickman exists only to be killed forever for this stages torture, and he deserves noting less. Including that one time Shadowman murdered him. Karma.

Mega maker's description of the background: "Strike fear into your opponents with a reminder of *the force bean segment* " Edit: No, i did notice I spilled bean. But it's funny.

The music was good, the bosses where sorta fun...BUT it's too goddamn DIFFICULT

The fangame mega man arena brought back a section from this level as a place to fight other robot masters.

I never could beat this hell hole of a level on the NES. I had to save scum the shit out of it on the 3DS. So glad someone feels my pain.

This and Heat Man's stage are awful. Well, MM2 has a lot of issues in general (no balance to weapons, cheap traps/memorization, etc...), but probably none as bad as these stages. For Quickman, you would have to know you need the time stopper, well, ahead of time. If you don't have it, you almost certainly will game over unless you go through the hassle of memorizing it. For Heat Man, there's basically no way to avoid that final long stretch of blocks unless you have Item 2 from beating Airman's stage of which again, you'd never know on a first play. So they share similar issues of annoyance and generally bad design.

Elecman's stage is fairly easy, the guy himself is a joke if you have Cutman's ability. Because Iceman's weakness is Elecman's ability, you'll probably have the magnet beam by Iceman's stage, making it a joke. Fireman I'll give you, but it's only a problem at the boss rush. The ziplines are at the very start, making it less frustrating when you get a game over. There are times when Gutsman's weapon is required to proceed. The red guys can be frozen with Iceman's weapon, and lastly, magnet beam.

I absolutely HATE this stage's ear-grating music.

one word: i LOVE your videos, why?Because there is always text and i m bad at english voice understanding,thats it and i like your creepy bad ending video too.

I always liked quickmans stage but looking back it was kind of a beginners trap and was really more about memorization than reflexes which is a bit cheap but still I never had a problem with it myself.

well, for quickman you CAN use metalblades since metal blades stop him up for a secound you can rapidly swich weapons and damage him easly air shooter also works against quickman, like you showed also atomic fire and crash bomber as for the lazer spam section, like you said it's hard at first but it's not imposible, the thing you need to do is stick to the walls when you fall also the yoku blocks from heatman's stage are FAR more cheap

The irony behind this is that i JUST watched Arin on Gamegrumps ace this level with no problem

This is my favorite stage in MM2, though I can't blame you for hating it. I think if the checkpoints were laid out better, then the second laser challenge would be much less annoying to learn. The stage is also really short, so that's a plus, right? I find heat man's main doku block challenge in his stage a bit more annoying, mostly because if the doku blocks don't load in correctly then the pattern can become really annoying to deal with (I know item 2 eliminates that problem, but after beating a game 100 times, you kind of want to challenge it in different ways). It is fun when they do appear in a less erratic pattern, though. Oh and, I also agree that MM2 is quite overrated, but people have their tastes. I can't really talk since my favorite MM is 8.

I think that MM2 is one of the best from the NES series. But, you've got that right: There's lot of trial and error. And that, for new players, sucks big time. I remember when I was a kid and the Quick Man level seemed like an impossible feat I'd never be able to beat. First time I got to the boss room I was so happy! ... The next thing I remember after that are 3 quick boomerangs flying towards me and making me explode, taking out my last life. Also in some Wily stages, if you don't use correctly some of your weapons and items, you can have a very, VERY hard time trying to get through the levels, specially with the 4th level boss: The wall turrets. They can only be killed by Crash Bombs and nothing more than Crash Bombs. And you have to use each one of 'em correctly, because if you don't and you run out of bombs, you WILL have to forcibly lose and farm energy again. And also, you don't start exactly near the boss room. You have to go through some annoying parts again... and good luck with the Sniper Joes and their damn jumpy machines, farming from them is like trying to chew water. D: With all the feels and pain back under the bed, just have to say: Great review, as always!

So this is the reason Quickman.Exe is so annoying, his classic counterpart and his stage are the creations of satan

I think the Flash Man's weapon was made to cruise thru the level more than using it aains Quick Man, as the dude is pretty much easy to defeat with your default weapon

Only stage i had to actually be sirius (yes I just made that joke) because with metal blade enemies are no problem xD Edit: I ran out of ammo for metal blade when I played this, so I didn't know he was immune to metal blade

Do notice that, even if the metal blade does no damage to this chucklefuck, it forces him to stop moving completely. If you were to alternate between the Metal Blade and Mega Buster, would that work as a strategy?

How about the buebeam trap boss fight from Wily Stage 4? Quick Man's stage is acceptable to me personally but the buebeam trap is just unfair. By unfair I mean worst than the Yellow Devil(I might be a bit bias as I've played Mega Man 1 more).

That's their problem. If a game gives you the chance to make things easier, it's your fault if you don't take it. Unlike 2 and 3, 1 does that. You always have to fight the crash bomber turret the same way, and there's no alternate way to cross the Rush Jet pit. 1 gives you simple solutions to potentially bad situations.

At least Item-2 can help you get over that with no problem; and even then it's easier to memorise the block pattern.

If Metal Blades don't affect Quick Man, what DOES hurt him!?

Hey, ever thought up of putting up a series for frustrating bosses?

Well, the entire Mega Man saga is notorious for its difficulty, but this is hell! D:

Actually, I can handle your opinion on mega man 2 (love)

I always beat Quick Man fourth, and he isn't very hard, really. I guess I have memorized the patterns, and can save Time Stopper for the boss. Also, I have to argue when you say Metal Blade is the best in the game. I love it, but Quick Boomerang is better for me. One thing nobody seems to mention is that the Boomerang is fully automatic, and aside from that, it has even more energy than the Metal Blade.

Actually, 9 is my favorite 8 bit Mega Man. The only cheap moments are the Wily bosses with multiple health bars, which, like 1's potentially cheap moments, have a way around them. Just buy E Tanks at the shop. Oh, and 9 has the best weapons by far. None of them are worthless outside of their boss fight usefulness, unlike 3, where that's the case with nearly every weapon.

those lasers? NO GOD PLEASE NO! NO! NOOOOOOOO!

elec man also had a horrendous stage in megaman 1 can you say sheer vertical platforming

Quick tip: Quick Man is also weak to the Crash Bomber.

Then again, If you get lucky with the Crash bomb, You can nail him. And that could also be a good time to charge up atomic fire.

worst stage on megaman series ever

When falling I use the pause technique where every pause of game and cancel the pause will cause megaman to quickly fall as a blue straight line. It works when going straight down. Flashman ability can dmg quickman D: i didn't know that xD.

As far as I can tell, the metal blade does stun Quick Man for a while ( 6:13 )

Yeah I can agree,compared to other game reviewers I've seen,I find it hard to like quick man.i prefer air man or flash man cause those are 2 I like,quick man is a "rush" to me, and it feels as if he is a "Fast" cut to say the least.so I can see why his stage is the worst.

Heat Man's was pretty cheap as well, with the inviso-bitch block bollocks over insta kill lava (which is of course were all the power ups you get from killing the enemies always land).

I like 2 for its soundtrack. Every song is gold. However I've only beaten it once, because the cheap shit just weighs it down. All the instant death traps in pretty much every stage, that fuckin wall boss, the final one being weak to one weapons etc. So much of this game is just obtuse for the inexperienced player

Dangit Lub Lub! Why do kill that guy so much?

At that point, Mega Man X games were simply money printers that started to malfunction.

Heat and quick, just a couple of pricks! And Crashman too God i hate all their stages

I feel that thr doc bots are painful in megaman 3. Memorizing and you dont get the powers.

I think we all expected this... in some form.

the lazers sound like death sounds from Bomberman Party Edition

Are you sure you're not talking about Kaizo Marioman 2?

0:18 WHAT IS the songs NAME please somebody tell me

i always did the same in this satge, pactice timingto dodge the alsers and use the flash stoper to defeat quickman. But the worst boss battle in this game is Crash man when you don't hace the power up from air man. I swear i was suffering for the difficulty of crashman without air shooter.

Even his first attack can be dodged by a small jump forwards, it might need some practice but it's easy to dodge.

My personal favorite of the NES games has always been MM5. All of the additional powers (slide and charge), no BS (like the subject of this video), and interesting robot masters (unlike 6). BTW, my least favorite part of MM2 is the Metal Blade weapon...it's too powerful and efficient and makes what would otherwise be difficult, but fair, segments into total cakewalks. It also introduces a huge plothole...why in the hell would Mega Man give that weapon up? He should have it in 3 if it is that useful.

Quick man stage, while cheap as heck, I didn't really have problems. I can't get through Heat Man without the rocket!

Another reason to have a great story telling us how evil he is, don't you agree?

I can’t beat Quick man stage without rewind or save states if my life depended on it.

And of course, Heat Man is a complete and total joke when it comes to perfect runs. The one problem is the first flames he throws out, But other than that? You can beat him with the Mega Buster just fine.

"...and he is a prick." Was that a Mega Man Sprite Game reference?