The character you use determines your plot, as well as the Navi that talks to you on the subscreen and such, so there is value in playing through as each character. but not enough of any to really justify one specific category.Īt the start of the game, you choose one of six characters with their associated Navis. Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge is that title.Disbanded? More like blown into tiny little bits.This is a weird one that defies classification.

I need a title that requires neither my input nor my proximity. It gives me the impression that when I'm away from the game it is simply playing itself, elsewhere.Īnd that's the ideal for me. All the stress that comes from burdening the player with responsibility - gone. I've lost a battle, retried without making a single change to my loadout, and won easily.

Purists will insist that your actions prior to battle have some measure of effect on its outcome, but I think that's bollocks. Though that would, of course, be illegal, so definitely don't. You can press B, go and boil up some ramen, come back and see if you won. Then you find out you can just press B to switch on 'auto text skip' and things get efficient-er still. All you need to do is press A to skip through the dialogue and battle commentary. It's totally random, and therefore effortless. You slot your chips into your loadout, then watch a battle play out. Okay, you pick out a loadout a la Battle Network, but that's it. In Battle Chip Challenge, you don't have to do anything. As I've already established, this is a complete arseache. It was clever, sure, but required split-second timing, adept dodging, and clever planning. You picked a loadout from your 'deck' of battle chips, then used them in real time against enemy viruses. The Battle Network series (to which Battle Chip Challenge belongs) was praised for its innovative action-strategy combat system. That's why Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge is such a breath of fresh air. After a quarter-century of gaming, I'm over it. You have to do everything, and it's exhausting. You press jump, he jumps, You press shoot, he shoots. Yes, like most videogames, the Mega Man series is cursed with player input.

And almost all of them had the same problem: You had to do stuff.

In its heyday, a total of nine hundred Mega Man titles were released every quarter. We're coming back to those halcyon days when a new Mega Man was released every week from the Classic, X, Legends, Battle Network, Zero, ZX, Star Force, Top Chef and Chronic Smoker sub-series'. Mega Man 11 is on the way, and the new Mega Man X Legacy Collections are offering some quite overt hints at an upcoming Mega Man X9. It's an exciting time to be a Mega Man fan.

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