#Mega man 3 bosses manual#
#Mega man 3 bosses series#

You might well need it, because defeating Hard Man isn't as easy as I'm making it sound. well, the other reason I always started with Hard Man's stage is that there's an easily-accessible, health-restoring E-Tank waiting to be collected, which gives you a bit of a safety net. The key to beating Hard Man is learning to avoid his rocket fists and remaining patient, concentrating on staying alive and seizing your chances to harm the boss when you can. See? Gimmicks! Compare this to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Back From the Sewers, where the bosses also tried to kill you with projectiles and collisions but most of them didn't do anything besides that. He can also jump and slam down, and if you're on the floor when he lands then Mega Man is briefly paralysed by the impact. For example, Hard Man can fire rocket fists at you, and those fists can change direction in mid air.

#Mega man 3 bosses series#

This is true of all the Robot Masters in Mega Man 3, (and the whole Mega Man series and most videogames, really,) but they all have another gimmick to go along with it. He has two means to accomplish this goal at his disposal: either by colliding with Mega Man or by shooting him. Then there's Hard Man himself, and he wants to smash Mega Man up good and proper.

The other reason is that I always start with Hard Man, because he was the first boss I learned to beat without a special weapon as a kid and that knowledge is deeply and indelibly etched into my brain. There are a couple of other things that were introduced to the series in this instalment, and part of the reason I began with Hard Man's stage is that it give me a chance to show most of them off. Obviously that doesn't mean anything to us right now, and for the first stage we're stuck with Mega Man's three-shot arm cannon.

There also Mega Man's most famous power to master - when he beats a boss, he gets to claim that boss' weapon for himself. Mega Man is such a huge franchise, with many of its games sharing the same formula and mechanics, that you're bound to have played at least one of them. Again, I'm sure you all already know this. You shoot robots, jump over holes and try not to touch spikes because they are Mega Man's most dangerous weakness aside from showing Dr. We'll be meeting them all eventually, but let's start with Hard Man.Īs Mega Man strides through the rocky landscape that makes up Hard Man's stage, beset from above by robot bees that can be dealt with by scrolling the screen back a little so they travel off the edge and de-spawn, I can give you a brief description of Mega Man 3's gameplay. Beat all the Robot Masters and you can head to Dr. Wily is still the villain in Mega Man 10, the entirety of mankind screaming out for Mega Man to put a bullet between his eyes and save the Earth from its regularly-scheduled robotic onslaught.Īs usual in a Mega Man game, once you hit start you're given the choice of eight different stages to tackle, each of them with a themed Robot Master waiting at the end. You may have already realised this given that Dr. Wily was behind everything and was not, in fact, reformed. Then the robots go evil, and Mega Man has to shoot them until they reconsider their uprising against humanity. They've also created eight new Robot Masters, which have been sent into the world to find power sources for Gamma. Light build a new and powerful peacekeeping robot called Gamma.

Wily has reformed and is helping Mega Man's creator Dr. After trying to take over the world in the previous two games, the evil Dr. stunningly incompetent roboticists and each villain being vulnerable to the weapon of one of his confrères.

#Mega man 3 bosses manual#

With no intro to fill us in, we must look to the manual for Mega Man 3's story, although I'm certain most if not all of you are familiar with the core concepts of the Mega Man universe, i.e. Back then there was no chance of getting more than one videogame for my birthday, but as if by magic my grandmother called and said 'I can't find that game you asked for, but they have this one called Mega Man 3 instead, is that okay?' It was most definitely okay, and almost enough to get me believing in some kind of cosmic wish-ordering miracle-type Noel Edmonds bullshit. I don't remember which one, but before my birthday rolled around I saw Mega Man 3 in a magazine (almost certainly Total!) and realised that no, this was the game I really wanted. I even have a story about how I came to own Mega Man 3: it wasn't released in Europe until 1992, so it was probably for my eighth birthday that I'd asked for a NES game. Still, I have a great fondness for it, probably because I've seen it more than almost any other videogame title screen. This is a very underwhelming title screen for what is definitely my favourite game in the Mega Man series, and there's no intro to go along with it, not even something like Mega Man 2's pan up to our hero posing on a rooftop.