#jump and shoot

[iamvoid0]

Does Megaman 11 deserve to be the best-selling game in the franchise?

Megaman 11 brought the classic blue bomber back to new heights, and with that, it took the title of best-selling classic Megaman title. Capcom had pre-emptively purchased the domains of Megaman 12, 13, 14, and 15. With the glaring success that Megaman 11 has, there is still a demand for classic Megaman. That raises a question, though, Does Megaman 11 deserve to be the best-selling game in the franchise?

Short Answer: Yes. But let us dig deeper as we prepare for Capcom's announcement for Megaman 12.

An Evolution of form

Megaman 11 was a return to form for the blue bomber that harkens back to the old school days while modernizing a notorious, mechanically demanding game for audiences of all skill levels. Megaman 11 simultaneously invokes nostalgia while pushing every aspect of its design, audio, gameplay, and art to new heights. It not only separates it from the mega man clones of today but also prevents it from being another hollow Megaman clone.

It is easy to view Megaman 11 through the lens of pure nostalgia, a cash grab, stomping on the cold dead corpse of a long-dead franchise for an easy payday. What is hard is accepting the fact that the team that took Megaman 11 from idea to product outdid themselves.

Another Dimension

Megaman 11 takes the classic game out of its 2D roots and into a new 3D space; though at times it may look like it's 2.5D, I have a sneaking suspicion that it is a full 3D space that is 2D in the viewport.

The art direction of this game is stellar. I cannot begin to describe just how gorgeous and warm this art feels. Every character and background is just bursting at the seams with personality and life. From Roll, Auto, and Dr Light to the various enemies you encounter, many of which are callbacks to the original Megaman 1, to the new ones that blend so seamlessly into the world of Megaman that you will question if it had always been there. Megaman is expressive, clear, and concise in his actions and animations.

Dynamic lighting effects breathe life into every nook and cranny of this gorgeous hand-drawn environment. The stunning illustrations that wash the backdrops are often reminiscent of old 90s cartoons, although that might be my nostalgia bleeding through.

Despite that, however, the game continues to be a breath of fresh air. We rarely get such a visually distinct game from a large publisher. It was clear from the get-go that Capcom needed – no, wanted – Megaman 11 to be an evolution, the springboard for the next generation of Megaman.

Lessons from yesterday

Megaman 11 takes a vast array of cues from its predecessors. From its punishing difficulty to its ease of access. The deceptively simplistic level design hides brilliantly crafted sequences that encourage experimentation while also providing a challenge for those willing to take it on.

One of the strengths of Megaman 11 lies in how it carries its legacy while also being distinct and new. The previous two Megaman games, 9 & 10, felt more like the recently uncovered Nintendo Entertainment System games that were lost media than they did a proper sequel for a new generation.

The previous games introduced a shop, which is brought back for the ride in this new entry. The game also comes preloaded with multiple easy-to-hard difficulty challenges.

The game makes excellent use of the various bosses' gimmicks to give Megaman a new way to interact with the stages. Megaman controls much better than I anticipated. The game was responsive and kept the old-school feeling of Megaman in this new perspective.

I mentioned before that the game could be unforgiving at times, and it is very unforgiving. Several passages throughout the game will give even seasoned Megaman players a challenge.

It is hard to describe how Megaman plays and controls, and it is ultimately something you will have to experience to understand Megaman 11 at its core gameplay.

Listen

If it's one other thing Megaman is known for, it is the absolute jaw-dropping, iconic soundtracks of the past. Megaman 11 is no slouch in this department. Every single stage gets a theme song that fits the environment, matches the scenes' intensity, and pairs well with the various bosses.

Marika Suzuki shines as Megaman 11's composer, having attained experience in various games across multiple genres. She clearly understands what made the original soundtrack so appealing, and she carries much of the soundtrack to its logical climax.

The soundtrack is more electronic-based, but Marika Suzuki masterfully makes every single instrument sing a dazzling array of notes and phrases that matches everything surrounding it.

Marika Suzuki's soundtrack was so rendered that it beautifully tied all the extremities of the game into an even more closely knit experience that all provided a sense of cohesion that ultimately elevated the experience of Megaman as a whole.

Conclusion

Whatever you think about Capcom's business practices, Megaman 11 is truly one for the history books. A fun-filled experience with a visually unique art style and a lavish soundscape that perfectly blends all parts of Megaman into an experience worthy of the franchise.

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[posebox-guide]

Lizlyly's Movie Action Box V.1

Gun Animation > Flying shoot1

Gun Animation > Flying shoot 2

#animation #lmab #fighting angry #shoot gun #jump and shoot #get up #falling #action #cool #trick #leap

[zer0point5ive]

gay people never flirt normally it’s always gotta be shit like this

#fruity as hell in this gayass room #chainshipping #adam faulkner stanheight #adam stanheight #lawrence gordon #saw 2004 #adam’s scrawny ass going absolutely feral while having a bullet lodged in his shoulder from lawrence literally shooting him #to SAVE lawrence like ??!! #& then lawrence pulling him down #that’s actually why john left adam there #the phobia jumped out #lawrence at least had the wife defence #📼

[cynomain69]

cyno story quest part 2 spoilers!!!!

i really liked how unwilling to leave cynos side tighnari was like last time he left cyno alone his father figure got buried alive and he was just NOT having it i hope we can all have friends like tighnari

#tighcyno #cynonari #theyre each others emotional support friends #the soulmate behavior jumped out #cyno #tighnari #spoilers #love that scene where sethos was looking directly at cyno and tighnari looked like he wanted to deck him in the face #be the guy who shoots down your best friends professor dads death flags

[lelalyo]

My Tav everytime she's trying to get a good night's sleep and she get rudely awakened by one of the companions

#There is no rest in this camp #I'm convinced the last time Tav slept was on the mind flayer ship #First I get nibbled on by Astarion #Then Mizora tries to jump me by the camp fire #Then Karlach wakes me up to try shoot her shot #Where will it end? #And more importantly who's going to try jump me next? #Lae'zel and Shadowheart have been awfully quiet lately... #Baldur's gate 3 #Astarion #Lae'zel #Shadowheart #Gale of Waterdeep #Wyll Ravengard #Karlach #bg3 tav #Lily plays bg3

[themetalhiro]

Wanted to share my character for a dnd oneshot i got way too attached to. 😭 He’s a war-forged artificer who after being retired, bought a ranch in an effort to find new purpose. His friends call him Clay!

#he has double pistols #and jumps into the air to shoot like the american ninja from power rangers #metalhiro arts #metalhiro ocs #clay

[tenisperfection]

7x04 being from Buck's perspective broke my brain because of the way we saw Eddie through Buck's eyes. Then I realized that Suspicion, where Eddie was shot, was from Eddie's perspective, and all of Surviviors was from Buck's perspective and I want to jump into the ocean.

#the implications...... #we saw eddie's turmoil when carla brought up the follow your heart line #his agony over charlie's abuse #then the shooting and watching his best friend splattered with his blood #that split second where he realized who buck was to him and has been all along #the way he wanted to reach out and touch buck one last time #(do not think about eddie thinking about chris under any circumstances but if you do imagine eddie feeling relieved that buck will be there #and sorrow that he won't be there with chris and won't get to see him grow up and won't get to see buck #and then we have survivors right #we immediately jump to buck's perspective with him getting eddie into the ambulance and eddie asking if buck was hurt *sobs* #and the whole episode is mostly buck's side #but so is the will scene!!!! #because we obviously went nuts over the implications of it #but consider the tone of the scene--there's devotion yes #but most of the tone is that of disbelief #because buck can't believe eddie did this and eddie didn't tell him and eddie is telling him now #and eddie wants buck to carry on for christopher if eddie is gone #and buck absolutely would #but in his mind he can't fathom a world where he has to exist without eddie #and eddie is the one asking him to #hahahahah fuck you don't find it son you make it all over again #buck made this and buck chose this and buck has to live with it #i can't wait for these men to realize/bring to light all the love between them #911 abc #this unraveling on a saturday afternoon is brought to you by insanity

[bewarethecircles]

I think Orym should take the fire shard. Will it be good for him? Maybe not! But it sure would look cool!

#Put that guy in a situation! #Critical role #orym #orym critical role #critical role campaign 3 #Not shown in the drawing but I think it should give him rocket boot powers so that he can jump even higher #Need to intimidate someone? Nothing like suddenly shooting up to their height on pillar of fire! #My art

[onefey]

gwen stacy could literally be wearing three seperate trans pins and a patch that says "trans and proud" in the next movie and ppl would still be like Um Actually She Could Just Be A Cis Ally 🙄🙄 You're Obviously Projecting You Trans People Just Want To Make Everything About Yourself

#like fr does it not occur to cis people the irony of saying 'you're just trying to make everything about yourself' #while trying to shoot down trans ppl talking about a trans coded character #hey bucko maybe take a step back and think about why you're so obsessed with jumping thru hoops to make her Not trans #anyway i really liked how her coding was handled and i wish ppl would stop bein fuckin idiots about it #atsv #across the spiderverse #gwen stacy #spider gwen #might delete this later its kindof venty

[pb5-a35]

EVERYONE SHUTUP AND LOOK AT AZZI SHOOTING!!

#there’s no reason we couldn’t have had her in the corner shooting threes she didn’t even need to jump #azzi fudd

[jaubaius]

Source

#cats #fail jump #shooting lasers #pets #funny video #laughter #unmuted

[levitatingbiscuits]

Something very dear to my heart is the 501st thinking they're the badass rebel loose canons who do all the reckless crazy shit compared to the straight-laced, spick and span 212th who are extremely formal and put-together by comparison...

...until they start running joint campaigns and the 501st realize that the 212th are a disciplined, orderly, well-mannered battalion of ABSOLUTE FUCKING LUNATICS

#yes this is about the grievous dogpile #and the jumping on top of droids to shoot them #and the shit they get up to in the 2d series #and cody. just in general #yes they're by the book but the book was written by a guy who bodily throws himself at his enemies

[tastycitrus]

Tim: Oh no! There's TWO Casses! Steph, excited: Wow! Tim: Steph, this is a bad thing. One of them is an imposter. Steph: Oh yeah. Duke with a gun: How do we know which one is the fake? One Cass, pointing at the other Cass: Shoot her! She's the imposter! *everyone immediately shoots the Cass who spoke* Damian: You idiot, giving yourself away like that. Cassandra would NEVER pass up the opportunity to die! Cass: Cass: Is that really how you guys see me? Everyone else: Yes.

#batfam #batfamily #cassandra cain #tim drake #stephanie brown #duke thomas #damian wayne #to be honest since cass can dodge bullets they could shoot at both of them #and the one who gets hit is the imposter (probably) #now to be fair she's not literally so eager to die she would jump at any chance to do so #but cass having a death wish is an integral part of her character #like it was straight up part of her character pitch. her wanting to die for her sins is baked into her very being #...if anyone cares this is not inspired by my earlier post about cass being in three places at once #this has been sitting in my drafts for a month

[quietwingsinthesky]

of ten’s companions, if the doctor couldn’t handle losing them and crossed his own timeline to trick them into traveling with future!him instead of past!him so that he’d have a little more time with them:

rose would do it. first because bless her but she has the situational awareness of a rock, and legitimately would not realize this isn’t her doctor until his facade starts to break down and he starts bleeding grief-laced love for her at every turn. but once she does realize it, she’s both deeply sympathetic and a little scared that she could make him into this. it’s a lot to be confronted with having that much power over someone, to break them so thoroughly. rose would try to get back to her doctor, but while she’s with the future version, she tries to do what she can to ease his pain. (she also tries to figure out a way to subvert her fate. she fails.)

i think martha would be harder to trick. she can smell desperation on the doctor like a bloodhound. she is so tapped into the fact that this man wants to off himself so bad and that she’s 90% of his self-restraint, so present her with a doctor who is lacking that and she’s onto him immediately. however, assuming he gets her to come with him, explains why he’s doing this, there’s like. a minute where she’s kind of. not flattered exactly, but surprised, giddy with the realization that he’d come back for a little more time with her, especially if this is early season 3 martha. which would all come crashing down around the time that he reveals that he wasn’t pushed to this by losing her to some tragedy or her death or anything- but that she chose to leave. that is the point at which martha goes ‘oh i need to get the fuck off of this tardis right now’ and ghosts the past!doctor that she was also traveling with because holy shit, man.

donna, like rose, is easily bamboozled into following the wrong doctor home, provided that he shuffles her along into his tardis too fast for her to argue. but she catches on far quicker than rose does. like, three minutes tops of watching the doctor move through the tardis in a way that’s definitely not enthusiastic piloting and looks more like guilty panic. and then she yells at him for lying to her. and she yells at him for kidnapping her. and then she stops yelling because he’s gone sort of still and quiet and his eyes are just broken. and he doesn’t explain himself, he confesses. donna is going to try to stay with him after this btw. because how do you go back to looking your best friend in the eyes when you know he’d take everything you’ve become away from you, even to save your life? and this is still the doctor, he still did that to her, but he regrets it. regrets it so much that he can’t live with it, he’s breaking time and space just to hear her say his name again. and donna doesn’t want to lose him anymore than he wanted to lose her.

#i am so enthralled by this concept you have no idea #also like. i mentioned in rose’s section how this is a genuinely scary situation for her. #but to be clear. it is for all three of them the moment they realize that this Is Not Their Doctor #because theyre suddenly on a ship going through time ans space with. almost a stranger. and one who has proven that he’s break laws #fundamental to his worldview rather than let them go #doctor who #rose tyler #martha jones #martha girl get the fuck out of there oh my god #the doctor comes out looking the worst in her section rip to him for not handling her leaving him in a normal and healthy way very well #i think it would be very funny if the doctor said goodbye to her and then immediately went. ‘oh! right! martha is the only thing keeping me #from jumping off a cliff! brb i need to get martha back at whatever cost!’ sir go to therapy #donna noble #also also to be clear im not trying to insult rose in her section thats just how she is #remember that time her boyfriend turned into plastic in front of her and she. didnt notice. or that time the doctor was being strangled in #the other room and she. didnt notice. #rose tyler girl that you are. you never know what the fuck is going on around you and i love you for that. how are you still alive. #REMEMBER THAT TIME SHE GOT BACK FROM AN ALTERNATE DIMENSION AND DIDNT EVEN NOTICE THE DALEK ABOUT TO SHOOT THE DOCTOR IN THE FACE #ROSE TYLER. GIRL. LOOK LEFT AND RIGHT BEFORE CROSSING A STREET AT LEAST #donna’s here is the most fucked up i think because even if this situation is ‘resolved’ and she goes back to her doctor like. how does she #keep going with that fact in the back of her mind at all times. that he can and will do this to her. that he’ll take himself and everything #else away from her while she begs him not to. #angst <3

[tooquirkytolose]

If there are really that many rich people obsessed with the titanic why has no one simply...made an exact replica of the ship for luxury cruising? If rich people wanted to feel better than the poor they could even use a similar system where third class passengers bought cheaper tickets for more limited access to shipewide amenities. Recreate the weird fucking 1900s menus. Those exist. Diagrams exist. This time sufficient lifeboats and life jackets could exist.

#eccentric billionares do something fun with your money for once in your miserable lives #and i KNOW titanic nerds would jump at the chance for this #hell..they could even do photo shoot sessions at the stupid boat nose thing i dont know the proper boat term you know what i mean

[dyketubbo]

We haven't been paying attention to QSMP is this that Frubbo dynamic y'all keep talking about

#frubbo #tubbo #fred qsmp #qsmp #Shoot I have to make a doodle tag for myself now.. Uhhh #Randoodles #Yeah that works #I think the thing about Fred's age was cleared up probably but I don't actually know so you get this anyways #We haven't been able to watch streams inbetween focusing on our mental health and also uh. Failing college #Also it's hard to get into heavily romance focused plotlines #But hope you all are having fun over there and such. What is even happening #So much is happening all the time that it's so hard to just jump back in haha