Back in July of last year (we're still not used to typing that yet) we told you about Japanese rocker Gackt's ongoing quest to beat the NES title Mega Man 2.
In case you didn't know, Gackt — whose real name is Kamui Gakuto — was once part of the band Malice Mizer, but has since become one of Japan's most popular male solo artists, as well as a respected actor.
He set himself the task of beating Mega Man 2 last year, and has recently achieved that goal -- as you can see in the video below. And yes, his expensive sports car remains in the background, and he's still wearing shades indoors. What a guy.
You can see Gackt taking on other classics games here.
[source gonintendo.com]
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Took him quite some time
Oh well, its a hard game. I just practice some more, so that i can finish it with my feet without the need of continues
Hmmm.... not bad, but I will stick with Arino.
It all works because sunglasses.
Good for him. I beat the game when it actually came out, and I was all of 11 at the time. Let's do a story that is actually news.
Game wouldn't be so hard to beat if it weren't for that turret boss in one of the later Wily stages. That boss is awful...
@rtr0GMR1 Hmm, i must have missed the day on which Nintendo*Life* was changed to Nintendo*News*
How about subscribing to Nintendos own news feed, if the ocasional fun article is too much for you to stomach ?
"And yes, his expensive sports car remains in the background, and he's still wearing shades indoors. What a guy."
Love you guys lol
well i still haven't
I have it on my 3DS, still need to touch it. I beat 3 but I abused the save points. It was the game's fault for abusing spikes
Beat it when I was 10, fun stuff.
Mega Man 2 has some tricky bosses (looking at you, boss that requires shooting crash bombs with 100% accuracy while you're bombarded by enemy fire every other second), but I've never seen anyone struggle with alien wily before. It's a boss with a remarkably simple pattern. The hardest part of the fight is trying to figure out what hurts it.
The turret boss battle is hard, yes, but completely manageable if you know what you are doing.
............who?
@rtr0GMR1 why are comments like this necessary? If you don't like the story, don't read or comment. Obviously news is slow since the holidays just ended, so fun stories like this give us something to talk about. I mean, what do you want Nintendo Life to do? Make up 'news' stories when there aren't any real ones?
When I lived in Japan, the guy I learned Japanese from had at one time been Gackt's on stage tour drummer. He told me Gackt was a super nice guy, and a very talented piano player. I barely knew who Gackt was before then, so it's interesting to read this. Also, I now miss Japan.
"Weirdness!! Famous Guy Beats Game! So weird!11!"
At least he's a talented singer. Most of his music isn't my style, though, but I do respect his work.
2:26 ...What the heck was that?!
Team Nekokan still can't beat Airman.
@Giygas_95 That is the most stupid boss in the entire series. It drags the game down in my opinion, and is one of the reasons I prefer MM3.
Random insignificant person plays an Videogame. For some eleven year old; I mean great just great but otherwise not so great
"I beat the game when I was insert age here."
That's pretty cool.
I guess practicing, touring and performing music got in the way of Gackt's dream of beating the game sooner.
@Giygas_95 @Jaunty Gotta save them Crash Bombs!
And yes, I also prefer Mega Man 3 for a few reasons (that thing that happens after you beat all eight robot masters, but before Wily's Castle... that's way too awesome).
@Einherjar How about you let people voice their opinions without trying to tell them what to do?
@bizcuthammer I'm sorry, have seen the amount of games that are lacking a review? They could easily review games that they haven't gotten around to instead of posting garbage like this.
Mega Man 2 was easy peasy compared to the first. Took me a morning to get it over with.
@Einherjar powned
@Jaunty Yes, it's unfortunate because to me, it's the only bad thing about the game. If it were just hard I wouldn't mind it, but it's so much trial and error, and if you don't do everything EXACTLY right the first time...you pretty much have to start the whole stage over in order to get more crash bombs.
@rtr0GMR1 This post probably took a few minutes at the most. You do realize that reviewing a game isn't just a matter of typing up some words? They have to actually play the game for however many hours and then write the review. So no, I can safely say this post wasn't made in place of a video game review.
@GeminiSaint
Sure, once you know what you're doing. The first several encounters suck, though. You blow all your ammo the first time trying to blow up all the walls, have to grind for ammo afterward, and eventually discover they put in extra destructible walls to confuse you.
The hardest boss in MM2 is definitely that dragon, though. Small platforms, and the attacks send you hurtling right over the side. I can do no death runs of the game now on Hard Mode, but that dragon was the bane of my existence for a long time.
I love when people come here and comment on a story just to trash on it and say something very condescending like "Do a story that's actual news" just to sound edgy. I'd rather read this than some made-up crap or a gloom-and-doom article parading itself as an Opinion piece.
@rtr0GMR1 You DO realize that you are the one complaining about people not doing what YOU want them to (post "actual" news), right ?
If thats ok in your book, its also ok for me to complain about you not doing what everyone else has already done on here:
Read the freaking site title. Its neither news nor official press releases that matter. Its live like in livestyle
Thus, featuring any kind of article that might be interesting to geek culture and that does have to do with gaming in general.
Again, if thats too much for you to stomach, either try nintendos newsfeed and / or go to dedicated review sites, that get payed handsomely to just review games by playing said games for half an hour, look at their paycheks and saying "thats enough for a 9/10"
@Einherjar Nazi.
@rtr0GMR1 Wait, what ?
Is that what a total brain failure looks like ?
I'm not sorry. I'm all for weird, geek culture news. I just fail to see how one person beating a game that came out in the late 80s is even remotely interesting. I love this website and a vast majority of the stuff on here is either interesting, exciting, or both.
Just because I want them to post more reviews does not mean I want them to "phone it in" or accept fat checks in return for good reviews either. As a frequent viewer of this website, I am used to reading articles that have substance to them, not an article about a guy who struggled with the easiest MM game ever made. Get a clue.
^I'm sure they're open to requests, just send something through the contact form. They're just following up a story they did a while back on a slow news day. Coincidentally, they also followed up on another slow news day. If you don't like it, don't give them to hits and/or comments. Heck, I don't read most news posts on this site....
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