There might not have been much activity on the Mega Man front in recent times, but it seems we've now got a new update courtesy of the Amazon 'Secret Level' episode. According to the fansite Rockman Corner, two new names have supposedly been added to the Mega Man development team:
Rockman Corner: "In the credits for Secret Level episode Mega Man: Start, we see Shingo Izumi and Hiroshi Ito. Izumi, who joined Capcom in 2018, was the producer behind Monster Hunter: World and the recent Ghost Trick HD remaster. Ito was a producer on Monster Hunter Stories, its sequel, and the Sunbreak expansion for Monster Hunter Rise."
Izumi and Ito apparently haven't worked on a Mega Man game before and this is said to signal the arrival of "new talent" following the departure of the series producer Kazuhiro Tsuchiya in 2023. It's speculated their "experience as producers" could likely indicate leadership positions.
One other member of Capcom's internal Mega Man development team is apparently Masakazu Eguchi, who directed Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection. This discovery follows the news last week Capcom would be reviving dormant IPs - starting with Okami and Onimusha.
What would you like to see next from the Mega Man IP? Will you be checking out the 'Secret Level' episode? Let us know.
[source rockman-corner.com]
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See, now this is actual news. I haven’t played Mega Man much. I played a little of Anniversary Collection on Xbox with my brother and sucked at it. But I would be interested in trying something new in the series if it comes out finally. Are all the games like the main series? I do want to get into it…
@LavenderShroud each series has its own unique style, I say get into them all they are all great!
@shadowii Interesting. Thanks for that! I’ll have to get that Battle Network Collection if I get a Switch for Christmas.
What would you like to see next from the Mega Man IP?
The Chibi looking Megaman like Powered Up version and banger songs like Gravity Circuit.
More collections incoming.
I really just want Capcom to fulfill the last two Mega Man spin-offs before jumping into anything new.
I'd gladly take a Legacy collection of the Legends series, but my dream is that they give 1+2 and Misadventures of Tron Bonne the HD Remakes they've always deserved.
Has all of our collective b****ing finally paid off? Mega Man 12? Mega Man X9? Mega Man Legends Collection? Mega Man Legends 3? Original Mega Man IP? Original Mega Man series reboot? flatlines
That's kay-o with me!
Give me MegaMan legends collection already. Complete with the tron bonny game.
They have a Megaman dev team?
I'm not convinced, 6 years later from the last entry in this 2d platformer series.
Can't wait for Mega Man X 9 and a new Mega Man RPG, then!
The fact they're both Monster Hunter developers might be a red flag. Yeah, Stories is amazing and they did great job on the Ghost Trick port, but they all worked on modern Monster Hunter, which doesn't reflect well with the Mega Man vision.
The other red flag is that this Amazon show was carrying a tie-in video game for Namco, so this means this Mega Man segment might have a connection to what Capcom is working on.
It could just be that rumored Mega Man movie, but what if Capcom is trying to push Mega Man into that westernizing realism tapioca almost every other franchise has fell into? What if it's 12 or X9?
Did they not remember why they shot down Maverick Hunter X?
I might be a little greedy, but I want both Mega Man 12 and Mega Man X9. And I hope both series goes back to pixel graphics.
Welcome aboard Izumi-San and Ito-San. May your work be fruitful.
I really need to play the Battle Network collection.
Nice, looking forward to seeing what they and the rest of the team will come up with next - fingers crossed for a new Mega Man game (although I'd gladly take a Legends collection, too)!
Mega Mega! Beat Mega Man 1-11 last summer.
«More Mega?»
Nope. More Rock. 😏
Not sure why everyone is getting so excited about this like it definitively means anything. I see nothing worth getting excited over until we actually see concrete evidence of a new Mega Man game.
@JoakimZ I agree wanting X9 or 12 (and hopefully something Legends!) - but I personally don’t want to see anymore 8-bit Megaman, I think that style is far too overdone and getting tiresome. However if you are referring a different style of pixel graphics, I could be open!
After megaman 11, I hope we get new megaman x, just continue the story after 4 and just ignore megaman x5 and up.
@SirCarbs As long as we get pixel graphics I would be equally as happy for either the classic sprites and style from the 8-bit or 16-bit eras, or brand new pixel art.
Mega Man 11 is a great game, I’ve just never been a fan of 2D gameplay with 3D graphics, something just feels a little off for me.
Hopefully, that is a mega-man legends team.
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