Until than I will enjoy this game much and I know when my friend sees this he will have an epileptic seisure because he is the biggest Mega Man fan I know. Dude I hope you guys make more games in the future, I am impressed. WHO CARES? You get to be the 8 ROBOT MASTERS! That's sweet. Great job! To those of you who wanted to argue over the autehnticity of this story to the Mega Man universe. Your game play will more than make up for that. FREAKIN' AWESOME! Dude that game looks amazing. I saw the clip of you and Riverroad's Mega Man fan game and I have just 2 words for ya. Testers: D-Turbokiller, Del, Mushroom Kingdom Fusion Reactor's members. The current release is still a Beta, v0.6, but it's almost finished, it already has all the stages planned, the only thing left to do is polishment and bug fixing.Ĭoder and Level Designer (basically everything): Riverroad The fights are set, for example, Cut Man vs Wood Man, etc. When Dr.Wily begins his scheme to take over the world, its these masters who go after his newly made Robots, not Mega Man.
The plot is very simple, Dr.Light reprogramed the original six, making them the first line of defense against hostile attacks. You have to go through Mega Man 2's NEW custom stages, playing as Mega Man 1's masters. Here you get to play as Mega Man 1 Robot masters, Mega Man doesn't even show up at all. What's it about? it is just another Mega Man fangame? well, not at all. This game's name is Mega Man: Day in the Limelight. Try Boot Camp or Parallels or CrossOver Games.Hello, just making a thread here to post a game a friend and member of the MKF team, Riverroad, made. It's about as close to the NES experience that you're going to get, without having to blow into a cartridge slot. That's a pretty easy sell, in and of itself. Outside of any supposed subversiveness of concept, Mega Man: Day in the Limelight 2 features robots shooting things with lasers and blowing up evil scientists.
Surprises are around just about every corner, even if you've memorized every inch of every Mega Man game ever! Make no mistake: there are tricky jumps to maneuver and enemies aplenty to fight, but game challenges you to adjust your expectations of standard platform-hero guy action in order to control assuredly non-standard robot masters working their way through non-standard puzzles in non-standard levels.
#Megaman day in the limelight series
Though the Mega Man series is known for its platforming difficulty, it's not really Mega Man: Day in the Limelight 2's central conceit. That doesn't stop it from being a deliciously entertaining game, though, and for those who are still on the fence, know this: this is a polished, well-crafted work which succeeds in capturing the charm and feel of the NES outings, and it makes for some glorious retro fun. It's a game made by Mega Man fans, for Mega Man fans, and those who are not Mega Man fans probably will not be swayed by its prodigious charms. Wily's Castle!Īnalysis: Mega Man: Day in the Limelight 2 is unabashedly a fan game. There are secret items to find, new abilities to unlock, and, of course, a climactic battle at Dr. Each robot has their own strengths and weaknesses, so experimentation is key. You can switch player characters in the pause menu or automatically with the and keys. Complete each level by defeating the boss and you will unlock the player robot for use in all other levels. Move with the keys, jump with, and fire your weapon by tapping or holding. Choose a level from the stage select screen and you'll enter the level of a boss from Mega Man 3. So begins Mega Man: Day in the Limelight 2 by Fusion Team, a retro platforming action adventure that's sure to bring a twinkle to the eye of any child of the 8-bit generation.ĭay in the Limelight 2 plays like any classic Mega Man game, only now you're in control of the bosses instead of Mega Man himself. Light releases the eight robot masters, hoping their virus-free circuits can defeat Wily once and for all. With no other options at his disposal, Dr. Wily wasted no time attacking once again, unleashing a super virus that has disrupted Mega Man's systems and turned computers across the globe into enemies of humanity. He escaped capture (again) and life returned to normal, his eight robot masters returning to storage until the day their circuits may be modified to aid society. Wily has been defeated by Mega Man (again).