Every now and again, I curse the internet and its countless paths. It’s easy to get lost in here. it’s easy to lost literal hours of your life on completely meaningless, mindless drivel. How many times have you, dear reader, fallen into a YouTube spiral, clicking related video after related video until the moving images no longer hold meaning? Every URL is perilous I tell you. Then I come to my senses and remember the all important truth about the 21st century: the internet is awesome. As is meaningless, drivel, and the access we have to it.
Despite my recent renaissance with the game, I probably wouldn’t have found out about this brave soul’s Mega Man: Powered Up adventures if it wasn't for aimless internet wandering. They've made a close-to-perfect recreation of Galaxy Man’s stage from Mega Man 9. Behold:
It does, however, show the limitations of Mega Man: Powered Up’s versatility as a device for recreating classic Mega Man. Mega Man 1’s levels are faithfully preserved in the core Powered Up game but it’s impossible to replicate the wide-open rooms in Galaxy Man’s stage without turning them into multiple areas. All the same, very cool.
And, internet spirals being what they are, this video led me directly into the arms of another Galaxy Man recreation, this time in Mega Man: Powered Up’s descendant, LittleBigPlanet. This one’s obviously less perfect, but is still swell. It also helps highlight the merits of Mega Man 9’s lo-fi presentation; can you imagine how lame a Mega Man platformer would be if it actually looked like this?
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