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For those of us who are not totally sick of Mega Man 9 coverage yet?

Thirty-two minutes into playing my WiiWare version of Mega Man 9, I have only managed to defeat one robotic boss.

Remember me breezing through most Mega Man stages without dying? That is not the case at all with Mega Man 9. In fact, it’s the exception; I’m barely making it past the first checkpoint before rediscovering the Game Over screen.

I’ve never had this much trouble with a Mega Man game before. There are a couple of reasons for that.

The original Mega Man is arguably the hardest game in the series, but I’m hard pressed to believe that’s because Keiji Inafune and his team at Capcom intended to make something bitterly difficult to screw with players heads; that’s just how games were designed back then. Games of that era were ridiculously difficult and Mega Man was no different.

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