Beating Mega Man 2 (NES) hard difficulty & no continues, My Playthrough (2/2/2025)
4I owned several Mega Man games as a kid back in the 80s and 90s, including this one, so I've definitely beaten it before but back then I didn't play on difficult mode and I didn't care if I had to use continues. It's fun and challenging, though didn't seem quite as hard as the first game.
I died 3 times in this playthrough, twice on the stupid lasers in Quick Man's stage and once from the Mecha Dragon. I also messed up in the Boobeam trap, missing my target such that my first crash bomb only destroyed the wall and not both the wall and laser. That left me with no more crash bombs for the 2nd phase of the Wily Machine so I had to use metal blades instead along with an energy tank.
I've definitely played those stages better but I think this playthrough is good enough. I've been on this game for too long now and it's time to move on.
00:00:00 Game Start
00:00:13 Metal Man Stage
00:03:15 Metal Man Boss Battle
00:04:24 Bubble Man Stage
00:07:10 Bubble Man Boss Battle
00:07:53 Heat Man Stage
00:12:54 Heat Man Boss Battle
00:14:07 Wood Man Stage
00:17:24 Wood Man Boss Battle
00:18:07 Air Man Stage
00:20:43 Air Man Boss Battle
00:21:53 Crash Man Stage
00:25:30 Crash Man Boss Battle
00:26:05 Flash Man Stage
00:28:11 Flash Man Boss Battle
00:29:13 Quick Man Stage
00:32:38 Quick Man Boss Battle
00:33:40 Wily Stage 1
00:38:14 Mecha Dragon Boss Battle
00:39:02 Wily Stage 2
00:43:47 Picopico-kun Boss Battle
00:44:52 Wily Stage 3
00:46:16 Guts Tank Boss Battle
00:47:04 Wily Stage 4
00:50:52 Boobeam Trap
00:53:02 Wily Stage 5: Boss Rematches
00:56:38 Wily Machine Boss Battle
00:57:49 Wily Stage 6
00:58:18 Alien Boss Battle
00:59:20 Ending
Beaten on 2/2/2025. Mega Man 2 was developed and released by Capcom in the US in 1988 for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
My other videogame playthroughs:
• Beating Videogames, My Playthroughs
My Retro Achievements:
https://retroachievements.org/user/primehalo?g=100
My Setup:
RetroArch on Windows with the Mesen core, Achievements Hardcore Mode enabled, 8Bitdo Pro 2 controller. Recorded with OBS Studio.
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