Game:

Mega Man (1987)

Duration: 2:19

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Not much to say about this stage. Not a whole lot was tricky or anything. Some of the Met Cannons can shoot a ball that will get in your way, but as long as you don't go at walking speed too much, it won't catch up. Or you can destroy the ball with Homing Sniper. There's also a few tight jumps under a spike ceiling and Wind Man Platforms that're kinda scary. Just make sure you're on the edge of the Wind Man Platform and jump until you're almost hitting the spike ceiling. And finally, in the last room, you want to kill that last Ace Manbow before it gets a shot off which can be done with a well timed Rain Flush.

Now the actual hard part of this stage is the boss. No, not Metall Daddy. That guy dies to Smite. I'm of course referring to Mega Mech Shark. The good news is that the middle part still gets hit by Rain Flush even if its hatches are off screen. The bad news is that the mouth is surprisingly hard to hit with Rain Flush. I mean, you could probably get one hit in, but getting that two hits per cycle isn't very consistent. Still, because it's weak to Rain Flush, you can just hang out under him and hit him with it. But then we get to the tail. My first instinct was to Homing Sniper it like before, but then I realized if I stood in the middle so that it shoots its missiles off screen, it would open its hatch more often and make Spark Shock the actual best weapon for the fight. Unfortunately, this also means that you need to tank a lot of damage and I mean a lot. I had to activate Salmon Shield here.

This run beats the previous normal record, PineappleDerp's 2:20. For improvements, all I can think of is Mega Mech Shark. I feel destroying the mouth can be a lot faster.

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