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Mega Man (1987)

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The next thing I plan to do is try the New Game 1 Energy Element category. This is a category that was originally only for New Game+. It used New Game+ to immediately get the Alter Weapons and Super Mode and used an interesting Chomp Claw trick (dubbed Wily 6 Early) to get into the Dojo Wily stage room and play Wily 6 to end the game. The category was about 15 minutes. Bored found a way into the Wily room with only Alter Weapons, no Super Mode needed at some point and thus, this category was birthed. The aim is to get all 170 Noble Nickels in the entries, get the Alter Weapons, and then do Wily 6 Early.

For the route, there's no need to worry about the Zero cutscenes like we usually do in other categories. We don't get any any Energy Elements, so they don't appear. Moreover, all the stages are predetermined. We just want to go to all the stages with Noble Nickels and get them all. Thus, we just need to decide what order to do them in. And there's the problem. There's a lot of stages that are really long and Energy Saver would save a tremendous amount of time in. Like pretty much all of Tier 10, Joe Man, Spiky Situation. So my route is to go to the right at Dr. Light's Lab at the start of the game and do Tier 1, then 5, 4, 3, 2, visit Knight Man to get the Hub Fast Travel, do all of Tier 9, then go back to Knight Man and get Energy Saver, then continue right, doing Tier 6, then 7, 8, and finally 10 before going to the Dojo and doing Wily 6. I thiiink this is the best way to go about this. Not completely sure though.

When Cheez tried mapping out this category a few years back, she said this level is definitely by far the worst stage in the run. And well, she ain't wrong. This stage is long and difficult, owing to the many many many many many Terrible Trio present. This is probably the stage I most want Energy Saver on. Having extra Super Arrow and Slash Claw is incredibly important. I also recommend bringing in 3 E Tanks because this stage can hit hard. Just surviving until the end of the stage is a real pain.

The only Nickel that really poses a threat is the fourth Nickel. Dying to it loses you a whole minute so uh. Don't. The second Nickel is also one of those where I feel like there's better ways of getting it than just slamming your face into everything, but there's so many shielded enemies crammed into that room that I can't think of anything else. Joe Man R is the reason I recommend you to bring some E Tanks in. I use only one in here, but you might need two depending on poorly you do.

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