Looking back on Megaman 9 and 10 Faux NES is not da wae.

There, I said it: Faking Retroness is Not going forward, but backwards. After the beautiful Megaman 8, 9 decides to EMULATE NES Graphics... Not just that, they decided to Emulate MEGAMAN 2... No Slide, No charge shot for Mega Man. Protoman is a paid DLC and "Hard Mode"... Son of a Bitch! I'm having trouble with Mega Man... and you want me to PAY for getting my ass kicked... Dude, this is an Anthology, all the DLC should have come with the game... What a load of crap! UPDATE: There is a cheat code: UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, DOWN, UP, UP, DOWN on the title screen of 9 or 10 and it unlocks the DLC.

With the complaining out of the way... The game feels Mega Man 2-ish... 4-ish in hard if playing as Protoman.

The game is good. I won't deny that... A bit on the difficult side if you aren't super hardcore Mega Man fan.

The pseudo Retro look is a double edged sword... I get WHY they did it, I just disagree with it... It works on FAN games like the MMxSF game from a few years back, but nearly 12 years after MEGAMAN 8, We get THIS?
A MegaMan 2 wannabe with all of its flaws being brought back!? (tons of deaths that require pixel perfect jumps and memorization of levels... Kinda like most of the troll levels Dachie plays in Super Mario Maker.) We could've gotten a beautiful sprite based game... Just imagine a 32-bit sprite of Splashwoman, or Hornetman...


Megaman 10 at least gives you an "easy mode" for less skilled players... It makes the game ridiculously easy, but it reduces by a lot the amount of BS deaths from 9. Oh it still has plenty of BS deaths.

In an attempt to go back to 2 they simply accentuated the worst aspects of 2 and broke the nostalgia goggles and instead of waking up with Jennifer Lawrence you wake up with Nigel Thornberry.
I feel 10 is slightly better of the two because of...

Freaking Bass!!

Now I await for 11... Hoping it becomes a true savior of Mega Man and not a false prophet like Mighty Number 9.