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Wily in Space (Roll's Rescue)- 49 This is a pretty long and repetitive level that mostly focuses on enemy challenges with the occasional Move Hover. The fact that most enemies are shielded just serves to artificially lengthen an already lengthy stage, but to the level's credit the level design is inoffensive. The most creative aspect of the stage are the Joe variants you come across, which adds to how great the stage looks. I especially love the windows into space having visible planets and even a Wily Spaceship! Though I am rather sick of hearing Enker's theme. It's pretty overused and not something I want to hear for a lengthy stage. I suppose the Token challenges are decent though you can get the Star Token on accident just by dying to the boss as it can be grabbed by respawning. The biggest issue with the stage aside from the monotony is the Roll NPC being the Captain Obvious. It's not exactly humorous.

Chemical Industry- 38 This is the level that got me to hate Sibuls. I will say the level does look nice though... or at least the upper parts do, as the lower path docked some aesthetic points. While Feeber and Glooper are used fairly well at first, the level quality goes downhill the moment Sibul is introduced. The level loves to spams these enemies that hone in on you and explode when defeated, made worse with the unnecessary two-way screen transitions that can push you back into the previous screen. Having a Guts Lift challenge that has a split path if you fail is an interesting idea but it's ultimately questionable as your reward for getting through this is a tougher, more badly designed path. The Sibul and Glooper spam is utterly insane. These Sibuls are some of the most abysmally placed enemies in the whole contest as they will be glad to Ledge Bat you off of Guts Lifts and the amount of Gloopers will have you mashing the shoot button until your thumb gets really sore. Made all the worse by having what may be the 2nd worst checkpoint placements in the contest, behind 96th place. I suggest this whole upper path gets scrapped and you should have a Trickster Token as your reward for making it through the Guts Lift section. If this were the path you were forced to take, I'd be much harsher, but the lower path while not too much better, shows a bit more design competence. Though I question the Pump Man waterfalls being background elements at first and only decide to push you down in this lower path. There are a LOT of precision jumps as what are normally three tile wide jumps function as the atrociously precise four tile wide jump, as well as some Guts Lift jumps with these damned waterfalls. The checkpoint placement is just as far apart but is slightly less egregious as there is a bit less enemy spam and less poorly placed enemies here. Something else I had to dock aesthetics for involving the waterfalls are having a ton of these next to each other which cause a very eyestraining effect. I will say, the Octoper arena is cleverly designed with the waterfalls, though I don't like how the dual GG Octoper arena works with them firing you at both sides. GG Octoper is more annoying than the actual ones thanks to their smaller hitboxes making it tougher to hit their weak spot. While thematically appropriate that the boss is Grey Devil, it would be the last thing you'd want to fight after taking the upper path. I took the upper path first and my thumbs were annihilated by that point. This level ultimately needs more checkpoints and less enemy spam. I feel the only reason this didn't get a Skip Teleporter was because the lower path was _slightly_ manageable.

Outer Reaches- 40 This stage is pretty empty feeling. It's a short level that mostly focuses on enemy challenges using the overused shield trio of Joes, Mets, and Shield Attackers meaning Laser Trident can blitz through everything. You get a couple electric traps and even a keycard hunt thrown in but it's nothing special here. And of course the lack of low gravity clashes with the space aesthetic. The Tokens are essentially the obligatory go left Token and the can only be obtained with utility Token, though the latter is a somewhat decent challenge. The highlight of the stage is the simple but effective custom boss. While Fracture may shoot out a lot of bullets, it's a lot less daunting than he actually appears to be giving Fracture a simple learning curve. I can pretty much call Outer Reaches a longer version of Alien Temple from MaGMML2.

Arcade Archives- 48 This is a cute straightforward stage. I love the custom enemies being based on pre-Mega Man Capcom arcade games. You have Firebrand from Ghosts n' Goblins, the plane from 1942, and even killer Yashichis which are based on their very first appearance in Vulgus. There are also Shield Attackers that reflect your shots but I can't quite place their design origin. The switch block challenges are simple but competently designed, though I don't quite approve of the Spade Token being a 50/50 guess. I suppose the indication is the switch being in the room that introduces Shield Attacker. I do wish the stage were longer. The Yashichi enemies only appear like... twice, and aside from switch blocks and Konro platforms, it feels too simple. While the Switch blocks spice up the usual Gravity Man arena, especially since it prevents Spark Chaser from cheesing him, I kinda wish the end boss were another reference to an old Capcom arcade game. I would have been delighted with a Guts Man that was reskinned as Higemaru.

You're welcome. Glad it could help.

Ah, sleep's more important anyway. These vids aren't going anywhere. At least I hope not!

It's a fan game for the PC, and I've had the download link to it in every video so far in the description!

Is it that desert level with the rotating steel bars all the while you're moving on very thin platforms? If so, that one took us a good 30-60 minutes of retries to beat. Probably the third longest level for us to take down besides the final, final level shown at the end of this vid and this one stage with a couple of stone staircases that are sliding back and forth.

@@Bean1227 Yes it's that one. Good God. I can see it really _is_ that hard then. Not sure if the stone staircase one refers to the staircase level in World 14.

Knew it. That level is so annoying. And no, the shuffling stone staircases I'm talking about are from EX 8-10.

A stage that goes on and on is tossing everything and the kitchen sink at you exhausts you after a while. In that regard, this stage was similar to how a couple of judges and to a much less angrily stated extent that PinkKittyRose's own playthrough of this one went for me. Haven't hated any stage so far, even this one (although one forced visual gimmick coming up was not much fun either), but it's tough to keep your focus when it keeps shifting its own so much. Don't even think the minimap purchase would help here because in the end, I'll always mentally check out of a level that switches things up like this after 10-15 minutes and just forget what I've done. If there are other entries like this in the future, now you know. Also, checking it out, it's not unlike what I did for the one token. If it was one level with one path and those were some of the rooms involved, I'd have enjoyed it more. That's the risk you run when you make a maze-like level with branching paths. You could miss out, and it looks like I did. Creativity sometimes means working with restraint.

@@Bean1227 I still think you should revisit the stage on a video to look at the east path in its entirety. You missed out on some good challenges.

I can work that path in on the post-Tier 7 roundup video. Decided to check out things around the hotel and casino then.

So I should start by prefacing how creating this behemoth came to happen. I hadn't initially planned on submitting anything to MaGMML3, as I had just finished 100% MaGMML2 and was looking for another fangame to sink my teeth into. When I went to the MaGMML3 page, I saw that they were still accepting submissions so I jumped at the chance at being a part of a collaboration of one of my favorite franchises. To understand better, the devkit was released in Late September 2018; I found out about MaGMML3 in Later October 2018. I was a month behind already, had no experience using GameMaker at ALL; so I was learning how everything worked during the creation process and I had ZERO programming knowledge whatsoever. It certainly explains the jank nature of alot of the custom assets. I was also very eager to create custom bosses because it's something I've always wanted to do, hence why there's so many. It's also why the level's as unfocused as it is, since I was trying to understand how everything worked, I had to pretty much abandon any kind of consistent theming throughout the entire stage, hence why it feels like 3 levels stapled together. But with the preamble out of the way, I'll go through each of the points in order. First the music: This came to down lack of time mostly. I had a bunch of SPC files lying around, and since GameMaker made them loop automatically; I pretty much through in whatever seemed fitting and left at that. Each area was supposed to have it's own music track, but transitioning to a different track ended up being very buggy, so it was scrapped. Volume wise it was fine for me during testing, but considering the amount of complaints from people about music tracks throughout the contest either being too loud OR too quiet, maybe there needed to be better communication as far as what volume the tracks should be at depending on volume IDK. West Quadrant: Pretty much remained how it is for most of development. The area just past the Hunter As went through at least 6 different revisions, I'm still not really happy how it turned how for the final, but time constraints and whatnot. Temporal Man was the first major custom boss I worked on, I'm still happy how he turned out, though the complaints about him being too fast or going off screen too often are valid. South Quadrant: You're not wrong about this being the most disorganized of the four quadrants; there's good reason for why it ended up that way but I'll elaborate on that in a bit. The Sheep Block/Force Laser rooms were some of the first created for the level. The colorblind friendly sheep blocks were done courtesy of Flashman being colorblind, so it seemed like a good idea to help with accessibility. The devteam seemed to agree, since turning on colorblind mode changes all the other Sheep Blocks to higher quality versions, with their shapes matching my cruder implemented ones. The Force spawners not having collision was an intentional choice, since the Lasers had a tendency of bugging out if any collision objects were placed over the spawners. BALL should've been removed no arguments here The end of the Force drop would've led to that invincible Stone Man battle I brought up in an earlier comment. Given the lag issue I was dealing with that boss, he was scrapped and replaced with Barrage Man. And the whole immunity to uncharged shots I explained in an earlier comment as well so I won't repeat myself. The disorganization of the South Quadrant has alot to do with that Stone Man encounter getting scrapped, but also needing to rearrange a ton of sections that were originally used elsewhere (I'll get into this at the end). The Hot Dog Gauntlet, Uranus Block sections, Tempura Area, and Micro Quick area were essentially thrown together haphazardly just to make the path to the Element a more linear run-through (It's why that area's Token isn't hid behind a challenge or secret hiding spot like the others.) Red and Green Dogs were pretty much thrown in to fill out space. Also the reflect blocks in Green's room seemed to change based on your patch version, since I've seen only the bottom one move out making the fight take less time since they drop off one by one instead of in unison. Not sure why it happens. The randomly despawning collision on the Uranus platforms is just a devkit issue, It's happened to me when I played through Fruit Forest. Quint technically is changed since he takes increased damage from everything. He was supposed to be part of a double boss fight with the Green Gutsman you see at the beginning to the level (Again I'll explain this later) Micro Quick's existence was an accident; I ended up shrinking a Quick Man I was using for testing by mistake so I just used it as a joke encounter. Also forget Spark Chaser, he dies in one hit to Tornado Blow. And I've explained Tempura before as well so nothing to reiterate here. North Quadrant: Definitely the most obtuse token in the level to find, I don't blame anybody for using a skip just for this token. I just figured it would be really creative to hide a screen transition behind a Drillun seeing as how they're platforms, but maybe hiding a Token behind it was too far. Bomber Joe (The Crash Man Mod) was similarly just a test asset that I threw into his own arena. Metool Woman and Guts Dozer Neo are still my favorite bosses I designed for the level, they got the most amount of development time out of all the other bosses. Once you get the rhythm for both they're pretty fun fights, but they probably could've gotten nerfed a little further. Also original Guts Dozer Neo had 6 Health Bars and split into three multicolored Gutsman after you killed it, so he was nerfed heavily before submission. He also flashed red every time he took damage (Thank you devteam for removing that) East Quadrant: Definitely the best of the four in terms of interesting setups. It was created very late into development, so if I had known that those setups worked as well as did earlier, the level would have turned out very different. The Blue and Red Dragon Hyoeys also got nerfed heavily, The blue one shot out a triple barrage of Solar Blazes and the Red One shot Changkey Dragon Fires. The blocks snakes were also originally utilized in their boss rooms, but wre scrapped due to buggy behavior. That penultimate snake block Force laser room also caused alot of eyestrain before, since it used the flashing lasers instead of the solid ones (Again thank you devteam.) Dynamo Man WAS supposed to be an actual custom boss, but programming him ended upbeing too frustrating, so I figured I would reuse the sprites I had for a Fakeout. Blackout Man was also nerfed since both he and his projectiles used to fade in and out of visibility. Also if you use his weakness Thunder Beam if lights up the room. It is funny you mention the MaGMML2 Overused Devkit Boss Royal Flush, since Volt Man was only added because I noticed I was already using Quint and Komuso, so I figured why not. Also if you count the Dragon Hyoeys as Mechadragon and the NPC Chill Man, technically the five overused MagMML2 bosses all make an appearance here. Appropriate considering the original name of the level was going to be "Am I Late to Submit to MaGMML2?" As for that Green Gutsman that was going to be an additional custom boss? I was testing one of his new attacks and it caused a catastrophic system crash. I lost days that could've been spent ironing everything out to that crash, hence why he is in eternal gay baby jail at the level start. And I've seen the comments and critiques mentioning how this level needed restraint, it needed to hold back, it needed to flesh out the good ideas it had and scrap everything that didn't work... but here's the thing THIS IS THE RESTRAINED VERSION. If this felt like 3 to 4 levels haphazardly stapled together, the original version was comparable to being TWENTY! IT HAD CLOSE TO 750+ SCREENS BEFORE IT WAS CUT DOWN. THAT'S NEARLY FIVE TIMES AS LARGE AS HUNTER TOWER! A TON of stuff had to be left on the cutting room floor for numerous reasons, hence why some of the sections felt like stuff was thrown in to be fit together... BECAUSE IT WAS. I won't get into everything that got cut here since this comment is pretty long as, but just know. If this level felt like it was slog to get through. IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH WORSE! Anyway hope you enjoyed some insight to this level's development lol :p

@@grimspecs4752 "gay baby jail" Shoutouts to Simpleflips. This was a very intriguing developer commentary and it gave me a lot of insight. I'm glad that within the organized chaos, you actually did demonstrate restraint from your original... plan. That would have definitely not gonna over well. I still think the whole level could have worked with the force beam sections alone, but glad to know your train of thought then went into designing this level. While Bean may not agree, this is FAR better than Hunter Tower by all means. He's being unnecessarily harsh. Even Shinryu didn't score your level that low.

Being past those makes me happy, although I do know about another one from the DQ'd stage coming up in Tier 8. Skipped doing it in my first recording of it the other night. That and one very green stage got spoiled for me by my own curiosity weeks ago.

I can see why. But my pick for worst custom boss goes to either Heintz, Solaire Man, or Thermal Man

@@tb3411 All of those are pretty rough too, but I still prefer them above Stall Woman and the Ball. Comes down to opinion and preference, really

Probably the biggest regret I ended up including in the final submission. The original idea I had for an invulnerable boss battle was an invincible Stone Man that you would have fought atop Sheep Blocks as they kept disappearing. You would hit the bottom which would have had a Force laser kill him instantly. And truthfully it played alright, the problem? It KILLED the framerate, single digit bad; so I ended up scrapping the entire thing. I tried an invincible Hanabiran after that, but it was annoying to fight no surprise there. BALL was a very last minute inclusion. That number string in his message box? It's his date of implementation backwards. Had it not been for a catastrophic system crash days before the deadline, I probably would have removed his rooms entirely OR conveyed very clearly that he was COMPLETELY optional, something the original message box doesn't express. Plenty of people still fought it thinking there was a Token afterwards, and that's the part that made regret it's inclusion. That people would still fight the thing expecting something afterward, despite how annoying it was to fight.

@@grimspecs4752 And you get sent to an entirely different path after defeating Invinciball. Honestly, not a good trade for what you skip on the east path

You can dodge the wave of fire with a quick double slide if he's doing the steady stream. I show that off. It's tough, but the window is there. If you mean the floor traps, then I think that's a slide past them? This was more than ten years ago now, so it's hazy!

My goal is to show as much as I can off in games. In this particular case, it's to demonstrate how the Anchor works. Sure enough, I wound up having questions about that item in previous videos. The real run of the airship starts at 23:00, and outside of intentionally letting Roy catch Mario flatfooted, that stage was taken down with no trouble.

Shape Woman- 60 This is a decently designed romp with a charming notebook and building block aesthetic. I like how the enemy choices are based around basic geometric shapes. It doesn't use gimmicks often, since most of the level tends to be enemy gauntlets, but for the most part they are used pretty well and I appreciate the Tornado Batteries being introduced safely. Combing them with Yoku spikes for a timing gimmick makes for a decent challenge. Using MRC for a Token was a pleasant change of pace since it meant you didn't have to memorize MRC's password to progress. The Sheep Block and instakill Cutting Wheel room is a deceptively daunting challenge that isn't as hard as it looks and it's a creative way to overlap death spikes with the Sheep Blocks, though it may not immediately be clear that the Cutting Wheels are instant death until you collide with one. Something I'm not a particularly big fan of is the underwater section. While a change of pace, dying here and in the otherwise well designed Heart Token room means you are sent back to the Sheep Blocks before the section so you have to wait through this every time you die (though this is NOTHING compared to the horrors of 96th place). Shape Woman has an... interesting design, though if anything she wouldn't look out of place in a Rayman game. At first I didn't like that it was a boss that constantly kept its shield up, but the idea of her shield's gaps gradually expanding to get more hits in is a solid concept. It's really more about patience and endurance at the start and by the time enough of the shield is tossed, you can potentially Buster her on a single cycle. Pretty decent stage overall.

The Heist- 53 I really like how the MM9 lasers are used here. They made for some really nice puzzles! There's even some interesting platforming with the Jewel platforms toward the end. The utilization of these made for a decently fun romp! Though there's quite a few issues I have in terms of the level design and aesthetics. There's a room that starts with a Met that's placed way too close to you, which can easily knock you back to the previous room thanks to an unnecessary two-way screen transition. I have no idea how to get the Heart Token without taking damage since it doesn't feel possible to have the Jewel Platform umbrella you from the lasers enough to get in and out on time. And the Punk arena layout just makes an already pretty easy devkit boss even easier. As for aesthetics, the nicest I can say about it is that the music is great and the Hammer Joe on the truck was a charming detail that resembled a getaway vehicle for this heist that's apparently in this level. That being said, this level has messy and sometimes inconsistent tilework. There are shutter visuals that you can walk inside at first but on the next screen, they are suddenly solid. And what is with the vault? Why is there a checkpoint before it and after it? It's not like anything can hurt you there. And why are there only a few bolts in this vault? Considering this is meant to be a heist, you'd think a bit more work would be put into making the vault seem more like a vault, but it feels more like a museum with empty pedestals.

Judging by the break in the floor and the getaway truck at the end, I'm pretty sure the place was already cleaned out. That's my take on it anyway.

Identity Man- 49 The footage definitely explains a lot of my ups and downs but I'll try my best to add my own input. I really love the Super Mario Odyssey concept this stage has going for it and it can be fun to mess around with, though most of the stage lacks any real design, especially when the hidden Apache Joe and Sakugarne pretty much break it once you know where to look for them. I should mention that I could have given this a full 15 in Creativity but I docked a point for outright plagiarizing Heat Man's Yoku Block segments. Now as fun as it is to mess around with the enemies here, I feel like some of them aren't the right ones. Dadas and especially Crazy Canyons are pretty much useless. And of course they can be awkward to control, Rabbiton in particular. The Heart Token is easily the worst of these due to requiring you to land on EVERY mini top platform (which only Rabbiton can land on) in a short amount of time. You are better off glitching your way through the platform guarding the Token (Fox in Yellow Socks has demonstrated how to do this, it's easier and faster though you will end up getting stuck under there, but since the checkpoint isn't far it doesn't matter too much). The last hallway before the boss is just obnoxious to get through without taking Rabbiton to it or using special weapons/utilities. The enemies are in awkward placements. I do like Identity Man, he can be a really fun boss, but it seems like you got very unlucky in the second half. It's actually not to bad unless the RNG keeps deciding to roll Gyro Man which is what happened with you there. As for the Easter Egg boss that requires specific button inputs to trigger, I have no idea why you would include this as it's not like anyone would figure something like that out besides dumb luck especially with it being only after Identity Man has dropped the element. At least Mecha Sonic is pretty easy. Btw you cannot bring Sakugarne to the boss, there is a Shield Attacker placed in such a way earlier on that Sakugarne is unable to pass through as it will be stuck jumping on top of it. And speaking of Sakugarne, if you entered its area while still in Apache Joe, all of your weapons become disabled pretty much softlocking you. Sharb a.k.a. Renhoek loves to push the engine to its most extreme limits and it tends to show.

Assault Hunt- 64 This was an absolute blast to play through. It's fun to blitz your way through these hordes of enemies with different special weapons, especially since enemy spam isn't an issue here considering all the enemies have no collision. Sure it means there isn't much in the way of actual level design but given the Metal Slug inspiration, it's executed fairly well. It's definitely a good thing your score doesn't reset if you die, but you will lose your weapon you were holding onto, and that includes the secret Rush Jet and Magnet Beam which do not come back. I definitely appreciate trying to get high scores to unlock each of the Tokens, but this leads into my first criticism. The 6 million score threshold for the Star Token is a mite too high. Could have been made slightly more lenient such as the 5 million displayed after you collected the element there. And I do have some other things to criticize. The enemy spawners are dropped in at random including in the walls and sometimes they can move jankily when confronted with the wall or ledge. The Purple Joe midboss is an absolute pain with special weapons for some reason and you're better off using the Buster there. Assault Man himself can clip through the walls, on occasion right out of the arena, softlocking you. My biggest criticism of the stage however is the stage is prone to crashing. When I attempted to get rid of the purple Joe midboss with Water Shield, the game crashed on me and I had to start over from the beginning since continuing at a checkpoint after leaving the stage will reset your score! Also was forcing you to fight a MM1 Joe with just your Buster at the beginning really necessary? It can kill you contact, by the way. I do think this was a fun experimental stage regardless of its flaws but Zatsu really needs to let people playtest his entries more.

Why did Bean walk to him like that?

I mean, he looks ridiculous. Finding out after the fact he's from MMBN4 (I've only beaten 1 and the GCN platformer) was icing on the cake.

@@Bean1227 I mean Regal is from BN4 too. BN4 is just weird.

BN4 weird?? No way! Legs go bean! Load Chaud is waiting!

Well, Metal Blade is a safer strategy than Air Shooter against Wood Man. His real weakness is Heat Man's weapon though, but it's better to save that for Wily. Anyway, good luck.

Escape from the Wily City- 39 While I appreciate building challenges around Fankurows and Move Hovers, I cannot say I liked this level much at all. It's too damned long, littered with bulky enemies, obnoxious battles against Mad Grinder, precision Move Hover jumps, and badly designed Token rooms such as the Triple Gemini Man boss that has broken AI and a room where you are forced to take a hit to a Fankurow upon leaving, pretty much indicating this stage had little playtesting put into it.

It's fine. Originally, you just put scores down and left it at that, but I do read all the comments. Definitely helps when I'm not getting 100+ of them like Roahm's vids have been doing so far!

Skull Secret Zone- 31 First off there was no reason to apologize for not finishing your level here as it shows a lack of promise. Not only that but four mini-levels would be too much and add more problems on top of the ones already present here. Green Ice Hill is simply put, very ugly and very cluttered but props for trying to get creative use out of the melting ice blocks and water spouts. Skull Chemical Plant is much more cleanly designed for the most part, but is rather boring, and infuriatingly has the checkpoint placed AFTER the very rude unexpected spike drop. It's a shame Shadow Man weren't in the devkit which would have been better than fighting Sonic Man on both Elements. Something else that bothers me is the use of vanilla music rather than Sonic music. Especially since Ice Man probably has the worst of the Robot Master stage themes imo. It doesn't fail completely on aesthetics since the enemy reskins are nice and while Skull Chemical also looks messy, it's definitely less ugly than Green Ice and I like how the pipes look with the bones. Though ultimately this level suffers from a lack of focus.

Mechanical Factory- 49 A decently designed, decently fun factory level with the conventional conveyor belt and junk block challenges with a bit of Crash rail madness thrown in. The serpentine Crash rail at the end is a notably large difficulty spike compared to the rest of the level and is even worse than the one from 48hr's Crashing in the Dark as this one is over a bottomless pit. If anything, it's satisfying to pull off. I'm not really a fan of Escaroo here and it clashes with the factory aesthetic, which is honestly unremarkable and boring in execution here thanks to the dull MM2 tiles and mostly black background that could have had more gears. I wish the Junk Block spawners had more of a visual indicator. And while Fuse Man is one of the best vanilla songs to use, this port doesn't loop properly.

Up Down All Around- 52 Hey cool, Esperanto! I love this so-- OH MY GOD IT SOUNDS TERRIBLE! Yeah this port is butchered. I'm gonna file that one under "Worse than Taco Man". Doesn't help that the aesthetics are a bit of a mess. But if anything the overall level design is solid and has fun, creative gravity flipping challenges including use the flippers as something that can instakill you. I feel that big open room is particularly messy despite it actually being simple to navigate in the end, but I do like the final challenge before the boss door despite it being much harder than the rest of the level and the Hunter B arena is extremely well thought out. I do wish the level had a bit more rooms to it though. It feels like it ends too quickly. Also I'm gonna address the donut block behavior real quick. Yes it's a bug. It's an engine bug that was used deliberately here as it seems Dylan wanted to demonstrate it as if it were one of the stage's primary gimmicks. Though I can't exactly call the utilization of it well thought out.

Said in the video, but I'll say it again here for you. You have to go through the game as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, & Cream and get all seven Chaos Emeralds in every one of those runs.

Get that bus pass, bring 28 bolts, go to Tier 5 since you can do that immediately, and enjoy! Unless you mean real life... then yeah. You're out of luck!

There definitely were enough filler rooms for my tastes. That seems to be the way things are and have been going for a bit. I can safely say the next couple of tiers have stages like that, too. Anyway, get ready for the next couple vids. Lot of stages being completed then.

@@Bean1227 Tier 6 starts off very bleh but the last few levels are interesting.

Only in a two-player game, same as the original SMB. If you're playing the Arcade Archives version, you'll need two controllers. Press L at least twice to get multiple credits. Then on the second controller, press R to start. It'll start as Mario but will switch to Luigi and back every time a player loses a life.

@@Bean1227 I haven't played this game in years. I remember seeing it in an arcade and seeing both Mario and Luigi on a scoreboard in the arcade machine.

Feels like Tier 5 in general. Will say that I think we're getting more consistent quality after the hit or miss stages Tier 4 had. Slightly lower highs but definitely higher lows. Hoping that continues.

Good news is he shouldn't even have to since Magnet Beam can get that token if you want. So it's a case of spite with restraint in the decision making.

It's the boss theme from Mega Man Z, the fan game that Veteran Z comes from.

@@Bean1227 I can't find the game or the theme from it, any link for it?

Search for "A Comprehensive List of Mega Man Fangames (With Links)" with those quotation marks I put around it, and that should have a thread on Sprites Inc. by FlashMan as your first result. That thread links to a Google Doc where you can pick it up. The MMZ fan game you're looking for is by iusethemegabuster.

@@Bean1227 Got it, many thanks

Too many OHKOs, the spikes blending in with the background in spots, the theme changing up so much that it makes this multiple levels in one (one of my biggest peeves), and having to replay it at least once to see everything. The judges also didn't have the benefit of having a Level Compass available like we do. Took a look in the Notepad file I've been keeping, and all the levels ranked above this one and even 9 of the next 10 below this all had more points in fun. The one that didn't did the same multiple stages in one deal, so yeah. I can see the reasoning.

@@Bean1227 Yeah i will agree that suit store split path wasn't necessary.

Not fully, but I know enough lines from it.

Wouldn’t say it”made me hate acid man’s theme” but more, it made me want to live in a world where light and dark didn’t exist and it was all just grey, everything grey, me like grey, not light or dark, just grey, if anything the music was the only thing that kept me sane.

As a kid, I couldn't beat any of the NES games we rented. So beating the game yourself for the first time that quickly? You're already ahead of my old pace. Ha.

@@Bean1227 Wow, thanks, man. You're a great sport. 👍 I managed to finish MM3 across five days, playing on Legacy Collection on Nintendo Switch, but it felt like a real battle. Had to look up some quick tips for Wily phase 2. I'm trying to do what I can with the reaction times of a 42-year-old gamer! Your entire Mega Man series is truly one of the best things I've watched on RUclips, and criminally underviewed. I'm working my way through the whole lot, and learning so much from watching you play. You need more subs, man. 👍👍