{"id":22534,"date":"2022-08-29T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T00:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=22534"},"modified":"2022-08-17T01:26:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T01:26:12","slug":"mega-man-battle-and-fighters-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/29\/mega-man-battle-and-fighters-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Man: Battle and Fighters (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A lot of people don\u2019t know that Mega Man starred in two arcade games.\u00a0 One was brought to the US, I know because I have the arcade cabinet in my garage.\u00a0 But the sequel stayed in Japan.\u00a0 They looked like fighting games, but they were basically boss rushes.\u00a0 But you could still acquire the boss\u2019 weapons and use them against other bosses who had a weakness to those weapons.\u00a0 You can play these arcade games on some collections, like the most recent Capcom Arcade 2nd<\/sup> Stadium<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 But did you know that around the time these games were released, there was a home port of these titles on a handheld device?\u00a0 SNK\u2019s late 90s handheld, the NEO GEO Pocket Color, got a port of these games combined into one: Rockman: Battle and Fighters.\u00a0 It was never released in the US until now with Mega Man: Battle and Fighters on the Switch.\u00a0 As a fan of both Mega Man and the NGPC, I\u2019m really glad I got to review this!<\/p>\n

When you start, the first thing you\u2019ll notice is that the game is all in Japanese.\u00a0 It would\u2019ve been nice if they could\u2019ve translated this port, but at least it\u2019s pretty easy to sift through the menus.\u00a0 Plus you can view an English translated version of the instruction manual, so that\u2019s nice.\u00a0 When you first start the game, you\u2019ll choose between playing The Power Battle, or its sequel, The Power Fighters.\u00a0 Since I just recently played the arcade versions of these games on Capcom Arcade 2nd<\/sup> Stadium, I was really impressed how they re-created the subtle differences between each game.\u00a0 The character graphics look more 8-bit, but the backgrounds are some of the best the NGPC handheld had to offer.\u00a0 One disappointment is the music.\u00a0 There are some remixes of Mega Man tunes, but they replay them a lot and there\u2019s not as many as in the arcade versions.<\/p>\n

Gameplay is like fighting a boss in a typical Mega Man game.\u00a0 You can choose between playing Mega Man, Proto Man, or Bass in the first game, and a fourth character Duo in the sequel.\u00a0 You can run, jump, fire and charge your weapons, and switch between special weapons.\u00a0 One disappointment is the controls.\u00a0 The default controls are all wrong, but lucky you can edit buttons so I recommend doing that right away.\u00a0 You also have to go to the pause screen and press the A button to switch weapons, so it\u2019s not as seamless to switch like the arcade version.\u00a0 Sometimes when you defeat a boss without continuing, you can get their info and picture in a separate section.\u00a0 In the handheld game, you can trade these parts with a link cable, but you can\u2019t do that here.\u00a0 While I think this game is still pretty good, I think I would\u2019ve appreciated it more had it come out back in the day 20 years ago, when playing the arcade versions of these titles wasn\u2019t so easily accessible like it is now.<\/p>\n

Since this came out 20 years ago, the game doesn\u2019t have all the quality of life features that a lot of today\u2019s games have.\u00a0 But luckily, there is a separate option screen that takes care of a lot of that.\u00a0 You view the action on a mock up NEO GEO Pocket Color handheld (which is weird when you are playing the handheld on the Switch handheld mode), but you can choose to zoom in on the screen to make it much easier to see.\u00a0 You can also toggle various screen filters, and rewind, too.\u00a0 This is also where you can change the button configuration, which I highly recommend for this game.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The violence in these games is pretty cartoony.\u00a0 You shoot silly weapons at goofy robots, and defeated characters just explode into circles.\u00a0 Endless continues mean any skill level can enjoy this.\u00a0 Mega Man: Battle and Fighters is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot of people don\u2019t know that Mega Man starred in two arcade games.\u00a0 One was brought to the US, I know because I have the arcade cabinet in my garage.\u00a0 But the sequel stayed in Japan.\u00a0 They looked like fighting games, but they were basically boss rushes.\u00a0 But you could still acquire the boss\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22552,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22534\/revisions\/22552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}