Remember the good old days of videogame cutscenes, where static images and text combined with plinky-plonky music to tell the epic stories of the day? Well it's time to relive those days, as Mega Man 9 continues its quest to make retro gamers squirt their bollock cheese ten times a day for the next year.
The above video is the opening "cinematic" for Capcom's WiiWare/PSN/XBLA 8-Bit revival. For obvious reasons, don't watch it if you're not after "zomg spoilers." Instead, allow me to bravely watch it ahead of you and bring back the good news for all retro fans:
Longest 8-bit intro ever. Well, as long as they keep the dialogue out of my gameplay. The Megaman X remake on PSP pissed me off SO BAD with the dialogue before every boss fight. I don't play Megaman for story time, I play Megaman to fucking crush.
That actually mildly interested me, my taste for retro overcoming my meh for Megaman. Watched it all the way through. Seriously, are you sure they're not actually making it on a NES development kit?
'Bollock Cheese' is a FOUL phrase though, and mine is staying indoors!
"You haven't done this in a while" = "I removed all the powers you gained over the other 8 games...then again, you lost them each time a new one started, so nothing is different, eh?"
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5:44 AM on 08.13.2008 
