TGS 2006: Shooting Star Mega Man Preview
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The Mega Man EXE series, also known as Mega Man Battle Network was finally put to rest after over a dozen games in around five years (and that's not including the Chip Challenge spin-off and GameCube platformer.) But if you thought you would never see this enjoyable but oversaturated series ever again, think again. EXE is over, but a brand new Mega Man franchise is coming to take its place, and you can see remnants of Battle Network every step along the way. And of course, even though it's a brand new game series, there are already three of them ready to buy.
Called Ryusei no Rockman in Japan (translated out to Shooting Star Mega Man, although we're sure the name will change when this title makes its inevitable journey to America), the game is the spiritual successor to Mega Man Battle Network. This time, it's all themed more after the new ZX series of Mega Men than the original EXE Mega Man, with a character that wears costumes increasingly more like that of ZX. The Mega Man storyline in this franchise doesn't seem to rely on your outside boy character controlling a cyber Mega Man anymore. This time, from what we saw in our admittedly confusing demo (this story hardly makes sense in English, much less Japanese), you finally are the Mega Man, playing as a boy who can use his Mega Man visor to view the cyber world underneath modern life. As day turns to night, you creep into the cyber world -- the TGS demo had us for some reason talking to anthropomorphicized trucks and full-sized trains with faces. Eventually, you slip fully into the cyber world (which looks an awful lot like the Tron-like world of Battle Network) and begin to battle as Mega Man.
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