Mega Man Mobile review: How to ruin a classic

"Mega Man Mobile review: How to ruin a classic" The title already hints that you seem to have a personal grudge against Capcom or that you simply hate the Mega Man game, Milen Y.? I get that the game sucks, but you could have used a more friendly title... I mean one which doesn't ring the hatred bell.

"Bottom line is, save your money and forget about these games.” Better yet, get an emulator and all the ROMS and have a far better experience then these official ports.

I don't know why these companies screw up ports? Even emulators do a better job than these companies.

Miles, I was very sceptical of your critique until I watched that YouTube video. Your disgust is equally felt here. This cash grab is pathetic beyond mention. Very sad indeed that this could potentially turn off an entire generation of youngsters from ever knowing and enjoying Mega Man.

This is why if you have android you just play Megaman (or any snes, nes etc games) with emulators. For free.

I have all NES Megaman games in my phone for free, I don't need Crapcom's crappy port. I tried Megaman X, but hell, the touchscreen controls are a pain :(

I'm wondering what kind of devs those people hire. They could've just googled how to run MegaMan on Android, follow the how-to and then stick a price tag to it. There are multiple NES emulators for this platform, plus most of the games from back in the day are easy to come by and that includes MegaMan. You can look up "mega man android NES emulator" on youtube and you'll find people running it at 60 frames per second, no lag. You can look up a tutorial and do it yourself. They must've brainstormed for a long time in their cubicles to come up with an idea how to mess this up that much. Games this old are simple enough to just have them re-written from scratch for a new platform, providing that you have the source code and some documentation. Which they should have since they own the game. You can sit a college kid in their dorm room, give them a laptop, the files with the graphics, a NES and a telly, ask them to code the same game by looking at the original, provide a supply of redbulls and ramen and when you let them out after a couple of months, you'll have a Unity-based version, a UE4 version running on all platforms, same thing recoded in Swift and C# for iOS and in Kotlin for Android. And that's all keeping in mind that this kid wouldn't code most of the time but rather play dota, comment on PhoneArena and watch porn, then code only from time to time. I guess they paid some hard cash for some highly-advertised off-shore dev team with five html5 scrolls of references and those guys took the money, sat for a year playing Tibia, then coded for a week, then called the first version that didn't crash the final product. If they did this kind of 1:1 scaling NES:Android, this game would boot up instantly and keep maxing out the display fps at all times, they'd probably have to add some artificial limits to make the game feel retro in its performance. If they made this app just virtualised, meaning that it'd consist of an emulator tailored just for this game and the game itself in its original, untouched NES form, I think that modern smartphones would still be capable of maxing out the fps running the emulator and then the game on top of it. Apart from the sarcastic version above I have no clue how they managed to make this that bad. Or maybe they actually did rewrite it and the performance limits are there on purpose to make it feel even more retro than a NES itself? Or maybe they cooked up some brand-spankning-new framework just for resurrecting apps like this or rolled out some super new prototype emulator and it's just an early stage of something beautifully optimised, high-performance and easy to use? Who knows, right? Maybe crappy devs are actually coding gods whose methods we should not question?

..insert potato here..

Now Super Mario Run at $10 doesn't look so bad... would be even better at $5 tho