Yoku Man is later fought regardless of being unlocked or not in the endgame. His icon will appear to the sound that Appearing Blocks make (referring to Yoku Man's powers), and if his icon is chosen while visible, it will take the player to a secret and substantially harder bonus stage where he can be found and battled to obtain his Special Weapon. Obtaining them all will cause the middle icon of the stage select screen to alternate between either Mega Man's face or the Wily Fortress stage select if all eight ordinary Robot Master stages have been cleared, and that of a new and mysterious ninth Robot Master, Yoku Man. On top of having the standard eight Robot Masters which must be fought to move on to the final stages of the game, players can discover four hidden letters scattered throughout hidden areas in four different stages, which collectively spell out 'YOKU'. In the past, Bass had opposed him on several occasions, but hadn't outright severed his allegiance to him. It also sees Bass, and by extension, Treble, completely defecting against Wily and go rogue. The game's storyline attempts to start bridging the gap between the classic Mega Man series and Mega Man X series timelines, inching away from the former and into the latter by dealing with robots turning evil due to exposure to a virus similar to the Maverick Virus, and revealing the byproduct of Doctor Wily's mysterious blueprints shown in Bass's ending of Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters. Despite this, the game has received mostly favorable reviews. With release of Version 1.3.0, a second playable character, Z-Prototype, was added, who can be unlocked for use the main story mode and learns new techniques from defeating bosses, but due to being an unrefined prototype, he exhausts life energy upon performing his attacks.Īfter its release, an update added an easy mode similar to the one present in Mega Man 10 due to complaints about the game's difficulty. He can use the slide, due to the game being partially based on Mega Man 3. A further update also reintroduced the Charge Shot as an optional ability. Initially, the only playable character was Mega Man. Like the aforementioned games, it has multiple playable characters. As with Mega Man 9, and Mega Man 10, it too uses an 8-bit art style that's meant to imitate the style of the NES games. It started out as a simple Flash project, and eventually it was transferred into more complex software, programmed in C++. 2.10 New Life of Dr.Wily's Robot Masters.2.7 The Pre-Ultimate Final Battle: Mega Man vs.2.3 Assaulting the captured Wily's Castle.2.2 Why is Mega Man not affected by the Mysterious Virus?.

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